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the gloves are truly off tonight in the republican race for president. john king in for anderson tonight. thank you for your time. even if youre just paying a little attention to the republican race, it is hard to notice ron desantis and the former president openly throwing haymakers. never mind the old 11d commandment. donald trump, of course, has never bought into that, and now it seems his fellow floridian doesnt either. over the last 48 hours, governor desantis has gone straight af...

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com the gloves are truly off in the republican race for president. john king in for anderson t pay little attention to the republican race, it is hard to notice ron desantie former president openly throwing hay makers. donald trump, of course, has never bought into that. and now it seems his fellow floridian doesnt either. over the last 48 hours, governor desantis has gone straight after the gop front runner, most recently today on this conservative ...

range of colleagues have been working on this story all day and have learned the justice department has subpoenaed more than 30 people, people in the former presidents orbit. people like bill steppian, donald trumps former campaign manager, dan scavino the former trump chief of staff. these are wide ranging subpoenas seeking things that have to do with the save america pact, donald trumps fundraising and political vehicle, information related to the fake elector spot, any information h...

Underway, we saw reports and images of a drone attack on the russian side of the border. what do we know about that strike? pretty close to the border and relatively close to the fighting, right? >> reporter: yeah. i mean, kraz da was hit, the russians claim two uavs or what were calling drones. the ukrainians have said nothing about that. but we have seen an increasing number of mysterious or semimysterious events inside russia. >> thank you very much. joining me now is retired brigadier army...

Minister was taken aback when who he thought was ukraines prime minister floated the idea of nuclear weapons. >> i think more than being neutral, russia would really hate that. >> for sure. we know this. >> reporter: the british government condemned the prank as straight from the kremlin playbook. >> why havent you prank called prominent people in russia, like vladimir putin, like the head of the chechen republic, like prigozhin, the head of wagner? why arent you crank calling those people to ex...

Pretty close to the border and relatively close to the fighting, right? >> reporter: yeah. i mean, it was hit, the russians claim, by two uavs or what were calling drones. the ukrainians have said nothing about that, but we have seen an increasing number of mysterious or semimysterious events inside russia. >> sam kiley in ukraine, thank you very much. joining me now is retired brigadier army general, peter shwac, author of "a u.s. armys experience in pre-putin russia." he served as a defense ...

Services to suppress, repress his citizenry is still amazingly strong. that said, it really is an issue of a tipping point. in other words, the temperature is definitely going up in moscow and how far can it go before people who really are important, these are the people who surround vladimir putin, start to take notice of this and say, hold on a second. is the entire system we depend on starting to fray at the edges because of what is going on in ukraine? if that is the case and they start maki...

Of, untouched houses around russian command posts, and so on, and then a very rapid maneuver, completely different set of doctrine really that they are using. theyre maneuvering around, surprising and devastating the russians. and theyve caught them and caused a collapse of their command and control. theyll probably be able to regroup on the donetsk river. that the main concern of the ukrainians at the moment. >> steve, one of the things and we heard this from critics of putin inside russia, the...

Would they be a big political issue for him? im not so sure they would but there are other things as putin feels himself more painted in a corner he might turn to. we have of course discussed this in the past. theres tactical nuclear weapons he could use if he felt things were going poorly enough. there is also biological and chemical weapons he could use. thats not to say we need to be more careful in the west in terms of providing weaponry and assistance to the ukrainians for fear of that happ...

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...