academy.com and see all 40 minutes, spoiler alert, by the end, things were so fun that professor murray's dog made a cameo. thanks for watching "the beat." "the reidout" with joy reid starts right now. good evening, everyone. we begin "the reidout." the war in ukraine is reaching a stalemate. if it hasn't already. that's the opinion of military and political experts including a nato official that told nbc news the reality is neither side has a superiority over the other facing more resistance than bargained for, russian forces made meager gains on the battle field and at a virtual standstill. despite the vastly superior military, they're plagued by

broken supply chains, food shortages, equipment shortages and sagging moral. experts say russian troops are strung out along multiple fronts and appear unable to sustain a projected war. according to western intelligence, russians are being killed or injured at the rate of up to 1,000 a day given the lack of a cohaerent strategy as the war grinds through the fourth week, it's clear putin not only views ukrainian lives as expendable but are. >> they're not being effective today in terms of maneuver forces on the ground are essentially stalled and had the effect of him moving forces into additionally, ukrainian forces reported on saturday they've claimed the life of a fifth russian general. another devastating blow to the russian war effort. while ukrainian forces have effectively halted russia's advance for now, the stalemate comes at a tragically high cost

for ukraine's civilian population. which is bearing the blunt of russia's indiscriminate strikes. yesterday ukraine's interior minister released this video of a russian attack that killed eight people at a shopping mall in northern kyiv. while nbc news has not independently verified, "the washington post" reports the def station was the worst that the ukrainian capital seen since the outbreak of the war a month ago. strikes like that that serve no military purpose showcase how russia is effectively compensating for their lack of progress on the battle field with a terror campaign of aerial bombardment. this is from a suburb of northern kyiv. >> reporter: the community has already been hit several times. the attacks have left yet more people out homes. and workplaces and businesses have been left shattered.

but the main supermarket is still operating despite being shelled earlier, a lot of the fridges and storage areas are damaged. the constant volley of attacks seen half the town empty and the other half can't understand why this is happening. they've attacked our houses, our schools, our shops she said. they're hitting us too much. for what? please someone explain. >> putin's scorched earth tactics are more apparent in mariupol where 80% of all residential buildings are damaged or destroyed according to local officials who spoke to the bbc. without water or electricity, residents facing starvation must scrounge for food and have no opportunity to bury their dead except in temporary graves. according to the "new york times", there are reports of on going street fights between ukrainian and russian forces and even more chilling, evacuated residents and a local official tell "the times" resident haves been forcibly taken across the border into russia against their

will. despite those horrors, ukraine today refused a russian ultimatum to surrenderer the city of president zelenskyy released a powerful video depicting all that's been lost in russia's senseless war against his country. against his country.

>> but it is not without hope. the video portrays zelenskyy's vision for a post war future after ukraine beats back the russian invaders. with me now is cal perry live in lviv. a consultant to the fbi terrorism division and slava musician and former member of the ukrainian parliament. cal, the word stalemate is being used but it seems military to military, it's not a stalemate. russia is being -- they're destroying their own forces sending them into what the secretary of defense called a woodchiper. the devastation russia is reeking is on civilians. tell us more what is happening. you're in lviv where the war wasn't but you were hearing

sirens when we spoke to you last. >> reporter: well, i'll give you an update. friday night we were on the air for your show and heard these two booms and i spent the next sort of 12 hours trying to figure out what it was and it wasn't until the next morning russia announced they fired hyper sonic missiles we were able to put the timing together. that's what we heard the first ever use of these hyper sonic missiles flying over us on the way to targets in the west and this geopolitical discussion what the aim of that was. maybe russia was sending a message to the u.s. here in the western part of the country, the message is these missiles fly really fast. air can't pick them up and they're hitting the target. it's changed the way this city is operating. you see more sandbags and people headed for shelters when the sirens go off. in the eastern part of the country, you're looking at video from mariupol. this is a city being wiped off the map. the russians put together this weird offer of a surrenderer that really didn't mean anything because frankly, there is nothing to surrenderer. you have in this city the front lines are now over lapping.

you have russian soldiers in a hospital using patients as human shields. you have ukrainian forces basically street fighting now, street by street, block by block, apartment building by apartment building and stuck in the middle are hundreds of thousands of civilians, some of whom can't get above ground to bury loved ones because the shelling is so intense. add to that, the russians allowing green corridors to flow back into russia for theover use reasons is not an option for the people in this city who have been cut off and shelled into basically oblivion. if you go to the black sea coastline not far from this city, you see a city under occupation. today there was a large protest by ukrainian civilians who approached russian soldiers and they were then fired on with live ammunition. so it is happening across the country in the south where you see that red, in the east where you see the red, it may be becoming a conflict. this may be a conflict that is slowing as far as military advances but everything that we

are saying and everything that we're hearing from western officials is true. it is the civilians who are paying the price for this war even in the capital of kyiv where we saw the strike on a mall. you're looking at the pictures there. it's not just the mall was hit. you see surrounding apartment buildings heavily damaged. in all cases, it's hard to accurately report a death toll because these rescue teams as they reach the sites are sometimes coming under fire themselves, certainly true in the east. it makes reporting this story and reporting accurate civilian death toll very difficult, joy. >> cal perry, thank you my friend. appreciate you. stay safe. clint, i'm writing down notes here. a woodchiper is who our secretary of defense described as what putin is sending his forces into. there is kidnapping people and dragging them into russia which i guess is good, you know, for their propaganda inside to make it sound like people would ever want to go into a country that's completely financially broken and where they don't want to be

because they're ukrainian. firing on shopping malls. this does not sound like a war in which the russian military and the ukrainian military are meeting and it's a stalemate. it seems like the russian military is incompetent and what they're committing now is genocide. explain to us where things are. >> reporter: joy, you're seeing representative of what they don't pay attention to, namely chechnya and they bought a very similar campaign leveling entire cities block to block creating intense damage. the way they supported president assad in syria very similar. so you're seeing total war. they don't see really the divide between humanitarian issues and military issues. it's all blended together and you'll see them make these announcements. here is a humanitarian corridor that leads to russia, which is a way to move populations out of the corridors you want to go and

level. they create this sort of prelude which is if you stay, you're part of the combat force and therefore, we're going to destroy you. it's a catch 22 they build. i think what you'll see over time is they're trying to do this siege warfare but it's not going to work. they don't have the capability to do this over time. >> this is what the washington post wrote in terms of quoting military experts, russia's military campaign could be unsustainable because they lack manpower and ammunition. the next two weeks could be critical determining the outcome of the entire war unless russia can swiftly improve the supply lines, bring reinforcement, the goals may become impossible to achieve. if that happens and they cannot advance, but they also won't stop, then what? >> i think you'll see in two to three weeks, joy, they will make progress in one, two, or three locations and an eastern city

you show on that map continue to move on towards peace negotiations there. some sort of settlement and try to keep the south in donbas. some of their plans sustain at this point because ukrainian military. >> thank you for being here and spending time with us. can you foresee in your thought, even mariupol a place that's been essentially wiped off the map, can you ever see ukrainians ever surrendering any city, let alone the capital to these people, to russia? >> i just talked to one of the leaders of the mariupol defense,

leader of one of the national guards units an hour ago. he is on the siege mariupol and i asked him, what is his message to americans? i'll talk to them soon. mariupol will never surround it and i absolutely believe what he says. there are 3,000 of them and they're not ready to give up the city, not ready to give up civilians that are still there and they're suffering from russian attacks and i can assume will it go more and more and more and none of the ukrainian cities you mentioned and others are going to surrenderer. i've seen many of these cities have been there and i can tell you the moral of both troops and civilians is very high and everybody is very resilient, everybody is willing to fight until the end and when i say the end, i'm saying just our

victory. we're very determined and focused. we didn't invite anybody of these troops, russian troops to our land. it was their decision and they suddenly will regret one day that they just started this. ukraine is going to win this war. though, i also agree with the experts it can come on very high price. we are paying this price because now we are fighting not just for ukraine, we are -- ukraine now is a battle ground for the whole free world and that's why we desperately, so desperately need your help. not only americans but the whole free world's help. that's why we're asking every day for missile defense and planes because we're sure that if we had much better situation on the air where russia has still advanced, we would have won already this war because on the ground, we're much stronger because ukrainian army has very

strong motivation. everybody is very focused and determined. russians have very low motivation. some of them surrenderer. some of them don't know what they're doing on our land but still, going and committing the orders of putin who is now absolutely sure a war criminal after everything you've shown and we've seen. they are not the power everybody was expecting so they will never win this war and suddenly, in two or three weeks as you already said, it will be much better position for ukraine but once again, i need to presume we pay a very high human price and not only our combat units of our soldiers but civilians including women and children are being killed now all the time.

they deliberately shell and bomb maternity houses for, and houses for elder and including the door tors, human corridors. i just personally met family from mariupol who just told me in a gas station i already put it on my twitter, you can see the english. they told me that they were allowed to go out from mariupol and then in ten or 15 minutes after, they were driving the car so they were shot and many other cars were hit and people have been killed or wounded. i've been in the hospital where i saw children in the unit, in the intensive care unit where they were lying just between life and death and doctors were trying to save them. some of them lost their legs and arms. little children, little kids like from 2 or 3 to 12 or 13,

one girl, her name was maria, she was crying not because she felt pain but because she already understood that she just lost her leg and she was crying because she understood that for her for young teenager girl, it was a disaster. that's all being committed by russians and this is why we need to stop them. some of your politicians say you don't want to close the sky over ukraine because it may provoke the start of world war iii. i'm convinced the opposite is true and world war iii may start much quicker if you don't -- if we all don't stop putin now and if to some extent we don't quit now and he will -- he can succeed in ukraine, he will definitely go further and further and while now ukrainian troops are fighting on our ground, just for everybody then

if ukraine loses then other countries troops will fight in that round. that's why it very simple message. i know ukraine, american audience, american constituents supports us so just tell your politicians do more for us now and we will save the whole world. ukrainians are ready to fight for the whole world. >> yeah. there is no doubt that ukrainians have the valar and courage to do it. i can't argue with a thing you've said. i'm so sorry for what is happening in your country and hopefully our politicians heard you and will hear you. clint, thank you and slava, thank you. up next on "the reidout" russia is facing a crisis of moral with a staggering number of russian soldiers being killed. what more can the west do is the very question of the day to bring an end to this crisis. also. >> if i an confirmed, i commit

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with putin's war in ukraine at a stalemate, russia is losing on and off the battle field are putin reversing 30 years of economic progress turning russia into essentially another north korea evidenced by a blow when the u.s. house stripped russia and belarus of most favored nation trade status putting them in company with only two other nations, cuba and yes, north korea. meanwhile, the russian government is cracking down on descent. today a russian court upheld on ban on facebook and meta of ext activities. thousands of russian citizens are fleeing. "the new york times" reports russia is hemorrhages out ward looking young professionals,

part of a global economy that's largely cut off their country. that bad news for russia is likely to get worse. a nato official told nbc despite making no significant progress in the past two weeks, putin appears doug in and unwilling to admit failure. likely, for closing the possibility that he will back down. the official warned that a frustrated putin could resort to more indiscriminate attacks on civilians, a playbook they used in syria with air strikes targeting hospitals, schools and bakeries. including a relentless month long arial bombing attack in aleppo killing hundreds of civilians including children and leaving the city in ruins. in the meantime, president biden will travel to europe for a nato summit and european counsel meeting on thursday to discuss the crisis in ukraine followed by a visit to poland to meet with its president on friday. joining me now, foreign policy analysts and visiting professor at the university of miami and editor and foreign policy

columnist from bloomberg opinion. thank you for being here. the comparisons between mariupol and what happened in aleppo is everyone is making them but you've been making them for a long time, we should pay attention to what happens in aleppo. tell me about that. you were there contemporaneously. what you're seeing in mariupol, is this the same campaign? >> the same campaign. people were warning syrians, refugees were telling us that the campaign that he wage in syria with gassing people, starvation, beseeking people, bombardment, the double attack which is he would send his airplanes to bump people and first responder would arrive and agree secondly, he will second time bomb people to create terror campaign. rape was used as a weapon of war

where people were the soldiers and militia were raping women in front of families. children were raped in detention centers and mutilated and tortured. he's not going to stop deploying the same tactic to terrorize and force ukrainians into submission. people wonder, i see in syria refugees in german new asking the world what happened? what happened was simple. he exploited the west bigotry in fear of muslims to basically incite hatred or use proxies in europe and the u.s. to incite hatred even against syrian ref -- refugees who fled the war. >> the syrian migrant crisis broke europe. it changed governments. this refugee crisis is different because it is not a refugee crisis of muslims and not a chechnya or syria. what do you think the impact

will be on europe of this new refugee crisis? >> right now, the europeans are saying the right things and doing the right things by the ukrainian people, particularly neighboring countries, poland most of all, the same poland that treated afghan refugees very, very differently. now, how long will they do this? how long can they sustain this? we're already past the 3, 4 million mark. 10 million ukrainians fled their homes. nearly 4 million have fled the country and they're all heading west. can the europeans continue, will the europeans continue to be this hospitable when those numbers increase, when they begin to extract a cost on the economies of these countries? that's the big test. we don't know the answer to that. we saw that with the syrian refugees there was an immediate almost visceral distrust and hatred. there were two contributing factors, one was the majority of

the syrian refugees coming were young men and with ukraine, many of the refugees are women and children and already older folke men are going back to fight. that makes a significant difference. culturally they're closer. many refugees from ukraine are used to traveling in western europe. they had visa free travel before. they know their way around. so they don't stick out as much as the syrians did. they speak the languages. so it's -- and the other thing that operated during the syrian refugee crisis, what these far right groups absolutely exploited the fear of muslims and turn that into political capital themselves, some of them with funding from russia. >> from russia. >> those far right groups have been much more muted. it of course doesn't fit into their narrative. they're still very pro putin. many of them are parroting the moscow line not just in this

country but europe. but at the same time, they can't afford to be seen to being hostile to these white refugees because being white is a very big part of the identity they project so they're caught in a little bind here. they're pro putin but they can't be seen as being anti -- >> anti ukrainian. >> or anti refugee for now. >> yeah. >> some weeks from now, some months from now when the numbers swell, we'll see. >> if it changes. you just came back from europe. what are these governments saying and politicians saying? >> they are on edge. they are using this occasion not because of the refugees. they start waking up when putin start attacking the elections. they understood what he was doing in the syria crisis when he start waging a war within europe, funding these europeans allies. in france 40% popularity funded directly from banks from russia. italy, victor, you have the far

right in neither land, everywhere around europe. europeans leaders today are fighting for the survival of the european union because they know if putin wins, that union, that project is dead. they know that. so they're fighting for their own survival and the same time for the first time, we're seeing switzerland, a country neutral for century intervening because again, they understand putin is not going to stop there and the refugee crisis is only the beginning and willing to go as far as waging and continuing the war that is not only with bombs, with disinformation and with bankrupting european and western governments. >> then you have president biden heading to europe because the question is yes, they're on the right side. what are they willing to actually do? they're not willing to directly arm ukraine? >> they're arming ukraine. they're not willing to put their own on the ground. they're beginning to provide sort of stronger and stronger weapons. they're not going to provide aircraft. that's very clear.

they're not talking about providing missile defense anti missile defense systems. which is quite significant. they're providing more drones, more anti tank weapons, the reason whey the russians have not been able to advance apart from the incredible bravery of the ukrainian soldiers is the weapons provided to them by the western alliance and they're going to get plenty more of those. you know, the u.s. for instance is now thinking of sending drones there, which are very, very subjective. just not the jets. you know what? there is an argument the ukrainians are using the drones so effectively, they might not be able to do the same with jets. put jets in theater and changes the nature of the conflict and right now the russian air force is unchallenged but once those missile defense systems arrive. >> that will change. >> that will change. thank you both for being here. we have to do this again.

appreciate you so much. thank you, my friends. appreciate you. coming up, a historic day in washington d.c. as confirmation hearings begin for ketanji brown jackson, the highlights and low lights from today's session. up next on "the reidout." sessio. up next on "the reidout. into t? daddy! (frustrated grunts) you might have your own theory. but maybe it's better to just let it go.

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the first black woman to sit on the supreme court of the united states. judge jackson hit many important points in her career dedicated to the law and this country but the emotional high point came when she talked about her family. >> my parents have been marry for the almost 54 years and they're here with me today. i cannot possibly thank them enough for everything they've done for me. i love you, mom and dad. speaking of unconditional love, i would like to introduce you to my husband of 25 years, dr. patrick jackson. i have no doubt that without him by my side from the beginning of this incredible professional journey, none of this would have been possible. i'm saving a special moment in this introduction for my daughters. talia and layla. girls, i know it has not been easy as i've tried to navigate the challenges of juggling my career and motherhood and i fully admit that i did not

always get the balance right. but i hope that you've seen that with hard work, determination, and love, it can be done. >> judge jackson was also joined by her best friends and roommates from harvard tearing up when one of them law professor lisa fairfax introduced her. >> our tight group of girlfriends also knows that there is so much more to ketanji beyond her brilliant mind. there is her wonderful sense of humor, her gift of story telling and heart of gold that always shows up. above all, ketanji is humble enough not to pretend she has it all but does know how to give it her all, what she gives to her family, her friends, she also gives to the law and to this country. >> as "the washington post" points out in this detailed chart, judge brown jackson will be far and away the most qualified person to serve on

this court. a point senators on both sides of the aisle also made today but republicans certainly didn't hold back from their nonsense. here is lindsey graham of course even though he's voted to confirm judge jackson multiple times, raised the question of why the left likes her so much and whining about white republicans, blah, blah, blah and insurrection fan josh hawley that talked about her list on child pornography cases to try to prove a qanon-ish point the national review called disingenuous and that's far from the worth that came out of her hearing today and we'll have more after the break. >> today was also a moment of joy as senator cory booker described it and he joins us next. described itnd a he joins us next

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some republicans use judge

ketanji jackson with a rant about trans people because of course, yeah, connecting it to critical race theory. >> you serve on the board of a school that teaches kindergartners, 5-year-old children they can choose their gender and teaches them about so-called white privilege. you have made clear that you believe judges must consider critical race theory when deciding how to sentence criminal defendants. is it your personal hidden agenda to incorporate critical race theory into our legal system? >> oh, yes, then there is senator tom cat ton about biden's america except to mention that he didn't vote for her during previous confirmation hearings. >> we are witnessing a breakdown of society. career criminals are committing violent crimes and going free under the guide of a more

equitable supposedly justice system and liberal judges who have more sympathy for the victimizers than for the victims are a big part of the problem. >> judge jackson was incredibly poised throughout the hearing. a literal unkavanaugh in her temperament but the look of her face was every black woman ever. senator cory booker brought her a moment of joy after that. >> this is not a normal day for america. we have never had this moment before. and i just want to talk about the joy. i know tomorrow and the coming hearings we'll have tough, hard questions but please, let me just acknowledge the fact that this is not normal. it's never happened before. the senate is poised right now to break anotherbay -- barrier. we're breaking another ceiling. >> i want to thank you for making ketanji smile.

she's one of the kindest and sweetest people. i love seeing her smile. you made her husband who is her college, her love of her life from college on cry. so you really did that today. i just want to get -- what was your feeling and emotion? i know everybody i know was ugly crying during her speech. what was your emotion watching her there? >> i was overwhelmed. as soon as she began, i felt the emotion flowing through me from ancestors and generations that made this day possible. i know there is a lot of normal politics going back and forth but i had to call stop for a second. this is a great day in our country and i just think that she's going to shine throughout these hearings because she's an exceptional human being one. she's qualified, two. i sat with her. she has got grit and grace. i think she's going to show america the power of her character this week. >> you imminently qualify --

she's more qualified. hillary clinton tweeted this out, seems qualiied to me. she ticks more boxes in qualifications than the three trump justices combined and has a first class temperament unlike kavanaugh. do you think any of your colleagues that got up there and to me sounded like adults in the peanuts cartoons, woomp, woomp, woomp, do you think any of them will vote for her? will any republican vote for her. >> i don't know. you know what is hallow about the attacks you saw, they're belied by other republicans or other groups from the fraternal order of police, the largest police union in the country endorsing her that represents the majority of police from victims advocate groups to republican appointed judges. she is the model of what we want on the supreme court. there is a lot of attacks tomorrow. she'll not wither under their attacks. she'll shine. the people outside of the political arena we're in right

now, they're affirming the truth of her character and qualifications she has. >> one of my favorite parts of her speech is when he references the fact that she -- they share a birthday, that she had a high point after that for me. it's interesting that you have some on the right who are arguing that just the fact that a black woman is nominated is the offense, right? that it is unfair for president biden to have made that promise when the idea is there are, what, 115 justices. there are no black women. the decisions being made will affect black women whether it's re versus wade. what do you think is the importance of having a black woman on the court? >> i want to make the point there are generations of black women qualified for the court. >> absolutely. >> you've had a lot of white men on the court, again, some of the great brilliant legal minds of our nation's history but the reality is a lot of them didn't

go to law school, didn't have her experience. so here is somebody finally affirming what has been the truth is that this has been an exclusive club for almost its entire existence and now we are shattering that. and that is really important to understand and my hope is, as much as they want to try to turn this reality on its head, the reality is joe biden did what ronald reagan did by saying hey, look, we have been excludeing large percentages of our population, if not the majority, it's about time we reach deep into the well of quality and genius and talent and credentials for black women and show she's like jackie robinson, probably over qualified to be in the national baseball league but came forward and showed us what the full talent and array of american potential is. >> you have particular talent for making people smile and

you're a very nice man. i don't want to try to get you to channel the true ugly coming. sherrilyn ifill said the whining about the treatment of brett kavanaugh credibly increased of a sexual assault and crying and saying he liked beer. how ugly do you think this will get given they're on full grievance mind on the other side? >> you know me. i'll a prisoner of hope. we're going to be prepared for it because as you've already seen, black women are elevated from kamala harris to the judge. they're going to be attacked in ways that are awful. but i'm hoping that we're going to see comety and above the board, look, these are equal members of the united states senate judiciary committee.

there will be attacks i don't agree with. with the general civility of this, i don't think this will be turned into a circus. >> i'm not a prisoner of hope. i'm a prisoner of criticism. i think it's going to be comedy. senator cory booker, we'll see. >> i'll text you. >> yes, police text me. i appreciate you, thank you very much senator booker. up next, the state department, stepping up efforts to gain access to wnba star, britney griner, after she was detained in russia. the latest on her detention, and the efforts to bring her home. that is next. straight ahead. straight ahead

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dominant wnba players ever, remains in custody in russia. the phoenix mercury center, detained, after arriving at a moscow airport, reportedly, in february, for the alleged possession of vape cartridges, containing oil derived from cannabis. the drug offense could get her up to ten years in a russian prison. aside from this booking photo, circulating in early march, griner has not been seen since. today, the state department said during a briefing, there has been no change to griner's case. as well as the cases of trevor reed, and paul we lend. to americans, also detained in russia. as the u.s. is stepping up its demands for consular access to

the three americans, which is an obligation among the vienna convention. joining us now, host of the world tonight, on dnc news, and the senior state department advisor. yes, there is a vienna convention that says that our government should get access to britney griner, and these two gentlemen, but we'll talk about russia here. we're talk about vladimir putin. he doesn't go by any conventions, including the geneva convention. he's murdering civilians right now. what can the state department do if putin is unwilling to abide by international law, and let americans talk to putin griner? >> this is the challenge we are facing right now with britney griner. she is an american citizen, effectively, in a war zone, run by a country that is our adversary right now. it would be different if this was the united kingdom, for example. a strong ally, and had been accused of committing a misdemeanor there. usually, diplomatic channels to work out, where it's a slap on the wrist, or the person returns home, and has some

consequence in the united states. at most, you are told, you are no longer allowed to visit that country. when it comes to an adversary, like russia, iran, or north korea, every u.s. citizen ends up being part of a much larger, geopolitical play. she is not the only one still in custody. we have two white men, both former marines, who are still in study. one for espionage, the other one forgetting in a parole on the street. each of them, now, is part of this card, or this hand, that putin can play with american lies is in the united states. >> britney griner, and it was in the cab of her. not only is she a woman, but a black woman, and putin is very sensitive to the ways in which you can exploit racial division. he is doing it in this country from a long time, including in our elections. he is also -- she is also a career woman. they said, it's not exactly

like russia's quartet friendly to lgbtq people. how does that make the situation more precarious? >> she represents, for putin, everything he, in the russian orthodox church, say is wrong with western states, and allies, culturally. not only is she demanding freedom is a minority, she openly wears black lives matter clothing when she's out on the road, but she is married to a woman. she's gay, and proud of it. in russia, right now, the entire country, effectively, operates under a don't say gay mechanism. it is illegal to promote a gay lifestyle in russia, right now. so, lgbtq people live under fear, every day. talk about why she was there to begin with. is $200,000 a year, and it is a star player of the wnba.

a minimum the rookie of the nda makes us plenty every year. to achieve pay equity in her field, she went into an authoritative regime, or she racer identity, every day, to entertain russians. that is an american challenge, in a nutshell. >> president biden, heading to europe right now. given the fact that he has already called putin a war criminal, is there any leverage the president might have, even to this talk to these three americans? brittani included? >> technically, we still have a relationship with russia, the entire embassy is not shut down, and they're getting to affirm that she's okay. all we have right now, is the equivalent of hostage videos. and with information, released by russian state media. they claim she was carrying vaping equipment, again, we do not know. there are harsher penalties in russia for marijuana use, which is considered a significant crime there. but, vladimir putin, just the

other day, through his foreign ministry, said that if president biden didn't take back calling him a war criminal, that they would sever all ties. that implies, there is still some there, we worth maintaining, worth keeping, but now, she is a high-profile pawn in this massive, political gain. >> thank you very much, we are all, of course, playing for brittany bryan or. that is tonight's readout, along with jose, starts right now. s righ now. >> tonight, on all in. >> the russians have been flummoxed, and frustrated. they have failed to achieve their objectives on the ground. >> signs of a stalemate in ukraine. tonight, the next phase of the invasion, as russian troops stall. a harrowing story for mariupol. the journalist, targeted by russia, for reporting on civilians under attack. then -- >> this is our better field. we