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We are following the money. And republican candidates are getting ready to the debate stage, where the frontrunner might not even show up. As if he 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. Good evening once again. I am stephanie ruhle. Donald j trump is already facing serious legal trouble on multiple fronts, but he may soon be fighting a whole new battle, as other criminal investigations move closer to the possible indictment phase. There are signs that special counsel jack smith and georg...

Show up. Theyre underway. Good evening once again, im stephanie ruhle. Donald j trump is already facing serious legal trouble on multiple fronts. But he may soon be fighting a whole battle, other criminal investigations move closer to the possible indictment face. There are signs special counsel they could be closing in on charges related to efforts of the 2020 election. They posted this about smith. Quote, i assume an indictment will be coming out in the day now. And well campaigning this weeke...

against top democrats for leading the trump impeachment by kicking them off the house intelligence committee while ignoring george santos campaign financial possible violations and false resume? we will have the latest tit for tat from capitol hill. good day, im andrea mitchell in washington. president biden is about to announce a major shift in his policy for arming ukraine. he is sending advanced u.s. tanks that the pentagon has been insisting cannot be properly maintained on the b...

Operations. >> what are your thoughts on these missile strikes on presence lynskeys hometown? six people were killed there. and it seems like we have seen this tactic many, many times, and it always proves to be the deadliest for civilians. >> yeah, well, i think part of it is weve got to remember a lot of these cruise missiles being fired from russian air force bombers well back in russia. they used to be fire from over belarus. a lot of them are coming out of the black sea off of russian naval...

Of a sudden find themselves serving as not just soldiers but diplomats, nation builders, et cetera. >> the army, during this period of time, didnt really have any counterinsurgency doctrine. i remember going down to one of my battalion commanders right on the pakistani border. i said, mike, how did you get your unit to move from just counterterrorist strike operations in your couple months now to doing counterinsurgency across this province, all across this part of afghanistan? he looked at me a...

Terrorism coming out of that general region, within 12, 24, 46 months -- 36 months, and were going to monitor that. the challenge for us now, for the military and cia and intelligence services is we have got to execute what people have referred to as over the horizon counterterrorism activity. that will be more difficult than having bases on the ground. but it is possible to do it. were going to have to maintain very very intense levels of indicators and warnings and observation and isr over tha...

Security threat to us right now? >> yes, it is. i believe that you have to be able to articulate to the american people that anywhere that islamic jihadists and these terrorists want to establish a sanctuary, which is exactly what the taliban did, when we allowed them to take power after the russians with drew as part of the afghan civil war, they invited in al qaeda and they established a base. now we know that al qaeda is bleeding people over to isis because there are certain jihadists that do...

What the u.s. has been doing? theyre rushing new weapons over. theyve been quote/unquote bolstering the government. you have new leadership in there. you have more support for the iraqi forces. when they pack up and flee from somewhere, what do you do? >> well first of all, we really have not executed and resourced what we say were doing. lets be clear about that. talking the game and doing it are two different things. what we need is, you know, probably two brigades an aviation brigade and addi...

And i get it. i dont even see, i think that we really should reach out to the world. i mean i think. >> absolutely. >> there are ways that we can sort of share the responsibility and we can be meeting with president olan. the president can meet with the president of france. german chancellor angela merkel. david cammeron. >> president al ceasey of egypt. the united arab emirates. all of them are looking for someone that will step up and lead. we should take that role and responsibility. >> just ...

Best work. this is really inappropriate. and i think so dangerous from a national security and foreign policy message. if you you were in charge, youre president of the united states, what would you do, colonel, come with these decisions, start with afghanistan? >> well, first and foremost, i would move away from this sense of nation building and occupation style warfare. we would be focused on strike operations. there are four real strategic imperatives. go after ideology through a dedicated in...