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. >> let's bring in lieutenant colonel alexander vindman. he is the former director of european affairs at the national security council. colonel vindman, thanks so much for joining us at a really interesting moment in this conflict. you have these ukrainian officials coming all the way to washington to make the case to use these long-range american missiles deep inside russia. but they're facing american resistance. why? >> thanks for having me on alex. i think the fact is that the only way oftentimes issues move our through principle engagements so zelenskyy with president biden secretary or defense to minister of defense he's having a whole host of meetings. he's not just meeting with our secretary of defense and they're trying to make a case as to why i ukraine should be able to employ weapons that are under its sovereign control. >> when we give something to a country, it's no longer r us weapon be employed against whatever adversaries been fraught, but it's a sovereign weapon of ukraine and there is no real risk of those weapons the bl

supplied high himars rockets in this attack joining us now to discuss retired lieutenant colonel alexander vindman and his brother retired colonel eugene vindman, both born in ukraine. eugene is also a democratic candidate for congress. now, in virginia, good to have you both on, gentlemen. thanks so much for joining thank you, jim alex, you of course, covered this issue quite closely as the former nsc director for european affairs, i wonder what your read is of ukraine's goal with this attack. clearly it has put russia on its backfoot. clearly it is required russia to move forces from the eastern front to respond to this attack. what is your view of the longer-term goal of this? and could it include a potential trade for russian occupied territory? ukraine so i'll tell you that like pretty much all analysts, western analysts, at least i was quite skeptical about the kursk operation. >> i think the fact is that the ukrainians are pretty hard pressed in areas of the battlefield, especially in the southeast. and i was sir? and about our drawing off forces that would be important to the defense in th

doesn't sound like the story of alexander vindman the soldier national staffer who blew the whistle entre'sttempts to extort ukraine for dirt on joe biden? maybe the george election officials whose lives were threatened after false falsely accuse them of rigging votes. maybe reminder the threats against the women who accuse trump of sexual assault and all the public officials who prosecuted or pursued him and the judges who ruled against him and all the election officials refused to break the rules and all the republicans who voted to impeach him. in each of those cases, trump has gotten away with intimidation, gangster threats because rank-and-file republicans let him or in many cases, straight up help him. using government power to make their partisan politics official -- and bullying anyone who gets in their way. like the volunteers for the latin american citizens. for being targeted against the far right texas attorney general. >> hearing from a lulac member whose home was raided during a search authorized by texas attorney general ken paxton. the ag's office said they are investigating

elon musk posting # free possible, retired lieutenant colonel alexander vindman who made waves as a keyays elon musk should be nervous after this arrest saying there is a growing intolerance for platform this information. he then replied to the palantir founder joe lonsdale referring to him as a free speech absolutist weirdo. i guess in the age of free speech we have a lot to say about what's going on in the western world. cheryl: it looks like the europeans have a lot to say about eu in particular. >> totalitarianism that the new pandemic virus spreading across the globe not only did this happen in france but you also have the uk they are arresting and jailing people who are posting opinions and thoughts on social media. it's absolutely insane and then you remember what happened which was exposed to the twitter files. even here we have a first amendment the own government was suppressing and amplifying tweets that they wanted or did not want. for all the argument and discussion over the second amendment, the war on the first amendment is why we have the second amendment. >> it continue

i'll be juneed by julia, retired colonel, alexander vindman.conference in february, where we heard the devastating news. alexei navalny's wife was speaking there and died at that same time. i thought the same thing would happen because that's the fate that many opposition leaders may meet. are you surprised that he was released? >> i wasn't surprised. and because he's a well-known opposition figure in russia especially in the west where you have had him on this program and on your own program many times where he is really a silver tongued brilliant man with an unshakable moral compass. given the long prison sentence that he got 25 years, which is the stalling era. i'm not surprised, given that there were russian citizens included in the opposition figures that were included. but yeah, initially i thought it would be paul whelan and evan gershkovich. the fact the russian opposition figures were included at all is a surprise. i also want to call attention to another person who was released today from a russian penal colony. she was a young artist

and we have seen how he has attacked veterans like john mccain, a retired lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, and other goldstar family members. but this is a pretty new low even for somebody like donald trump. >> i recall in 2020 when he attacked the parents of -- i recall when he attacked john mccain. i recall when the stories broke about trump calling veterans suckers and losers. there is an endless pattern of donald trump's utter contempt for our military. there is an endless pattern of trump's hideous degree of just spleen and hatred for them, because he thinks they are desperate to be in the military because of their socioeconomic circumstances. he thinks it is like a welfare program that they should be ashamed of. donald trump's relationship to the u.s. military has long been one where he thinks that his luster makes him a leader. he a joked about one time, always wanting to get the purple heart. it's pretty easy, donald. you could have gotten the purple heart if you had not been a draft dodger during the vietnam war were 58,000 american men sacrificed their lives. donald trump spent

alexander vindman, i'm curious, from your perspective, and listening to what the president wrote aboutout just the breadth of this extraordinarily difficult process that was just right now concluded with so many people being released and so many, up to 26, maybe being exchanged. what is it that american policymakers and those who analyze it, for example, take into consideration and weigh in something like this? >> well, i think the fact is we start from the standpoint of we have wrongfully detained persons on our side and we're giving away hardened criminals, folks that have been acting against individual citizens' interests, acting against u.s. national security interests. but i do want to comment on why now. it is a question why vladimir putin may have acted now. he has a strong pragmatic streak. he's transactional. the fact that he was willing to do something for joe biden that he would never have done for donald trump because that relationship doesn't exist. trump is adversarial to our allies. vladimir putin saw an opportunity to release someone, just like bout was in the previous

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