million times to turn migrants away from the u.s. border, they say they ll appeal it but was the resuming a big political gift to biden? let s go outfront. and good evening, i m erin burnett, outfront tonight, absolute evil, absolute stupidity, those are the exact words of ukraine s president volodomyr zelenskyy after a cultural center outside kharkiv destroyed by a missile, you can see the strike there, debris raining down. ukrainians driving by at the time of the strike later seen running for their lives as the cloud of black smoke rises behind them. and today s attack coming as ukraine s forces have been successful overall in pushing russian forces back, specifically from kharkiv, and tonight we have dramatic new body cam footage that shows the fierce fight taking place outside what is the second biggest city in ukraine. [ speaking in foreign language ] those battles that russia continues to lose is part of why putin s top commanders have been fired, because they ve be
putin now fired senior commanders that were considered to have, quote-unquote, performed poorly during the initial stages of the invasion and we also learned that putin is directly participating in decision-making that most western armies would be reserved for lower-ranking officers. as you start to hear this confirmation coming in from intelligence agencies, how does this impact putin s army? it s a great question, erin, because it severely affects it in several ways with second and third order effects. when you relieve the generals in charge, the generals that take over for them are then afraid to talk to their senior commanders about what s going wrong so it becomes a toxic leadership environment. not only that, you got the subordinate leader whose are used to a very autocratic system of reporting up the chain of command and not doing anything they re not told to do so the ranks below them, the maneuver units, movement units are frozen in place and don t have the
again the leader in this case who is being reviewed alongside this other officer who he apparently could not get along with, this is ronney jackson. there was given by reporters to sal vamg his nomination to leave the va. this was an inspector gem report. how he was doing running the relatively small office of the white house medical unit. we know people that served in the white house over multiple administrations and these positive evaluations that were released alongside this ig report that presidents and white house staff who were treated by dr. jackson in his capacity as a physician, they all liked him as a doctor. should he be something other than a doctor? should he run a very large complex organization with a complex leadership environment? well, this is a fairly devastating report about his capacity to lead in an organization of modest size. the conclusion of this ig report of 2012 is the white house
evaluations that were released by the white house tonight alongside this ig report that presidents and white house staff who were treated by dr. jackson in his capacity as physician, they all liked him as a doctor. should he be something other than a doctor? should he run a very large, complex organization with a very complex leadership environment? well, this is a fairly devastating report about his capacity to lead an organization of even modest size. the conclusion of this ig report from 2012 is that the white house should consider removing him from this job. because of his leadership capacity. and the white house didn t remove him, and we know that multiple presidents have, again, liked him being their doctor, both obama and trump recommended that he get navy promotions while still serving as the white house doctor. but this nomination to lead the veterans administration would be a very different kind of job and a very different kind of promotion. the va had a budget of $185 millio