Greg Miry News Today

Building support for a tougher response. and that is where we begin this hour with some of the favorite friends. greg miry with npr joins us. also joining us former u.s. ambassador to russia michael mcfaul. and msnbc national security expert evelyn farkis. greg, let me start with you and this whirlwind over the weekend and up until coming on the air today. what is your understanding of where things stand at this hour? >> right. things have been moving in a pretty straight direction here where th...

This new war thats still raging in the dombast region, another part of ukraine. so we were distracted by that. and each time the russians did something outrageous, we would respond to it, and then we would kind of all decide that it had been taken care of. now, that was partly also because, of course, we had a lot of other things to worry about in the u.s. administration, so afghanistan, we had iraq still, we had isis fighting in the middle east and then we were trying to pivot to asia. so, we s...

They keep building. its like a slow-moving train. they havent pumped the brakes. every day, theres more information, and then you see others responding. so you see us moving -- so you can see on the map. moving from kyiv to lviv. i spent an hour and a half on a zoom call with 55 ukrainians this morning, all alums from our program here at stanford and publicly, theyre all strong and stoic and were going to fight, and privately, theyre moving their kids out of cities. privately, theyre making plan...

Countries, and the risk of war increases. i know its really hard to explain that, because its very, i dont know, seems out there and very nontangible, but thats what he needs to do when it comes to describing it to the american people. >> and greg, as someone who covers this and covers the policy and the politics, what are you looking to? i mean, what is sort of in your reporter notebook to be following up on and looking for? what signs from the region do you watch most closely? >> well, the sec...