Transcripts for MSNBC The Beat With Ari Melber 20220308 23:1

MSNBC The Beat With Ari Melber March 8, 2022 23:11:00

military. it was really interesting to see those transfers ongoing, but the state of the war right now inside ukraine is so interesting. weeks ago, when the biden administration was saying that it looked very much like vladimir putin was going for a wholesale invasion of ukraine, the expectation at the time was that within half a day, one senior biden official told me, kharkiv would fall. kharkiv is still standing. i mean, it's battered, and it's bloody, but it's still -- it's taken such a ferocious pounding from the russians, but it's still there in ukrainian hands. the same thing with mykolaiv, which we had our correspondent, michael schwartz, embedded with ukrainian soldiers who have fought off the russians so fiercely down there. kyiv was supposed to be taken

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