fiona hill is going to be joining us live tonight. fiona hill, of course, with senior director for russia and europe at the national security council during the trump presidency, which means she had a somewhat terrifying front row seat to some of the weirdest things and the u.s. president has ever tried to get away with. fiona hill is here tonight, as there have been dramatic developments today about the informant who provided the central allegations at the heart of congressional republicans efforts to impeach president biden this year. this informant today was sent to jail indefinitely by a federal judge in california. he is in jail awaiting trial. prosecutors arrested and indicted him a week and a half ago, alleging that his statements to law enforcement about president biden and his family not only were lies, but this man had been fed lies and disinformation about president biden by russian intelligence. despite those ties to russian intelligence, a magistrate last week, somewhat inexplicably, allow the man to be released awaiting

nick: fiona hill, was noon against putin successful? think it was symbolically very important. we'll have to see how we judge success over time. but the very fact that there was signaling that people were dissatisfied and the only way that they could with the repressive constraints on them is very important because there were suddenly hundreds of thousands of people. we saw hundreds of thousands of people turning out for navalny's funeral, and not just on the day of the funeral, but on the days afterwards. nick: and doing so despite knowing full well they could be arrested. fiona: and also people that turned out, in fact, to sign, the forms for the possibility of an alternative candidate, boris, to also run against putin and ultimately, of course, was disqualified. but all of this is very important because the people who have the courage to do these small acts of defiance are also standing in for, let's just say, all of the other people behind them who just don't have the wherewithal or are too frightened, in fact, to show their dissati

former trump advisor and foreign affairs specialist fiona hill spoke to victoria derbyshire and vitalyraine podcast and gave her take on the impact a potential second donald trump presidency could have on the war in ukraine. in your view, does a trump presidency make the likelihood of a ukrainian defeat in the war more likely? it of a ukrainian defeat in the war more likely?— war more likely? it is if everybody _ war more likely? it is if everybody is _ war more likely? it is if everybody is just - war more likely? it is if. everybody is just waiting around for the united states, but i think this part of the discussion is downwind, macrocosmic speech is one thing, but action should have been taking sa. to be honest, if i were in europe and was trying to manage this, i would have been thinking about all of this right from the get go, from after the annexation of crimea, the implications of european security and then thinking this was just about territory, a territorial dispute for the territory like crimea and donbas, where predominately russian speakers were and people have more an eve

so you have don't burger and you have people like fiona hill with a quite remarkable record of saying, well, you know, are they want to kick us out of europe, ben and new york times and here shell saying and don't let the door hit you on the way on the way out there, you know, well, gimme a break. there's no indication whatsoever. and the russian troops prepared or even want to, why would they want to punch your move? but yeah, but your, me, i would rate, you know, they go to richard here. i mean we, we've heard this again, we have to fight them over there. so we don't have to fight them here. richard, it's a pretty hollow argument right now, because if we look at the lineage of this complex here re, um, i put it very well. i mean, the, the, the russians, they gave them an offer him and they refused to do it. they refused to even the baker of the, the, what the russians proposed before the special military operation is still offer to . they still refused to accept it. richard, well again, look, look at the historical perspective and i want to go back and refer to bite and speech that

. >> we'll have to put some of those theories and questions to fiona hill in our next conversation.hank you so much for starting us off today. wlk, we continue this very conversation on russia and autocracy with the former key witness from donald trump's first impeachment, the former national security member and white house adviser, fiona hill is our guest. we'll ask her about vladimir putin's latest warning to the west that russia is, quote, ready for nuclear war. that's after a very short break. >>> plus, it's a question that the disgraced ex-president's allies are already asking, are you better off today than you were four years ago? we thought we would put that question to our panel today considering that exactly four years ago was the start of the covid pandemic, triggering all kinds of crisis mismanagement by the trump administration and trauma for the world over. we'll have that conversation later in the hour. "deadline: white house" continues after a quick break. don't go anywhere a quick break. don't go anywher what? i don't do that. this reminds me of my bike. the wolf was

former trump advisor and foreign affairs specialist fiona hill spoke to victoria derbyshire and vitalyast. she gave her take on the impact of a potential second donald trump presidency on the war in ukraine. in your view, does trump presidency make the likelihood of a ukrainian defeat in the war more likely? well, it is, if everyone isjust waiting around for the united states. but i think this part of the discussion is, don't wait. macron's speech is one thing, but actions should have been ta ken yesterday. to be honest, if i were in europe — and in my various roles i was always trying to verge this — i would have been thinking about all of this right from the get go, from after the annexation of crimea, rethinking what the implications is for european security, but still thinking that this was just about the territory dispute of crimea and donbas, where predominantly russian speakers were and people had more of an affinity towards russia than elsewhere in ukraine. but most certainly after february of 2022, there should have been these kind of debates. because this is about european se

even hardliners like angela stan then fiona hill, admit that in, in april of 2020 to 6 weeks for this thing started, there was a deal, know ukraine and nato and would talk about prime a and the rest, the stuff later there would be guarantees okay, but no, you great, and they tell okay, well what does that mean? what does that mean? that was the deal. does that mean russian wants to go all the way into poland and the waltz, the guy, and the to the english channel though it does it. so it's admitted even by the ukrainian negotiators. they had this deal. it was about something else was about weakening russia as are in a defense secretary admitted at one point and the rush is realized that so they're an extra going forward. the problem is the wires last for the us or for nato and for, for ukraine. so what's gonna happen next in the election year? no boots on the ground. how else can there it? can the west hope to just to staunch this this advance? again, i fear that these nail fights, these acolytes of bicycles are, you know, we had those little weapons, but now we have these little mini

, in fact , trump is now being protected by biden, but he may turn away, in the context of what fiona hillin my opinion, to think about his own serious security, but now i can’t say a word about the european union , that's what we need to prepare for what non-recognition of the results of the presidential elections in russia is, these are a few points: the first thing is... what kind of sanctions, they have created a foundation for themselves so that even if a peace agreement is signed between russia and ukraine, no sanctions will be lifted from us, according to the logic , but you have putin, your presidential elections are not like that, which means that, for example, we will not establish any direct flights with you. point two: for the baltic dwarfs, this is an additional chance to place american bases on their territory, with the words and here... “evil, dangerous russia, we invite them here rather, not only for them, in romania what a huge base they are building right now, yes, and this shows that they have historically any aggressor against of our country there were, let’s say, two g

and top nsc russian adviser fiona hill said this, quote, trump can't just cherry-pick what he wants tosh the u.s. well. you heard it from those up close and personal to the trump show the first time. second one? would be an unmitigated national security disaster. it's where we start the hour with former principal deputy director of national intelligence sue gordon. so sue gordon, when i think of what's good about being back at work and covering this moment i think about the opportunity to talk to you because i'm guessing that if you didn't feel that there was some need to be out there you might not be? >> yeah, i love america. and i think this is a consequential moment. i think the world is fraught and disrupted. and i think in times of uncertainty it is really tough for democracies and authoritarianism looks really attractive. so to me that's what's at stake. and so i'm so delighted to come back and talk to you. i love talking about intelligence because i think it's kind of arcane but it is so foundational to national security and who we are that i think understanding what the former

fiona hill was here yesterday obviously highly regarded russian expert and former national security councils issue america's credible is all but lost already. what can be salvaged if aid can be passed through the speaker's opposition? >> never too late to do the right things. we have to continue to push forward and get this aid bill across the floor. no doubt about it. our credibility is at stake. this is not just reputational. we are strong and secure as a country because we have allies and friends. our adversaries, russia, china, iran and others look at our alliance network with great envy, but we'll only have allies and friends if we stand by them in their hour of need too. that's really what's at stake. but this isn't charity either. this is in america's national security interests we help ukraine fight and win. >> president biden seemed to center the conversation around the contours you just outlined. this isn't, not doing this to be nice. doing it because our security at home depends on the worrell's democracies defeating our shared enemies. how far on the wrong track are we when you

fiona lamdin, bbc news. now to the story ofjasmin paris from scotland — the first woman to complete one of the world's most gruelling races — the barkley marathons in tennessee. it's 160 kilometres — up and down hills99 seconds to spare. jasmin finally recovered her breath — and her voice — and spoke to the bbc. it wasn't until the last kilometre that i really sort of doubted that it was going to be possible. and at that point i was just so desperate to stop, to stop running and to walk. and i knew that i couldn't because i wouldn't make it. cheering. i think it was just the thought that if i didn't make it this time, it was going to be by seconds and then i would have to come back and do the whole thing again. because i would never have let it rest. i was so oxygen deficient when i reached the end and the last few hundred metres, i couldn't even really see anybody. cheering and applause. i knew there were people kind of cheering me on and there was lots of noise and... but i was just aiming for the gate and everything else sort of went blurry at the edges of my vision and ijust needed to make it to the gate, at which point i just sort of collapsed down in a gasping, kind of heap on the ground. che