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Society has achieved over the last 25 years. he says this will be a fall for them, a painful fall. and that is where we begin our coverage this hour. nbc news correspondent cal perry joins us live from lviv, ukraine. also with us from lviv, terl jermaine star, the host of the black diplomats podcast. its a pleasure to have you with us today. cal perry, as we do every day, i start with you. i have to confess that i -- this strikes at your false sense of security that all of our colleagues who are...

Logical, but it definitely is a fallback position because russia wanted much, much more. one of the reasons why they are bombing mariupol to nothing is because that place is a large city that they would have trouble controlling, in my view. and so depopulating it and turning it into nothing allows you to control that territory a lot better, especially because that was the hotbed of resistance to russia in 2014 where they pushed back the russian invaders at that time. >> so its a brutal and devas...

Choices once he got everything wrong from the beginning were lose early and lose small, lose late and lose big. there clearly is some effort there to lose early and big. lose early and small, and the way to do that is to claim that they were just going for, you know, a link between crimea and russia and the eastern regions. but i think we shouldnt underestimate how confused they might be themselves and what kind of divisions might be going on there. i still think, though, anderson, putins overal...

So there have been -- there is plenty of evidence h that the afghan capital was pell penetrated by terrorists who were supporting the taliban up until now. now, as we speak, secretary blinken has been on meet the press, speaking on meet the press and iss, confirming that e physical embassy is being closed. there will be a skeletal force of diplomats remaining at the airport where they r believe th they cane be protected. we have to see whether that actually takes place. but right now, it is a fa...

0 going in and out of the country. if that were to happen, big if. then the u.s. military, who are there, they will work to defense any u.s. americans who are there and to keep the airport open so they can get the americans out safely. also, though, its important to point out, you know, there were about 1,000, less than 1,000 u.s. troops who were already there. only about a1,000, not really full 1,000 have made their way in. that total of 5,000. they are not there yet. >> yeah. >> the current pl...

Charles: jillian, every time they go to gun violence, an inanimate object that might make you feel more powerful, but every single day hundreds of thousands, if not millions of americans get their legally registered guns, go to a target range and go back home and cook dinner. [laughter] the notion that this simply falls on guns, it bothers me so much, and this is always the fallback position for democrats. >> yeah, its true. i was talking to the former chief of police, and-saying its a deterrent...

This goes to your other point. i think people want me to say theres a strategy. i dont think the filibuster is going away this session. i just dont. that doesnt mean things cant pass. sinema and manchin have showed a willingness to vote in reconciliation packages, so i dont think that means theres no agenda. but in terms of getting rid of the filibuster, the democrats have gone further than i expected, but in a 50-50 senate with a couple of senators acting the way there are, i dont think theres ...

Republicans have asked for. this is a commission that is going to be have appointed by republicans, half by democrats, and any republican can get their vice chair to object to any subpoena that the commission wants to issue. if this doesnt happen, and i dont know why republicans wouldnt support it, our fallback position is a speaker could, if she wanted to, you have a special select committee like a benghazi select committee and that committee would have full subpoena power the republicans could...

Passed by you in the house of representatives. would there be any changes that you would be willing to make in this bill to get it through the senate? >> im not even sure what else we could do. we have basically put in all of the changes that the republicans have asked for. this is a commission that is going to be half appointed by republicans, half by democrats, and any republican can basically get their vice chair to object to any subpoena that the commission wants to issue. so if this doesnt ...

Youre not going to cook anything there." actually, robuchon helped me come to america, he found me the job. >> anthony: what would you have been if youd failed as an aspiring chef? what was your fallback position? >> eric: i wanted to be a forest ranger. >> anthony: forest ranger? >> eric: yeah. >> anthony: why? you like nature or something? >> eric: yeah. >> anthony: what was it, the uniform? you like the uniform? the shorts -- they get shorts and a little hat like smokey the bear. >> anthony: ...