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Would _ smartphones, and to think nobody would feel— smartphones, and to think nobody would feel comfortable reporting this. shes not talking about the police _ this. shes not talking about the police per— this. shes not talking about the police per se, but shes saying there — police per se, but shes saying there needs to be better mechanisms to encourage people to come over. that comes _ to encourage people to come over. that comes down from the top. if youre _ that comes down from the to...

His decisions will take him. but we remain concerned about the range of options that he could pursue and well stay focused on this problem set. and ill turn to the chairman there for his thoughts. >> in terms of the size of the forces that are amassed right now, they could. i mean, its potntial. we dont think theres been a decision as the secretary already made. but, sure, with 100,000 troops and youve got combined arms formations, ground maneuver, artillery, rockets, air and all the other parts...

Have left? >> yeah, we do believe it started yesterday closing, depending on how the rest of the russians are and where they go. part of the country and potential certain cities could be closing. other parts of the country will remain wide open. and again, that is part of the ebb and flow that we work through this problem set. it is very difficult to lock an entire country down. as large as the russian forces and has been, this gets harder on them, also come every day to try to control mass terr...

Doing? ukraine is 780 miles long and about 350 miles wide. thats a big battle space. when you take a long this axis for the russians, they have to cover about 1,000 miles. so theyre coordinating activity across the board and not just the arrows that are coming into that, but how do you resupport that with logistics? how do you bring trucks up to give -- its a problem set right here. its very challenging. and we can see because he hasnt been moving. ukrainian commander on the other side, what the...

They have tried to explain it to people. we need to be in georgia because were protecting the interests of russian citizens there. we need to invade ukraine because crimeans want to be in russia. i think theres a lot of debate about whether or not thats true. >> okay. so two things here before you let you go. one is, what is he going to do with a country if he invades ukraine? a country full of people that actually hate him. and what should the u.s. and nato allies be doing to stop him? is there...

0 ukraine. at least 130,000 troops and that number has gone up and they continue to conduct live fire exercises. according to the white house, president biden reaffirmed his support. zelensky said theres no need to panic and he knows the situation better than president biden. according to the kremlin, putin told his french counterpart that the u.s. and nato had not addressed his fundamental concerns about security in the region. joining me from kyiv is my partner matt bradley, courtney kube is i...

I heard secretary blinken saying there was no plan. there was a he detailed plan. they chose to tear it up and put a political constraint where we had a conditions based security imodel for how we were approaching the risk from terrorism in h afghanistan. just very different ways of dethinking about the problem set and so when you talk about this coup, this takeover, we tried to get all the players at the table. we had womens groups, ngos, the taliban, folks from the north, the afghan government...

What we would expect from our country, the united states of america, is to go after a network, go after isis k. thats the strategic implications. this was merely a tactical action. made us feel good about it but more must be done. >> well, let me ask you about that then, general. with far fewer resources on the ground now, no help from a friendly government there in kabul, how does the u.s. find and target extremists who might pose a threat in a more proactive way to prevent another attack? >> t...

And i found, frankly, jen psaki and the national security advisor noncommittal if you cant get them all out at this rate by august 31st, can you guarantee them safe passage? you were on the ground and spent time in kabul more than a year. how hard will it be to save these people? >> thank you for the question. this is a painfully difficult problem set. yes, the intent would define a way to get them back but there is no mechanism to bring them out of the inner land. if they didnt get out before t...

Is a threat to national security and needs to be removed from office. so why stick it in the bottom drawer and do nothing about it? >> well, it demonstrates that this was a political process from the beginning. we are about to turn over a new year, a new decade, but we continue to see the same politics, just by new means. what democrats have done as they are really cheap impeachment process to any disagreement about the utilization of presidential power, or any disagreement, a presidents differe...