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White house has to get a handle on. so that includes not just republicans but dependence -- democrats have a lot of independents too. >> you seen his mental sharpness play out rallying the western world in support of the ukrainians on the ground beating back this invasion. the fact that this president is in constant communication, daily communication with other world leaders, with republicans in the set at a hospital writing updates and briefings shows his mental acuity and tenacity with regard ...

Right now to avoid the worst impacts. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt good evening, everyone ukraines army of soldiers and citizen soldiers have stunned the world with their tenacity and resolve but russian troops are not rolling over, but in fact, rolling forward. peace talks going nowhere today as ukraines second largest city, kharkiv, came under intense shelling attack. satellite images capture a miles-long russian convoy of armored vehicles that could soon be head...

The end of the road for this case? could we see more prosecutions? we heard ben crump flip to that. >> i hope so. i hope there are more prosecutions. youre right, but for wanda cooper jones, this case wouldnt have ever happened. the states attorney refused to charge these men. it wasnt until the state stepped in that we saw the state prosecutions. and we know with respect even to the federal charges, we heard wanda cooper jones said lets not thnk thank them. we cant do anything but i think appla...

Military, which is our best bet to coordinate medics, proper effect routes for a higher level of care. but we are scrambling to facilitate bringing meds and other necessities, humanitarian supplies across the border into ukraine. we are trying to set up a logistical network. we are trying to facilitate moving out of the country so they are not caught up in this fight. in only a week, i think we see a impressive response from the big ngos and small ngos to support the ukrainian people. >> trace: ...

The supply routes more difficult. thats the concern. the clock is running on those. you can see from the attacks, they are doing it. we heard that putin is going to get belarusan military assistance. thats basically annexing belarus. belarus is bordering poland. that means you are looking eye to eye with nato states as well as the baltic states up here. you can see the areas where they are fighting for, this is kharkiv, that we heard so much about, the second largest city in ukraine. 2 million p...

You think that sanctions, any of the sanctions currently contemplated will have any effect on vladimir putins pans plans and not a single person says they will. im curious whether you do, whether youre more optimistic about the impact than the others today who have been very pessimistic about their likely impact. >> so, john, it depends on the time frame were talking about. remember that nato and our allies won the cold war by being persistent. by tenacity. by not being deterred by setbacks. and...

And that close combat negates the advantage of for example this the russian military. with men, weapons and armored fighting vehicles. that is negated by the close nature of combat. and thats why a lot of us up in the military community have been saying that the ukrainians main advantage and main hope is to fight in the city. the downside is of course it brings with it terrible destruction and civilian casualty. >> i covered the retaking from isis. the reality there is as you point out it was bl...

Congressman john garamendi. hes chair of the armed services subcommittee on readiness. how would you assess so far the performance of the russian forces so far? >> surprisingly poor. we would expect this military to be have much in charge of everything. if they have a supply chain problem that means fuel and food and ammunition for their troops, and apparently that is the case. thats really surprising. we had indications they brought up a lot of supplies to keep these troops in the fight. i thin...

I think it makes sense. a sensible tactic on his part. we can interpret it positively. >> thats good to hear from you, sir. what about the fighting? where does it go from here? how long can ukrainian forces hold their own? >> the ukrainians have surprised many with tenacity of defense. i am not one surprised by it. ive had ukrainian troops under my command. theyve deployed with us as a nato partner to afghanistan and other nato operations while i was supreme ally commander. theyre tough. they ne...

Has ever seen and we will allow the chief prosit to to open an investigation to ensure putin cannot commit these crimes with impunity. as ukraine resist russias onslaught with courage and tenacity, the international community must aid their struggle in every way that we can. we will only succeed if the whole international community moves together with the same spirit of unity that weve seen in recent days. justin and mark and i have been discussing that today and later this afternoon, i will be ...