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Cars abandoned. it would take them another couple of weeks to take the city. i wonder what you make of how lawmakers are assessing the ukraines as a better than expected match for the russian military. >> i think the performance of the ukrainians is a fundamental to the dynamic here. not only militarily and related to that this sort of bewildering and as you say almost darkly satirical incompetence of the russian military but not only the military performance of the ukrainians but the kind of pu...

They have to neutralize and take kyiv. decapitate the government. a term used to basically replace the government. because zelenskyy is becoming churchillian. is he standing up to them and putin and being very dramatic and forceful in his language. they have got cut him out they got to somehow take the capital city. that should be their main e and its not. they have broke up a lot of their main efforts to the south, to the east and to the north. until they take kyiv they have got a be pro. here ...

The kids, one of the most want to go to university. little kids scared hearing the bombing in the middle of the night. they just keep coming. >> and they just keep coming. joining us now is the democratic senator amy from the state of minnesota. she has just returned from that bipartisan trip to poland. senator, thank you for being here tonight, it is something to be in these border countries watching these refugees come over literally as you said, with their lives on their backs. years and year...

Knight isnt going to happen. i think they are content to let things stew in europe. the real dynamic in the world is twins and china. where russia fits in there has now been determined. when putin invaded ukraine, he made his deal with the chinese. he doesnt have any friends with the west, and he made a bet that the chinese and his relationship with the chinese will continue to support russia. brian: his military show has not been impressive. he has shown to be a hollow goliath for lack of a bet...

Everywhere else with very little money, little clothes, sometimes not even documents. and it may get worse. there are many more millions inside ukraine that are internally displaced. and if the russians continue to push into civilian areas using indiscriminate force, there is expected to be another tidal wave of refugees in the weeks ahead. it could get -- as bad as it is, it could get much worse. >> miguel marquez, thank you so much. one of the big questions is what exactly should president b...

Russia also getting help. can you tell us what were seeing when it comes to foreign help in this fight? >> this is something i think were going to be talking about for months and years to come. you have thousands of foreign fighters flowing in to fight on behalf of the ukrainian military. american, people from all over the world. fighters from chechnya who came here in 2000 and on the russian side, you have chechnyans as well. we heard this call for syrians from putin. its not clear that any hav...

Russians, the russians typically have taken the mindset of, they mortar the cities and they go in and they soften up the cities, then they send in ground forces. back in chef yaw, the mid 90s the cheffians were able to fight against the russians in a way they were not able to or prepared for. in this instance what it indicates it shows that the russians realize there is going to be and urban fight and that the russian forces arent capable or able to take that urban fight the way they want to. so...

We are afraid of putin. that he needs to be afraid of us. but there is that balancing act. getting into a war with russia directly changes the dynamic. >> it does. president biden has led the world in this isolation. i think that this will have an credible impact on his people. maybe on government officials, on people that have some power or some leverage with putin. that is a goal. that is not an immediate solution. the challenge is to ways we can support them militarily that dont escalate, don...

Figliuzzi, former assistant director for counterintelligence at the fbi. also joining us, daniel goldman, who is front and center as lead counsel during that first impeachment trial over the ex-presidents extortion attempts over the ukrainian leader, and jim warren, former managing editor of the "chicago tribune," now executive editor of news guard, msnbc national -- whats your title? >> who knows. >> lets just be clear. john heilemann and i are at the other end of the spectrum of legal analysts...

Battleground and how significant is what hes announcing in terms of nato bolstering the eastern flank? >> i think its very important because it reflekts natos big response to the new dynamic, which is a more threatening russia and moving essentially the front of nato, the main focus of nato and the risk of natos borders. and very significant is whats happening on the ukrainian battlefield where the ukrainians, by and large, have stopped the russians short of achieving their objectives, although ...