clearly a case they need more? what the ukraine defense mince sister was saying when he said we don t have the capability. with that standoff, russians have capability to fire this as a standoff distance and they can t protect against it. thank you. and launching a criminal investigation after a spotted leopard escaped from its zoo enclosure. the dallas zoo forced to shut down friday as workers searched for nova, the leopard. did not consider her a threat to humans and eventually located her near the original habitat and they were all able to safely secure her. she is being evaluated, but does not appear to be injured. officials also found a similar cut in a monkey enclosure. no monkeys are on the loose. this morning, chilling video shows a toddler in indiana waving around and pulling the
Costly, yes, it could be tragic in many ways, but the consequences of doing nothing, in talking like nato has been, but not really acting, will have far reaching consequences. and the fact is, if we do not with the slaughter that is going on. we re going to see a repeat of what we saw in former republic of yugoslavia in 1990s, the time to act is now, get them the weapons they need, more lethal, greater standoff distance, and give the ukrainians a chance to push back to their borders. commander thank you for your time and your service to the country. thank you, appreciate the time. shannon: more european nations are opening their doors to the flood of refugees 5 weeks into the war. united nations said more than 4 million ukrainians have fled, more than half in
For this upcoming rally. it s expected to take place tomorrow. and it s supposed to be in support of the insurrectionists from january 6th. i want to bring in our legal and national security analyst, and also joining us cnn law enfor enforcement, former d.c. metro police chief. commissioner, let me start with you. based on what we ve heard and learned in the report, do you feel like law enforcement is prepared? yeah. they re ready. they re ready for this one. the fence willing give them the standoff distance they need to have ample resources available from surrounding jurisdictions. stand by by the national guard. you know, i think they re ready. about as ready as say can be. one of the threats, of course, is independent lone wolves doing something else in other parts of the city. but they ve got a lot of coverage. mpd is fully activated. they re going to be really
History that i m aware of. the situation seems to be developing as we have allowed the taliban to hold us accountable to a date that we established. the taliban shouldn t be a driver for how we make any decisions let alone when there are still americans and afghan partners trapped in the country. it is time from my perspective to start rethinking the strategy. if this is an indication of the taliban s ability to prevent isis lodging terrorist attacks, we just found evidence that is not where this is going to trend so we need to start considering should retake bagram airbase again? should we create opportunities to have air assets in the region to build up our intelligence to get some standoff distance, marching to this arbitrary date creates more of a crisis, desperate refugees around, and karzai airport, manufacturing a worse situation every day.
Deadline. well, it will be extremely difficult. essentially two things. you have to get out all the civilians. then you start collapsing the perimeter from without. in that regard this is where we have a working relationship we don t trust the taliban but we have a working relationship with the taliban to hold a perimeter while we slowly collapse our perimeter. we re getting more and more troops onto planes and slowing and shrinking the pocket of where we are so we re both keeping ourselves safe and everyone else within the pocket safe and at the same time having standoff distance from the taliban as well as making sure we have the operational capability of taking off. this is a multifaceted step that will require coordination and, unfortunately, we have to do this with the taliban at this point. the taliban and isis-k are enemies to each other right now. so we need to do some coordination with them to secure the remainder of the airfield once we re out to make sure we
Cases like this. what about allied assets? we were talking about the french and british playing a role. the british, they have two classes of submarines which are equipment you i would think if the britts do decide to participate, the french also have aircraft in the region based in or then u they have their own version of a long range missile they can fly. it s called the storm shadow. we give them the standoff distance to beat and not be kord about russian air defenses in and and targets. these are very, very capable
1,500 miles. it allows you a great standoff distance. the other great thing about a tomahawk is it flies low to the ground at a subsonic speed, very difficult for air defense systems and radar to pick up. i would be looking for the tomahawk adviceimissile to be h used if thee he decides to stri. the f-22 fighter jets have been used extensively in northern syria largely to deconflict airspace with the russians. very stealthy. obviously a work horse for the u.s. air force. probably less likely to be involved in any kind of strike against syrian targets in this particular case because the probably about 15 miles from the
Knowledge and awareness of all the potential actors in a city like manchester, and you just cannot do that. you can put some greater standoff distance from crowds, but you also have concertgoers who were coming from the train station into the concert hall and do you scan them at the train station where there s another concentration of people out in the middle of the street, i mean these are incredibly complicated questions and they disrupt or freedoms and normal lives and you cannot do this everywhere. manchester is a big city, many mow terrible targets, not as much as in london and the symbolism is important, but you can t provide the perfect security that would be needed. thomas anderson, brian dillon, thank you very much. and a programming note, nbc s lester holt wil anchor nbc nightly news live from manchester this evening. still ahead, president trump s 2018 budget request, presented to congress this morning. some massive cuts to programs