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Rehearsals, says this man, who gives his name. i think this year, it's more special because of the special military operation happening in ukraine, he says. today i wave the flag to shore our army, but i hope it will end soon, he adds. a hint of awareness, perhaps, at the horrific cost. this is what victory day is meant to mark. the soviet union's role in the allied victory in the second world war. russia sustained millions of casualties, paying an enormous sacrifice. but the power of a military parade to bolster national pride has never been lost on the kremlin's leaders. least of all, presid...

Mark kemet. he served under secretary condoleezza rice in the george w. bush administration. good to have you with us today, general. >> how are you? >> martha: i'm doing well. what is your assessment? we hear so many things on putin's situation, how strong his forces are, whether or not he's firing generals, whether or not they're disappearing. it appears he's in this for the long game. what do you take? >> i agree with you. this is no longer batter of two armies, this is a battle of wills, zelensky's will and putin's will. jennifer made a good point what's going on. we're counting the wrong ...

We expect a month in that russian would need to resupply. we were told by u.s. intelligence that they expected russia could take the capitol by now. they're not. it's not clear just because the forces are withdrawing, 20% might be withdrawing from the capitol region, that they won't be inserted somewhere else, either in donbas, pulled back to belarus, resupplied and come back in. we heard, martha, john kirby say that he does not know what has happened to that 40 mile convoy. it may not even exist anymore. that convoy was supposed to be the resupply for the forces that were going to take the ca...

Terrorism, narco-terrorism, cyberattacks, ransom ware attacks. we've paced threats we never imagined five or ten years ago. and the president has to make decisions about how we spend our blood, our sweat, our treasure, and our limbed resources to address those threats. that's a hard thing to do. and yes, i am heart broken about what's happening here but there are tradeoffs to be had. >> with us now, max boot senior fellow on the council for foreign policy and a washington post columnist. also assistant secretary of defense general mark kemet. welcome both. thank you for spending a part of your...

Put it, that country, saudi arabia has agreed to spend the necessary money needed to help rebuild syria, instead of the united states. saying isn't that nice? but al jazeera was baffled. at no ti the president was on the phone with -- does this announcement come out of nowhere? >> you never want to guess what donald trump is talking about unless the president says it himself. one thing i think is really important to point out is syria's government assad is shiite, essentially, a sect of islam. and the saudis are sunni. the two don't get along. syria's government is more closely aligned with ir...