we begin the hour with our all-star politics funnel, christopher miller, bloomberg editor bobby gauche, a new york history of pillows -- ruth ben-gvir, author of strongmen, mussolini to the president. christopher, i want to start with you. republicans like mitch mcconnell, they are doing the stuff they need to denounce vladimir putin for attacking ukraine. so presently, though they have remained silence as donald trump continues to lavish praise on putin as well as mike pompeo and others. how long do you think that can continue before it begins to hurt the party? or does it even hurt the party at all? >> there's clearly a divide within the party about what's approach to take to russia as it invades ukraine. but what is striking to me is the extent with which over the last couple of days the invasion has gathered steam. as we've, seen the brutality of that resulting from it. the extent to which the view that the u.s. should improve relations with russia or be more sympathetic to president putin has been a lot less popular. it's harder now than it ever was to defend the russian governmen

after the election and had to leave immediately and then replace them as acting secretary with christopher millere head of the counterterrorism center. the networks declared biden on saturday. on the monday the ninth, esper is fired given less than one hour to pack up his office and leave the building and christopher miller is brought in right away. the following day, the entire civilian leadership at the pentagon is decapitated. all these people the undersecretary for policy a very powerful position fired. undersecretary for intelligence and security. fire. the security staff department of defense. fired. all fired and replaced with loyalist that was the stamp of approval for being loyal to trump. >> we will take questions from the audience. the first one question we struggle with as well about all of this, when trump talks about all these things that didn't happen inn the electiona that did that i asked because you had a very revealing conversation about what the president thought about what actually happened. >> yes. corey had told me that it was to create enough doubts so his supporters don't

the election and have them leave immediately and then replace him as acting secretary with christopher millerwho's head of the national counterterrorism center. what happened is the networks declared biden the winner onou a saturday the seventh and on the monday the ninth asper is fired and he's given less than one hour to pack up his office andm leave the building and christopher miller is brought in as mcentee said and the following day the entire severe it will -- senior leadership at the pentagon was decapitated. the undersecretary for policy at the pentagon fired the undersecretary for intelligence and security, fire. the chief of staff of the department of defense, fired. all fired and replaced with hand-picked loyalist that mcentee gave the stamp of approval to for being loyal to trump. >> i'm going to take questions from the audience. one more quick question. the question that we struggle with as well about all of this. when trump talks about all these things that happened in the election or didn't happen in the election or what have you did people believe it and i asked that because

he's given less than an hour to pack up his office and leave the building and christopher miller is broughtback in and then the following day the entire civilian leadership is decapitated. and the memo is for all these people. under secretary for policy at the pentagon, fired. under secretary for intelligence and security fired. under secretary for defense, fired with loyalists that he gave the stamp of approval to for being loyal. >> were going to take questions from the audience but one more quick question . the question that you struggle with as well about all this. just when trump talks about all these things that happened in the election or didn't happen in theelection or what have you , do you get to read it? i ask because you had a revealing conversation with corey lewandowski after the election about what president trump about what had actually happened. >> corey had told me that he wanted to create enough doubts that his supporters don't think he lost that he knows. that was something i had heard from a number of people close to trump in the immediate aftermath. he already knows. k

esper is fired and given less than an hour to pack up his office and leave the building and christopher millerbrought in exactly as he said, and then the following day, the tire civilian leadership in the pentagon is decapitated and there are memos for all of these meme. under secretary of policy, fired. the undersecretary for intelligence and security. fired. the chief of staff for the department of defense, fired. all fired and replaced with hand picked loyalists, that gave the stamp of approval for being loyal. >> we're going to take questions from the audience? just a minute. one more quick question. a question that we struggle with is about all ever this. did you-- when trump talks about all of these things that happened in the election or didn't happen in the election or what have you, do you think that people believe that or does he know that it's knots not true and says them anyway. >> and you said you had that conversation with corey lewandowski. >> and cory told me he want today create enough doubt for supporters. >> and a number of people close to trump in the immediate aftermath, o

christopher miller of buzzfeed reports that a group of american and british special forces are preparingdo just that. a group of ten veterans are staging in poland, preparing to cross into ukraine and take up zelenskyy's offer to join the defense of ukraine. and the world. joined now by colonel jack jacobs, msnbc military analyst. colonel jack, this is enough for a one hour program, but i want to start with this, we just got a satellite picture over the weekend. today seeing more forces, russian forces, now closing in to kyiv and the areas that at the moment have been unable to take and or hold. what do you make of this satellite image that we have recently received? >> there's a lot of analysis that the russians thought it would be a lot easier than it turned out to be. they were right. there is no doubt about the fact that armored vehicles are going to make an extremely difficult for ukrainians to defend the approaches to the city. however, our vehicles are not all of that useful in the city. as the russians themselves know in their defensive stalingrad during the second world war. now

attack which reads in part, we are inrequesting potus instruct acting secretary of defense christopher millerthey will run targeted inquiries of nsa raw signals that may not have been processed yet to pursue suspected foreign interference of the 2020 election vote count manipulation. jackie, explain a little bit about who wrote the memo and the people that fell in line and were pushing it. there are some sitting united states senators involved here, there's the ceo of a pillow company as well. how close did they get to pushing it to the president. >> we've seen a number of memos and fringey ideas surfaced in recent days and weeks but this one is a little different in that the players involved in it, whose names were on this memo, have not been yet surfaced before. one of them actually is still currently a military lawyer, this guy name fred cologne, who i'm sure you might recognize his name. it was famously photographed on mike lindell's papers as he walked into the oval he was in the lead-up to january 6th. but he is still a lawyer in the u.s. military. his name, again, was on the memo along

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