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Even the kalon burst up you mentioned earlier, i gave you some good news from a perspective of the university. the bad news is a lot of people are saying you can pivot to socioeconomic status or -- by the chief justice also said you are not allowed to do through the backdoor what you can do through the front door. he made both of those statements. he created that loophole we were just discussing. but he also said if you were to adopt the first gen program or a top 10% texas like program, for the...

The social network platforms have played a very conspicuous part in the events in the last couple of days. we have been looking at that. the organisation of violent meetings are convoked by social networks, but it also encourages copycat reactions, and these videos have intoxicated the young people. that was the views of president emmanuel macron, he also referenced the views of the justice emmanuel macron, he also referenced the views of thejustice minister, lets have a listen. translation: nah...

War but also the pretext by which vladimir putin launched his invasion of ukraine. we learned a little bit from this audio message. still, theres just so many unanswered questions, chris. >> matt bradley, thank you for that. lets go to ukraine where the military is looking to make the most of this moment of russian weakness. nbcs raf sanchez reports from there. raf, what can you tell us? >> reporter: president zelenskyy today making a surprise visit to troops in eastern ukraine who are taking pa...

Which hes been questioning for a long time, but also the pretext for which it was started. and thats something that i think a lot of people in ukraine, a lot of the leadership, theyre going to be very pleased to see finally that russians are going to be getting a good look, a good close look at some of the arguments against this invasion and why its not going. well see prigozhin trying to advance on moscow, seeing soldiers take positions in central moscow, thats just not good optics. not for put...

What happens if putin escalates and he takes a step forward because he feels boxed in? that is part of what is forming the u.s. strategy today, basically to not respond, to say nothing. certainly there is a design to not appear as if they are putting a finger on the scale here, and not to provide a pretext for putin to said this is an american plot, which is a playbook of his in a lot of instances. and you saw him talk to the french president, and the german chan chancellor, and the english prim...

Ago, communicating to the russian people saying, the pretext that you have been given for this invasion of ukraine by your leader is not, in fact, true. the fact that you now have president zelenskyy speaking in russian to the russian people, to the russian forces, it would seem to me that there is a window of opportunity for communication and information flow to break that propaganda holds. talk to me about what that flow could look like, the window of opportunity, and just how quickly it will ...

Theyve been able to operate independently. now trying to put rules to this particular force and guardrails on them, prigozhin just didnt see it that way and thats where we are now because he was not willing to accept the rules and the guardrails that the -- that putin and the administration wanted to place on him. >> it is thing, though. if we backtrack about 24 hours, -- since prigozhin -- did reveal that the pretext by which putin had chosen to invade ukraine was, in fact, pretext. he went out...

Informed the strategy of not really responding directly to the events on the ground in russia. you have not seen president biden come out and deliver any kind of statement of any kind. they have remained behind closed doors, and i think the point really is to not lend sort of the ability for putin to use that as a pretext to accuse the u.s. and nato of fostering this, to accuse this of being some sort of american plot. and in fact, when the president did get on the phone earlier today with u.s. ...

This -- these events might affect the war in ukraine because certainly on their face a weakened vladimir putin would potentially be good for the ukrainians. but i think on the flip side there is this question that is being asked now at the white house, at the pentagon is what president putin might do if he feels cornered, if he feels boxed in? will he lash out? and remember, michael, russia has the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons in the world, and so this is sort of an ongoing worry for the...

To cancel those trips to remain in washington or at least the washington area to diffuse this crisis. i think at the white house, at the pentagon, at the state department the big question right now is what this means for the war in ukraine because certainly on the face of it a diminished vladimir putin would be good for the ukrainians, but on the flip side i think that there is a worry at what putin might do if he felt cornered, if he felt like he needed to demonstrate some strength. remember, r...