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Impeachment. he testified about president trump's call to the president of ukraine. colonel vindman thank you for being with us tonight. i do want to ask you there is a un security council meeting underway right now that was called, an emergency meeting that vladimir zelensky asked, the united states and flat -- linda thomas-greenfield as said quote, putin wants the world to travel back in time. time before the united nations, times were empires world the world. the rest of the world has moved forward it's not 1919. it's 2022. i want to ask you what you think about that? >> it's exactly right,...

Good in american values. but instead, putin is banking on the fact that he's got tucker carlson cheering him on and a former president cheering him on, and other people who want to be president cheering him on, appealing to the lowest common denominator and that is it is all about america, who cares about the ukraine people. so it is -- and i want to say too how much i respect colonel vindman and how much i want to agree with his optimistic view that this terror that is going to unfold will do what it takes to bring us back to sanity in this country. but i guess the silver lining i see right n...

This motor vehicle and covering the story. thank you so much for starting us off again. joining the coverage here msnbc political andist, former senator mccaskill on the set with us and retired vindman, best selling author and board member of renew democracy initiative. and max booth a "the washington post" columnist. colonel vindman, i follow your appearances wherever there are and want your take on what happened today in ukraine and on what keir and cal are reporting that things could be deteriorating. >> they are. it is a precarious situation. day five. they have not gone well at all for ru...

District forces, not the central or eastern military district forces that traveled thousands of miles to get to their locations. the forces that are much easier to kind of deploy back to bases and recall if need be. so, i'm really looking to see central and military district, eastern military district forces withdraw back to their bases as kind of a substantial indicator that we are, you know, over the hump for a major military confrontation. >> colonel vindman, in your prior government post, it would have fallen to you to have worked on remarks from an american president at a moment of crisis...

Certainly going into march, i think we will be in a much, much better place than we are now. we're also in this acute phase where i think more u.s. action is required. i've been advocating for what are called graduated response options, some sanctions to signal more is coming, not being on the back heels waiting for a reaction, and also testing this theory of resolve around nato, this idea that nato cannot activate the nato response force and determine whether places like hungary which have a proclivity to support vladimir putin are actually on board. those are the things i think we can still ...