clint watts? >> that's right. and commissioner bratton, this is clay watts in new york. i was kind of wandering your perspective on, you know, there's been great changes in how new york protects the city, especially under your watch. and in the subway system, when you have a lone actor, or maybe multiple actors in a situation like this. what does new york have that other cities don't have and how do they solve the problem of figuring out how these things are perpetrated. there's a lot of technology they have, but also the police officers is amazing at these sort of things. do y'all rehearse these things? is there technology that enables you to do this and what are the next steps at this subway stop? >> there's no city in america, probably indeed in the world that's better prepared than new york city to deal with a major incident or event such as this, in multiple locations. just looking at your own screen would explain the massive emergency response, police, fire, health and hospitals. the intense relationship that is held between fbi, special agencies is something we ha

we'll talk to clint watts in a couple minutes. we were discussing the fact that morale is so low with the russian army that the last thing they're going to do is go down in there and try to root out people in this complex well of underground tunnels in this steel factory that is really just a fortress. they will get chewed up and spit out. and you get the sense that putin and this retreat, putin understands that. >> absolutely. and he doesn't want to go in and tangle with these regiments that remain inside protecting civilians. the question remains houngs with can the civilians hold out, food, water, medicine still a concern. putin calling this a success, also saying he has liberated the people of mariupol. tens of thousands of civilians have been killed there. meanwhile, ukraine is accusing russian forces of bombing a makeshift hospital in mariupol near that steel factory. authorities say the hospital is treating about 300 people including children, and now many of them are trapped under the rubble. ukrainian president volodymyr

also special agent clint watts, jim kavanagh. with me in washington, the former chief of homeland security and intelligence in the metropolitan police, now a homeland security expert at the rand corporation. katy tur, let's recap what we heard from the governor. 16 people, 10 shot, 5 of those who were shot are in critical but stable condition, but none have life-threatening injuries, which is just extraordinary. this mundt is under way. they don't know if they're looking for one person. they know this person was on the train and as they approached the station put on a gas mask, then triggered a smoke device, then started shooting. we know at least ten people were shot, don't know if there were ten shots or if there was ricochet. this was a normal, beautiful day in rush hour from brooklyn at a residential area. >> reporter: it's perhaps one of the prettiest days we've had in the city in quite some time. you're right. and the injuries as you're talking about, some reported shrapnel injuries. one of the questions i asked the commiss

clint watts is here with me. and clint, one of the things that struck me as i was listening to that young woman is just the shock that sets in, that chaos, it is very hard in a situation like that to have a clear sense of what exactly is unfolding. >> that's right, chris. and i think that that is why we're already hearing different things. peter was talking about, no explosive devices, you know, have been found which really changes the scenario. >> well, it's very possible that people ran and left behind a backpack or a purse or something that may have been mistaken for a potential explosive device. >> smoke in a subway, that sounds like it was as much inside of the car, and was a lot like a platform. so, it was literally a moving situation, moving between different locations. people in a crowded subway car, as we know in new york, you really don't know what is going on from one end of the car to the next. so, this becomes a very tight environment. and you add smoke into the mix, chaos, people who are scared, it's

let me bring clint watts in. the calls from mariupol for an ex traction to get them out of there, the fact there are civilians and military and soldiers inside of that giant facility, what are the chances that somebody is going to come to their rescue? >> joy, i think none. to be quite honest, mariupol is pretty much dead center in the middle of russian control at this point. they're surrounded on all sides to the south of mariupol is the sea azov. we should admire with the ukrainian military and civilians have gone through in mariupol. every day they endure, every day that those ukrainian marines endure there, they are tieing up russian forces that would not be advancing and cannot advance towards the donbas. they will be redemieded, the russian forces will be redemied to the north and this is providing time for the rest of the ukrainian military to do a couple things. one, hudonbas and digging into defensive positions, repositioning new military equipment that's coming in. those in mariupol, the bravery, has re

joining me now is nbc news national security analyst, clint watts, a former u.s. army officer.how us where this war stands this morning. >> jose, definitely movement to the east. i think this is where the focus of everything is going to be, pretty much from here on out. remember, just two to three weeks ago, we saw the redeployment of russian military, through belgograb. you're starting to see ukrainian counteroffenses. you'll see in light blue here these small pockets. you see the ukrainians trying to push in towards these line of logisticses here, and essentially trying to disrupt them. now, the ukrainians are meeting stiff resistance in there. separately, you're seeing this battle. this is the western part of donbas. this is the donetsk region. that's what you're seeing the russians really push for. i want to zoom in just a little bit to give you some perspective on this. if we rewind just over the past three weeks, this is what we're looking atrocities start of the month. you're starting to see the buildup of russian combat powers as they move in closer. you're also seeing

let me go to clint watts here. we think we know what the russian strategy is now, but are they able to execute? >> it's really unsure because even when you see them redeploying forces, they are still taking losses if you went out on social media really at any point on any given day, you'll you'd still see russian losses being taken. the big unknown is the status of the ukraine military. we adopt know what their strength is or what the resupply of repositioning is like in eastern ukraine. that's why you're hearing some defense officials give different per spepgs sepgss of what's going on in eastern ukraine. one of the secretary austin's comments that ukraine can win is very much true. but how do we know this? i think that comes down to what has ukraine been able to achieve and what they will be able to do and how quickly will they reposition in terms of man power and getting a lot of the weaponry coming in from the u.s. and now we hear about germany getting it out to the east. and then what will russia do in respons

russian man-pounder and equipment is staggeringly more than the ukrainians have at present. >> clint watts, who is one of our national security analysts here, really dissecting the russian military strategy for us. clint, always learn something from you. >>> still ahead, with the next phase of the war in ukraine under way, where exactly does the conflict go from here and what is putin's next move? we'll be joined by another top military expert. >>> and a fierce political battle in the magic kingdom as ron desantis moves to put an end to some special privileges for disney after the company denounced the governor's controversial "don't say gay" bill. where that feud stantsds and what it says about the florida governor's broader ambitions inside the republican party and for country. riders! let your queries be known. yeah, hi. instead of letting passengers wrap their arms around us, could we put little handles on our jackets? -denied. -can you imagine? i want a new nickname. can you guys start calling me snake? no, bryan. -denied. -how about we all get quotes to see if we can save with americ

let me go over to clint watts.times you just watch the reaction of a group of ships an it may tell you the fact that the russian ships have now tried to move farther away from the coast seems to be a tell that the russians know that something hit them from the coast. >> i think that's absolutely right, chuck. obviously we have to wait until the full body of evidence comes in, but if you just look at it on the face, this is not someone smoking a cigarette on the deck of the ship and set off an ammunition dump which is the way the russians are portraying it. oh, we just had a mistake and a bunch of ammo exploded. definitely not. 16 miles out, to orient people where this is at, we're talking about at about right here, so quite a ways out. if you look at social media and some of the discussions on it are quite remarkable. there are a couple of things there. if you look at the actual ship, it is only able to detect with its radar 180 degrees. meaning the ship cannot sense everywhere. so the back third of that ship, you

clint watts at the board for us again this morning. clint, thank you so much. >>> ambassador mcfaul as we mentioned at the top of the show, president zelenskyy will address the u.n. security council. russia, of course, is a permanent member there. what do you expect to hear back with the story of bucha to deliver to the u.n. security council and to the world? >> he will say what he has already said to the ukrainian people and to other reporters which is these are war crimes. this is genocide. these need to be investigated, and russia is going to veto it. that's the problem with there will be no resolution passed from the u.n. security council about what to do there. what i am interested in hearing is not about that. that's obvious. what i am interested if hearing, will he float his idea, which is part of the negotiations, about a new security guarantee for ukraine from the u.n. security council and a few other countries, poland, turkey, i think even israel is on the list, in return for ukrainian neutrality. that is his idea. that's what

i'm also joined by clint watts the at our big board for a look at how the russian military strategy is changing. and joining me -- ali, tell me about the moment when the missiles struck lviv? >> we were doing an interview with malcolm nance. the first one that crossed over, you didn't see it. we heard a thump. by the time the second one came, we looked up into the sky and saw the object flying across the sky and it was so big, at first i thought it was an airplane. these missiles are about 26, 27 feet long. they are the size of a small jet. we saw that one really whistle across the sky with a frightening sound and then a massive thump and smoke coming up from not far from where we were sitting and it was followed by several others. it was quite disconcerting. we've seen attacks on the outskirts of lviv but we have to be very clear, this was bang in the center of lviv. the noise was disconcerting, the thump was disconcerting. i can't imagine what it was like for residents sleeping in their apartment or malcolm was speculating it may have been launched from the sea but it's not clear. th

joining me now is clint watts, an msnbc national security analyst and a fellow at the foreign policy been looking forward to having this conversation with you. as you know, many folks may not realize, but you are also the author of messing with the enemies, surviving social media world and hackers, terrorists, russians and fake news. i think it's also very important to have this conversation because we deeply believe that it is one of the solid pieces of warfare that people aren't talking about. it's how social media, how disinformation, is a strategy of the putin government to get people to stay on his side. can you speak more on this? >> yeah, i think people don't often realize that what they see is not with someone else even a different part of the world. in terms of the history of events and particularly current events like right now. you'll often hear vladimir putin talk about russia's version of history and part of his campaign in ukraine is to establish that version of history overtime. trying to solidify it. when you hear of bucha, we know what happened, we saw the atrocities

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. >>> joining me now are clint watts, msnbc analyst and eileen cooper, pentagon correspondent for "thek times" and msnbc political analyst. helen, let's expand on what we played from the house armed services hearing. do you see russia learning from its mistakes as it regroups in belarus, comes back down into the east, where they do have great support among those separatist groups and still keep tying down the ukraine military by hitting potentially odesa or lviv or other parts of ukraine? >> hi, andrea. it's good to see you. it's been sort of a two tales of this war with the russian military. you know, their abysmal performance on the battlefield. and then, their destructive performance, as we saw in bucha, against civilians. you know, they've done not very good job, not very competent job against ukrainian soldiers and ukraiian troops. they have not managed to subdue them at all. they've taken out -- they've taken out their ire on civilians. we see a military behaving in this way it usually is because they have been cut off in other ways. the bucha images shows that in stark -- puts t

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you know what, i see clint watts at the big board. we have more to read here. clint, i want to go to you on this because you know about disinformation, you know about liars, you study it every single day. before we get to the map, i'm just curious as a patriot who served this country, what's your thought when you hear people saying you know what, there's no difference between putin and united states troops because we do it too? does that make your blood boil? >> it does, joe. if anything we've learned from the russian invasion is how differently the u.s. conducts warfare. have we made mistakes? absolutely. but there's no equivalency in terms of any measure. when we have things go wrong, we have court mashials and trials and we have accountability in terms of these mechanisms. so i think if there's anything we've learned over the first six weeks, one, we're going to try and do the right thing at all times. two, when something goes wrong, we try and make sure we don't do it again. that's the opposite of what you see in bucha and around kyiv. we're foxed on bucha.

joining us now, nbc news national security analyst clint watts and former u.s. marine corps chief of staff to europe, colonel brendon kearney. clint, what's at stake, what's to come in the next few days? >> so, mika, big changes in the last two to three weeks. everything you see here in light blue, that's the russian withdrawal, the ukrainian advance taking those territories back, which essentially allows people like boris johnson to visit kyiv at this point. remarkable to think this would even happen. the battle shifting almost entirely to the east. and vladimir putin has signaled this in the start of this war. his justification for going into ukraine was to take donbas. obviously, that was lie. he attacked on many fronts, tried to topple the entire government. but this is the region, luhansk and donetsk, russia has pulled their forces to belgorod. this is what you'll be looking for many the coming two to three weeks, increased number of ar till ti fires, missile and rocket attacks, aircraft shooting missiles from as far back as inside russia. but even more impo

let's bring in nbc news national security analyst clint watts. take us through the battlefield. what's it looking like today? >> yeah. fascinating, joe, that the russian navy meets any challenge at all. the ukrainian navy after 2014, after crimea was taken, had retreated essentially to here. to lose that command and control ship, second major ship that's been badly damaged or sunk. the other was in berdyansk a couple weeks ago, talk about a resupply ship essentially on fire, that the russians can't completely control this area, they can't control entirely their own lanes in the sea. remarkable job by the ukrainian military across the board. mariupol, mariupol, there are still some remaining holdouts there. marine infantry, parts of a sort of defense battalion still in mariupol, but they are completely surrounded, still putting up an intense fight. i think most armies would have given up to this fight. still fighting. it prevents the russian military from repurposing the forces, sending them back in the north towards donbas. what we don't know is about the damage, the severity an

army infantry officer clint watts, and lieutenant general ben hodges who served 2014 to 2017. first i want to turn to richard engel with more with what he is seeing on the ground this eastern ukraine. >> reporter: the war here in ukraine is seeing horrendous civilian casualties. just in this residential compound, at least seven civilians were killed by incoming russian fire and now there is growing evidence that russian troops carried out massacres as they were retreating from a suburb outside of kyiv. ukraine's president zelenskyy compared russian troops to looters, rapists and murderers. and a warning, some of the images in this report may be disturbing. when russian troops pulled out of the kyiv suburb of bucha, they peeled back the curtain of the horrors they allegedly inflicted on ukrainians under russian occupation. bodies of civilians lining the streets, some with their hands tied behind their basks, shot at close range execution-style. the mayor of bucha says 270 civilians were buried in two mass graves. ukraine presidential office says women showed signs of rape. ukra

clint watts, thank you so much. mika. >>> let's bring in assistant defense secretary for europe and nato under president obama, jim townsend. and i can't help but to begin just asking about any hope left for the civilians inside that steel plant in mariupol. >> i'm afraid there's no hope. i have been thinking the same thing. some type of humanitarian corridor, something that could be done. but i'm afraid what the russians are going to do is pound that steel plant from the air with missiles. they don't want to go in there and fight, as you're reporting. that would be a very difficult fight for them. so what they'll do is stand off and just pound it, and we'll have a horrible humanitarian situation on our hands. we've seen this in bucha. we've seen this in other parts of ukraine as well as in syria, grozny, chechnya. this is what the russians do, and i'm afraid we're going to see just a horrible sight in the coming days. >> so what do we need to do as we look at the donbas? what do we need to do regarding weapons syst

. >> let's go to the national security analysis clint watts at the big board at 30 rock. clint, thank you so much for being with us. give us the state of play right now in ukraine. where are the troops and where they may be going? >> yeah, joe, so what mika started off with was talking about these rail lines, these are the lines that we're watching, they bring all of the supplies in, that we saw with secretary blinken and secretary austin. this is the key note here which is dnipro. it is the key hub in ukraine, initially we thought the russians would make a vast assault on this but they have since lost steam. but this is the direction where all other supplies come from. i would not be surprised if you see missile attacks there. and it also means that russians probably don't think they're ever going to get the rail heads because they are important for moving supplies. the south is where we're talking this morning. here in mariupol, in mariupol this steel plant has been surrounded. we were talking last week about how they were going to essentially back off of it. and the rus

with us tonight, clint watts. west point graduate, army veteran and former fbi special agent.so a distinguish research fellow at the foreign policy research institute with a focus on terrorism, social media influence and russian disinformation. always good to see you, clint. help us get it this into context. is the situation as dire as the former president put it? >> i think it is. i think one of the things we learned over the last 6 to 7 years is that people are too often choosing the information that suits what they want to hear from people that look like them and talk like them. digital tribes. this has led to things like the erosion of trust and in vaccines, or public health officials. we've seen it with our election infrastructure and the integrity of the. we've also seen in terms of foreign adversaries essentially using information to malik be latest. to try to convince us of things that aren't true. across the board, i think the situation is quite dire. and the phenomenon of disinformation, misinformation continues, it becomes very difficult to hold together the institu

clint watts, nbc analyst, a distinguished research fellow at the foreign policy research institute andthere is a lot of fog of war stuff. it can bear very hard to track them up. but it does seem, clearly, to be the case that in certain areas, particularly around kyiv and a few other places, that a story that was russians taking territory from ukrainians, there are places where they are now ceding ground and that ukrainians are now retaking. is that right? >> that is right, chris. i think with the russians were saying a couple of days ago was somewhat true. i mean, they're always lying to some degree. but this is known as retrograde operations, meaning the russians will try to maintain contact because they do not want to turn their backs and run. that would just open them up to being assaulted from the rear. so, what you see is that some units will stay in contact while other units will move back. ostensibly, they are moving back towards belarus. the question is, though, and where that grain of salt's, and you hear that from the pentagon that week's, they could just be rearranging these

clint watts, frank figliuzzi, thank you very much. stay close just in case we get breaking news out of brooklyn. let's bring in sarah feinberg, she's the former president of the new york city transit authority. she is also a former senior obama administration official. one of the roles she's had, federal railroad administrator. sarah, i'm so glad you are here, i have questions for you. up until just a few months ago, you were in charge of our subways. >> yes. >> right, now people are putrefied to get back on the train. would you ride the subway tomorrow? >> what yeah. i rode the subway here tonight, and i take my daughter on the subway every day to go to school because even on the darkest day and the scariest day, the new york city subway system is still the safest and most efficient way to get around the city. >> earlier today, the current head of the transit agency praised the crew who quickly pulled the other train out of the station amid all of that chaos. are the teams trained for something like this? the teens or new york city t

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still with me here on set, nbc national security analyst clint watts and sedrick alexander.r in my head what bill bratton told me. he's sounding very confident, a people who have worked with the nypd and federal agencies involved in this investigation talk about their experience, talk about their knowledge, their capabilities and the electronics they have. we're also in a situation where -- and we don't know what investigators know right now, but we don't have a description beyond the most generic description. the video camera in the subway didn't work. and as katy tur just pointed out, having spoke on the an mta source of hers, they don't even know right now whether the suspect may have gone up the stairs and gone into the crowd or went in the subway tunnel. there are literally hundreds of people who live in new york subway tunnels. so in a city like new york, in a subway system like new york has, what are the additional complications that investigators are working with right now? >> well, certainly there will be a number of complications, but we cannot underestimate this,

about training ukrainian forces to deal with the very advanced switch blade jouns -- excuse me, clint watts and ambassador mcfaul. clint, let's talk about what john kirby is saying about that attack which everyone is forecasting against the donbas region, the resupply convoy plus artillery and personnel carriers. what are you seeing on the ground in terms of how many days before they would be in position to resume attacks, more aggressive attacks? >> andrea, that's a great point. at current what you see here in the light blue is essentially all those areas where the russian military has withdrawn and the ukrainian military has taken back over. but the most important there is in the east. you're already seeing this convoy. belgorod is where the u from the sumy corridor, they've essentially relocated here to push that convoy down. izyum is going to be this key location. you see a small light blue there battling against the russian military, which will take us to this real battle space here. this is the one the region apps and what ear. there's a buildup from russian combat power from this act

let's go to national security analyst for nbc news and msnbc clint watts, at the big board.re, clint. >> yeah. mika, so mariupol, we've been talking over the last week about this situation at the steel plant. i think the real question is, remember, vladimir putin last week said mariupol has been taken. there was question about, okay, how long would they leave this area under siege? would they allow civilians to be evacuated? twice now, it's essentially fallen away. the next question, i think, is will there be a further assault on the steel plant? it seemed the russians didn't want to go after it initially. now, it looks like they're picking up the pace, more artillery fire. also, would there possibly be a naval invasion coming from the sea in terms of finishing this off? bigger picture, some of the things you're starting to see is resistance. in the southern area here, the russians initially took kherson. they met resistance. you're seeing ukrainian counterattacks in many places. now, you're seeing resistance fighters, demonstrations popping up in the rear areas. bigger pict

. >> the former fbi agent clint watts was called to testify before the committee. >> follow the trailths that are tied to this investigation, who have assets in banks all over the world. they are dropping dead, even in western countries. >> so much of this intrigue and violence may seem very far away. that when nbc news consultant paul joyal was shot just a few miles from the capitol, he and his wife immediately thought it was a hit. a big reason? the timing. >> it's four days after of i've accused the president of being responsible for the horrible murder of litvinenko, on your network. >> in early 2007, joyal appeared in a dateline report on the litvinenko case. >> did putin ordering? >> did he know it. can't say that. can't say that it may be foolish but i think it's the right thing to do. ight thing to do >> that's all for this edition of dateline, i'm natalie morales, thanks for watching. nks for watching atalie morales. and this is "dateline." >> i'm craig melvin, the -- >> she was beautiful. her eyes were remarkable. she was going to be there for me, didn't matter what it was.

i want to bring in clint watts at the big board. talking to matt, it just so horrendous what is going on throughout that country and mariupol. i want to ask you later to focus on. but it seems like the russians have been changing their tactics but not their brutality. >> that's right, jose. i think the big story here is in the east. this is where we're seeing the shift in terms of everything that's going on right now. so those forces from kyiv we seen redeployed over the past two weeks, they've come in from belgorod. separately from luhansk. and they'll cut them off, similar to what we see them doing in mariupol. this is that russian front i was drawing, essentially trying to link these forces. i expect there will be a major battle for slovyansk. they'll try and defend here. they want to prevent the forces to donetsk and cutting off ukrainian military in these pockets here. the russians in order to do that have to move their combat power from the south. and that specifically is what we've been talking about today here in mariupol. m

and at the big board national security analyst for nbc news and msnbc, clint watts. clint, we will start with you. where are the russians right now? >> mika, remarkable, remarkable turn around in the last three weeks. when we look here, it was all red two weeks ago. what do we see now? we see lots of light blue where the ukrainians have conducted counteroffenses and taken back territory. this is what we're talking about this morning. in the suburbs here when you look to the northwest, this is where we're finding evidence of war crimes in and around bucha, some of these territories. essentially what the ukrainians were able to do, ten days ago we were talking about this suburb out in this area. they were able to launch essentially a counterattack leaving these russian troops here exposed. essentially they could have been cut off. what you are finding now, you are hearing the story of lost russian units or individual soldiers. they're essentially left in the suburbs fighting against the ukrainian military. separately, what i want to say is when you watch the russian wi

nbc justice correspondent, pete williams, former fbi special agent, clint watts and former head of homelandecurity in d.c. what more have we learned and why he's considered a suspect? >> i think the reason is there's authorities so much evidence that points to frank robert james, born august 8, 1959, as the man who fired the shots on the subway. there's video showing him getting out of the van, which apparently he slept in overnight, monday night. that's the van, the u-haul van he rented in philadelphia, drove to new york and parked it there and slept overnight in it. and some time early yesterday morning, he walked to the subway line, got on to an n-train, and stayed for a couple of hours on the subway before finally firing the shots yesterday, according to authorities. it's what he left behind, andrea, that's been so important to the investigation. are the bag you've seen full of fireworks that a fireworks dealer now says were sold to him ten months ago. a fireworks dealer in wisconsin. there's a credit card and a key that led them to van and most importantly of all, authorities say frank

you look at the maps, we talked to clint watts this morning, the reports out of ukraine, this is a strategic repositioning. i get a big kick from the hot takes. you'll see a hot take every three or four days, we are stumbling into vladimir putin's trap. this is what he wanted. really? he wants his military exposed to such a degree that even baltic states are going, you know what, we're not so scared of russian troops anymore? this was a colossal miscalculation from the very beginning, and this continued spin that somehow this is part of a -- >> master plan. >> -- part of a master plan, a dr. evil master plan really is laughable. we are experiencing obviously a news cycle of just absolutely horrific imagery, evidence of war crimes, sickening war crimes that we also saw in chechnya that we also saw in aleppo, but make no mistake, when the history of this war is written we'll have war crimes that are going to be discussed. but militarily, this was an extraordinarily significant weekend because, mika, this weekend we get confirmation that the russians really were in retreat. make no mistake of i

and the reason why the russians have never been able to connect all of those lines that clint watts ande trying to connect on the battlefield is it's not about weapons, it's not about mass. it is about culture, and i keep saying this, but for our friends on the west coast who may be just be waking up right now, and wiping their eyes and having their cheerios, it happened to the soviet union. it's why hitler in june of '41 was able to sweep as quickly across russian territory as he was. because stalin had purged his top generals over the past decade. there was nobody in charge o. -- of the military. we find that because of corruption in the ranks, because of brutality in the ranks and because they don't respect their people. you know, one of the things i hear about marines, that, you know, when you talk about -- when you talk to marines, they talk about how they act out in the field, it's always the leaders who eat last. they always take care of everybody else. and the leaders eat last. here, we have julia yaffey who came on talking about talking ae people up front in the russian army ar

and i want to bring in clint watts, a terrorism analyst for msnbc, former fbi special agent and someone the agency extensively. what are the key unanswered questions that investigators are right now looking to get answers to? they obviously want to know who the subject is that they're pursuing at this point. and make sure that they're not part of any sort of larger organization or plot. and that is distinguishing between a criminal act or a criminal activity, a lone shooter, and really terrorism, which is something in pursuit of an ideology. that's political change, social change, religious causes. >> is there anything we know yet, and we know very little, but that would indicate that this was necessarily sophisticated? >> i think what's interesting about it is the use of explosive device or some sort of explosive devices. that's a little bit more sophisticated than what you would normally see from a random act of violence. the other is timing and location. you're picking a subway platform, which has a lot of individuals on it. that is a place you go to commit mass violence. >> and at a

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we have richard haass and host of "way too early" jonathan lemire and clint watts standing by at the big boards. a lot to get to this morning. >> a lot to get to. here is a great shot of the cover of the "wall street journal." holy week, holy week in ukraine and across the world and our service yesterday. it is interesting how much ukraine had an impact. went to the red sox on friday for the opening game. a moment of silence for ukraine. they had somebody who had just escaped ukraine come out for opening ceremony, and the fans cheered. i mean it is remarkable how this country has taken center stage in the hearts and minds of not only people in america but across europe, across the west. our pastor yesterday, obviously easter sunday, for christians the most holy of days. talked a good bit about the trials and tribulations of christ on friday leading to rebirth and resurrection on sunday, and talked about ukraine and talked about the nails, the rusty nails being driven into the people of ukraine. a year ago, who would have known about ukraine? would would have had a second thought abou

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long time local reporter for the new york daily news and clint watt also joins us. he is now an msnbc national security analyst. tell me the latest. >> so nicolle, this is a very fluid situation as you well know. and any type of breaking situation like this, or breaking story like this. we are getting varying numbers, some of which you just stated, but we spoke to our hospital team on the ground who was saying there are people walking into the hospital or the precinct after the attack inside the subway station. the numbers we're getting are now saying that 21 people were admitted into the hospital. ten of which have now subsequently been discharged. 11 are still there. all of them though thankfully as you said, are in stable condition. you think about this city overall, nicolle. still very much a man hunt, searching for this suspect, this individual who opened fire on a train car around 8:30 a.m. when police officers were called to the site, because of smoke that was emanating from a subway car. there was mass confusion. people didn't necessarily know what was going

joining us at the big board, national security analyst for nbc news and msnbc analyst clint watts. n some talk, but no one takes the russians' word for anything to open up a humanitarian corridor and get civilians out. they're bombing the plant on the contrary. what does it look like in mariupol? >> very consistent, willie, whatever they say they do, they usually do the opposite. last week, we were talking about mariupol and this steel plant, consistent throughout this. putin and his army, they are harmering this with indirect fire. if you went there and looked, you'd see something similar with lots of utility strikes and missile strikes. the question is how they're going to take that plant. it's one thing to starve them out over time. i was hopeful maybe there could be some sort of prisoner exchange. what i think we're going to see more focus and potentially a naval effort coming from the sea to cut this off. it's also curious that vladimir putin was lying in discussions with turkey essentially saying he's not attacking, they clearly are. if you look at what's happening in the sout

we get clint watts here, and poor clint every day for the past six weeks has been saying, okay, the russians are going to move troops from this direction, they're going to meet up, except they never meet in the middle. this goes back to something we talked about yesterday, culture. it starts at the top, whether it is an athletic program, whether it is a business, whether it is the united states navy. what in the world, how can you help us better understand how russian military culture has collapsed so much and how it is so much worse than what we expected six weeks ago? >> well, you start with -- and i think it is a russian proverb that fish rots from the head, and you begin with high-level leadership. frankly, the fact that putin has resorted to bringing in this ghoul of a general, aleksandr dvornikov, who is the butcher of syria, tells you that he is deeply dissatisfied with his current leadership on the ground, many of whom have been shot or blown up by the ukrainians. i think we are up to ten dead generals from the russian army. they have more generals in the ground than on the ground in

let's go to clint watts at the board. t, what have we seen in the last 24 hours since we spoke last that would lead putin to say the operation has been a success, we have taken mariupol? >> willie, the only thing putin has done in mariupol is deployed a bunch of cameras and journalists basically that will tell his story. nothing has really changed on the ground. i think the key point with mariupol is this area, this steel plant is the worst possible place you could attack. what putin was saying over the last few hours essentially is we know from the russian perspective they're going to grind up probably thousands of soldiers trying to take every square inch of this place. it is the worst possible place you would ever want to assault -- >> oh, my god. >> -- if you are a dismounted infantry. you are talking about underground passageways, you are talking about civilians in there as well. if you look separately at what they're doing, they're doing siege warfare but it would be smart from the russian perspective to negotiate so

. >>> still ahead on "morning joe," clint watts is going to join us at the top of the hour. 9:00 a.m.his hour, inflation has already hit a 40-year high and it's expected to get worse. we're going to have the new numbers when they cross from the labor department. >>> plus, nbc's blayne alexander joins us live from georgia with a look at one of the nation's most closely watched races for governor. but with less than two months until the primary, the state's most populous county still has no permanent official in place to lead the elections. blayne will explain why. >>> and some exciting news before we go to break, you can now stream "morning joe" and other msnbc shows on peacock, you can find us on the new msnbc hub. head over to peacocktv.com to learn more. >> it is exciting. >> you're watching "morning joe." we will be right back. right ba. [music: “you can get it if you really want” by jimmy cliff] joe." health officials in philadelphia announced plans to reinstate the city's indoor mask mandate beginning next monday. as nbc's emily a ked da reports it makes philadelphia the first ma

go over to the big board for more on this with national security analyst for nbc news and msnbc, clint watts. good morning. sergey lavrov, the foreign minister for russia, said yesterday, quote, another phase of this operation is starting now, talking about the invasion now on the eastern front. that's a long stretch of the border, isn't it, about 300 miles from kharkiv down to mariupol. what do these early hours look like so far? >> willie, so what we're seeing here in the east is the buildup of combat power, but it's at a pretty slow pace. i know president zelenskyy and others in ukraine have said the offensive started. that is true, but it is the easier part of the offensive. dropping in massive amounts of artillery, missile strikes. this is occurring all across the eastern area. i think what i want to really zoom in on is this is where the fight is going to be. the question is, how will the russians go about it? what is key in most russian strategy is for them to try to penetrate through small areas here, or will they try to move and essentially connect their forces in this corridor here