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The pentagon believes hes being misinformed by his most senior advisers. all of this as british intelligence indicates that some russian soldiers are now refusing to carry out orders, even sabotaging their own equipment, shooting down their own aircraft. cnns barbara starr is live at the pentagon this morning. what more are we learning about this intelligence? we heard speculation about morale problems. now it sounds like uk intelligence has evidence to back that up. >> lets start with what you ...

Such a great tragedy could happen in the 21st century. i believe that we will win. all this will come to an end soon and everything will be fine. >> one month into this conflict and nato estimates that russian forces have died 7,000 and 15,000 soldier. a stark contrast russia is handing out saying only 500 have died. dana and trace. >> dana: thank you, stay safe. >> trace: a new batch of american weapons are on their way to ukraine coming from the latest $800 million aid package as defense secre...

Seeing actually a good effort. it was a little late in the game, but the ukrainians have already dug in and made this a challenge for vladimir putin. always appreciate your candor. jason beardsley joining us mutually joining us , our national security expert. i want to ask you very quickly before we wrap up the segment from your perspective, is it more likely or less likely that we see the russians who by much of the reporting ive seen and read, whether its the bbc or just our own reporting here...

The fire in his eyes and flustered demeanor left a chill down the spine. meetings with russian officials are typically scripted, but the two attaches said they had never witnessed such an outburst by russian counterparts at an official meeting. the readout by the officials concludes, at the very least, it is clear that morale problems among russian forces are not limited to frontline troops. the readout describes only the impressions of the u.s. officials and does not definitively explain ilyins...

Said an attache on the russian side casually asked about his family. and the stoic demeanor suddenly became flushed and agitated. he replied he was born in ukraine and went to school in donetsk. and then said, according to the readout, the situation in ukraine is tragic. and i am very depressed over it. before walking out, without shaking hands. the attache wrote in the readout, the fire in his eyes and flustered demeanor left a chill down the spine. meetings of russian officials are typically s...

0 there for this white house. that could mean more high prices to come. >> john: its stunning from a lot of americans that we would rather buy oil from iran and venezuela than doing the former. >> sandra: were going to dig into a lot of what she said today. thanks for joining us. im sandra smith. >> john: im john roberts. "the story" with martha stars right now. >> martha: thank you, john and sandra. good afternoon. im martha maccallum at fox news head quarters in new york. as russia escalates t...

American president" when annette benings character screams at her boyfriend, on election day people care about what i tell them to care about. what happened when soeters do nothing but ask questions to the 23 democrats attend town hall events? why are democrats so convinced nothing can change? >> i think they felt defeated, going back to the mueller report the way this rolled out with barr setting the narrative or having their hands tied, or at lowest felt like they were, for several weeks while...

Changes at dhs and throughout the immigration system. hes run into trouble for. he got his pick as acting secretary kevin mclennan at the agency but now as acting secretary saying look, im in charge here. this is an agency where i need to oversee personnel changes and stephen miller seems to be, from what weve seen and "the washington post" is reporting and also from what i heard from white house officials, seems to be standing up and standing in the way of the acting dhs secretary. one of the t...

Look, its very hard on these workers. lets be honest, they have bills to pay as everybody said. but at the end of the day, theyre going to be paid. many of them, it will end up being a paid vacation unfortunately because theyre not working. it also creates morale problems that most people dont think about because all these managers in government have to tell certain employees, you are essential, and you are not. so that creates issues. so who is an essential employee? who is not? so this is just...

>> thats right. theyre going without pay. many of them are working. some are furloughed. but from a taxpayer standpoint, look, its very hard on these workers. lets be honest, they have bills to pay as everybody said. but at the end of the day, theyre going to be paid. many of them, it will end up being a paid vacation unfortunately because theyre not working. it also creates morale problems that most people dont think about because all these managers in government have to tell certain employees,...