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Rehearsals, says this man, who gives his name. i think this year, its more special because of the special military operation happening in ukraine, he says. today i wave the flag to shore our army, but i hope it will end soon, he adds. a hint of awareness, perhaps, at the horrific cost. this is what victory day is meant to mark. the soviet unions role in the allied victory in the second world war. russia sustained millions of casualties, paying an enormous sacrifice. but the power of a military p...

Mark kemet. he served under secretary condoleezza rice in the george w. bush administration. good to have you with us today, general. >> how are you? >> martha: im doing well. what is your assessment? we hear so many things on putins situation, how strong his forces are, whether or not hes firing generals, whether or not theyre disappearing. it appears hes in this for the long game. what do you take? >> i agree with you. this is no longer batter of two armies, this is a battle of wills, zelensky...

We expect a month in that russian would need to resupply. we were told by u.s. intelligence that they expected russia could take the capitol by now. theyre not. its not clear just because the forces are withdrawing, 20% might be withdrawing from the capitol region, that they wont be inserted somewhere else, either in donbas, pulled back to belarus, resupplied and come back in. we heard, martha, john kirby say that he does not know what has happened to that 40 mile convoy. it may not even exist a...

Terrorism, narco-terrorism, cyberattacks, ransom ware attacks. weve paced threats we never imagined five or ten years ago. and the president has to make decisions about how we spend our blood, our sweat, our treasure, and our limbed resources to address those threats. thats a hard thing to do. and yes, i am heart broken about whats happening here but there are tradeoffs to be had. >> with us now, max boot senior fellow on the council for foreign policy and a washington post columnist. also assis...

Put it, that country, saudi arabia has agreed to spend the necessary money needed to help rebuild syria, instead of the united states. saying isnt that nice? but al jazeera was baffled. at no ti the president was on the phone with -- does this announcement come out of nowhere? >> you never want to guess what donald trump is talking about unless the president says it himself. one thing i think is really important to point out is syrias government assad is shiite, essentially, a sect of islam. and...

Isis. we have the defeat of isis according to the president, but what we need to do is focus on the fact that isis cannot return. those strikes that were done last week are keeping them on their back feet. and i think what were going to need to do is continue those strikes even after we pull the ground troops out. >> and do you think the ground work has been laid for the coalition troops to be able to do that, general? >> well, i think if you take a look at what weve done in iraq, thats the mode...

Opponents, kind of strikes me as odd. and i guess it strikes the saudis as odd. then again the presidents had a history saying other countries is going to pay for other things the united states wants, mexico is going to pay for the border wall. theyre not doing that and now apparently saudi is going to pay for syria to be rebuilt and to be happy. were going to have to wait and see. >> general kimmett, what is it for saudi? why would they pay? >> i dont see that distinction between shiia and sunn...

>> we have that sound. lets play it for abby and mark. that was a comment the president made before the airing of grievances with reporters. almost ten minutes, taking questions from reporters asking about everything from the wall to the shutdown to the fed. watch. >> take comey, everybody hated comey, they thought he did a horrible job. literally the day before i fired him they were saying he should be fired. as soon as i fired him they said, oh, what did you fire him for? that was a terrible t...

We have won against isis. >> thats president trump over the last few months claiming isis has been defeated in syria, something that ultimately led to his decision to withdraw u.s. troops from that country. this morning were learning the u.s.-led coalition in syria has launched new air strikes, targeting financial centers and other facilities in eastern syria last week. the deputy commander saying in a statement that isis still presents a "very real threat to the long-term stability in the regio...

>> and you see congresswoman velasquez standing to the left of there hameed darweesh. shes shedding a couple tears as this individual was just detained after serving the united states as a contractors in iraq. in what has been a very difficult war zone, being detained after he finally makes it to the united states. not wanted in his own country, unsafer in his own country. hes coming to visit his wife and daughter who had already made it to the united states. and then to be detained. that was th...