struggle against finding a lyovochka in the verkhovna rada's committee on national security, defense and intelligencethat's the news. lyovochkin is in the verkhovna rada's committee on national security, defense and development, so i think the representatives of the exup-psj should not be in such a committee at all in the ukrainian parliament. p. veneslavskyi, is it possible for maryana bezugloi ? well, if there is, of course, such an opportunity. well, we 're going on. i wonder how the broadcast hardware is reacting to this information. god, it's scary. now let's see. they pick up the phones and now they are starting to try to rest, respectively, the people 's deputies. this is an important story - this is the committee on national security, defense and development . i like it. yazka vadim denysenko, executive director of the ukrainian institute of the future, vadim , congratulations, glory to ukraine, i would like to start with the fact that literally at the end of autumn, approximately from the moment when putin announced that these their partial mobilizations are supposed to be over, but we under

and that is why talking about the existence of abuse is not a fact. we cannot, but for some contracts of the ministry of defense, the members of the committee of security and defense and intelligencel definitely have complaints. well, mr. fedora, if we talk in general about the capabilities of our state to the resistance, which we have already more than confirmed and demonstrated and continue to do so, and it is important to talk about the development of events, we are keeping the most positive signals now from our partners. that is how they are read members of our delegation who are currently working abroad, in your opinion, will we be able to get a decisive yes from all the most important players in this field about long-range weapons and, accordingly, about aviation ? i have no doubt that ukraine will receive aviation, will receive aviation and long-range artillery systems and missiles there, but the question , unfortunately, lies in the nuances, and the nuances are that our partners , despite the fact that they demonstrate well probably not since the second world war, we have seen unity in helping the country that became the object of an unprovoked and terrorist aggressive war

kostenko, people's deputy of ukraine a-a secretary of the committee on national security, defense and intelligence with them and also a- a um-m forecast, try to understand and assess what to expect on february 24, mr. kostenko is already in touch with us again. and here i will ask you to comment on prigozhin's statement. i will explain here why we actually attach importance to this because it is obvious that his influence in russia is increasing and he is in charge of the wagner pvk unit. in particular, he stated that, as i quote, he visited all the offices known to him in moscow and will continue to ensure that the fighters of the spider wagner receive the necessary ammunition, that is, he allegedly says that there is not enough ammunition. is chief of the general staff well, what is he preventing wagner from advancing on the bahmut puts sticks in the wheels and says prigozhin himself ? of the other side and now, since the official, let's say, the power is always in his face, if he and once he was given power , in principle, i told putin that it is necessary to fight with regular troops, and in t

people's deputy of ukraine, secretary of the verkhovna rada committee on national security, defense and intelligence, colonel of the security service of ukraine, and andriy tytaruk, people's deputy of ukraine of the eighth convocation of the officers of the volunteer formation free ukraine, mr. roman, mr. andrii, by the way, tell us how was your day on february 24. roman kostenko, let 's start, please. good day. good day to all . glory to ukraine. well, i went briefly. it started very early. my colleagues heard that putin announced a special operation , we woke up. then my friend, who lived nearby , heard the rockets fly directly to the zhulyany airfield and immediately chatted with the committee, understanding what had just been accepted we are in a state of emergency that we will have to urgently adopt martial law. i think that after an hour i was already in the committee, all my colleagues in the committee practically gathered at the head of the committee, zavitnevych, and then teams began to arrive. well, as teams, they constantly wrote in groups . or factions in committee groups and they said t

people's deputy of ukraine, secretary of the verkhovna rada committee on national security, defense and intelligencey service of ukraine, mr. roman, congratulations glory to ukraine glory to the heroes well, russia has launched its so-called large-scale offensive, but as clarified in the head office of our intelligence, so what we we see , uh, that’s how it is, in your opinion, what are the strategic plans of the russian interventionists now and how powerfully are they preparing to deploy , or do they still not have the appropriate equipment for this capacities, in particular, there are human resources, there is a question of technology and so on. well, russia . they started a month ago, i think, or maybe more, when they started such local offensives. soldiers, now they are trying again, but i still think that they did not turn on the full, because we are now seeing a small application. well, not a large-scale application of the technique. they protect the technique. i think they understand that such a spring will begin promotion and the main ones. i think that such actions of theirs should be expec

so we will listen to intelligence and then draw conclusions very roman kostenko, people's deputy of ukraine, faction, voice, secretary to the committee on national security, defensend intelligence, we talked about the situation at the front and we talked about the personnel appointment in the security service of ukraine, thank you very much . well, now about the situation at the front, in the situation around the bakhmut of donetsk region , any scenarios are not excluded, the head of donetsk region stated this pavlo kyrylenko , answering our question whether the occupation of the city is possible, but the ukrainian forces said , he is currently doing everything to prevent the city from being captured by russian troops, the correspondent of the channel zwistove vremya, our colleague borys sachalko spent a few hours today with the military in bakhmut, his report from the city on the front line, we will show it later. glory to ukraine , bakhmut is a city in which war spares neither military nor civilian puppies. three hours before that, yuriy had no idea that he would save a human life, he is a soldier of the 93rd of the kholodny yar brigade, bakhmut has been drivin

look, the members of the committee on national security and defense and intelligence are admitted to vels of state secrets. that is, we are informed, but due to the specifics of the committee's activities and due to this in the case of the specifics of the activity of the security service, we cannot always talk about it . how are you? what do you expect from vasyl the kid ? hmm, i don't know. maybe you talked and set him some tasks or voiced your expectations for his work in the near future. for six months or for the next month or two, i don't know. well, you know, now it is very difficult to talk about any concrete landmarks other than victory over our enemy, mr. kid, by the way, yesterday at the committee and in addition, we committee members were informed about those special operations, including those regarding the enemies of our country, the main idea and the main goal of the activity of mr. baby in the position of the head of the security service of ukraine is the transformation of the security service into a truly pure counterintelligence body of a special service that will not

and, what i can say is that our defense and intelligence agent these are focused like a laser on first, gathering the information, assessing the information, and coming up with a comprehensive view to what is going on. they made it clear that there was no harm, physical harm to americans on the ground. no one has to worry about that. the bottom line is, i think the biden administration is being very careful and very thoughtful. a lot of this information, people say, make it public. but a lot of it is classified or on the edge of classified. i think some of our republican colleagues are being premature and offering -- often political. there is a lot of information to assess and recover, and the administration is on top of this and has done a very good job. >> [indiscernible] >> i want to commend the administration for the most recently, i think they are still in watching mode. the first incident has been appropriately identified as a chinese spy, spying effort. they are still in the process of collecting the last three objects. there has not been materials that were collected yet. a lot

bezuglei, who is actually the deputy head of the council's committee on national security, defense and intelligencee can i say about the situation with oleksiy reznikov, i think she actually demonstrated the tolerance of ukrainian society to corruption and a number of other already social phenomena of ours, well, it's very bad when in fact, to attack the minister of defense, as mr. kolik says , some of our anti-corruption activities and activity in this sense are used in this way. something is being compromised and our partners are already hinting at it little by little. rotarenko volunteer, the military historical center of memory and glory is in touch with us, but so far, i understand, the connection is only being established, yes, yes, we have information about, in the end, success, the offensive guard in we are being formed in ukraine, i would like to remind you about this, the national police announced it first . a little more about this project. on february 2 , the ministry of internal affairs of ukraine announced the beginning of the formation of assault brigades . the offensive guard, which

and this is the general intelligence department of the ministry of defense. in contrast to the previous head, i think that in principle he is not bad in this chair and he has certain achievements that he shares with our coppers. today we already talked with the committee of voters of ukraine about the fact that we still have a lot of deputies in local councils and in the verkhovna rada who came from pro-russian political forces that are now banned, but de facto deputies remain and their mandates, too, how to solve this issue, the council has several draft laws that have what is prescribed there, which are to be decided, but they are not approved by the deputies, they are not put to a vote. well , one of the former leaders of the ukrainian communist party, serhii lyovochkin , called the parliamentarians' initiative to exclude him from the committee with issues of national security, well , this is still such an oxymoron, because the national security committee is in the national security committee, how can it be a year of war ? if there was a political will to s

resolution number 8397 is given to the deputy head of the issues committee of national security, defense and intelligence marian volodymyrivni bezuglii, please dear colleagues, following the results of the discussion, the committee decided to recommend to the verkhovna rada of ukraine to include the draft resolution of the verkhovna rada of ukraine on the recognition of the private military company wagner as an international criminal organization submitted by the people's deputy of ukraine bezuglii and other people's deputies to the agenda of the 9th session of the verkhovna rada of ukraine 9 convocation and , based on the results of the review, to adopt the resolution in in the following editions, i want to point out that there is no doubt about the criminal nature of the activities of the so-called wagner group, and we will not waste time on how much they have done and are currently doing against peace and security both in ukraine and and to the world, we are the main thing that we offer, namely, the russian criminal organization known as wagner's private military company or the wagner group of the int

hundred missiles and drones , a member of the parliamentary committee on national security , defense and intelligence, fedir vinislavskyi, in an interview with ukronform , misses this. russia will try to use as much means of destruction as possible tangible for ukraine i think that on february 22-23 and 24 we should expect air attacks with the use of missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles perhaps on the front line there will be an aggravation caused by the use of aviation by the enemy, the fourth and fifth days at the beginning of the full-scale war were the most critical for the defense of kyiv, however, how ukrainian fighters defended the capital in the first days , the commander of the ground forces in the armed forces of ukraine, oleksandr syrskyi, said , according to him, all the goals set during the operation from the defense of kyiv , a very dangerous section was reached there, the shortest distance directly to kyiv, which provided passage up to shevchenko square and the entrance to the city , the situation was really becoming critical, were taken all the measures we worked for almost a day for

people's deputy of ukraine, secretary of the verkhovna rada committee on national security , defense and intelligencesecurity service of ukraine, mr. colonel, good day and good health to you. thank you for joining our broadcast. i wish you good health. mr. roman, let's start with the first analysis of the situation around the city of bakhmut, because there is a lot of contradictory information and a lot of disturbing information coming from this city . what is the current situation around the city and around the desire of the russian federation to take bakhmut, well , we have known about the desire of the russian federation since the beginning of the war, and for the last five months there, they have been throwing a lot of effort and have lost a lot of their military resources arrived in the city of bakhmut, and at the beginning they wanted to take it head-on. we remember there, too, they threw a lot of their reserves there, and then they had a different strategy. they are now trying to surround it through the south. and the north would not take soledar for this, and now they are trying to create con

moving forward, the president also expected to address strained relations with china as defense and intelligence officials analyze the downed surveillance balloon. and as andrea mitchell reports, there were apparently several other balloons before it. >> reporter: tonight, the challenge for the navy, fishing debris from the 200-foot-tall balloon out of choppy waters off the south carolina coast using robotic divers night and day. wreckage from the payload described as the size of a regional airliner already being examined by fbi counterintelligence at experts at the site and at the fbi lab in quantico. key congressional staff are being briefed today with more briefings later this week. a binding of support is available for senators to read in a secured room. but concern is growing because three balloons briefly flew over hawaii and florida during the trump administration, and another one earlier in the biden administration, all undetected at the time. >> i will tell you that we did not detect those threats. and that's a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out. >> reporter: it's part of w

people 's deputy of ukraine, faction, voice, member of the committee on national security, defense and intelligenceked about personnel changes in the ministry of defense well, and about the perspective of the next phase of the war, thank you very much well, we have already briefly mentioned bakhmut, just to know what is happening there now , i will remind you that the day before , the donetsk regional military administration reported that they had restricted the entry of civilians into the city of bakhmut precisely because of the danger to our broadcast is joined by commander freedom battalion , lieutenant of the national guard of ukraine yevhen ropa yevhen my greetings good afternoon studio even evening good afternoon yes good evening already eh what does this mean entry restrictions for the military bakhmut is for civilians. i apologize for civilians. this means that there will be less noise, you know. less people who just come to take pictures. for many people now , for some reason, you know how extreme entertainment it is to come to bakhmut, take a picture near the plane and see how the militar

deputy of ukraine secretary of the committee of the verkhovna rada on national security, defense and intelligence colonel of the security service of ukraine 3:00 p.m. now it's time for blacksmiths to introduce a colleague, we pass the floor thank you colleagues literally in a moment about the fact that leopards will soon be in ukraine about the meeting of the bucharest nine also about the regime of the total economy of the russians at the front , wait in ukraine at 3:00 p.m. news time on the espresso tv channel in the studio, iryna koval welcomes all viewers, the leopards will patch up and send six leopard-2 tanks to ukraine , spain is ready to hand them over to us after repair the country can also increase supplies in the future if partners ask for it, said the minister of defense of spain, margarita oblast, noting that spain has a total of 108 german leopard-2a4 tanks, which are the standard model for many european countries, and it is on them that ukrainian tankers will train within the next hour, a meeting will begin in warsaw of the bucharest nine, the association includes poland, the czech

people's deputy of ukraine , secretary of the verkhovna rada committee on national security, defense and intelligenceel of the security service of ukraine, glory to ukraine, mr. colonel, i congratulate you, we congratulate you, good day . well, the first question is the story around removal not removal of the reassignment of the current minister of defense oleksiy varshikov what fresh news because we learn from thanks to one or another tweets or messages in the telegram, what is the book, what is happening now? everything is happening so quickly. everything is changing in our political life. yes, and what is happening now. well, we see that a qualitative statement was sent to the verkhovna rada. we passed the committee today, and the committee did not receive any questions regarding any personnel decisions, because i remind you that according to the law , before making any personnel decisions , the minister of defense is there, the head of the sbu, the minister of internal affairs, have committees to consider this issue and issue their decision there positive negative there why negative that's why we

border of ukraine with the military service mission of the committee on national security, defense and intelligencethe verkhovna rada of ukraine to the substitute oleksandr mykhailovych during the period from 24.02.2 submission of the announcement of the parliamentary request antony center to the chairman of the state discussion of the service of ukraine regarding the level of information regarding the state audit service and territorial units of the state financial audit of procurement inspections, inspection audits, procurement monitoring , the customer of which was the state public service of local motorways in the cherkasy region. thank you for your attention. meeting about the time and place of its continuation, you will be notified , for security reasons, please do not spread information about its start, our strength in unity, we continue to work for the sake of victory and glory for ukraine this was the session of the parliament for february 6 and before the session that took place on tuesday in the studio of the tv channel, the council tetyana goncharova and maksym zborovsky are working for

and how concerned were they at this time? >> reporter: essentially the day before the balloon entered the u.s. airspace, the defense intelligence agency, the intel arm of the pentagon, they sent what's known as a tipper. basically just a short classified report that is disseminated across government channels and flagged that a foreign object had been detected and it appeared to be headed towards the united states. now, this was not viewed as particularly urgent. as we know the u.s. has surveilled a number of these balloons in the past. they understand these are part of the surveillance program and they have never before posed a physical or military or national security threat to the united states as such. so this report was not briefed to the highest levels of the u.s. government. that president biden, for example, did not see it at the time. then what happened was as the balloon entered u.s. airspace over alaska, crossed into canada, it turned south and started going towards montana. at that point officials said this is strange we haven't seen this before. and montana is home to a number of sensitive sites. so that is when con

and send that into the defense intelligence agency. and all of the commanders get on a daily basis called the black book. and until something becomes important, you won't do anything about it. the military has a phrase called zero and are. observe and report. if there is a danger associated with something, then you do something about it. but when you just observing it, and tracking it, and they had fine control this is a moved across alaska. then into canada. a different nation. and coordination with canada -- then into the united states, i think that's when it started to rise to level the joint chief of staff heard about the intelligence. then the president eventually. >> right. and of course now they know the signature of. it appears this happened multiple times before. i'm sure there's a lot of questions being asked right now. and one of the ways there gonna get some answers. it's mugging the payload, which landed off the south carolina coast when they took down. we understand, general, that the u.s. military has recovered most of th

the secretary of the national security and defense council and british intelligencepreparing for an offensive, in particular in the east of ukraine, the head of the russian ministry of defense serhiy shoigu said yesterday that the situation near bakhmut e -e is developing successfully for his troops. we have a video from bakhmut from a serviceman with the call sign kyivan about the operational situation in the city as of the morning of february 8th, let's we will hear from a kyivan about the situation in the bakhmut conglomerate, and the line from soledar to bakhmut. the city itself and the district of klishchevka mortars are massed infantry attacks and with the support of artillery mortars tanks there are efforts to penetrate, grope for weak spots , sneak through er and corro- in small groups are large units, but all these efforts are repulsed with great losses for the enemy . during the day, he lays down to the battalion , roughly supplied by our intelligence, infantry , armored vehicles, probably not so much. will sell positions, but there is also no success here.

sources say top defense and intelligence official who is saw the internal alert on january 27th weren't military did not change until the spy balloon moved over alaska and headed on a path towards the continental u.s. that's when fighter jets were scrambled. all of this news after president biden called out xi jinping during the state of the union address. >> let's be clear, winning a competition should unite all of us. we face serious challenges across the world, but in the past two years democracies have become stronger, not weaker. autocracies have grown weaker not stronger. name me a world leader who'd change places with xi jinping, name me one. name me one. >> selina wang is out front in beijing. selina, pretty incredible, the passion, the force behind that, pointing and how was that seen by xi jinping and the chinese government? what's the response? >> yeah, erin, i mean, that was probably one of the most fiery parts of the speech. he was practically shouting by the end of it, and beijing's response to the speech has been that the u.s. is smearing china under the, quote, pretext o

officials in and defense and intelligence arguing and on the objects in trying to detect them at a muchhave it. >> if you will, julie, standby. i want to bring in courtney, our pentagon correspondent who i know you've been reporting alongside,, courtney, what more can you add to this and i want to know from the pentagon perspective what the plan is going forward. we weren't having these types of conversations three weeks ago. suddenly we have shut down one confirmed chinese spy balloon, three other unidentified objects. so, what is their plan going forward with this if there are more? >> yeah, that's the exact question we're asking. the one thing that seems to be pretty consistent throughout our all four of these, whether it's the spy balloon, whatever these three additional objects have been, if they present any kind of a potential threat to commercial aviation, which we saw with at least two of the others, then that is when the military decides act. the second factor tends to also be what the potential for some sort of damage on the ground. whether the infrastructure, or people being

i'm in close contact with the department of defense and intelligence officials. wers on how this happened and i will hold everyone accountable until i get them. will always defend montana and our national security from hostile adversaries like china. and he department get any warmer and fuzzier about it since. he's been a noted critic of how this was all handled, a bipartisan rant that added great currency and great concern at the white house. the senator joins me now. senator tester, good to have you with us. >> great to be here. thank. >> neil: you were concerned about how far this went and it was a concern more about china and doing what they did. now if you think about it, that warning was well-placed. china is still acting weirdly, criticizing our downing of that balloon. high level officials refusing to meet with their u.s. counter parts. and threatening return sanctions against our sanctions against some of their technology companies. what do you think? >> what i think is what the chinese communist party did was unacceptable. the truth is and i said this be

china's infiltration of american defense and intelligence systems has never stopped, 24/7. pheric. so this is a very ang the bl reminder to us that china threat is real, and it's the constant. so the reason why, i think it's more to do with the timing. china every time, you know, blinken's visit to china is a big deal for china because in the will be the first time in about four years a secretary of state of united states visits china. so traditionally, china has tace confrontation to extract cooperation. every time there's a summit, they normally do something cantankerous and cranky events like this. to add to their political bargaining chip. of course, this time it backfired, and what will happen is china basically is going to look for some kind of scapegoat like what happened in the 1990s when china's military chief meddled in american election by supporting the clinton and gore campaigns and then things kept doing, preeting itself. -- repeating itself. pete: so if you're saying maybe it is a miscalculation by the communist chinese, why wouldn't we shoot it down, take it

whatever it was commit was it because they knew we would shoot it down even though the defense and intelligenceee ignore the president three or four days before acknowledging this order. i have to point out karine jean-pierre's response it is up to china to figure out what kind of relationship they want. a few minutes ago you said the general at war with china in 2025. i argue we are already at work. we have been as they infiltrated every component of our society, of our society gnomic society and in contrast to karine jean-pierre statement with pompeo's statement we stop pretending for example an innocent company and called it what it is a national security threat. we have taken action accordingly. he said we focused our arms on chinese citizens and they bit us in the hands. christopher wray got in on the action. he said as well, slammed, whatever i have this quote in here, oh, the american people are more ten to the chinese communists party threat posed on our lives and livelihoods. instead, we have a lackluster commander-in-chief. an apologist secretary who says, "is this up to the chinese."

is it because he doesn't have the respect of our defense and intelligence communities? not sure but then he told them to shoot it down right away which either they ignored or had a better plan. either way his fragility is on full display here. and first of all i miss secretary pompeo and president trump so much because their watch this would not have happened. the instant something from the ccp air space violated international law and our sovereign air space it would have been shot down over the pacific not the atlantic. so the fact that he now pats himself on the back and says this is a success after it's collected who knows what, you know, intelligence, files of intelligence on the entire continental us. there's nothing successful about it and the chinese must have known we would shoot it down which means it was worth it. whatever modicum up to a huge amount of surveillance they got during the journey was worth it to them which means it was getting a whole hell of a lot more than we expectment and i also think that it provides this sort of visual representation of what

it's clear our defense and intelligence agencies remain laser focused on gathering every piece of informationat about what happened over us and canadian airspace. this comes as the white house remains silent on exactly what types of unidentified flying objects were shot down over alaska, canada and lake huron since friday, administration officials say there is no evidence they were part of china's spy program. pentagon and white house officials tell fox news they have been aware of the chinese espionage balloon program for months. they also say they briefed congress about it back in august. at the white house. gillian turner fox news. alright but first before we talk to bill snow way, check this out the national weather service posting video of the uncommon sight in tucson, arizona. snow drivers were urged to use caution because temperatures near freezing could result in icy bridges around the area. more rain snow ha jewels kind of slushy. yeah but it's like in tucson, arizona, so you know, kind of strange right? alright, so more on that. and our local forecast. yeah that's all i got. and we

our defense and intelligence agencies are focused like a laser. on first gathering the information uh, assessing the information and coming up with a comprehensive view to what is going on. they made it clear that there is no harm to physical harm to americans on the ground. many people intentionally or otherwise have been given the impression a couple of weeks ago, our skies were clear. and then all of a sudden we have spy balloons and other identify unidentified flying objects. raining down on us like confetti. that is not accurate. senator kennedy went on to say that they were told that those sorts of objects have been in the skies over the us for years. there has been a lot of speculation on social media about the objects. the white house responded to one theory, saying they did not come from outer space. there is no indication of aliens or terrestrial activity with these recent takedowns wanted to make sure that the american people knew that all of you knew that and it was important for us to say that from here because we've been hearing a lot

it's clear our defense and intelligence agencies remain laser focused on gathering every piece of informationbout what happened over us and canadian airspace. this comes as the white house remains silent on exactly what types of unidentified flying objects were shot down over alaska, canada and lake huron since friday, administration officials say there is no evidence they were part of china spy program. pentagon and white house officials tell fox news they have been aware of the chinese espionage balloon program for months. they also say they briefed congress about it back in august. at the white house. gillian turner fox news. ktvu fox two news at five starts now. but i am no longer confident that chief armstrong can do the work needed to achieve the vision. so today. i have decided to separate from chief laurent armstrong from the city. breaking news. now at five laurent armstrong is out as oakland's police chief. the decision comes amid controversy surrounding his handling of two misconduct investigations. good evening. i'm julie julie haener mike mibach. oakland mayor xiang tao, making t

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both the ukrainian ministry of defense and british intelligence western military analysts are talkingut what it will be . the new attack and whether ukraine will have time to prepare for it, the opinions of london experts were collected by our special correspondent svitlana charnetska. they are talking about a new large-scale offensive by russia, and currently all data indicate that it will take place by the end of the month, primarily because of putin's love of symbolism, they say that a new attack on the anniversary of the beginning of the so-called special operation would show that it is too early to write off russia in the great offensive. the longer you wait, the more it will thaw and hinder movement, and the key thing is to be in time for the transfer of new western weapons to kyiv , and so far the ukrainians have not learned how to operate modern tanks, the russians have suffered terrible losses this year, but do not forget that this is a great power and it is learning from its mistakes, now they know about all the threats that come from ukraine. they know what opportunities th

i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." intelligence, defense and state department officials right now briefing all members of the senate on the china spy craft that flew over u.s. airspace or into it last week. all house members got a briefing about two hours ago. they have had a chance to go through some of that material more in detail. it is the senate's chance now. not until 12 days after the first flight crossed into our airspace republicans say the lack of transparency all around is abyss mall. >> i think the president should have gone before country and explained. here is what it is and what i decided to do about it and why. people would have understood it. they didn't tell congress until one of the news outlets ran with the story and it cut a diagonal path across the middle of the country and never explained to us it was coming or why. i mean to us the american public. >> harris: right now the senate subcommittee on defense is looking at why the military let it happen in the first place. since they say it happened before why couldn't the

special nutrition for cancer patients own electric car developments in the fields of defense and artificial intelligencentists now everyone seems to know about the exhibition, intellectual belarus aroused great interest, how science lives now , not only residents of minsk will be able to find out the exhibition will go to the regions when looking at all these developments takes pride that our people, representatives of the scientific sphere, did it. today honored guests at the palace of independence are a doubly pleasant occasion recently was a professional holiday, the day of belarusian science, the meeting of the president with scientists at the beginning of the year is already a tradition. first, a tour of the palace of independence, where, by the way, there was a change in the exposition , this time you can see the paintings of mikhail the mole , the author traveled a lot in his native country . the beauty and charm of nature in any form of the year, nostalgia for the small motherland, dear landscapes of the belarusian hinterland. communication with people of the world of science is always something

measures are being introduced against a number of russian departments of the ministry of defense and the foreign intelligenceanother interesting fact is that the eu in total has banned itself half of exports to russia under western sanctions, driven our aluminum. and this is the basis of aviation in general without money, not only in russia and some structures of rosatom. in general, the principle of economic masochism is cut off by the sources of minerals and the possibility of super-profitable investments. well, you have to make up for it somehow. why not at the expense of africa , let me add that in russia the volume of trade with african countries is growing sharply, and the plans are even more ambitious. this was confirmed by sergey lavrov's successful trip across the continent. this, of course, was not liked in the west. what should they do? interfering with the answer using methods of unfair competition about deputy foreign minister mikhail bogdanov, deputy foreign minister of russia, mikhail bogdanov, told tass in an interview with tass. according to him, the west uses the dirtiest tricks, but the pl

something that none of us really know about, and that includes former defense secretary pompeo and marco rubio, who were not read into defense intelligence information was gleaned, if at all, by the chinese government. susan, several publicans criticize the biden administration's response. does give the appearance that they are more angry at president biden than china over this? how does this look to the country? >> well, there are those republicans who are just going to take shots at biden just to take shots at biden. doesn't matter what the issue was. what the biggest problem was the way the biden administration handled this. once again, we found out from the media, and there was questions. what is that big balloon in the sky. instead of the administration reaching out to the public, telling us what this is, probably they have 18 plants gotta take this down because it is not the first one they've seen, so they are very prepared, our u.s. military. and, then brief the public and say, we are aware of it, and just go through, maybe not the classified information of what they are doing. but you are safe. and that would've taken a lot of st

hardware connection armor conveyors air defense systems, bargaining, and also air defense systems s400 and rocket iskander. in general, a foreign intelligence officer. it is quite possible to form an idea about the technical policy of the belarusian army while sitting at the tv screen, then the correct idea regarding the tone that should be chosen when communicating with minsk is not among politicians. of course, they now specialize exclusively in threats and sanctions. and at least nato will have an adequate vision of the consequences of aggression against us. so far, everything seems to be working. there is reason to believe that the containment strategy will not fail in the future. we have achieved good results in the first place. this is the development of armored missile-russian weapons of communication technology and automation systems for air defense reconnaissance for the electronic warfare of unmanned aerial systems and means of combating them. all this allows you to reliably provide armed protection. uh, the republic of belarus by the way, when it comes to the supply of weapons to the belarusian army, it is understood that militar

remaining presidential libraries with vault and cleared archivists other national security materials in defense of the family policy. those of you who study intelligence failures and politics to understand bureaucratic inertia. this means that this wonderful lbj library, by what traditionally the most luminous jewel in the crown, the nixon library, damn good too, by the way -- [laughing] bush 41 -- i love bush 41. bush 41. i wrote a biography of bush 41. reagan and clinton are still under construction to prepare to throw the millions of pages of classified records thousands of miles away into the vaults in washington where there will be far fewer archivists to work on them. sounds like like a classicn policy, doesn't? nara up is that congress and none of you will notice or better yet you will blame the intelligence community for it. my final point. as dni haines said yesterday, subject area expertise is essential for effective declassification release of the most significant presidential records. at the height of the system before this disastrous policy was put into effect the united states government had a system of archival experts on and the state

responsibility and consequences of the decisions made are the counter-intelligence department of the security service of ukraine, the main intelligence directorate of the ministry of defenseukraine and the foreign intelligence service. so, in the future, we will have a big and, i hope, interesting conversation with lieutenant general valery kondratyuk p . general. welcome to the espresso channel glory to ukraine serhiy greetings to all viewers thank you for finding time for our conversation , i have many questions for you, the depth of the answers you will choose depending on is it appropriate or not inappropriate to say some things, and first i will ask you if you are really the only person in ukraine who headed these three structures at different times, in particular the counterintelligence department, the main directorate of intelligence and the foreign intelligence service, because i actually think that these are different structures and actually it is difficult to find someone else who actually held these three positions, the same , well, in these positions, is it true, and it is true, serhiy, but in fact , the important thing is not to hold the position. time to do

sometimes china can be very clumsy in their intelligence collection, and i'm sure that our intelligence agencies and our department of defense have learned an awful lot about how china wants to collect intelligence and where they're collecting it. the fact that this particular balloon went across the united states and others have ghana cross taiwan, south we can, ande establishing a profile on what china is trying to do. >> the bottom line, do you think the u.s. and china are actually moving closer to a real conflict right now? as you know, the top u.s. air force general is suggesting there could actually be a conflict, a war between the u.s. and china by the year 2025 and there's norm us, enormous tension right now between the u.s. and china over taiwan. >> it is freedom of navigation exercises that the u.s. navy and other navies have been conducting in the straits of tie wine, the kinds of things china has been doing, artificial reefs and missile strikes they have been rehearsing and practicing across the country. i've got to admit, i am not a chinese expert. i have been to china several times. i know how their army works.

communications for armored transporters of air defense systems, and also air defense systems s400 and missile iskanders. in general, a foreign intelligence. it is quite possible to form an idea about the technical policy of the belarusian army while sitting at the tv screen, then the correct idea regarding the tone that should be chosen when communicating. politicians are not with minsk. of course those are now. specializes exclusively in threats and sanctions. and at least nato will develop an adequate vision of the consequences of aggression against us so far, everything seems to be working. there is reason to believe that the containment strategy will not fail in the future. we have achieved good results in the first place. this is the development of russian armored missile weapons, communications technology and automation systems for air defense, intelligence, or electronic warfare, fruitless aviation systems and a congress to combat them. all this allows you to reliably provide armed protection. uh, republic of belarus by the way, when we are talking about the supply of weapons to the belarusian army, it is understood that military

special nutrition for cancer patients own electric car development in the fields of defense and artificial intelligence about the achievement of belarusian scientists now everyone seems to know about the exhibition, intellectual belarus has aroused great interest, what science lives on now, not only residents of minsk will be able to find out the exhibition will go to regions, when you look at all these developments , you take pride that our people , representatives of the scientific sphere, did it. today, honored guests at the palace of independence, a doubly pleasant occasion was recently the professional holiday day of belarusian science, the meeting of the president with scientists at the beginning of the year is already a tradition. first , a tour of the palace of independence, where, by the way, there was a change in the exposition, this time you can see the paintings of mikhail the mole, the author traveled a lot in his native country the beauty and charm of nature in any form years of nostalgia, dear to the heart landscapes of the belarusian depths for the small motherland. communication with p

and cannot handlthe situation alone. laura: rupert wingfield-hayes reporting. let's get more from derek grossman. who worked at the defense intelligenceand the national security agency had follows the u.s.-china relationship very closely. do you think the u.s. wants this access to military bases in the philippines because preparing for that possible chinese invasion of taiwan? >> thinks for having me. i think that is certainly a primary factor in establishing these entre nous -- new bases. i nt to emphasize the point that was part of the lead-in. this is u.s. rotational access to the bases. there is no permanent presence in the philippines, like the united states had up until the 1990's. nonetheless, it does provide us with geographic proximity to the potential regions where we could see china engage in armed conflict, vis-a-vis taiwan, or in the south china sea against the philippines or vietnam. laura: we heard the chinese response has been muted so far. wh do you expect to happen? >> i think that we are going to see the talking points rollout, as we have in the last 24 hours. that if the u.s. engages in a zero-sum, cold war mentali

very -- attacks that have taken a lot of casualties, according to both ukrainians and united kingdom defense intelligenceetsk axis, as ukrainian officials call it, you've seen these very intense fighting. thermobaric weapons, potentially, by russians, used in that small town, in the east, as well as russian forces taking heavy losses as they try to probe the defenses and even try to remove some of the mines that are heavily placed in that area to stop a russian advance. you haven't seen yet this major push by the russian forces. possibly they are unable to do that. but the expectation is, as huge buildup of russian forces have come into that zone in recent weeks, according to intelligence officials and ukrainian officials, that there could be a significant uptick in the fighting and a possible russian offensive as we move out of the winter. it's too early to tell at this point, but it's clear that this is heavily attritional fighting with major losses on both the russian and, at least according to uk defense intelligence, on the ukrainian side as well. >> yes, some of the numbers, tens of thousands on bo

director of nctc in june of 2021 but she has been there and done that for about two decades beforehand at the defense department the defense intelligence agency and a whole lot of other places in between. so christie thank you so much for taking the time to sit here with me and engage in a fireside chat about what the threat landscape looks like burt counterterrorism in 2023 and i want to thank your staff and the washington staff for making this possible so thank you all very much. we will get to a chat of them will open it up to q&a. those of you who are participating the assume will be able to submit questions to the q&a function at the bottom of your screen and anybody who's joining us on youtube will be able to submit questions and e-mails to the e-mail address policy forum at washington institute.org. that's policy forum at washington institute.org and we will get to as many of your questions as time permits. let's jump right into it. let's start by scoping out the geographically and ideologically diversified and transnational and a word i saw use in a congressional hearing is the unpredictable threat environment here at home in t