battlefront. but even here, people are not particularly concerned. i was just talking to an old woman. she s the director of her building complex. there s about 200 people she was telling me who live in her apartment building complex. she s been responsible for it for 20 years. she was showing me they have a bomb shelter which they use to hold meetings and look like to have some sort of social gatherings. she showed me her liquor cabinet. there were festive decorations hung all around. i said are you worried you ll have to use this bomb shelter for real? she looked at me like i was asking a bizarre question. why? russians wouldn t come in here. why would they do something like that? that is the same kind of response i get from most people when i ask them here, do you think there will be an invasion? no, no, no, no, no. that s even hysterical and weird to suggest. so they re either following the government s line and the government is telling people here that what they re seeing is comp
threat. the major armor formations, we thought the russians would degrade them, they would have to fight in much smaller groups than they are, that s not happening. command and control is in place, they re communicating. internet is functioning. electronic warfare has not been in play. some of these things are really kind of puzzling as to why the russians wouldn t have spent the time at least the first 12, 24, 48 hours to try to achieve these effects and then fight a less capable ukrainian military. they have not, they have paid the cost. some of these reversals are really quite meaningful. the airborne assault on the air field outside of kyiv, very close to the city, and the russians were obliterated, that s a shocking turn of events. the fact that the russians have been held around some of these major cities now. russia has overwhelming combat power and they ll keep pouring in like matthew said additional forces. but it might not be that simple. i think this could turn into a meat g
president obama and vladimir putin. from your standpoint as a former national security advisor, what might the other party have taped that call or might the russians who we know are in conflict with ukraine and occupying part of ukraine, is there a chance that there s a real transcript of that call, a full transcript that either the ukrainians have or the russians have? well, it s possible certainly that the ukrainians have it. it s possible certainly there s a more full ver baiten transcript on the u.s. side. i would hope that it russians wouldn t have it. well, i think that s a good hope for everyone. but i want to just ask you quickly before i turn because i want to ask you about turkey as well. what do you make of donald trump s attitude toward the kremlin, toward vladimir putin? it seems to be very solicitous. he seems to have lots of secret phone calls with him that aren t detailed even to his national
always goes down with the russian public well with the russian public but on the other hand things aren t looking good economically and. russians wouldn t be very interested in having a big arms race and expensive foreign policy move and money in your putin seems to know that today he said that a costly arms race is certainly not something that russia is interested in all the world keeping a close eye on. and emily show and reporting from moscow many thanks. now to some other stories making news around the world france s yellow vest protesters have taken to the streets for the twelfth consecutive weekend demonstrators in the capital paris a paying tribute to those injured in clashes with police during previous protests security forces now have permission to use rubber bullets against the protesters who are opposed to the president s policy. monsoon rains have caused severe flooding in northeastern australia records have been broken in the city of
let us know how you think that will go down with the russian public well on the one hand i think a show of strength especially when it s against the u.s. always goes down with the russian public well with the russian public but on the other hand things aren t looking good economically and. russians wouldn t be very interested in having a big arms race and expensive foreign policy move and bloody near putin seems to know that today he said that a costly arms race is certainly not something that russia is interested in while the world keeping a close eye on this escalation emily show and reporting from moscow many thanks. well as to the us now i have a genius governor ralph northam is facing calls to resign after a racist picture from his medical school yearbook resurfaced northam is fos losing support from his fellow democrats and republicans are outraged to be reported jared reed is following this story for us first of all jarrett who is ralph north well