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joining us now is carol lieberman a board certified psychiatrist.hat does the denying children their natural ongoing formation potentially produce? >> this is child abuse, pure and simple. it is confusing to children. it is jumping the gun. you know, now if a child -- you know, it seems kind of quaint now to talk about tom boys, but, for example, you know, if children show an interest in toys or activities of the opposite sex, parents, some parents, you know, who want to seem cool or who perhaps wanted to have a child of the opposite sex than what they got, join in on this and are ready to run to the doctors and get them all these hormones and surgeries and so on. and, you know, biden in his speech today, the way he talked about transgender children, i mean, if you're a child and you saw that and he was talking about how brave they are and how i have your back and all of that, it really is encouraging kids, you know, to become transgender. not to mention all the encouragement they get from teachers and school boards and everything else. >> laura: we

to good and help them. >> orren lieberman, cnn at pentagon. >> very sad story. retired air force colonel cedrick layton joins me now. just hearing the stories of americans going off to ukraine to join the fight. the resistance over there. one american now dead. confirmed dead in this battle and that very sad story we just saw there from oren liebermann. what are your thoughts on the risk that some of these americans are taking. some of them are trained, certainly, to do this sort of thing. it is risky. maybe unfamiliar territory in many cases for a lot of these americans going over there. >> well, absolutely. jim and you know our hearts go out to his family. >> absolutely. >> and to every single person who was effected by his death. the key thing here i think, jim, is that it is like you said, a very different environment. very different than what we know in our military when we go and serve, we have units that we serve with. there is a certain procedure, a certain protocol, a certain thing that you expect and we end up protecting each other. when you go out alo

cnn pentagon correspondent oren lieberman joins us from ramstein air base in germany. what do we expect to hear from the defense secretary today? >> it will be interesting to hear in the closing remarks if there is anything concrete coming out of the meetings today, whether that comes in a dollar figure commitment to ukraine from the u.s. or other 40 countries that were here or any specific systems that any of those countries have now agreed to send into ukraine. we heard earlier today, germany announcing they would send in 50 jet part vehicles used for short range antiaircraft operations that in and of itself a big statement from germany which had been criticized for reticence to send lethal weaponry into ukraine. will there be any other such announcement? that is one of the things we'll be listening for. in the meantime, defense secretary lloyd austin staying with that stronger rhetoric we heard from not only him, but other u.s. officials over the course of the past couple of days, saying perhaps a bit definitively that ukraine is capable of winning this fight and th

lieberman, thank you for your expertize. next guest has a warninghi for those who areng pushing this on adolescents and young children he'd know because he spent eight years as a woman starting when he was 17 .s joining us now is, well, higherg . he's thee founder of sex change regret's .com and the author of the book trans lifee survivors. well, your message to the bideni administration tonight . yeah, this is institutionalized child abuse is working on destroying an entire generationre of children. none of these children need hormone blockers. donthey don't need to transitir one of the things that nobody ever seems a to talk about is this one word called consequences. i'm sittingi' here because i started cross-dressing at the age of four and i can tell you that caused me emotional, psychological and eventually it became a child abuse.an and so when my parents are it having children do this or entertaining the idea of doing it, they are actually engaging in child abuse. now we have the government is actually promoting insti

now, oren lieberman spoke to cancel's mother about her son's drive to help others. >> reporter: for willy joseph cancel, this wasn't his war. the 22-year-old had already served his country in the marines, but after russia invaded ukraine, cancel's family says he felt the need to leave tennessee and join the fight. >> even before he left to go to ukraine, he was proud because he wanted to do the right thing and fight alongside the underdogs and help them with things that he thought was important. >> reporter: cancel's mother rebecca cabrera said her son was the one to stand up when everyone else stood back. >> everybody that he's come in contact with in his life say they were proud to serve next to him to be a part of his life. and just everybody remembers who he was. he was a hero. and you know, he was doing the right thing no matter how people feel about it. >> reporter: cancel's mother says he started working for a private military contractor shortly before the war. cancel agreed to go fight in ukraine. he arrived in a country still defending on multiple fronts mid march. russian forces

came from for under the mentioned be good to go back through to them to store them either by dr. lieberman so business is then towards one few there you will mention mid found vol to what is me to go back to a whole soon. there will be no witnesses anymore to report on the experiences under the fascist nazi machine. i also know germans like nealus grandmother who remember how it all started the feeling of being fled at and favorite to being tighter to more than the others. mm hm. mm hm. ah, i still think of meeting you in this foggy english night. your words still echoing my bones, your grandparents killed my grandparents. i dread the idea that most germans would grow up without ever having encountered your pain. the door still wide open for indifference. so why us? why in germany? what is still inside of me? it made the holocaust happen. i was told many times that this genocide could have also occurred in other countries. but i have never found comfort in this thought. i have no reason to assume that i would have been a rebel. i'm rather obedient and i don't like breaking the rules. my en

louis ma seems relaxed, but the bullet was only millimeters away from potentially ending his life. lieberman of gunshot wound yesterday afternoon. the medic sir say he is incredibly lucky. that bullet did not sever the archery in his arm. he will now go from have you taken from here by ambulance to one of the local hospitals, further back from the front line for further treatment. some of the volunteers don't want to be identified because they say russian forces at targeting medics, treating ukrainian soldiers after being treated. louis man eats breakfast while waiting to be evacuated before the war. he was a construction worker renovating the chernobyl nuclear plant capacity. their motor guys can get really close to us and they're difficult to see and shoot. they approach our trenches and throw grenades before lunch yesterday there were 50 shells that hit new york position. russian artillery shells and mortars talking ukrainian positions in fields close by. no one knows how many wounded will be brought to the field hospital in the hours ahead. charles raffle al jazeera, eastern ukraine. rus

so i admire senator lieberman.ut thank god we have joe manchin in the united states senate because the by demonstration disastrous policies would be ten times worse if joe manchin weren't there. drat they there's no question joe manchin is the one i would pick. i may not agree with his philosophy or his outlook, but i do believe the man is principal deferred he wants to represent his constituents in the best way he can. he made some awfully difficult choices at great personal risk particularly in regard to the crazy $5 trillion spending program. the other democrat of course, i don't know if they can be admired certainly have learned a lot is joe biden. is there anything that demonstrates our need for republican in the administration of change of leadership the joe biden? >> recorded a thirty second closing statement were going to backwards this time. carla sands let me start with you 30 seconds for. >> thank you. i am particularly talking to you at home. i am carla sands i'm running for the senate. and i will never

oren lieberman says it isn't slowing the hustle to get weapons into the hands of ukrainian troops. >> reporter: max, it used to take weeks or months to ship weapons. now during this ongoing russian invasion of ukraine a senior defense official says they're working around the clock 24/7 to get the shipments reviewed, approved and sent as quickly as possible. and that includes what can generally be a lengthy process. it starts with bilateral discussions between the u.s. and another country, that is ukraine. then it checks its own stocks what is available, what can be sent. then it gets a recommendation from the joint chiefs and what analysis it will have on military readiness and secretary of defense approval and secretary of state and then back to the pentagon to begin the process of shipping the weapons. that is compressed to as little as possible to ship weapons from the u.s. to ukraine. the u.s. knows this is a priority. they know the insatiable need of the ukrainian forces in this fight. they are trying to make this go as quickly as possible. a process down to 48 to 72 hours from b

going to come up with another one although i will add joe manchin to that andho i would also add lieberman a deep manjo of faith, and a great advocate for the u.s. relationship so someone fought hard over the years to keep a nuclear weapon of the hands of iran, and have a robust foreign policy in the middle east and a man that i know who lives his faith and so i admire senator lieberman be think that we have joe manchin in the united states senate because the biden administration disaster policies will be ten times worse if he were not there. >> there's no question, joe manchin is the one that i would pick, i may not agree with his philosophy or his outlook, but i do believe the man is principled and he wants to represent his constituents in the best way that he can then he made some awfully difficult choices at great personal risk particularly with regard to the crazy 5 trillion-dollar spending program predict any undemocratic courses that it don't know if they could be at marta but we have learned on fought his joe biden read is there anything more demonstrate a need of a republican admi

. >> oren lieberman at the pentagon, sources tell cnn the goal is to pass this package before memorial day about a month away. how quickly can the aid move to ukraine if and when it passes? >> the goal of this weapons package, the biden administration has said, is to make sure weapons keep flowing in an uninterrupted fashion. we have already seen the administration dramatically increase the speed at which this is possible. a process that used to take weeks from figuring out what's on the list, to reviewing, to getting approval, to actually sending is now down to at least 72 hours. and the u.s. is flying eight to ten flights a day of military and other equipment towards ukraine to get into that flight as quickly as possible. that's the goal, to keep it going at that speed. there's billions here, first in drawdown authority, which pulls from d.o.d. stocks, but also in the ukraine security assistance, which is buying it from arms manufacturers and having it go right to ukraine. >> the biden administration outlined a proposal to make it easier for the u.s. government to liquidate assets se

amy: new york civil liberties union executive director donna lieberman said -- "the mayor's attempt topolice away homelessness and sweep individuals out of sight is a page from the failed giuliani playbook. with no real plan for housing, services, or supports, the administration is choosing handcuffs." and the prominent media critic eric boehlert has died at the age of 57 after a bike accident. he was a former senior fellow at media matters and a staff writer at salon. it's his books included "lapdogs: how the press rolled over for bush." the columnist will bunch described eric boehlert as "an irreplaceable voice in fighting against media misinformation in this country." to see our interview, go to democracynow.org. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peacreport. i'm amy goodman. on capitol hill, house lawmakers grilled executives from the some of the largest oil and gas companies wednesday, accusing them of price-gouging consumers even as they rake in record profits. democrats on the house energy and commerce committee accused fos

oren lieberman, thank you so much. >>> let's go live to lviv and bring in cnn anchor and chief, jim, it's great to see you. i was struck by defense secretary lloyd austin saying a goal now is to weaken russia's military. not just in ukraine, but he's talking about weakening russia going forward. that seems to be a shift in u.s. strategy. >> in saying it out loud, he says explicitly he does not want the russian military to emerge from its invasion of ukraine capable of doing so again. he cites the losses russia has already suffered in terms of equipment and personnel, in no small part because of the kinds of weapons u.s. and allies have been sending in. there's a reason so many russian tanks have burned, armored personnel carriers and helicopters shot down, the javelins and stingers. and he's in effect saying that after this invasion ends, if it does, no matter when it does, they don't want russia to be able to do a repeat or maintain this. that is, to your point, john, a message that will not sit well with the kremlin. the u.s. seems to be perfectly fine with that. perhaps it's to be

cnn's oren lieberman at the pentagon and mj lee at the white house.ut first let's bring in isa soares live from lviv in ukraine. isa? >> reporter: good morning to you, michael. in the last few hours we have heard that russian forces are continuing their offensive in the east, along the entire line in fact of contact in donetsk and luhansk, but ukraine is pushing back, holding off these attacks on several fronts, michael, even recapturing a town near kharkiv, and that is according to ukrainian officials. and in the last few minutes as well, intelligence from uk's ministry of defense, as you can see on your screen, russia has been forced to merge as well as redeploy some of its units that took part in the failed advance in northeast that likely suffering from weak moral as you're seeing there. in kyiv, meanwhile the city's relative peace was shaken by russia's missile attack on thursday night. it happened while the u.n. secretary general was finishing his visit here. earlier i spoke with the ukrainian lawmaker within an earshot of one of the targets. ha

orrin lieberman is live at ramstein air base there. what are we expecting to hear from secretary austin after these really big meetings? >> kate, one of the important messages here and we heard it from lloyd austin in his opening remarks was a show of unity. not just from europe, not just from nato but from the western world and beyond. more than 40 countries coming here, not only sitting together but discussing what can be done to support ukraine and support what many see here as an international rules-based order. that's what is at stake here and they've made that clear. this is bigger than just the u.s. or the uk or ukraine. it's the world order that's at stake and that's why this is such a fundamental discussion and that was clear in an interview my colleague jim sciutto just wrapped up with the chairman of the joint staffs, general mark milley and what we heard from austin. >> at the end of the day, what we want to see, what i think the policy of all of the governments together is a free and independent ukraine with their territor

cnn's other than lieberman is at the pentagon. is the assessment that russia fixed the early missteps? >> i would say the u.s. assessment is this is russian attempt to fix its early missteps which included large problems with logistics and sustainability. remember, if you look at the map here, in the north as they attempted to come toward kyiv, russian forces quickly outran their own supply lines. that forced them to halt their advance as well as the ukrainian resistance that they met at every point along that advance. so the russians, the u.s. have figured out the problems and now they're trying to solve some of them as they switch their offensive from around pretty much the entire country to focusing on southern and eastern ukraine. now, the u.s. says they are still having -- or rather the pentagon says they're still having many of the same issues in logistics and sustain shl. they're also having the same issues with morale. that's one of the hardest problems to solve in a critical issue when you're trying to move many forces on

and my colleague oren lieberman has been told the u.s.oncerns that it would potentially escalate tensions with the russians, the russians sensitive about any u.s. weaponry and it is not the first time we know that the u.s. military has reacted this way. already they have canceled and made public actually so-called routine tests of an intercontinental ballistic missile because they were concerned that that too would enflame tensions with russia. bianna? >> barbara starr, the russians already used a hypersonic missile in their war in ukraine. thank you so much. >>> straight ahead, russia is now banned in using u.s. dollars stockpiled at american banks to pay down its debt. but will this move actually impact putin's invasion of ukraine? we'll talk to an exiled russian now helping ukraine. that's up next. if you don't repaint every now and then, it's like the old you is still hanging around. younger zoe: i'm listening to music. so today, let's paint... ...with behr, america's most trusted painbrand, and make your homeyours. behr. exclusivelat

orrin lieberman is live at ramstein air base there.

we start our coverage with secretary austin is in germany, cnn's orn lieberman is right there. >> defense secretary lloyd austin got a lot of attention when we talked about weakening russia. he expanded and said this isn't about a fight between the u.s. and russia. but it's clear as we've watched this war now entering the third month that it's been the ukrainian military that has weakened russia. first, through attrition. this war lasted longer than russia planned and through ukraine's successes in the battle field. it is also the u.s. goal to make sure that russia can't carry out this sort of aggression against its neighbors in the future, and that part of the u.s. strategy, the strategy we're seeing from the eu nato and the west is through sanctions, to essentially weaken and make sure that russia's economy isn't capable of supporting this type of war and that its defense industrial base isn't capable of carrying out or build organization manufacturing the sorts of weapons that we see russia using in ukraine. one of the other interesting points that austin announced in his closing remar

i want to go to cnn pentagon correspondent oren lieberman, where defense secretary austin is going toold a summit tomorrow. secretary austin is going to be meeting with counterparts there. give us a preview of this meeting, and at least 20 nations attending. >> reporter: we've gotten an updated number on that, so about 35 other nations. you get a sense of how big this will be and how significant it will be. late last week the pentagon didn't want to state that there were any set goals or set outcomes that will come from this meeting, but it's more of a discussion, especially around what weapons ukraine needs and what country is best suited to send those weapons in. the u.s. has not only sent in some $3.4 billion of its own weaponry, but it has been one of the fundamental partners, along with, for example, the united kingdom, of getting in weapons from other countries that perhaps don't want to be as outspoken and loud about sending those weapons in. so the u.s. has been a key cog in that wheel and this meeting is an expansion. part of that, especially after defense secretary lloyd aus

music, lost in thought the hidden pleasures of an intellectual life and suzanne metler and robert lieberman's, the recurring crises of american democracy. i wish we had time to discuss some of those. but we only got a couple minutes left and we want to get james from ohio in here. >> caller: good afternoon. i hope you can hear me clearly. of course i have my tv muted. professor, first of all, i want to associate myself with an early comment of steve from about 50 minutes ago, you are as a retired teacher myself, let me just say you're like the very model of thoughtful analysis and what used to be called [inaudible], and above all, contextualizing. i know some people probably get on you for lengthy answers, but context is everything. i've been to gettysburg three times. i have your book on my table with a few others, even though i was a science teacher. but gettysburg is a magical place, and it will hook you if you go once, you will want to go back, i think. in your counterfactual dominoes that you did about what would have happened if the charge had succeeded? i think another thing that poppe

forget about military aid, economic aid, something to explore with joe lieberman, former connecticut and democratic vice presidential candidate. great having you. what do you make of that theory that in this environment, awful as it is for china and the sudden contraction it is dealing with, not recession but well off the highs, in no place to help russia right now. >> good to be back with you. absolutely right. only a few months ago, three weeks before the russians invaded ukraine that putin and xi jinping met in beijing and gave each other a big hug, the closest those former communist countries have been in decades, and very stridently anti-american. a democratic time, not an attempt at human rights but russia's invasion of ukraine made their relationship, southern beijing has no limits. it may appear there are limits and xi xinping's desire to maintain control of china, all the surveillance and everything else he does is not going to do it unless his economy is producing and it is in trouble now. china is a rising power but it is not perfect. and we are finding china has given lip

white house and traveling chief of staff in 2,000 for democratic vice presidential nominee joe je liebermanident's office. they were very excited she would be part of kamala harris' team. so she is now being replaced by a woman by the name of lorain bolus. democratic operative and also a communications. >> ainsley: she was adviser to hillary. >> steve: yes, she was. a lot of experience here. the departures are routine according to her office. it comes at really critical time. because, if the democrats lose the midterms, which they probably will, joe biden then may decide, you know what? i'm not going to run ofor re-election that would prompt renewed attention on the vice president as alternative and as we have seen so far with the shakeup and the lack of accomplishment it's like okay, well, pete buttigieg suddenly, according to "the washington post," when you look at the hierarchy of hot most electable democrats are coming up in 2024 is joe biden, pete buttigieg, and then kamala harris. >> brian: i guess they forgot about when he ran for president the last time. >> ainsley: it's been report