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General, the author of "swimming the vulga." general, great to see you in person. odesa. the russians keep on hitting it from the air. what are they after? >> odesa, i believe, for the russians is aspirational. they want it but i dont believe that they have the force, structure or logistics to get out here. from crimea to odesa is about 125 miles and kharsin a little bit less than that. the russians are spread out all along here. theyre powerful. so while they focus on donbas and got this absces...

Intense russian bombing in recent days and weeks. food, medicine and time running out. not much left of what used to be a sprawling industrial complex. we have experts from inside to see how much of it flattened be beyond recognition with the russians. >> in the southern city of odesa, reports of multiple explosions in the last 24 hours in and around the airport. the runway has been damaged. and this a propaganda video, this is released by the russian ministry of defense showing cruise missile a...

Spend, a little less. the signal is powerful. the west has spent the same that russia spends in the entire out lay for a year. and this is just the beginning. the u.s. could easily out resource out spend, out support ukraine and thats a signal that the ruckss arssians are spendin shifting tone. eventually the russians will figure out pressure doesnt get them out of this. it will be some sort of other face saving measure, maybe rhetorical win the russians destroyed large amounts of ukrainian citi...

Military. >> he really brings up the third party there because the option according to the soldiers of surrendering to the russians simply is not an option. they believe they were to do so, they would be executed, john, and i should add that a number of the civilians inside the steel plant complex are family members of fighters so they dont trust the russians, either. they believe they, too, would be killed. >> complicated emotions i think for so many of the people inside that plant. matt rivers...

Union. get to 0 decembsz odesa. you have the black sea fleet that is quiet except for the kilo submarines firing missiles i believe is harassment more than anything else and you mentioned before, they are showing the world and their own people they got there. so odesa is possible but it is a long stretch if they go for it in a major way, then you may get a situation, john, like you had in northern -- if you will, northern ukraine near kyiv where theyre extended and ukrainians start to slip behin...

Particularly sad because former the then governor of odesa, the and enlarge the capacity spent four or five years. >> no, i think thats the story of so much of ukraine. areas including areas that have made so much progress here. sort of striving to model themselves after the west and totally destroying, right? were seeing a mariupol. there have been a lot of rejuvenation decembestroyed. can you talk to us? i know youve been spending days now, a couple of days actually with ukrainian troops at a ...

Represent a victory that he could announce. whether its true or not, he doesnt really care. hes a product of the kgb. thats their business is lying and misinformation, disinformation. im not surprised at all that were seeing the attacks on odesa. >> mr. secretary, if this becomes the type of static conflict that it looks like it might, how does the president prepare american people for something for an effort that may take not just months but potentially years? >> well, thats a good question. th...

President obama. secretary, so great to see you and get your perspective on this. what is on your mind as youre watching odesa become this new focus? >> well, im not surprised because i think what putin is doing and they have announced it, is building a crescent east down to the south to block ukraine from the black sea. if they can accomplish that, that gives them a land gateway to maldova. it blocks the ukrainians from exporting anything because they would have no access to the black sea. it w...

Country to get involved. no progress about the possibility of a third party country getting involved. >> thank you so much for that live for us from kyiv. >> joining us now, retired u.s. army general. i want to start with whats going on in odesa here. repeated, constant russian air strikes on that port city. i want to push in there. tell me what you see going on here. what are the russians doing and why? >> they are trying to wreak havoc. they are trying to terrorize the citizens. they are tryin...

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