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>> i'm jim sciutto in washington. we begin this hour regarding developments in russia's war in ukraine. after a week of escalation in the fighting, many of the players are looking to the near future when in less than 60 days, president elect donald trump will take office here in the u.s., ukrainian president zelenskyy said today he is awaiting trump's proposals in january to potentially end the war with russia. it has been more than a thousand days since russia's full scale invasion of ukraine previously claimed that he could end the war on day one in office so far, he's provided no details on how he would do so. president putin of russia is saying his country will continue to test and start mass producing the hypersonic ballistic missile it fired at ukraine this week. the missile which contained multiple warheads struck the ukrainian city of dnipro. cnn's nick paton walsh is in the ukrainian

capital kyiv. nick, tell us what more you've learned from ukrainian officials about this missile and its capabilities, because every time i see the video of it striking just the speed that those warheads came down, it just looks potentially devastating yeah, i mean, look, this is clearly something i think it's fair to say that is new, that has not been used on the battlefield. >> certainly in ukraine before. it's a multi warhead ballistic missile. and the streaks you see coming down from the sky are essentially those separate warheads hitting in that instance, an industrial site in dnipro. the ukrainian most recent assessment is they believe this was the kedaara intermediate range missile. and they think that this is a prototype that russia they say thank god believe had two of as of october. so it may indeed be that we don't see it used again. and this was a show of russian technological prowess. but it ended essentially a week of quite startling escalation on both

authorization to ukraine to fire atacms long range missiles into russia, many felt potentially that moscow was going to allow that red line to be crossed know the kremlin looked to reach for this new device, whether it's a mark change in its capabilities or certainly, i think, spooked many ukrainian citizens initially assessing this as an icbm being no doubt this kind of technology is normally used in nuclear weapons, but i think in this case, putin is trying to show he has something else. he was able to turn to which he claimed would get through western air defenses, although some analysts say he's mistaken. there jim. >> yes. so many of those weapons, they fired are nuclear capable and that, of course, is the concern of nato allies i want to ask you, given your latest visit there, and as you're there, there's a gallup poll out recently that showed that the ukrainian public support for the president, volodymyr zelenskyy has dropped. it was around 80% at the start of the war. it's dropped to 60%. by the way, in the current environment 60% approval is no small thing but but i wonder what you attribute that to. is that to him

personally and his leadership of the country during the war, does it reflect rather an exhaustion with the war and ukrainians want wanting to see some sort of light at the end of the tunnel that president zelenskyy has sort of been the face of ukraine's resistance since the russian invasion. >> and as you pointed out yourself, 60%. i think any western leader would kill for that. but yeah, this is clearly the drop there, a reflection of how nearly three years of fighting here has taken an extraordinary toll on nearly every ukrainian household. and ukraine is suffering from a manpower shortage because of the extent of the losses which they often keep classified in terms of a clean figure um, out on a battlefield. and it is a war i think, where the defined victory of zelenskyy is a maximalist goal. he initially wanted to kick russia out of all ukrainian territory, even crimea. i think even the most staunch western allies thought that might have been on the

outskirts of realistic. but still. now there is, i think, an increased pressure upon him to find some sort of resolution to this conflict. but an increased paradox, really, in that i think most western allies, while potentially hoping to see some sort of negotiated end to this i don't think there's an endless assistance to ukraine. there is a broad recognition that moscow could use what ukraine might refer to as an unjust peace, to potentially push further into ukrainian territory. when maybe they see a lack of resolve on the part of the west. so zelenskyy is in an exceptionally tight spot. his key backer, the us, is about to have a president elect who has said he can end the conflict in 24 hours and seems both very keen on negotiating a settlement and abnormally sympathetic towards vladimir putin's point of view and he has a population here who are suffering deeply with essentially the nato perspective being here. they just hope ukraine can hold out as long as possible until russia eventually breaks in its war effort. so an exceptionally

tough job and still opinion polls, i think slipping. yeah, because it's three years now jim. >> yeah just a tremendous human cost of that war too including many civilians nick paton walsh live in kyiv thank you so much. joining us now, ian bremmer, president of the eurasia group and gzero media. ian, it's good to have you on. you know, there's this there's this discussion of a negotiated end of the war. certainly, president-elect trump has talked about it and has said that he could he could just make it happen. you have the ukrainian president now saying, absolutely, we make a fair deal. i would love to end the war in this country. but it was interesting. i noted that senator mike rounds republican, speaking at the halifax security forum. he said the following. he said, as much as i would like to believe we can negotiate with a tyrant, he's referring to putin here i suspect we may be deceiving ourselves. and i wonder that that's the question i have. does putin want to come to a negotiated end to this war he's making progress in the east he's punishing the ukrainian civilian population, and he might calculate that a

trump in office is less likely to sustain ukraine's defense than than than a kamala harris would have been. >> well, he certainly calculates that taking a more maximalist position over the next two months and portraying a failed biden policy and putin's perspective as making world war three much more dangerous gives trump more ammunition, both to say that, look, i'm the guy that's ending this war, but also potentially accept terms that are much more acceptable to putin than they would be to the ukrainians or to the europeans. >> that that's what putin is trying to accomplish right now with these new weapons that's what he's doing. i suspect, with the sabotage that we don't have hard evidence. but it's pretty clear it wasn't an accident that occurred on this fiber line between germany and finland. that's what we're seeing from the new nuclear

doctrine enshrining into law whatever that means for the russians, that they are now essentially at war directly with the united states, with the uk, that anyone that is commissioning weapons to strike russian territory directly next question, next topic is nato. >> i actually have two questions regarding nato here. it was notable that the nato chief, the new nato chief, of course, he traveled to florida to meet with president-elect trump on friday i know you've heard this. i had several of trump's former senior advisers from his first administration tell me that they believe trump will pull the u.s. out of nato or attempt to, or at least reduce america's participation in nato, maybe even refused to enforce nato's article three mutual defense requirement or commitment, rather, with its nato allies. do you believe that to be true? do you believe it's a real risk that trump at one end, the extreme end attempt to leave nato or at least reduce american

participation? >> yeah, the article five commitments. yeah, i think i don't believe i don't believe, jim, that trump is likely to go that far for a couple of reasons. first, because he will take credit for the fact that nato is stronger today than it was when he first became president, and that nato allies are spending a lot more money. more of that is because of the putin invasion of ukraine than it is because trump pushed them. but trump actually does matter here and and i think he wants to show that as a win. and you've seen that recently. mike waltz just put the incoming the appointed national security advisor has said, yeah, we want to make nato stronger. and that means everybody has to commit. everyone has to commit the level that's commensurate to their the size of their comparative economy. well poland is doing that. the baltics are doing that. the nordics are doing. in other words, all the front line countries in nato that are there really concerned about russia are actually contributing more than their

share, not only directly to their own defense. as trump wants, but also to ukraine. they're supporting ukraine to a greater degree compared to the size of their economy than the united states is. so that's already happening. he can claim that as a win. secondly, you may remember, jim, and this is kind of interesting because trump very rarely admits he makes mistakes. first, foreign policy issue i've ever seen him admit he made a mistake for president, he said. obsolete. not so useful. he becomes president and then says, well, you know, i was a real estate guy. i didn't really know anything about security policy. i talked to my great, beautiful generals and they they explained to me why it's important. now, i don't think it's obsolete. i would honestly be surprised if in the first months of his presidency, if there were to be something that felt like an existential threat for the americans pulling out now, the danger is that he gives away too much to russia and that a bunch of nato allies say okay, we're with we're with trump on this, and other nato allies say, no we're

not. that is the problem that the europeans might split. >> exactly. that'd be the concern in fact, that was putin's calculation at the invasion. he thought that europe would split it didn't. it stayed together. nato stayed together. in fact, it expanded, as you know, adding sweden and finland. so let me ask you the next question. yeah and you hear a difference of opinion on this in europe as well would putin ever test the nato alliance test article five by attacking a nato ally? because when you speak to the to the forward facing nato countries, the leaders of the baltics, for instance, they say, absolutely. if he thinks he could get away with it, he will do it. but you speak to others, secretary blinken, they they will say, no way. he knows that nato is just too formidable an adversary. >> he is testing nato commitments and attacking nato countries every day. he's doing it through cyber attacks. he's doing it through critical infrastructure attacks. he's doing it on telegram with his spies paying for people to

engage in vandalism and acts of arson. there was an attempted assassination against the ceo of the leading german defense company invasion. a kinetic invasion of a nato state would he be willing to ever test that and and i would say he's much more willing to do that if nato starts to divide, if the united states is firmly on the side of hungary and slovakia and italy, a germany and meanwhile the balts and the nordics and france are saying, no, we really don't support what trump is doing, and we need to stick much more strongly with the ukrainians, not accept the russian position. he might be willing to test that. i don't think he would start by testing it with tanks rolling across the border. but might he shoot down a plane? might he engage in far more aggressive military exercises? could there be an accident in the baltic sea for

sailors i mean, the kind of thing that we worry about for example, with taiwan over the chinese border, inspecting vessels, that kind of thing. sure and especially if he thinks that trump is in a really different position than the baltic states. i mean, at the end of the day, you know, lithuania you're going to have to show trump on a map. this is lithuania, and he's going to say it's this big and it's this far away, and we're doing this. why? so i think, look, i mean, you and i speak to a lot of leaders from that part of the world. they feel this is an existential threat in a way that the americans absolutely do not. neither the democrats nor the republicans, but particularly president trump. so this is going to be a very serious concern of theirs going forward. >> yeah. the question being is article five real? right? and and does putin try to attempt to test our definition of what an attack that would trigger article five is? you know, tanks might be one thing, but as you say, you know, you sink a ship with plausible

deniability. then you wonder. ian bremmer thanks so much for joining. thanks, jim. this just in president elect trump has announced a new cabinet position. just moments ago we're going to take you to mar-a-lago next for that update you want answers astute political analysis we have questions. >> how biden said the write off stayed awake. why did trump pull out of 60 minutes? i love pulling out. this is a news network. >> have i got news for you tonight at nine on cnn when you're the leader, a disaster cleanup and restoration. >> how do you make like it? never even happened? happen. fire it up, randy there's a pro for that. >> servpro like it never even

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still has several other cabinet positions to fill. last night, the president elect announced several new picks, including hedge fund manager scott bessent to lead the treasury. cnn's alayna treene is live outside mar-a-lago in west palm beach. so tell us when we look at the picks together what kind of policies is the president intending to carry out here? because he described some quite far right positions during the campaign. you, of course have project 2025 floating around which he has claimed to have no knowledge of. but several of the authors of that are now going to be in his cabinet. do we get a vision as to what are the major changes he wants to make while in office i think we absolutely do, jim. >> and there's a couple key things, i think to look at one is that donald trump has said this, but it's very clear with his picks that this is something he wants to be carried out, which is he wants more control as president. there are agencies the department of justice, for example that he announced.

well, his new attorney general pick is pam bondi. that is one agency that traditionally has, you know independence from the president, from its part of the executive branch. but, you know, try to operate on its own. donald trump wants to do away with that. and that's really to say, for many of the agencies under the executive branch, he wants them to really help him expand his power. we saw yesterday he announced that russell vought will be his new budget director. he is someone a key author of project 2025, who kind of made that clear as well in his offerings in that conservative blueprint that he wants to really expand the power that the commander in chief has. so that's one key thing. i think another thing, as well is that what he wants to do as it relates to tariffs, he is implementing people who people like scott bessent for treasury but also brooke rollins. now his latest announcement to run the department of agriculture. those are two roles where they will likely have a big impact on tariffs. but they're also

loyalists. i mean, that's really the case for many of these picks, if not all of them that he has announced to to lead his cabinet with all people who have been loyal to donald trump, who have had long standing relationships with him, who stood by him in the aftermath of january 6th after he had departed the white house and many people had distanced themselves he has people who he's putting into his administration who he really wants to not get in his way to help him move forward with his policy goals and to really carry out the promises that he made on the campaign trail. jim. >> and a lot of them, with a lot of experience on television, too. that always seems to be a factor in his choices. alayna treene at mar-a-lago thanks so much. so let's speak to our political panel now. republican strategist brad todd and democratic strategist maria cardona. good to have you both on. maria, i'm going to give you the chance to start on this because, as you know the president staked out some very extreme positions during the campaign. it's a bit of a smorgasbord in the in the cabinet. i mean, you have some quite predictable ones and,

let's be frank, some quite extreme choices here. sebastian gorka. i mean, there were folks who pushed him out of his last administration because some of the positions he took, he's going to be back on the nsc but you look at the person who's going to lead the labor department pro-union, surprisingly pro-union, given some of the president elect's stances, the treasury secretary, he worked with george soros, which, as you know, has been a favorite punching bag of the right and remains that way when you look at this cabinet. maria cardona, is it as extreme right as you were concerned about going into this election? >> it is, jim, and it is for one reason. and elena actually alluded to this very clearly, which is the person in charge is none of those people. none of the picks. it's donald trump and the one thread that is very much in common through all of his nominees is that they are loyalists. this is how they are described in every

single reporting that we have about who they are and what their background is. so the other thing that is very concerning is except for a few most of them have zero experience, have zero expertise, have zero background in the themes and in the issues and in the matter that they're going to be heading up at whatever agency or at whatever group they are designated to lead and so it goes back to what trump promised promised these extreme moves, these extreme policies. he wants to blow up the government. he wants to get rid of norms. he wants to get rid of institutions. he wants to fire 50,000 government workers, civil servants. he wants to do exactly what was in project 2025 the most concerning pick so far is the one at omb who is the author of project 2025, who is going to be the one, really,

that is going to give trump the power to do exactly what he wants to do? and that's not even talking about the ones who have been picked, who have gross, disgusting, sexual allegations against them. i mean, this is a cabinet of chaos, and that's what we're going to be seeing from him. >> i want to give you a chance to respond to that because it is true that donald trump's own public statements and the statements of folks who are now serving as cabinet they have vowed to carry out quite drastic changes in government. do you look at this cabinet as fitting that bill, in effect well let's unpack a few things. >> maria mentioned there and even going back to something elena said, of course, the cabinets are full of loyalists. >> every cabinet is full of loyalists. >> joe biden didn't have anyone in his cabinet who was disloyal to joe biden that's not the way it's done. and you know, as far as experience linda mcmahon has already been in somebody

else's administration. >> his president trump's she ran a different department you have governors, you have former attorney general pam bondi, who was the lead law enforcement officer for one of our largest states. >> you have a lot of people who have held been would have been highly qualified in anybody else's cabinet. also, donald trump's pick democrats, he's picked a pro-labor secretary of labor endorsed. randi weingarten has endorsed one of the republican see when is when is when is a republican president ever done anything labor like at the department of labor? i think he's not getting near enough credit from from my colleagues on the right, like maria, for for doing some pretty surprising moves here as far as the diversity of thought. >> well, the question will come in the moves that they make, right, and the policies that they carry out. i want to ask if i can, maria, about a couple of specific choices. one, and, brad, i'm curious about your thoughts on this too, because because one of the picks that i hear the most concerns about from republicans mind you, as

well as democrats, is tulsi gabbard at dni. and that's not just an experience question. and we should note that previous directors of national intelligence, they led intelligence agencies, right, for years prior to becoming the seniormost u.s. intelligence official. but but it's about positions, public positions that tulsi gabbard has expressed that are contradictory to america's bipartisan national security positions, like, for instance a very basic one, who's responsible for russia's invasion of cardona, just briefly, do you think she should be dni? and if not, why not? and then, brad, i'll go to you for your response. >> absolutely not. and we have heard this not from democrats, but from republicans themselves. you have tulsi gabbard, who completely eviscerates tulsi gabbard past talking points, her past comments, her past cozying up to assad to putin. and it's not that we shouldn't be talking to

our adversaries that actually should be done, but it should be done by somebody who is designated and has a diplomatic background and permission to do that. that is not what tulsi gabbard did when she went to see assad and cozied up to him and agreed with him and she came back to say that she agreed with him and that it's the united states fault that ukraine was attacked and that she didn't believe that assad had used the weapons of mass destruction, chemical weapons against his own people why would republicans, why would trump choose somebody who is saying things against the united states as the highest person who's going to be in charge of our intelligence? i just don't understand >> what's your answer? you know, jim but it wasn't too long ago. >> tulsi gabbard was a darling of the democratic party. she was one of the most heralded freshman congressmen. she ran for president as a democrat just five years ago. democrats were quick to heap praise on tulsi gabbard until she

endorsed donald trump, not when she went to syria. >> not when she went to syria. no one, no one praised the trip to syria. >> she's going she she she's going to have a hearing. republicans are going to ask that and her answers will decide whether she's confirmed or not. i mean, i think that a lot of republican hawks will have tough questions for her. you saw jim risch is already indicated he has some questions for her. lisa murkowski has indicated she has questions for her, but once again, i think the the hypocrisy from democrats who have long praised people until they supported donald trump is pretty rich. >> fact check there because they did criticize her. i just i just handle it because we do have to go. they certainly criticized her when she went to syria and criticized her when she blamed nato for the for the russian invasion. >> she'll get questioned on that. i think she's going to have to explain that. >> all right. well, listen, i didn't mean to just zero in on one because there are many cabinet picks. but boy, we've got a long time to go until january, so we'll have you back and discuss more of them. brad todd maria cardona. happy thanksgiving to both of you. >> you too. >> thanks a lot coming up next

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after chinese hackers used telecom firms to spy on phone calls and text messages. china, as it often does when confronted with allegations such as this, has denied them. joining us now to discuss the extent political and national security analyst and author of the book new cold wars china's rise, russia's invasion, and america's struggle to defend the west. david sanger also works for a little paper called the new york times wrote a piece on this hack. good to have you on, david. thanks so much for joining thank you jim. >> yeah, it really is a remarkable story. >> and i think remarkable in some ways because it went undetected for seems pretty astounding given the sophistication of the targets. >> no question. i mean, it reminds me of previous hacks, even by russia, where that was the issue. for instance, going back to the state department hack that they got into the system that's one breach, but that the breach was not detected for. so long. and, you

know, you've reported on this. this has been happening for years, right? so, so the defenses are up, but china got around the defenses and no one knew. how did this happen well, first of all, you're right. >> the defenses were up. >> you know, it was nearly it was more unit 61398 of the people's liberation army was inside american companies. and then, of course there was the cleaning out of the office of personnel management which lost 22 million security files. you know, these are what people file when they are getting ready to get a security clearance. all kinds of detail. so you would have thought everyone would have been, um, on their on their toes here. the problem, jim, is that the american telecommunications system is this hodgepodge of old and new equipment, some of it 40 years old much of it uncatchable. and the chinese

did a brilliant job of working the seams, getting inside it and then heading for the crown jewels, which in this case was the system that enables the government to put lawful wiretaps on suspected criminals or spies, including the fisa system, the federal, you know intelligence surveillance system so they would have a chance to look at whether the u.s. was following, for example, chinese spies that stood out to me and i'm going to quote your own story to you, which i'm sure you love when folks do that. >> but you said that this hack practically gives a roadmap to discover which chinese spies the u.s. had identified and which it had missed. this reminds me, and you remember this more than a decade ago. but when china uncovered america's spies, a whole network of them actually went on, sadly, to to to kill some of those american spies. but this this is obviously about u.s. discovery of chinese

spies. but if they know if they knew who we knew were spies. i mean, that that is debilitating for the u.s. intelligence community, isn't it well, that's right. >> and you know you've written extensively on where this fits into china's. you know, overall goals. and first of all, this is exactly the kind of hack that china and the united states regularly carry out on each other. and we should you know, all we're all grown ups here. the united states does this to chinese telecommunicati ons systems, too. and has done it to huawei, as we learned during the snowden revelations. but the fact that the u.s. was not able to go detect this and it might not have been detected now had it not been for some microsoft researchers who were following this chinese group, which they had named salt typhoon and saw the ip addresses essentially, you know internet addresses of verizon

at&t, t-mobile other customers out there. >> we just learned, my producer told me in my ear that there's now an all senators classified briefing on this this hack scheduled for december before we go. you mentioned the u.s., of course spies on its adversaries should americans watching this who are saying oh, my gosh, china did this should they assume that the u.s., with all its enormous capabilities, might have been able to pull off something similar on china? in other words we our country is successfully hacking chinese systems, or at least to some degree. >> well, to some degree we have. what makes it harder is that china's got a controlled system, right? that's surrounded by thnot allowed by law to look inside the united states. so if this group was launching its its

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prosecution said for several days that nealy had died from the chokehold that daniel penny put him in. >> that's what the medicals, the medical examiners testified to. >> so they brought in their own medical expert to counter that and to say instead that nealy died from a complicating factor including sickle cell disease. >> the fact that he was on k2 at the time and that he suffered from mental illness. now, the question here is what will the jury think? >> they are going to be likely starting deliberations following the week after the thanksgiving holiday. one critical thing that we were waiting for in this was whether or not penny was going to take the stand. he decided not to do that in this case, but we did have a chance to hear directly from penny during this trial, and that's because there was a piece of evidence that was introduced during the prosecution's case that showed a voluntary interview that penny did with detectives shortly after the incident.

take a listen to him describing what happened that day how long had he been on there before you intervened? >> i mean, he got on. he whipped his jacket off. that's i mean, usually i don't crack heads, you know what i mean? i just kind of let them do their thing. but then he started threatening people once he starts doing that, that's when you try to subdue him. yes. i'm i'm not. i wasn't trying to like injure him. right. i'm just trying to keep him from hurting anybody else. he's threatening people. that's what you. that's what we learned in the marine corps. that's what you guys learn is in the cop. that's police officers so that whole thing he says there where he's not trying to hurt him is key because he is accused of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide the prosecution is not trying to prove that penny intentionally killed jordan neely so that will be a key detail that this jury will have to consider in the next few days.

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