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Your response to the u.s. intelligence today that putin officials are lying to him about the progress of the war. i want to understand from you, given that he is an autocrat and he is powerful and russia, this is some plausible that he does not have the latest or most accurate battlefield intelligence? >> in some ways, yes, because you never want to tell an autocrat bad news. the golden rule of autocrats is to blame others for your own mistakes. and that tells him that his war is miscalculated will probably be fired. honestly, putin has shown from the very beginning of this ill conceived war t...

Or uninformed about what is going on inside ukraine, it is his military, it is his war, he chose it. the fact that he may not have all the contacts, that he may not fully understand the degree to which his forces are failing in ukraine, that is discomforting. >> one of these achilles heels of these autocracies is that you don't have people in the systems that speak truth to power or have the ability to speak truth to power. i think that is something we are seeing in russia. >> joining me now is a professor of history at the new york university and author of strongmen, mussolini to the presiden...

Interview with the u.s. commander at guantanamo bay, rear admiral john ring, says he has orders from the pentagon to prepare for the camp to be open for another 25 years.ha the joint task force guantanamo mission is now 16 years old and according to reign, the structure of the military prison is failing fast. t it's falling to thee ground and deteriorating rapidly he told nbc news. 40 detainees that are left at guantanamo, the last transfer there at 2008, so they can no longer provide any useful battlefield intelligence, according to the rear admiral. the average age is 46 and the oldest is 71...

>> good evening again jason. the nbc report is based on an interview with the u.s. commander at guantanamo bay, rear admiral john ring, says he has orders from the pentagon to prepare for the camp to be open for another 25 years. the joint task force guantanamo mission is now 16 years old and according to reign, the structure of the military prison is failing fast. it's falling to the ground and deteriorating rapidly he told nbc news. 40 detainees that are left at guantanamo, the last transfer there at 2008, so they can no longer provide any useful battlefield intelligence, according to the re...

Sitting in his mother's basement. >> this is one of the reasons we wanted to release this report to produce more evidence that it wasn't just the russian government but a unit of the russian military called the gru, the russian intelligence service, that collects this type of battlefield intelligence, tactical intelligence in the ukraine but also performs strategic things that interfere in our election. the evidence has come out. i encourage the u.s. government to release what they know and try to declassify that evidence. but this is one of the reasons we wanted to put this report out there t...