when you work with offender such as connally.rounds, and indeed miss connally's background, her childhood was not a particularly good one. social services were aware of her, and she was sent to an approved school. so her background is very complex, and very messy. but when you're working with offenders to try to challenge and ultimately change dangerous behaviors, such as the one she exhibited. it takes a long time to take what they did their behavioral patterns, their attitude. and their personality. one of the first things you have to do is get the offender to admit their offense,. and what they did was wrong. we do know that connally was released from prison, previously on parole, and about 2013. and unfortunately she was sent back to prison because she breach conditions of her parole. thankfully she hadn't committed any offenses or contact offenses against others. but in the terms of her parole license, so in one way we can argue that the system does work. the decision made by the parole board at the time was wrong. but it wa

joining me now is heather connally, she is the president of the german marshall fund.he's also a deputy state for europe and eurasian affairs, where she co-led u.s. affairs to engage nato. heather, these developments overnight. i want to first of all get your take on this. when you look at that map, of where that attack took place, it says everything you need to say. that spot, that dot, 12 miles from poland, could very easily be poland. that changes the game. tell me, first of all, that these attacks are not about vladimir putin going into eastern ukraine and protecting russians speakers from a genocide that he provided no evidence of. they are attacking western ukraine, on the nato borders. >> absolutely. in some, ways it is surprise like that this hasn't happened earlier. because, obviously, as we are now entering daily 18 of a conflict that russia thought they could season two days, they are getting bogged down. they are trying to end the supply lines. this is a major, major move to say, look, we are not going to stand for humanitarian and, certainly, lethal milita

joining me now is heather connally.sia, and eurasia program at the center for strategic and international studies. heather, thank you for being with us. we've spoken a lot this morning to experts and elected officials about this whole issue of ukraine wanting a no fly zone above ukraine. and, how nato and the western are agreeing to that. but, there is some sort of a deal that's being made that involves nato and the united states supplying poland with f 16 jets. and, poland giving ukraine jets. now, ukraine had makes. it's pilots know how to fly it makes. these are russian jets. that would boost that ukrainian air defense. tell me if you know much about this, and what impact you think it will have on the fight? >> well, it will potentially have significance. it will help boost or the ukrainian air force to be able to do what they are doing, knocking down russian fighter jets, trying to protect major ukrainian cities. but, let's also be very clear. this move is significant. developing a no-fly zone would require a massiv

congressman connally, thank you very much for spending time with us today.e to see you. >> my pleasure, nicolle. thank you. >>> breaking news to tell you about. first guilty verdict related to the insurrection on january 6th. a federal jury took less than four hours to find guy ruffit golt on all charges. a member of the texas three percenters, he helped lead the mob of pro trump supporters to the capitol armed with a gun and zip ties. he was convicted on all five counts including obstruction of an official proceeding, armed trespassing and witness tampering, which occurred when he threatened his own family against turning him in. this is just the start for the justice department, which has many, many more accused rioters facing trials for storming the u.s. capitol and assaulting police on january 6th last year. we'll cover all of it. quick break for us. we'll be right back. quick breaks we'll be right back. shopping on public wifi is sketchy. but with aura digital security, my devices are protected in like 3 minutes. protect your wifi, credit, passwords and

our economics editor ed connally has been taking a look at the financial battle, the like of which hasseen. here is his special report. we >> [laughs] [noise] on the ground as trump's fight, bombs fall, and people of leaving the terror. this looks very much like a war between ukraine and russian invaders. but something else is happening here, to. for well europe and the u.s. has refused to fight militarily, or impose a no-fly zone, they are at economic war with russia. >> we have purposely design these sanctions to maximize the long term impact on russia. >> these sanctions will suppress russia's economic might. >> we will continue on a remorseless mission, to squeeze russia from the global economy piece by piece. >> this is a financial battle. when that could change the very nature of the world economy. an invisible assault that goes further than anything we've ever seen before. >> this is something we did not do in world war ii with germany. >> it really is a new use of financial power, it's quite unprecedented. >> i'm definitely worried, yes. >> we are just taking a step back and co

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but, as you mentioned, as congressman connally mentioned, this is -- it they're up to people like myselfnk now we understand that. and now, understanding it, i suspect a red line for us would wind up being, whether or not we see it, that putin cannot have full control over ukraine's national security policy, such as he can place forces in ukraine's west, again, right up along the border with four nato nations. for >> i know a major part of the peace talks appears to be that ukraine making a formal declaration of neutrality and accepting limits on its armed forces, would that be a workable condition or with that in itself be a violation of ukrainian sovereignty, and a threat to europe? >> look, ultimately, the decision on the questions like that would be ukraine's, not america's, and certainly not mine as a former official. the with no official status right now. but, i don't think ukraine will agree and i don't think that ukraine will have to agree, and to conditions that make them vulnerable to future russian invasion. with that in mind, it's hard for me to imagine, in fact, ukrainians h

but as you mentioned, as congressman connally mentioned, this is an event that should not be within peoplehers who've been warning for air tears that put his eyes are gonna be on ukraine. we've got to understand that. we've gotta understand that, would wind up being -- putin cannot have full control over ukraine's national security policy, such that he can place his forces in ukraine's west, right along the border with four nato nations. >> i know a major part of the peace talks appears to be that ukraine making a formal declaration of neutrality, and accepting limits on its armed forces. would that be a workable condition? or with that and itself be a violation of ukrainian sovereignty, and a threat to europe? >> look, ultimately, the decision on questions like that will be ukraine's, not americas, specifically not mine, as a former officials. we know our status right now. but i don't think ukraine will agree, and i don't think ukraine will need to agree, as long as we support ukraine strategically. the conditions which make them vulnerable to a future russian invasion. so with that in mi