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House Republicans are seeking information and documents from the 51 former intelligence officials who signed an October 2020 letter baselessly claiming Russian involvement in the Hunter Biden laptop stories amid greater scrutiny of their decision to inject themselves into the final stretch of the 2020 election.
Jeopardy. Israel bombs gaza days after a new government takes shape. What led to this latest flareup of violence. Welcome to the lead. Im pamela brown in for jake tapper, and we begin today with our world lead, and this historic highstakes summit president President Joe Biden and russian president vladimir putin. The summit lasted roughly three hours with both leaders describing it as constructive and positive. They said there were no threats or ultimatums, and putin called biden balanced, professional and experienced. I did what i came to do. The tone of the entire meetings, i guess it was a ...
Officer running things in moscow, what would you be doing right now? >> well, that's a really tough thing because we have relationship, intelligence relationship with the russians where we share things that are compatible and also the russians are all over us and watching us and pushing us and i was there during an intelligence crisis when some spies were caught and they were quite aggressive and all over us and sort of pushing us around and so i think it's, you know, i my heart goes out to some of the people that are both in kyiv and moscow right now because it has to be a very tense situatio...
Bet you it's based on solid intelligence and i'm sure the administration is working with the intelligence community. >> john sipher, thank you very much for all your expertise. we really appreciate it. let's bring in our military analyst, retired air force colonel cedric leighton, member of the joint staff at the pentagon, also served as deputy director for training at the national security agency so we've been talking about the donbas. can you just tell us about this area, why it's suddenly so important today? >> sure, alisyn, and if we take a look at the map right here, you see this is part ...
There are orphans that have been taken out of the war zone. joining our coverage, john sipher. also joining us, jim townsend, former deputy assistant defense secretary for nato and europe during the obama administration. with me onset is a steady wingman these days, rick stengel, former top state department official and a an msnbc political analyst. john sipher, my question is for you. does putin care when he sees ukrainian orphans on television, or does that make him happy? >> john sipher, we got to fix your audio. we can't hear you. >> i'm sorry about that. >> there we are. start over. >> it...