kimberly martin for joining us from new york. thank you for having me. now the russian president has claim victory and defending neighboring context on from what he calls a foreign back to uprising more than $160.00 people were killed during last week's anti government protest, which turned into the country's worst unrest and recent history. robin forest walker reports from tbilisi. so the moscow lead security block, the c s t o, it's 1st real military intervention has been a success. where president hawkeye of kazakhstan told his counterparts on monday that the deployment prevented what he called terrorist groups from taking control of his country, especially america. so they buy a constitutional order, and kazakhstan has been restored, dangerous threats to the country security have been prevented as part of the anti terrorist operation. work is underway to identify persons involved in crimes. oh, nationwide, protests threatened to unseat president, archive when they turned violent. he fired political rivals, including the powerful ex president, and cal

. >> kimberly martin is professor of political science at bernard college. says it is good that the sides are talking, but these meetings may not mean much to lowering tensions. >> it is on the -- it is unclear whether these talks will have any impact on putin's decision-making. i think his decision on what to do and ukraine will have more to do with a cost-benefit analysis of what russia would gain or lose by intervening than it is by how these talks go. i think putin is trying anything he can to see what might work. we also have to remember that putin's background is as a kgb officer. he very much enjoys using deception against his opponents. anything that appears to be what he is doing on the surface may not be what his actual intentions are. i think it is significant that russia is meeting with nato once again because in october of 2021, russia temporarily withdrew from the nato-russia council in anger after i think it was eight russian diplomats had been expelled from the nato group as being undercover spies. it is very significant that the talks are ac

kimberly martin is a professor of political science have been odd college at columbia university. she says it's good the 2 sides talking that this week's meetings may not do much to low attentions. it's very unclear whether these talks will actually have any impact on decision making. i think his decision about what to do in ukraine will have much more to do with a cost benefit analysis of what russia would gain or lose by militarily intervening than it is by how these talk sco. i think that futon is just trying anything that he can to see what might work. but we also have to remember that the background is as a k g b officer. he very much enjoys using deception against his opponents. and so anything that appears to be what he's doing on the surface may not be what his actual intentions are underneath. i think it's significant that russia is meeting with nato once again. because in october of 2021, russia temporarily at least withdrew from the nato russia council. in anger after i think it was 8 russian diplomats had been expelled from benito group as being undercover spies. so it

kimberly martin, thanks so much for joining us from new york. thank you. thank you. now the 1st shipments of international aid arrived in toller 5 days after it was shaken by a volcanic eruption and soon ami ash was cleared away from the runway to let the military plains will stray and new zealand land with essential supplies. a more aid is on the way and phone lines all being restored. authorities have confirmed 3 das and extensive damage across several islands. wayne, hey, was all corresponded, live for us in oakland, and new zealand monitoring the operations. as we said, the aid opperation has been on stand by since the incident nearly a week ago. so in terms of what you know way, where are we in terms of the fact that the runway is cleared and there is limited communication. it's all about getting the aide in now, isn't it? yes, and it really was because of that breakdown of communication that it is taken so long for the age to begin arriving in time because we just really didn't know how bad the damage was until now. because communication was so difficult, so th

martin luther king. i will have to see the president biden is likely going to pick a progressive and as it was explained to me and everybody else who listen to kimberly'sl wall street journal podcast picking a progressive could hurt progressive causes because justice breyer was old-school and had a way of finessing kavanaugh and roberts constitutionalist tendency but if you get a progressive in there that is not going to happen it's good to make it easier for the conservative majority to overrule, that was an interesting point on future cases that are good to be coming down the road and there are really important cases especially with abortion rights that are coming down the pipeline that the supreme court will decide on. >> justice breyer was known as a resident intellectual and he certainly had a subtlety about him and also precariousness with fellow arguments that people appreciated. when he announced his recognition after the leak out of the court in the white house to hear him follow the president's remarks were the president was stumbling and committing to choose a justice based on these characteristics and breyer comes on his official breath the