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the state department has advised american citizens should not travel to russia, and evan had a long career as a journalist in russia, he was working for the moscow times before he joined the wall street journal, he knows russia well and that scares vladimir putin. how we get him back, most likely a trade. putin will twist us, twist the screws on this one and he'll try to exact something in return. remember, victor bout trade, convicted international arms dealer, merchant of death. >> sandra: and he wrote about vladimir putin specifically, a big part of the dimming outlook stems from a bad bet by mr. putin last year that he could use russian energy supplies to limit western europe support for ukraine and we know, dan, that was not effective. that did not happen. european governments instead of tempering support for kyiv moved rapidly to find new sources of
pilot program of not working. were deflategate into a certain crowd to make them a little upset. that comes off as a local po policy. click some metro maintained safety is their primary concern. last week they prove the hiring of 48 and transit security workers for their also exploring the idea of having their own metro police force, eric. super they have that in new york and a merchant with a new york city police force. christina, thank you. >> thank you eric and crime is also surging in the democrat led city of austin, texas for the states capitol recently sought six murders in the span of 10 days for you may recall the city slashing the police budget in 2020 of the george floyd protests. those funds are being restored after the state stepped in. the staffing shortages remain.
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coast guard, which approves cred d credentials for each crew members and vets and punishes offenses. but the u.s. coast guard is said to have refused to use its power on ships for decades. >> this woman who wants to stay unanimous said she was repeatedly raped and groped on the same ship just two years older. >> every innuendo, every touch felt like a threat. i slept with my knife. i felt i was being continually hunted. >> case in point, last year a merchant mariner tested positive for marijuana during a random drug test. the coast guard acknowledged it was like live caused by cbd oil
the coast guard has failed to use its power to prevent and punish sexual assault on commercial ships for decades. >> i had no idea that reporting to the coast guard was even an option. >> reporter: this woman who wants to stay anonymous says she was repeatedly groped and harassed by a member of her crew on board the same ship just two years later. >> every joke, every innuendo, every touch always felt like a threat. i always slept with my knife. i felt like i was being constantly hunted. >> reporter: the coast guard has not revoked a single credential for a sexual assault at sea in the last decade. yet it revoke credentials for other lesser offenses. case in point, last year a merchant mariner tested positive for marijuana during a random drug test. the coast guard acknowledged it was likely because of the cbd oil his doctor recommended for pain but permanently revoked his credential any way.
intercepting a drone? >> well, for intercepting a drone, the race track pattern picture that was showed, that drone was probably flying, clecl collecting intelligence either on russian ships or merchant ships coming out of odesa with grain as part of the embargo at this period of time. certainly the russians don't like that. they don't like people to know where their ships are. they don't like people to know what's going oin their area of operation. so this is not a killer drone. this is a drone that collects intelligence and communications. so they want it out of the area even though it's in international waters and has every right to be there doing the things that it's doing. so it's an intelligence collection platform, anderson. either on russian military operations or merchant operations to make sure that embargo goes as it's supposed to go. >> but a normal -- an intercept like that where there's not
they are not something that can be intercepted very well by a fast moving fighter aircraft. and to have this kind of experience and knock it out of the sky is something that escalates things greatly. it goes back to what john kirby was saying anderson about how russian aircraft and their patrol craft are very unsafe, unprofessional and and trained in the way they ease some of these intercepts. just shows itself in this kind of it situation. >> said that these kind of intercepts or common, just the knock and out of the sky part, the physical contact is different. what is the purpose of intercepting a drone? >> for intercepting a drone, qurans racetrack pattern picture that he showed. you know, that drone was probably flying collecting intelligence either on russian ships or an merchant ships that were coming out of odessa with grain as part of the embargo on ukraine during this period of
intelligence collection, shooting things, coordinating command and control in the sky. the one that was shot down, i don't know the facts completely, but i would suspect it was an intelligence collector, taking a look at russian ships in the black sea or merchant ships coming out of odesa with the grain. but this is a great aircraft, and it does wonderful things, because it has an 1100 mile limit in terms of -- and it can stay over an area from 14 to 34 hours. >> fascinating. thank you so much. on capitol hill, more establishment republicans and former vice president mike pence are disagreeing with ron desantis' comments about ukraine. he told fox news the war was not a "vital national importance to america" and characterized putin's land grab and the systemic targeting of ukrainian civilians as a "territorial dispute." take a listen to a few