let's bring in retired four-star general barry mccaffrey, nbc news analyst.rategist, which he is not, what strategy would there be at this point for him to claim any part of ukraine? >> i think he's run out of ideas. it's an astonishing strategic failure. the whole notion of him increasingly micromanaging the battlefield from moscow is astonishing. you know, mika, generals can lose wars but they can't win them. they're won at the combined arms, joint action, the integration of electronic warfare and artillery. and that kind of problem can be fixed is going to take the russians years. their logistics system doesn't work. generals are not going to fix that overnight. they're rail dependent. they can't distribute their ammunition and fuel across a battlefield. so, russia armed forces in ukraine, which has absorbed a tremendous amount of their combat power, which has devastated their infantry formations, mindfully, and they're very difficult to replace this trained manpower, and backing out of that situation, looking at the astonishing strategic change and the im

barry mccaffrey is not freudian in scope, but it also turned out funny, the four-star generals formeron adviser wrote so enthusiastically about the successes of the ukrainian air defense that he lost the last remnants of vigilance, supplied the tweet with frames from the computer game arma 3, had to hastily delete this mccaffrey is also an expert on msnbc. this is a liberal channel, like trump's cnn, its supporters call fake-nius supporters, meanwhile more and more republicans have joined elon musk in the past. i voted for democrats because they were a kindness party, but they have become a split and hate party, so i can no longer support them and i will vote republican. and now look how their dirty company unfolds against me democrats from the last strength. they are trying to prevent the main purchase, the mask becoming the full owner of twitter. he promises to change the politics of the social network, making it less toxic and less politicized. in the meantime, the richest man in the world collects 44 billion dollars and trying to bring down the price to find out. how many real use

. >> joining me now barry mccaffrey and david rhode. buffalo and uvalde. catch us up on where things stand now on the state of the war in ukraine. >> it's entering a very difficult phase. if you went out a year from now, i'd be very optimistic. russia's economy is going to grind to a halt. they're an international pariah. in the short run the russians have a five to one advantage in air power and masses of artillery. this has turned into an artillery war. ukrainians are outgunned. counter battery fire involves radar, unmanned aerial vehicles for reconnaissance, longer range precision munitions. the ukrainians don't have that package put together yet. they're being pounded by russian artillery and cruise missiles being fired from russia and out at sea. that's going to be the problem. they need to accelerate the delivery of systems. another thing we're going to have to take into account is the notion as long as putin is in office, if he seizes the donbas, that will only be a pause. there's no way he will ever stop thinking of destroying t

. >> let's bring in retired four star general barry mccaffrey. he's an nbc news military analyst. >> and also with us, mary elise sarotte. a post cold war historian. >> so general. let's begin with you. here we are on victory day, may 9th. what does vladimir putin have to show for his eight, nine weeks of war in ukraine. >> well, that speech by putin marks a man who has run out of ideas. he's in a strategic disaster, economic sanctions he's a pariah state and his undisciplined cruel violent battalion combat teams. he's lost by some estimates 25% of his combat power that he put into ukraine. it is now absorbed half of his air force, 60% of his ground forces, and he's got almost nothing to show for it. the war is not yet decided. u.s. and nato technology being delivered to these incredible ukrainian fighters is going to make a difference. but i think in the long run, economic sanctions has got to collapse a russian economy for putin to back off his fixation on absorbing ukraine back into mother russia. >> so general, as you look at what has happene

four star general, barry mccaffrey thank you as well. we appreciate it as always. >>> we have an update on the status of wnba star brittney griner who is being detained in russia. espn is reporting following an appearance in court this morning, they extended her detention for another 30 days and denied a request for house arrest. state department said griner has been wrongfully detained in russia since mid-february when she was arrested at an airport near moscow after a search of her luggage turned up vape cartridges contained oil derived from cannabis. she's facing a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. we'll stay on that story. >>> and we'll have much more on the war in ukraine later in the hour including the impact on children. we'll talk to the head of a group working to help refugees who are now in romania who was with first lady jill biden during her visit last week. >>> plus a cryptocurrency meltdown. losing $200 billion in a single day. we'll break down that shocking drop and whether it could lead to more regulation. >>> plus a

problem. it the image is not from ukraine it's from a video game called arma 3 it's a video game by barry mccaffrey maxboot who claims to be a military expert has been retweeted. this is, wow, interesting. yes, because this is a video game, that's how they understand this war, as a game, but it's business. in ukraine , we have now also invaded africa, because this is exactly what the state does, which can not solve any of its internal problems. they are trying to solve peaceful problems. with the help of weapons. joe biden authorized the military to deploy hundreds of operatives. somalia that somalia we recently withdrew troops from there, what is happening here in general russia is expelling diplomats from three european countries at once 34 employees of the french embassy have been declared non grata people they have 2 weeks to leave our country a period of two less than spanish diplomats, 27 people will leave for within a week, and 24 employees of the italian embassy should also go to the helm of a measure that all these states previously responded to. they took the same unfriendly steps towards

prepare barry mccaffrey, of course.x boot is a war expert retweeted so excited for a video game and that's how they understand war as a videothatta. ot but it's not just happening in ukraine. we have now invaded africa too because maybe that's what countries do and they can't fix any of their own o problems. they just decide to fix the world's problems with guns. joe biden just authorizedze military to deploy hundreds of special operators inside somalia from somalia is reviving that war after the last president withdrew our forces from somalia. withdre what exactly is going on here?w joe kent is one of the few people who is brave enough to say so as a former member of the army special forces, he's running for congress in washington a state. we're going to say out loud we're hoping he wins. he joins us tonight. goodof to see you. so first too the news.ins. first, to they have behind the scenesho that telling anybody agreed to spend trillions fighting this war against russia. was therere a vote on this thati missed that y

we're back with retired four-star general barry mccaffrey, who served as drug czar during the clinton? >> well, you know, i think it's going to turn out we owe a lot to secretary esper and general mark milley for keeping us inside the constitution, particularly during the last year of what in some ways is a gangster, low iq government. it's just astonishing. the two most important countries in the face of the united states are canada and mexico, in terms of economic prosperity, in terms of sensitivity to sovereignty issues. by the way, patriot missiles are anti-air missiles. that we would strike another democracy and lie about it is so comical and illegal, it's hard to know where to begin. trump also told esper, why didn't -- and the chairman, why can't you shoot u.s. citizens protesting in the streets and shoot them in the legs or something? again, you know, when esper got fired by trump, and he put five surprising ideological types in charge of the pentagon, he was preparing the way for a coup against the u.s. government. >> well, and the reason he needed those people for the coup p

♪♪ >>> we're back with helene cooper and general barry mccaffrey.ssian military. we have covered their failures on the battlefield, their withdrawal from kyiv. what is a u.s. secretary of defense who is rushing weapons assistance to ukraine say to his counter part? >> well, first of all, i think we're very fortunate we got lloyd austin as secretary of defense. he has enormous experience and good judgment on defense issues. one can argue this phone call has symbolic importance. we want to be in contact with the russian higher echelon, both military and political. they walled us off for three months, so having an hour conversation is a good thing. look, the russian minister of defense is in the ejection seat, and the chief of general staff is in the ejection seat. putin is locked up, put behind bars some of his intelligence chiefs, and he's locked a bunch of people trying to shove this ukrainian operation into high gear. it must be apparent now to even the most dim witted of putin's military senior advisers that they're in a strategic box. for god sak

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. >>> joining us now is barry mccaffrey. it's great to see you in person.ave you here on this coast. let's talk about reporting from "the new york times" today pointing out for all the talk about how slow and really incompetent the russian advance has been, first toward kyiv, now in the east and south, they have made advances in donbas. they have taken more territory than they had initially. so far, are managing to hold on to a lot of that. >> no question. russian force is massive. it's 95 or more, the tank combat teams. they have a lot of artillery. they decisive air superiority. they are afraid to not follow orders. this is going to be a brutal war. these brave soldiers -- ukrainian soldiers in mariupol are going to have to fight to the death. >> clearly, that's exactly what's happening. the head of national intelligence said yesterday at a hearing was that this is going to be a long, protracted war. they will grind it out, both sides. >> yeah. i listened to that all morning. richard haas said the same thing. i'm not sure that's the case. there's two thin

. >>> retired four-star general barry mccaffrey, a longtime m msnbc contributor, had a bit of a misfiret from a video game. ouch. and the genre treated and deleted the tweet. >>> "the new york times" was supposed to welcome back its staff to the office in two weeks, but that's been postponed again because of rising covid rates in the city and elsewhere. >>> the lightning collapse of cnn+ raised questions about the fate of chris wallace's online show. now we know it will be posted sundays on hbomax and will air on cnn sunday nights. >>> there is just no one to root for in the johnny depp/amber heard trial. they both come off as awful people. a heard admitted this week that she hadn't told the truth about donating half of her $7 million divorce settlement to charity. >> and have you completely fulfilled your donations to the aclu and the children's hospitals? >> i have not yet. >> and why not? >> because johnny sued me for $50 million. >> mr. depp, you said i will [bleep] her burnt corpse afterwards to make sure she is dead. did i read that right? >> you certainly did, yes. howard: media

erin mclaugh lin in kyiv and in washington, nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali, and barry mccaffrey, retired four star jen and a military analyst. let me start with you, what's the latest in ukraine, erin. >> all eyes on the devastated port city of mariupol, where yet another evacuation attempt was supposed to be under way. at the helm of the united nations as well as the international red cross, they were supposed to move out to one of the besieged city suburbs today to evacuate even more civilians, although there seems to be some sort of delay, and civilians have been waiting there, for hours, unclear why, the reasons for the delay, following yesterday's successful mission in which the u.n. and the red cross were able to facilitate the evacuation of about 100 women and children, from the steel plant, the last ukrainian stronghold inside of the city, and they were not able to evacuate all civilian, some 200 civilians remain trapped in the plant, including 20 children, as well as hundreds of ukrainian fighters, some of those fighters injured. i was speaking to one of the wives of th

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we'll be joined by retired army four-star general barry mccaffrey.the great crypto market plunge. a broad sell-off, erasing more than $200 billion from the entire market in just one day. what is up with crypto? we'll look into that. but first the house committee investigating the january 6 attack issues subpoenas for five republican lawmakers who have refused to cooperate in the investigation, including house republican leader kevin mccarthy who may well become the majority leader in a few months. congressman andy bigs of arizona, scott perry, jim jordan of ohio and mo brooks of alabama. also being compelled to testify with the exception of ethics committee investigations in the past, the subpoenas are believed to be the first ever issued to sitting members of congress. the panel has said that the congressman have information critical to its probe of the capitol attack on january 6. all have dismissed the investigation as illegitimate. let's go straight to garrett haake in nbc senior capitol hill correspondent. so, garrett, talk us through this, the