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documents that were taken from mar-a-lago. >> immediately we saw the appeals court issue this ruling. i was stunned to see it out so quickly. >> it's worth to recognize just how extraordinary this moment, this day is. almost easy to forget that trump had never been indicted or sued. today things look different. welcome back to "morning joe." a beautiful live picture of the sun just starting to creep up in los angeles. it's 6:00 in the morning, 9:00 a.m. in the east. i'm willie geist. joe and mika are under the weather this morning. in a moment we'll speak to msnbc's chief legal correspondent ari melber. in russia yesterday, 1,300 people arrested and reports that many were drafted into the russian military. richard engel will report for us
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from the ukraine/russian boarder. half an hour away from the opening of the markets. yesterday they took a massive dive after the fed's announcement of another interest rate hike. cnbc's andrew ross sorkin will join us shortly. mike barnicle back with us for the hour. we begin with the lawsuit from the state of new york against donald trump. his eldest children and the trump organization alleging years of fraud. the state is seeking $250 million in damages and wants to bar the family from serving as officers of new york-based companies. the lawsuit is more than 200 pages long and outlines exactly how trump allegedly overvalued his assets by billions of dollars to get more favorable loans. trump, his children, and the organization are accused of using more than 200 false and misleading asset valuations over a ten-year period. new york state attorney general letitia james says she has referred to violations to the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york and to the irs. >> everyday people cannot lie to
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a bank about how much money they have in order to get a favorable loan to buy a home or send their kid to college. and if they did, the government would throw the book at them. why should this be any different? it is a tale of two justice systems, one for everyday working people and one for the elite, the rich, and the powerful. >> following that news conference, donald trump railed against the attorney general and released statements in social media again calling her racist and claiming the case is a witch-hunt. let's bring in msnbc chief legal correspondent and host of "the beat" on msnbc, ari melber. also with us criminal defense attorney caroline palise. ari, your broad impressions of what you heard at the news conference and read through in that 200-page lawsuit. how much potentially is donald trump, the trump organization, and its children in this
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morning? >> a lot. she threw the book at them, an over 200-page book in the form of this lawsuit. it's a civil case. viewers have heard she's not one of the type of legal officials who can throw you in jail, so she sues, takes you to court. but she is in a way trying to put the trump organization in jail and put donald trump, the officers, including the indicted cfo, convicted in the d.a. case and his children on ice so they couldn't run this company or any company in new york. that is a big penalty. if you think they deserve it, that's justice. if you think a lot of companies do a lot of asset valuations, it might seem like overpunishment. it won't be up to the rest of us debating it or anything, this is a system and justice where a court will decide have these people systematically lied and cheats do much and in a legal
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sense defrauded others? if one person is underpaying their taxes, the bills still come due and other people are overpaying their taxes. the question is have they done it to a degree of what james has asked for. and what scares donald trump a lot more is two criminal referrals, irs, nsdny, and we'll be reporting on and watch very good closely whether those initiate new investigations or, again, in fairness to donald trump, whether perhaps you could imagine the irs saying, yeah, no, we heard about this stuff, we real ease it's weird that he apparently has billions but went years without paying taxes, but we've already looked into that, they don't feel there's, quote, news. my final point is there was news, for example, new accusations from trump's own cfo. we don't think the irs had that because that just came out in the last few months through his court process. certainly, there are some new
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things. the investigation on the criminal side is the largest question. >> caroline, talking about alleged fraud here, examples like saying your apartment is 30,000 square feet and it's valued at $327 million but no apartment in the history of new york has been close to that, actually 11,000 square feet and worth a fraction of that. that's one example. the attorney general laid out ten yearses of this pattern from the trump organization and from the trump family. what did you see in this document that would concern you if you were one of trump's defense attorneys? >> a lot, willie, but that's right. letitia james has made so secret of the fact she's had trump and trump org in her crosshairs for years. she effectively ran on that platform and has opened up herself to a little criticism on that. team trump, their defense is this is a witch-hunt, a malicious prosecution, you know, he's being singled out, everybody does this in sort of the new york real estate world.
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that doesn't fly in a court of law, and the breadth and the depth of this complaint, i mean, over 200 pages of meticulous facts. this is a documents case. documents don't fly. square footage doesn't lie. you get the sense that the trump organization was more of like a fraud scheme with a little bit of a legitimate business sprinkled in there at times as opposed to a real organization. i think this could be the real death knell. >> what about ari's point about the referrals? this is a civil matter in terms of what letitia james is pursuing here, but talking to the justice department, to the irs and saying here it is sort of gift wrapped, here's a whole bunch of evidence if you want it, what do they do with that? >> tangentially, alvin bragg, the new manhattan d.a., has a bit of egg on his face today. he took over from cy vance, one resigned because he felt there wasn't enough evidence to move
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for a criminal indictment of trump. i think he may be sort of licking his wounds and looking back over the evidence today. but those are state crimes. but certainly, the irs criminal division as well as the sdny, a federal office, will be looking into these federal crimes. >> ari, given all the investigations, given the multitude of evidence that has piled up against donald trump and the trump organization, after all these years, all these charges levels, are you surprised at all that his taxes haven't been boxed out? >> great question. always be careful thinking on live tv. i guess the answer is that if you knowingly leaked tax returns in full, you really can go to prison. i know it sounds wild when people say he hasn't gone to prison for his allegations, but i think there are certain types of materials with heavy sanction that trades pretty closely.
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so, while we have seen pieces in certain ways and "the new york times" report obviously had exhaustive information about tax avoidance, i think that the larger system of rule followers means that most of the people who have access to them are the rule followers, which by the way undercuts the whole witch-hunt deep state attacks in the first place, the idea that the irs or any other entity, the d.a.'s office would just refer him in new york, a democratically won office, if they get stuff they'll leak it because it's this and that on deep state. that hasn't happened for the most part, although information has dribbled out. the other thing that's interesting that's a nonpartisan point is whatever donald trump did or didn't do with the trump organization was done with the leadership of the financial institutions of america and the world. so, if it is a massive multiyear fraud, let's be clear, that implicates deutsche bank and
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other entities. the not, as i said, they'll if ig your it out in court. so, yesterday was bad news for donald trump, a remind they're the justice department may move slowly, but in jail for the way they ran the business, that would have felt like a big headline. i think people are sometimes exhausted. the system is moving slowly and working in a way, and to the extent the courts find massive fraud here, that doesn't just implicate donald trump but a lot of american finance in a way. >> donald trump has a long history of slipping through the fingers of justice and prosecutors no matter how serious the charges are against him. give our viewers a guide of what happened next. what comes next? the lawsuit has been filed. the referral to justice and the irs. what happens next? >> right. this is an isolated suit, so the referrals will move on potentially a parallel track. again, it's a civil case, right, so it's not an indictment.
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there's no arraignment or anything like that. ma what's unusual about this case is letitia james has already taken the deposition. that typically is part of the discovery process and would come after the filing of a complaint, but because of the unique nature of this case, they've already done it. you'll recall trump took the fifth in about 400 answers. what's interesting about that, that's really, again, a death knell for him. you can use that with negative inference. the jury can say you can draw an adverse influence from taking your 5th amendment right against self-incrimination. you can't co-do that in a criminal case. so i guess his lawyers really, really, really didn't want him to speak. >> interview on fox news about it the other night. he took the other path as he usually does. caroline, great to have you here. we also are following new
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developments in the mar-a-lago documents case. a federal appeals case says the justice department can resume using those classified documents seized from president trump's florida state in its criminal investigation. the doj had appealed a ruling from earlier this month by trump-appointed u.s. district judge aileen cannon, which temporaily barred the department from reviewing and using the seized materials for investigative purposes. a significant judgment, ari, i think one that a lot of people expect to come, a lot of legal analysts didn't agree, didn't think that judge cannon at least had good standing to stop the review of the classified documents. what do you see in this ruling? >> i think this is a part of the judge's ruling that was the most bananas. as you know, willie, legal term. it's very rare to see in a traditional search and seizure case, which at the end of the day it involves the former president, but that's what it is, rare to see an order that says you can't look at this
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stuff. the reason is the government has a lot of authority, especially with the classification rules, to look at the stuff. that's the whole system. as you know, if something was seized illegally, it can't be used against you in court. if there was an illegal search, they can then take the stuff and give it back, can't use it in court, but again, speaking plainly, when that happens, what do they have to do? they still have to look at the stuff. so it's very strange the judge seemed to say in almost super deference to trump, they can't look at it. the rest of the review will go on. the whole thing with the special master only slows down the inevitable. finally, you can give the search subject extra protection, but when the review is finished, which this rule willing expedite and in that sense bad, it will be a fairly simple answer. was this actually classified material that was illegally held at mar-a-lago or not?
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>> ari, before i let you go, i'm on amazon yesterday buying something, i see the number-one best-selling book on amazon is the january 6th committee report with a forward by ari melber. writing the forward of the january 6th committee report that harpercollins will publish when it is written. tell us more about it, ari. >> thank you very much for the shout-out and the question. we were surprised, too, willie, it's the forthcoming january 6th committee report, so i am doing this edition of it with harpercollins and writing my own forward looking at the coup conspiracy, something that we've covered on "morning joe" and across msnbc, how there was the january 6th insurrection and these wider attempts to overthrow the election and the coup. i'm writing that. the only place to get that is in this harpercollins edition. yes, number one on amazon in the country among all books, which
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is wild. people can buy it at melberbook.com or go to amazon, search january 6th melber. i should mens in full disclosure, there are other versions of the report. we're not working with the government or anything. people can get it any number of ways or watch our coverage. bottom line, when this report comes out, the date has not been established, i think like next week's hearing, there's a lot of interest in america about this whole story with the subpoena pac investigation, what went down, how many people were in on it, and finally, willie, will there be indictments of people who worked there that day, people so powerful they didn't have to run through the building and ransack it but they may have been involved in creating the danger that day. i think that's a huge question for america. >> full story will be in that book. you can preorder it at melberbook.com. i love he's got his own website. >> what's that again? >> melberbook.com.
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you can also get fanny packs and hand towels there as well. great to see you. overseas this morning, russia and ukraine announced a prisoner swap that totals nearly 300 people involved. president zelenskyy posted on hiss telegram channel these photos of the freed prisoners along with the message that ukraine will continue to work to get all of its prisoners released from russian captivity. nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel is on the border with russia and ukraine with more. richard? >> reporter: willie, ukrainians seem completely undeterred by vladimir putin's latest nuclear threat or his move to call up hundreds of thousands of reservists and send them into battle in ukraine. ukraine military units have been making dramatic advances and in some cases have pushed right up to the russian border. this town where i am is just two
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miles from the russian border. it was recently held by russian troops. it's now been taken over by ukrainian forces. and the ukrainians say this is not the time to slow down. they believe they have momentum on their side and they want to push aside now. facing heavy losses in ukraine, president putin announced a partial military mobilization. the russian president is looking for 300,000 reserve troops to fight his war. but instead, russians are mobilizing in the streets of moscow, chanting "send putin to the trenches." hundreds of demonstrators have been detained. other russians are fleeing the country. flights from moscow to all visa-free destinations selling out quickly. there are also long lines of cars heading to finland, which has open borders. at the u.n., president biden condemned putin for making nuclear threats and for
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supporting a vote in russian-occupied parts of ukraine which russia could use to justify annexing more ukrainian territory. >> president putin has made overt nuclear threats gen europe. now russia is calling up more soldiers to join the fight. you cannot seize a nation's territory by force. >> reporter: hours earlier, president putin in a rare admission the war isn't going to plan said he had no choice but to call up more troops because the west is trying to use the war in ukraine to break russia apart. putin threatened to use nuclear weapons to stop that. >> no one threatened russia, and no one other than russia sought conflict. >> the military mobilization -- >> reporter: russia tried to block ukraine's president zelenskyy from speaking at the u.n. he received a standing ovation instead.
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russia is calling up more troops because it's low on soldiers, according to u.s. and nato officials. ukraine claims the war has cost russia more than 50,000 soldiers so far, about a third of the force it had when it invaded last winter. russia admits to far fewer losses. ukrainian military officials say they believe it will take russia several mos, perhaps even six months, to recruit all these new reservists, arm them, give them a degree of military training, and the ukrainians say that gives them a window to keep up this offensive while russian units are undermanned and push the russians even further back closer to the border if not over the border, liberating the country. willie? >> richard engel reporting from the border of russia and ukraine. richard, thank you as always. up next, new polling out of georgia shows raphael warnock viewed more favorably than his
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less than a month before the debate, senator raphael warnock has a slight lead over herschel walker. a cbs poll shows the preacher with a slim two-point lead over the former football star. overall, warnock is viewed favorably 48 to 44 and by six points.
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a view of democrats is keeping the race razor close with 55% of georgia voters having a negative view of the party. nbc news correspondent blayne alexander spoke with abrams and joins us now. good morning. >> reporter: willie, good morning. you're right. there would be a time we wouldn't even be talking about georgia, when it would be so clear it was going to go red that it wouldn't be something that would be watched closely, not nationally. but 2020 changed all of that. when spoik with stacey abrams, i started off by asking her about the importance of georgia beyond the governor's race, but what it means when we look at political trends around the country, voting patterns. here's what she had to say. how important is the state of georgia? >> georgia is essential. we know that raphael warnock is
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going to be essential to holding the senate. we know that sanford bishop's race in the second district can be part of the puzzle to holding the house. we know that our 16 electoral college votes will be vital in 2024 and that the next governor could possibly decide to shift georgia from a winner-take-all system to a congressional district system. and we know that for women in particular, georgia is going to be vital because every single state in the south has been on a rampage to make abortion difficult if not impossible to get. and having me elected as governor can change the future for women in the state and in this region. >> reporter: so, willie, you heard her kind of lay out the stakes and why georgia is important. the most interesting thing about georgia, it's a different landscape today than four years ago, the last face-off between abrams and brian kent. is.6 million additional voters are registered to vote in the state of georgia, more than 20%
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of the electorate that wasn't a factor last time. so a whole new crop of voters, many more people moving into the state, younger by and large, more diverse. certainly the challenge for both candidates and all candidates is going to be harnessing those voters and getting them to show up in november, willie. >> all right. thank you very much. we appreciate it. a good reason why walker is tied neck and neck. >> there is, and blayne alexander's report indicates that the landscape has changed in georgia. you know georgia well, having lived and worked there for a bit in your youth. >> yes. >> at cnn. i would submit that one of the key factors in georgia, a tremendous place, has to do with the fact that that man, herschel walker, rushed for over 500 yards as a college football player for the georgia bulldogs, scoring 49 touchdowns.
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the sun's coming up in san francisco, a live picture, 6:30 at the golden gate bridge. what a great town. >> look at those people coming from marin county. beautiful section of our country. >> sure is. joining us now, co-anchor of cnbc's "squawk box," andrew ross sorkin. andrew -- we just lost him just as we were -- >> let's keep looking at the bridge. >> let's talk more about the bay area, san francisco giants. how are they doing this year, mike? >> they're having an off year but they still have arguably visually the best -- it's not new any longer -- but spectacular ballpark. >> beautiful. >> great fan base. extraordinary fan base. we don't talk enough about the west coast teams. >> that's right. >> padres. >> now that our west coast audience is awake, we talk about
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the yankees and the red sox, aaron a judge for good reason. but the los angeles dodgers are steamrolling their way through major league baseball this year. >> yes, they are. but i have difficulty, as you know, watching dodgers games because of number 50, my favorite player over the last 25 years, mookie betts, dodger blue. i love him, love watching him play, but it hurts. >> that will hurt forever. did we get andrew back? >> we're back. >> there he is. hey, man. >> back from outer space. >> good to see you. >> the conversation about baseball, it's a better conversation than looking at the markets this morning. >> a little bit ugly, right? so, the fed raises rate, right, three-quarters of a point, markets go down. how about today? >> it will be up marginally, but the larger picture across the board from anybody who owns stocks these days is they have been down and continue to be down. the truth is given what we're hearing from the federal reserve, they would like them to
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go down even more, and that is the big question. we talked about it a lot before, willie, this idea of hurting the economy to help the economy. it appears now that jay poul el is speaking hawkishly about how he plans to d this, and he really does want to raise interest rates materially more, probably another 75 basis points next month and possibly another 75 basis points before the end of the year. and probably continues this into '23. all this is now increasing the risk of a possible recession. importantly, i think we need to put a point on this, he effectively said -- and we talk about the dual mandate of the federal reserve, he effectively sid that he wants to make unemployment worse. now, historically, the fed has said the opposite, but now you hear from him directly saying we need to increase the unemployment rate. right now the expectation is that we're around 3.7% right
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now, that unemployment may have to go up to 4.4% to actually help inflation come down. so, again, it all feels so perverse because what they're really trying to do is they want people to lose their job to actually change the dynamic around pricing. i will say, and i've talked to a number of ceos in the last 72 hours that are saying they've started to see a little bit of a crack in the labor market. you know, for a long time you heard from business leaders saying we can't find people, we don't have enough people to work at a restaurant, a warehouse, you know, blue collar, white collar. they're starting to say there's more people coming back into the labor market. in some ways that's exactly what jay powell is trying to do, hurt the economy so those sitting on the sidelines saying i have enough money to live, now i need a job. that may alleviate some supply problems on the waver side.
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we haven't seen anything like this in a very long time. >> andrew, is it fair to say that jay powell was trying to reprise a bit of what paul volcker did in the early aibts and yet without the impact that paul volcker had, maybe having a really negative impact on the economy? >> i think that's exactly right. what he's trying to do to some degree is sort of jawbone his way out of this, rather than actually raise interest rates to 10-plus percent. if he can say i'm on this path, can he slow things down literally almost verbally by using the bully pulpit and businesses start to say i'm not going to hire more people right now, i'm going to slow things down a little bit, and does that aleve year to date some of these pressures? the truth is that the federal reserve has a very blunt instrument, raising interest rates, lowering interest rates. that's the instrument. and we know that so many of these problems that are facing our economy are so nuanced, so
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much of them are supply-side issues. you still can't get enough chips manufactured, you know, we've seen the price of food go up. wages have gone up, which is great in so many ways, but when costs are up even higher, that's the problem and that's what inflation is. these are things that i think we're trying to get through. it's going to be fascinating to see whether he lands the plane. >> andrew, what happens if the jawboning is increasingly successful on powell's part so people stop the idea of buying a new car, people stop looking for a new house, people stop buying refrigerators or clothes dryers? what happens then? >> well, you know, in a very strange way that's exactly what he wants. if that happens, some of those prices start to fall, right. food prices might start to fall. energy prices might start to fall. we've already seen some of that. that i think is more related to the fact that people are worried that there's going to be less
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demand in the future, one of the reasons we've seen the price of gas at the pump go down. so, as i said, the very -- it feels so weird -- is the whole goal is for people to buy less refrigerators, to buy less homes. and the question mark about all this is how quickly does that happen and does it happen to such an extent that it tips the economy over into a place that makes it very hard to recover from? >> so, andrew, bank ceos, a lot of wall street heavy hitters talking to lawmakers on capitol hill yesterday and expressing that little bit of that darkness, the bearishness about the economy. >> pretty much across the board. it was almost a consensus view. i mean, maybe you have to take the contrarian view, when everyone has one view, oftentimes it turns out to go the other way. but listening to the bank ceos get grilled on the hill about inflation, almost all of them expect us to go into a recession and we can debate the technicalities of that word, but no doubt they believe that 2023
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is going to be much tougher than 2022. and you're starting to see it in terms of the profits of the companies and margin, and that's the truth. they take that down, and then of course it gets to workers, labor, et cetera. >> andrew ross sorkin, always worth the wait, even when the satellite goes down. thanks, andrew. >> thank you. still ahead, at the start of russia's war against ukraine, one ukrainian millionaire asked the ukrainian million to bomb his newly built mansion. why? because he saw a security camera of russian forces occupying and firing at kyiv from there. that ukrainian businessman joins us next. what he's been doing since to help the war effort. but asthma has taken enough. so i go triple... with trelegy. with 3 medicines in 1 inhaler,... it's the only once-daily treatment for adults that takes triple action against asthma symptoms. trelegy helps make breathing easier,...
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a jump of 40 million in a year. today i'm announcing another $2.9 billion in u.s. support for lifesaving humanitarian and food security assistance for this year alone. russia in the meantime is pumping out lies, trying to pin the blame for the crisis, food crisis, on the sanctions imposed by many in the world for the aggression against ukraine. >> president biden yesterday at the u.n. announces nearly $3 billion in aid to address the growing global food crisis caused by the war in ukraine. as that war rages on, dozens of ukrainian entrepreneurs and businesses are stepping up to help their fellow citizens. one of them is the ceo of ukraine's largest port, and he just founded an initiative called the superhuman center aimed at helping ukrainians affected by the war. he joins us now. thanks for being here. i want to talk about super
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humans in detail. first story we just teased before you sat down about your home, a newly built, beautiful home, a mansion about 30 kilometers outside of kyiv, you said. the russians came in, and what did they do at first with your staff and what did you see on your security cameras from a distance? >> good morning. thanks for having me. the situation with the house was early march. the russians had besieged the village, 30 kilometers away from kyiv. and i just look at my web cam and see a bunch of russian soldiers going inside my house. if you asked me a year ago what kind of emotion i would say, i would say fury and anger, but this was not the case. i really felt disgusted and dirty. so, they were looting the whole village, bringing stuff into my house. from there packing it and sending it to belarus and obviously shooting kyiv with rocket launchers.
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so now destroyed russian military on my territory. i used to have 12. when i saw it on the web cam, i mentioned it to the ukrainian intelligence. they sent a reconnaissance drone and soon after they were shelling the house and kicking them out. so, luckily, everybody's out now. my house is slightly destroyed, but -- >> it was worth it to you. >> absolutely. one-second decision. i wasn't even thinking about it. we have such a great military and these people are fighting so hard. i could do only one thing to help them and immediately i did it. i'm happy i could. >> the russians, we should point out, came into your home. there were still people living there, staff and other people, and you say they stripped them down, interrogated them, tortured them. >> yes. they actually undressed them. they were looking for tattoos, screening their telephones, looking for message, et cetera. my guys and happy and lucky they were not killed or damaged. they were just released into the
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woods. this was a very difficult time. i mean, surviving in the wood next to russian russian army is a difficult thing. they were just released and they had to walk home naked for two days, and then we couldn't get any news from them. luckily after two days they got in touch with us saying we're safe, we're okay, we are alive. >> so, your country is being destroyed and now it's being retrieves piece by piece by the ukrainian army. you have enormous casualties. the russians have more casualties. the superhuman initiative, there must be a huge need for prosthetics, for the wounded. how are you going about helping those people who have been wounded, families destroyed by wounded in the war? how are you going about helping them? >> so, unfortunately, you're right. we have thousands of people who will need prosthetics and need
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help, not only military but a lot of civilians, a lot of kids, unfortunately, because these bastards, the russian bastards, they're a disgrace for any military. it's clearly a war against civilians. the recent mass graves we've found, i'm terp fied to think of mariupol, but the thing is that even in my house, when ukrainian military liberated the village in my house, particularly, there were a lot of mines and traps inside, so they would leave grenades stuck in a washing machine or in a piano actually aimed at a civilian, right. so right now when we liberate, our army liberates a lot of villages, they find a lot of mines and civilians and kids step on those mines. so we decided we had to build something to help this. we are building a hospital
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called superhumans.com next to the border of poland where he'll do prosthetics, face reconstruction, limb construction, and create an educational center to teach ukrainian and foreign doctors how to perform these operations. >> you're going to walter reed as part of this. >> i am. i'm on the search for doctors that could come and work with us like on a tour basis, for example, like a week every two months, to transfer technology, to transfer knowledge so that we know how to do it locally. we don't have too much experience with this. fortunately, i guess. ukraine was always a peaceful country with farmers and i.t. guys. >> so the goal here, part of the goal is to recruit doctors from america, around the world with experience? >> yes. >> that will come in for a couple weeks at a time and do the work you'll have at this new hospital? >> exactly. and teach local doctors so they can then perform operations on
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their own. we have thousands and thousands of people who need help right now. >> if there's an american doctor watching right now, and there are many, how do they find you and get involved? >> go to superhumans.com. there is an email, shoot us an email and we'll be on the call with you in minutes. >> good for you. this is an extraordinary effort from an extraordinary country from an extraordinary people that has shown the world their bravery and that i know courage. what do you want to tell the world, tell america about your country, about your people and how they're holding up these last seven or eight months? >> i think we're doing a great job. we have fantastic people. they're super brave. we have just received a big piece of our territory back and getting our soldiers back. we're winning the war. we just need a little more help and support from you guys on the weapons side, especially emotional support because people get tirped of war, you know?
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it's in the middle of europe. we're 40 million people country, which is fighting the second largest army in the world. >> how does it feel to watch the ukrainian army seize back your own land bit by bit, town by town, how does it feel personally? >> it's one of the greatest feelings, to be honest. it's incredible. all of us want our country back. everybody wants to go back. we want to rebuild it. we want to have ukraine. there is are no compromises we can have with putin. the only option is to push him back from our borders and take our land back. then to build it with a huge wall on the border. just forget about this ugly neighbor. >> ukrainian mill tir has done that, pushed them back. thank you so much. for more information on this great idea, this necessary program in ukraine, go to
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