thanks for spending some time with us. "the readout" with joy reid starts now. good evening. at this hour, the senate is wrapping up a third day of confirmation hearings for supreme court nominee judge ketanji brown jackson. once again, republicans focussed on dog whistle politics and frankly offensive false insinuations about her record. with lindsey graham and others interrupting and man splaning and bullying. she showed patience and resolve in defending her record. we'll have the news coming up shortly. we begin with russian dictator vladimir putin's humiliation on the battle field.

as russia's war on ukraine enters the second month tomorrow. nato now estimates that 7 to 15,000 russian troops have been killed in ukraine. according to a nato official who spoke to nbc news. if you include the troops injured, captured, or missing, the number could be as high as 30,000 to 40,000. russian forcings remain bogged doubt and stalled out. they continue to be repelled by ukraine's more nimble fighting force which repeatedly managed to outmaneuver them. the russian military can't meet the basic needs of their soldiers. western officials said putin is facing serious shortages of food, fuel, and cold-weather gear. many were never told what they were going or fighting for. some abandoned their vehicles and equipment. in fact, their losses are now significant they may have lost their ability to keep up the

fight. the "new york times" reports that according to the pentagon, russia's combat power in ukraine has dipped below 90% of its original force. such heavy losses can leave units unable to carry out combat duties, according to u.s. officials. it comes as ukrainian forces report they have taken a key town outside of kyiv. additionally, ukraine said it claimed the lives of at least six russian generals. experts said that mounting toll could erode russia's military effectiveness. the discontent was captured in an intercepted phone call released today by ukraine security forces. complaining about the operation, one said even chechnya was better. at least it was clear. it's just b.s. here. our own plane dropped a bomb on us. this is madness, he says. now we're circled. they fire at us from all directions. all of this reveals the

staggering miscalculation by putin. now the new york thymes is reporting that the slow going and the heavy toll of putin's war is setting off questions about his military's planning capability. their lack of progress is so apparent, that a blame game has begun among some russian supporters of the war. as a former russian intelligence colonel said on monday, russia made a catastrophically incorrect assessment of ukraine's forces. bloomberg reports and advisor to putin stepped down and left the country. citing his opposition to the war in ukraine. this comes as western sanctions cripple russia's economy. prompting runs on basic consumer staples like sugar, which is in such short supply. scenes like this reportedly played out in numerous grocery stores across the country. after being closed for more than three weeks, the russian stock market is set to partially reopen tomorrow. the foreigners are barred from

trading and short selling has been prohibited. joining me now is william taylor, the respect of russia and europe for the u.s. institute of peace and former nato supreme allied commander and msnbc chief international security. general, it sounds like a full-scale disaster. it's one that i wonder if, in your view, looking strategically, did putin look at what happened in afghanistan where the government collapsed immediately and the taliban, you know, with very little in terms of strategic ability was able to take over that country. take over the capital was. he lulled into a false sense of security by that or something else? it seemed like he was warned. this is from the new york thymes, in january, the head of the group serving retired russian military officers declared evading ukraine would be pointless and dangerous.

can you explain how putin could have gotten it so wrong. >> he got it wrong because he has spent 20 years isolating himself from the leadership just below him. they're scared to death of him. you see it every time one of these faux conferences are held. putin sits at a long table and his minions are at the other end. kind of responding to it. they're afraid to give him the bad news. let me draw a line under something you said, joy, in the excellent summary you provided. 7 to 15,000 dead russians. we'll call it 10,000, i think that's conservative. but that's many more than the u.s. suffered, killed in action in both iraq and afghanistan in 20 years! they've lost many more than that

in the last four weeks. so i think this is a catastrophic for vladimir putin. where it goes next will have to wait and see what happens in terms of the responses. but certainly this is a disaster. and, you know, i'll close with this but, you know, admirals love nothing better than to criticize generals. this is bad generalship. the generals have failed and failed badly and there will be consequences in his intercircle, i predict. >> i think i said general with regard to you, admiral. i apologize. i like to give everyone their correct titles. you certainly earned them. given the gross miscalculation on his part, militarily, and the fact they've been unable to hold cities they've taken. they're unable to resupply. essentially the troops are stuck, in some cases, starving and freezing. how, in your view, does this end? how do we get past the

stalemate? the ukrainian forces are, obviously, doing a superior job. there's still a genocide taking place against civilians. the u.s. officially said is war crimes. how does it end? >> it is war crimes. putin has gone from plan a., blitzkrieg, decapitate the ukrainian government probably literally and that failed. plan b. is encircle these cities and pound them down. and how does it end, joy? in the end, it'll probably conclude with a negotiation of some kind. certainly putin is not going to just give up and leave ukraine. that has to be negotiated. that is coming, i would say, in two months or so, as he really bleeds dry in his forces. >> and, you know, admiral taylor, in that time, a lot of ukrainians are likely going to die. because, you know, as admiral said, i mean, at this point,

it's a russian military war against civilians. while their own troops are flagging. in that two months, you'll have a lot of death and destruction. is there anything more, in your view, that nato can do. president biden is heading there. he'll be talking with nato. they'll be meeting. is there anything nato can do short of joining what is feeling like world war iii. >> joy, nato can increase the flow of weapons. the ukrainian military, as you said, they're fighting heroically and with great vigor and they're spending a lot of weapons. they're shooting a lot of ammunition. they need more. they need more of all the kind of weapons we've been talking about over the last month. and the other thing they can do is tighten the noose of sanctions. you showed how the russian economy is already hurting. these are more people who are

feeling that. so both of those things, joy, can happen in this trip. the president biden is on to it brussels and on to both. >> and we know that the president zelenskyy will address the nato summit tomorrow. i want to stay with you for a moment, mr. ambassador. so we know that the crackdown is intensifying inside of russia on dissent. on protesters. tens of thousands of people being arrested. the chief political opponent alexi nalvani sentenced to nine additional years in prison. the east using a fear campaign internally while their country is being starved economically. it feels like there's nowhere else for putin to go but gone. do you get a sense, from the outside looking in, that putin's reign is becoming unstable? >> joy, it's possible. i wouldn't say it's likely.

i would say it is possible. you quoted a letter from senior retired military earlier on. part of the letter that was not in your excerpt there raised exactly that issue that you're talking about. these generals and this one lead general said, mr. president, president putin, you could jeopardize your own regime. you could have destabilization. you could have even -- he even said the word uprising. there are concerns, joy, among generals who are, at that point, recommending, demanding, pleading with president putin not to invade. they thought it might destabilize his own regime. yes, it could happen. i would sense it's probably unlikely. >> admiral, from the nato point of view, it feels like putin is getting the opposite of what he wanted. you're hearing even germany talking about bolstering its own defense. it doesn't appear that he would have the capability of attacking

any other countries, if he's down to less than 90% of forces. he pored everything into ukraine. hasn't putin weakened himself on the world stage in now everyone knows their lack of capability. everyone understands their lack of preparation and ability to do what it is they claim they want to do. they're not going to be a very successful expansion of power, if they can't even get done what he's demanded they do in ukraine. hasn't he placed himself in a position where everybody knows he's weak? >> joy, that's precisely correct. the ironic thing is about this, right now vladimir putin's head ought to be exploding with frustration. he's getting everything he doesn't want. germany added 100 billion euros to their annual defense budget. that's $120 billion. russia's entire defense budget is only $70 billion. he's gotten the germans to spend a fortune on defense, and he's got all of the allies. we'll hear more from the president over the next couple of days, moving troops to the

borders of the russian federation, strengthening. finally, joy, look outside nato. i wouldn't be surprised to see, for example, finland and sweden, two super combat powers, powerful economies, techno democracies knocking at the door to join nato. the nato membership card looks pretty good these days. putin is creating exactly his own worse nightmare. >> i wonder, ambassador taylor, for china this feels like an opportunity. you know, if they're going to be two sort of great powers, if you're playing the great power game, you know, there's no reason for china to help save russia. why save them? there's no reason for opec to save russia. i mean, to save russia. there's no reason for anyone to save him. i wonder if it puts the world in a position to maybe start to think about some of the other conflicts that he is prolonging, like, as if -- including in syria. is there possibility now that we

can start to reduce his leathty in places like syria and other places and isolate him even further. >> you're right, joy. he's pulling back, soldiers back from syria. his soldiers from syria who are engaged there. he needs them on the front. he needs them in ukraine. he's looking for libyans. he's looking for private firms. he's got a strain. his military, as you've described, is under pressure. they are not doing well. they're not supplying themselves well. they're not performing well. he's looking for other ways to boost the number of his soldiers. so, yes, i think you're exactly right, joy. this is an opportunity. >> it is. before we go, i want to take a moment to acknowledge the passing of madeline albright. one of the great women of american history and, umm, the first woman who was secretary of state. she died at the age of 84. i want to give each of you,

starting with you, ambassador, an opportunity to reflect on her life and on her legacy. >> joy, this was a true american. a true american who lead. she guided. she advised. she was a wonderful secretary of state. she was wonderful after she retired! so she lead a delegation of international election observers to ukraine in 2014. i was one of the election observers. i remember, joy, she called me. i was sovereign -- observing the elections and she called us to check in. this is a woman who is a hero. >> yeah. indeed. she also warned the world about the spreading of autocracy. admiral, i want to give you the last word to reflect on this great woman in her passing. >> she was a mentor to me. she was a tough lady who could stand toe-to-toe with anybody. she was about 5 feet tall but

she towered over everybody i know! she also had a great sense of humor. she wore beautiful pins everywhere she went that were set to play with the mind of the person she would sit down with. she was an expert on nato. when we rewrote the nato strategy in 2010, the first person we reached out to was madeline albright for her strategic advice. she spoke six european languages fluently. finally, as my dear friend, ambassador fwail already said, true american. an american story. >> great women wear pins. her pins -- they're not the biggest part of her story but one of my favorite things about her! thank you, both, for joining us in that reflection on her life.

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10 million ukrainians have been foorsed from their homes and are on the move. the war is going nowhere fast. to all of these are suffering, more destruction, and more -- as far as the eye can see. this war isn't winnable. sooner or later you have to move from the battle field to -- >> u.n. secretary general has described russia's assault as a living hell for the people of ukraine. if you want to see what hell looks like, consider the

besieged city of mar you pole. march you poll. on the country's southern front lines, ukrainian have delayed a potential assault on odesa. in a small town with the help of an army of local volunteers have beaten back russian forces by blowing up key bridge and driving the russian army back to the east. russian forces are keen to capture the town because it, too, will facilitate their march toward odesa and the major nuclear powerplant. the united nations human rights office has recorded more than 900 civilian deaths and roughly 1500 injured since putin's

invasion started almost a month ago. with me now is nbc news correspondent kyle perry in lviv. tell us what is going on. >> reporter: well, joy, here in the west, we're on the front lines of the humanitarian catastrophe. 10 million people displaced, 4 million heading into europe already. that's just in one month of war. in the capital tonight, we have a moment, i think, of importance where ukrainian forces are not just stopping russian troops. they're pushing them back. in the eastern part of the city, they have broken through russian lines by 10 kilometers. it's important because we have the huge numbers of russian dead and wounded and being captured taken p.o.w.s. the number is likely to skyrocket as the fighting in the capital goes back and forth. in the eastern part of the country, what you're seeing on your screen is playing out where civilians are being punished by russian forces. the city is mary poll is

disappearing. it looks as though the forces on the sea are moving their way toward odesa. in the north in kharkiv, it's a similar situation. you have hospitals operating only in the basements. you have constant shelling. you have civilians that can't get aboveground. we don't have a good idea of the number of civilians being killed because the rescue personnel in front of you on your screen, are not able to get to the sites because the sites themselves are being shelled. add to that, you have the targeting of food supplies, the targeting of medical workers, you have the targeting of these civilian areas, the ambulances. there have been 150 hospitals destroyed in the first month of the war. more than 80 others have been damaged. it's what the lead u.s. to declare that russia is committing war crimes. we've seen it play out. we've heard it from the ukrainian president has he calls for the no-fly zone. he's been pointing out the war crimes that he said russia is

carrying out systemically here. >> cal, do we know, at this point. we know in odesa and also in chernobyl, there are big nuclear plants the source of the terrifying news we've seen coming out. do we know if the plans are secure? we know that the latter is in russian hands. it seem ukrainians have been able to protect odesa thus far. >> so, we know that the power is on to the chernobyl site. it's been taken off the grid. the plant you're mentioning, under russian control. as is the one in zap reets ya. it's being used as a base by russian soldiers. it's a tactic we've seen play out on the ground. the russian soldiers are using hospitals as bases, schools as bases, and europe's biggest nuclear powerplant as a forward-operating base to carry out their operations, joy. >> terrifying. cal perry, thank you so much. stay safe.

i want to bring in a member of the ukrainian parliament and olympic gold medallist. thank you so much for being here. i want to start by asking you about that question. how concerned are you as an mp that russia would try to do something to destabilize the nuclear facilities in ukraine. >> thank you for your question. you must understand because -- i

think the world is concerned about the question of whether or not russia would start using chemical weapons and even nuclear tactical nuclear weapons out of desperation because they are losing. how much of a concern is that to you? we have beaten russian -- and getting attacked from the sky.

it's a difficult situation. and -- >> yeah. >> and of besieging. and russia is destroying inside our own counties. how the soldiers do everything to protect our country and they ask do -- on the left. but russian army is delegation.

a lot of aircraft who every day bomb our country. we need to help. we need military forces for our partners. because after ukraine i've seen for sure -- they go forward. >> sir, let me ask you this. and i will note for the audience, the first shipment of u.s. arms of the $800 billion package is approved here is soon to start heading to ukraine. that's good news. i want to ask about the people of mar you poll. we've seen the devastation and other cities, as well. how much access, to this point, do people in ukraine have to food, to shelter, to the basic

things that people need to survive. especially in a city like march you poll. >> march you poll is a city that is blocked.mariupol. >> mariupol is a city that is blocked. the biggest problem for ukraine now is money. because our humanitarian help can invite -- they can -- help the mariupol people. they're without any food.

our soldiers stay inside the city in mariupol but they can do anything even when you -- but from the sky. so we can unblock this. >> ukrainian parliament member, thank you so much. we're praying for ukraine. thank you for your time. please stay safe. and still ahead, republican performance art reaches a new level of shamelessness. at judge jackson's supreme court nomination hearings. you call these red meat dog whistle attacks thinly veiled if they weren't so blatantly obvious. we'll be right back. so blatant obvious. we'll be right back.

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and two, the republicans, knowing that to be true, spent their time blaring a dog whistle to rally their base for the november election with a focus on the q anonspearists who have become the activist wing of the once grand old party. never has the term child pornography been used more in a confirmation hearing than today. >> let's focus on actual child pornography cases. >> child pornographiers. >> ped fires who produce child pornography. >> let's go back to the child pornography cases. >> okay. now that topic lead to one of the more heated exchanges with senator ted cruz, despite the recent inclement weather in texas managed to be here and not in cancun. getting into a bitter back and forth with dick durbin that went on for several minutes. >> senator, i've said what i'm going to say about these cases.

no one case can stand in for a judge's entire record. >> okay but -- >> and i -- i understand that. >> senator would you please let her respond. >> not if she's not going to answer my question. >> if you're going to give a speech. >> if you want to filibuster, you're welcome to to do so. >> you should give her an opportunity to respond. >> we heard all the hot button cultural wedge issues regardless of the relevancy to judge jackson's actual role in the court. despite the important fact that none of these senators has or plans to legislate on any of it, because to be clear, they do not care about any of it. nor would they use their power to do anything about it. but they know their base gets really excited about critical race theory and questions about racist babies and accusing black people of being soft on crime.

to that end, lindsey graham, even asked judge jackson to rate her religion on a scale of 1 to 10. the gene use out of tennessee asked her to define the word woman. a question no previous supreme court nominee has been asked. let's not forget, the airing of old grievances about hearings held for their past nominees. something senator graham complained about, for the third day in a row. >> senator, she's had nothing to do- >> no. i'm asking her about how she may feel about what y'all did. >> just answer the question. >> senator, i don't have any comment on what procedures took place in this body regarding -- what i would like to answer -- >> and for all the posturing and performance art for tv that we have seen coming from the senate republicans, as our friend put

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today two of the most craven of all senate republicans, josh hol holly, and tom cotton resurprised their spears against judge ketanji brown jackson. drilling down on her sentence in one particular case involving child pornography. as a testament to her unimpeachable qualifications, however. judge jackson did not back down. >> there's your signature, judge. do you not remember? >> senator, that's a very, very common thing that judges do. i've sentenced over 100 people. >> i understand you've done a lot, judge. none of them have been the center piece of your hearing for

the last two days. do you really expect this committee to believe you don't remember what happened in this hawkins case when it came back before you? >> yes, senator. i expect you to believe. that's my testimony. >> i don't find it credible, judge. >> do you regret it or not? >> senator, what i regret is that in a hearing about my qualifications to be a justice on the supreme court, we've spent a lot of time focussing on this small subset of my sentences. >> joining me now is joyce vance and charles coleman jr. i don't know where to go first on this. except to say -- and i'll throw it out first to you, joyce.

maya wily tweeted the idea of that man, tom cotton, telling a sitting federal judge, twice confirmed with the votes of lindsey graham, by the way, that she's a liar. to say why -- do you expect us to believe you was one of the most offensive she's ever seen in her a confirmation hearing. i want to throw that to you, as well. to tell this woman who is a sitting central judge that she's a liar. it was a moment for me. what about you? >> umm, i feel the same way. so much of this was political theater. it had nothing to do with the judge's qualifications. and the real loser was the american people who were tuned in for the hearing. i was stunned to receive text messages from friends all afternoon who i would not have thought of as people who watch supreme court confirmation hearings commenting on what was going on. and where judge jackson was at her finest, where she really shines, is her ability to

explain important concepts in american law in a they is assessable to people who aren't lawyers. when she talked about the fourth amendment right to be free from unlawful search and seizure. when she explained the right to counsel under gideon v. wanewright. and it deprived them an opportunity to hear from him. we have decades of her brilliant opinions to look forward to. she will make the law so much more assessable and the court so much more readily understandable. ultimately we win. >> indeed. charles, i was gift -- getting texts all day and have been for the last three days for people who that similarly, to what joyce is saying, would not normally watch all day a confirmation hearing as i would because i'm a nerd. the outrage is real. a lot is about the blatant

disrespect. i tweeted they were treating her like a black shopper they were following through the store. a ultimate disrespect for her as a human being and judge. apparently the hearing was payback for kavanaugh who nobody told him to sexually violate his high school friend or those girls in college and get accused of it. that is not the fault of ketanji brown jackson. apparently, according to lindsey graham, she needs to pay for that. i'm going let you say your thoughts. >> well, you know, i think this is an interesting point to start with. i look at this very much tailored to confirmations. if you look at the demeanor that ketanji brown jackson displayed throughout her hearing, she's been poised, unflappable, she's been brilliant. imagine if she had the same misdemeanor brett kavanaugh had. at one point, kavanaugh

literally said i drink beer because i like beer. he was being requested about legitimate allegations of sexual assault and criminal act. here you have a woman, a black woman, who was being questioned about things that one decision and one sentencing out of literally hundreds we're not talking about something criminal yet she's expected to have the poise and demeanor she's sitting there and listening to questions that are ridiculous and still smiling and maintaining her composure. when you consider how it plays out with respect to the fact they can't really attack her record and they're using this as a political grand standing, it says a lot about -- if you know you're going get more donations, more votes, more media, more camera time by being disagreeable in a space where there is no reason to be disagreeable. what does it say about her ability to get things done? >> they don't legislate.

they're just performers. they're trying right now, joyce, to perform, as you said, for their base. right. for the qanon people. they're saying child pornography because they know it triggers them and want them to vote republican. we know what they're doing. i'm struck by the fact that a woman who was a judge who already very esteemed legal mind everyone agrees. because she's a woman, she could not act like kavanaugh. and i think what that says to women, to women who are lawyers, to black women is that the standard for us is that we have to always behave as an adult. the standard for white men is they can behave as a child and still get as far as or further than we can. they sent that message very clear. lindsey graham, all the little confederacy crew that sounded like they were in the 19th

century still. they can behave that way because there's no constraints on them because of who they are. your thoughts? >> you know, there was the moment where lindsey graham questioned her this afternoon. only questioned is the

it has just been used again, charles, to over turn the governor, governor even, veto of a map. a redistricting map. there are real issues here. the shadow docket is an issue here. how important do you think it would be to add ketanji brown jackson to the court? given the fact that they are still doing all of this madness and they can still do when she is there? >> i think it is incredibly important because as there continues to be conversation about the desire to expand the bench ... right now, but the 63 minority with conservatives, the recipe has much assistance support as they can, as there continues to be a significant assault on voters rights on the country. this is not the only one that we're going to see, in terms of the shadow documents. coming up in saying that there

is something stopped. you can anticipate that we are going to see more and more. it's going to continue to come before the court. it's absolutely critical from the sad point of preservation of democratic rights that voting rights everywhere, that we get confirmed, confirmed quickly. >> the last thing i will say is that if they really cared about women, they would support the idea, teenagers, kids, they wouldn't support the idea of minors, who are raped, being forced to bear the child of their rapist and having the families of rapists able to sue women and teenage girls. they don't care about women and girls. period. joyce vance, charles cullen, thank you very much. up next, we have learned a lot over the past three days about the brilliant legal mind of ketanji brown-jackson. it was cory booker's questioning that showed her beautiful heart, as well. heart, as well

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this. no one is going to make me angry. especially people who are called in a conservative magazine, demagogic, for what they're bringing up. it just doesn't hold water. i see my ancestors and yours. no one is going to steal the choice that win in the street. the calls that i'm getting. the tax. no one is going to steal that joy. you have earned the spot. you are where the. you are great american. your hero's constants motley. but the offices that i pal, she is my icon of america. there is a love in this country that is extraordinary. you admitted it about your parents. they loved this nation even though there were laws preventing them from getting together. when they were 11, there were

laws in this country that would prevent you from marrying your husband. it wasn't so long ago. it was last generation. they didn't stop loving this country, even though this country didn't love them back. >> you can get an amen. thank you, senator cory booker and judge ketanji brown jackson. all that with chris hayes starts now. >> tonight on all in. senator, i've answered this question many times from many senators have asked me. i will stand on what i already said. >> ketanji brown jackson's confirmation continues. so does republican nonsense. tonight, what we've learned in the second round of questions. >> god has got you. how do i know that? because you are here. i know but it has taken for you to sit in that seat. >> plus, the president lands in brussels as ukraine's army