select few truth tellers inside the trump administration, specifically the lieutenant colonel, alexander vindmanial that he heard that call. he knew it was wrong, and he reported it up the chain. >> i was concerned by the call. what i heard was inappropriate, and i forwarded my concerns to mr. eisenberg. it's improper for the president of the united states who demands a form of government investigate a u.s. citizen and the political opponent. >> vindman was promptly removed from his post after trump's impeachment trial. anyone with an ounce of foresight could predict, i would like you to do us a favor, though, was not going to end well. for trump, he was impeached by the house. ultimately, he faced zero repercussions. for ukraine, the consequences were far more serious. ukraine and its new untested, an corrupt leader, needed to be taken seriously on the world stage to fend off russian aggression. instead, donald trump chose to try and leverage the situation for his own personal gain. and for presidents lewinsky, having that military aid frozen, having the president of the united states try to sh

ambassador to ukraine bill taylor, and retired army commander alexander vindman who served as directorffairs for the national security council, welcome to you both gentlemen. thank you for joining us on this. >> you just kind of heard t ambassador orchards take on the war in ukraine, throughout the last year. there were so many fascinating things that he pointed out. to me, it really, in the short term that we spoke. of course,, one describing the way in which vladimir putin invaded ukraine as this kind of naked aggression. and the ultimate goal is really eliminating everything that is ukraine, something that he has been unable to do. up until this point. what is it going to take for the russian president to stop? >> he has, and he's going to have to be convinced that he cannot win. he is going to have to be convinced that his military is unable to overcome the ukrainian military. he has to lose on the battlefield. and he's been losing on the battlefield. he's been losing one after another. of the cities that he's taken, and then lost. because ukrainians have pushed them, out just as r

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i had a chance to speak with general alexander vindman in the last hour, shedhe said this woue a game-changerwhat is your thoughts on that? >> i agree with general alexander winvindman. i've heard informally there is chinese intelligence and liaison. the chinese don't want to see it happening. they wouldn't want to see russia triumphant. so, in any way, their strategy might mirror that of the united states. give them enough to keep them in war. hope the west will weaken and fall away. what have we heard so far? drones and ammunition. but one thing is for sure, china has plenty of military equipment and it can get it there on a train probably a lot faster than we can reinforce ukraine. and, jim, what has worried me and so many of us on the outside of the administration is that we seep to be so deliberate incremental in providing assistance to ukraine. there's a window of opportunity now to have a strategy that could get to negotiations that could lead to a successful end of the conflict, if we give ukraine sufficient equipment now. but that equipment's not coming. i'm talking about the m-1, a-

about this and a year, or at least be talking about it as history, retired lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, is the former director of european foreign affairs at the national security council. he's the author of the important book, here right matters. an american story. should, ahead more on the war in ukraine as we approach the one year anniversary another hour of velshi, live from kyiv, begins right now. begins right now >> good morning to you, it is saturday, february the 18th, welcome to our new home. a 10 am and 11 am eastern, our show is celebrating three years on the air this weekend. we thank you for watching us, this and every weekend. i'm ali velshi, and as you can see i'm not in new york, i'm in kyiv, the capital of ukraine. where it is now at 6 pm, and it is dark. it has been nearly one year since russia's unprovoked invasion of this country. i was in ukraine last spring, in lviv, in the west of the country, i'm back now to see what's changed, what stay the same, and what's next for this war, for this country, and for the global fight for democracy that ukrainians want the worl

we talked to general wesley clark in the previous hour, colonel alexander vindman a couple of hours ago. a lot of military experts are saying, the ukrainians desperately need those f-16s, they need them now. if we're not going to send them now, at least start training the pilots on how to use those f-16s. what do you think? >> jim, this has been the story from day one of this war, where military experts have advocated for more weapons, more quickly. often times, i've been with the military experts on this. the biden administration's role and specifically the president has been to walk this line between, you know, getting ukraine what they need to win, without provoking a larger war director ly with russia. and i think that's exactly what the president is doing today. now, will he change his mind down the road? he's changed his mind about a number of systems before. he wasn't planning to give tanks to the ukrainians. we're now sending ing tanks. i wouldn't be surprised if this changes down the road. right now, he's sending a signal to russia that he's conscious of the fact that he does n

army lieutenant colonel alexander vindman.or the national security council. i remember the first time i you on and you were calling each other mike and alex. but i'll go with mike and alex today. ambassador mcfaul, take you through your piece. >> go ahead. >> take us through your piece because you broaden this out in a way we don't do often enough. >> well, on this tragic, horrific anniversary of putin's invasion -- russia's invasion of ukraine i took -- the reason i wrote the piece was to take a big step back and write directly to america. it's like why should we care? what's in it for us? and i start with the moral piece that president biden talked about in his speech in warsaw. this is a fight between a dictatorship and a democracy. this is fight against annexation. remember we fought world war ii over annexation. and this is a fight against imperialism. russia is an empire. they're trying to recolonize their former colony, ukraine. so there's sound reasons we should be on the side of ukrainians. but i think there's actuall