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8/2/2006: As the men of North Dakota rushed off to Europe to aid in the battles of World War Two, others were needed in Ramsey County to help in that year’s harvest. Today in 1944, The Devil’s Lake World reported on two groups that did just that.

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Mccarthy even considered asking trump to resign the presidency just days before the end of his term. mccarthy also claimed that trump later accepted some responsibility for the insurrection, though trump never uttered any such thing in public. all those conversations are of interest to the select commitee and he did say last spring he would testify if asked. >> would you be willing to testify about your conversation with donald trump on january 6th if you were asked by an outside commission -- >...

Hours. would putin amass such a force purely as a threat to pressure ukraine and not use it in your view? >> absolutely, he would, jim. im going to go back to the russian way of war which is very different than the american way of war, if you will. they use the so-called, and ill use this in quotations, the grossmoff doctrine. theyre not going to attack first with conventional forces from a gold start. shock troops arent likely going to cross the border first without warning. as mathew said a mi...

That are going to be the responsibility of the zelenskyy government. all of that creates the very open ground for shock troops. you have elite russian units that are going to cross into ukraine soon. i think this is going to go on for a while. our job on the nato side is to reinforce our nato borders, reensure our nato allies, do all we can to help the zelenskyy government, which may end up being a government in exile. so, many challenges ahead here. militarily, this is exactly what i would expe...

>> yeah. good question, victor. the -- right now, i think the russians are, again, time isnt on their side. as all the world, global condemnation, the sanctions, even trouble within their own population, troops getting shaky, russian troops getting shaky inside of ukraine, being staggered by the will and depth of ukrainian resistance, they need to -- they need to finish these urban fights, whether in kharkiv and kyiv. they dont have huge troop densities and i think theyre trying to intimidate. t...

Group of people, of killers that work sort of as shock troops, you know, for the russians, but theyre not terribly disciplined but they are quite bloody, and so yeah, its certainly possible that putin tried to use these people to kind of threaten and scare ukrainians and others that these out of control killers are coming this to find zelenskyy. what i dont necessarily believe is that the russian fsb, the internal security service gave ukrainians information on this stuff. theres a lot of games ...

And its not just the actual word, its the tone in the voice. thats an exhausted soldier. pleading for help. as a battlefield commander myself, you get pretty turned into the tone of peoples voices. number two, they are failing with a terrible battle plan. they came in on to many axes. they depleted their forces. the cranes are scoring real hits. and number three, way too many conscripts, reservists and these are not the kind of hardened, shock troops. this is not the u.s. first marine division. ...

You can hear them they (speaking foreign language) you can hear them they are saying, i urgently need food, refuelling, water, and how do you assess the russian military offensive right now? >> they are failing in three ways. number one, logistics. and its not just the actual word, its the tone in the voice. thats an exhausted soldier. pleading for help. as a battlefield commander myself, you get pretty turned into the tone of peoples voices. number two, they are failing with a terrible battle p...

Reports they sent a lot of shock troops from moscow and other places here to do crowd control, but also if they come up with conscription, if you see the russian government call for conscription mostly the lower class is what ends up participating in the russian army. if it starts trickling into the middle class you will have a very dynamic situation in russia that will send a shock wave back through a country that doesnt understand what is going on here right now. >> clint watts, thank you very...