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Him for information. it is starting at the top here. and he has been presented as somebody who is actually part of the planning of defending the city. so, he has been rallying people together. we have seen this unbelievable effort amongst the civilians that are staying to try to arm the front line troops and in many cases, becoming frontline troops. men between the ages of 18 and 60 are not allowed to leave the country. we are hearing horrific stories of people fleeing with their families, dropping them off, watching their wives and their children go away and then returning to the front. the i...

Somebody who is actually part of the planning of defending the city. so, he has been rallying people together. we have seen this unbelievable effort amongst the civilians that are staying to try to arm the front line troops and in many cases, becoming frontline troops. men between the ages of 18 and 60 are not allowed to leave the country. we are hearing horrific stories of people fleeing with their families, dropping them off, watching their wives and their children go away and then returning to the front. the idea of civilians picking up weapons and defending their city as an honorable idea....

Joining me is the former director for european affairs at the national security counsel and senior advisor after vote vets and the author of "here right matters" and intelligence analyst and author of the upcoming book "they want to kill americans." thank you for being here. lieutenant colonel vindman, you said you believe that short of doing a no fly zone, if that's not tenable, there are ways that we could make a -- something like it possible. this is what you wrote, establishing a no fly zone may be too provocative but if they don't strange that intervention, they ought to supply ukraine wi...

Beyond the extreme. look, there isn't going to be a no fly zone. i took part in southern and northern iraq but we struck every piece of iraqi air defense systems that activated or even looked in our direction and prepared to shoot down every aircraft there. that is not what the russian -- what the ukrainians really need from us. i had a meeting with -- or i met the commander of ukrainian armed forces general and he said we have the manpower. we have 250,000 men and women. we can bring hundreds of thousands more. we need the weapons. and what the united states needs to do is stop having a failu...

Deal with it almost at their leisure when it looks like they need to. the more difficult situations are in the south and in the east in the city of kharkiv. it's the second largest city. it's the victim of what was expected by people who understand how the russians conduct their war. it is taking a punishing assault from fires. the russian military is a fire based military. it is polarizing the city. and that is the way the russians are going to conduct the remainder of this war, if they can't secure cities peacefully, they will destroy them. and frankly, that might the russian military is a f...