mark montgomery, thank ou for speech. mark montgomery, thank you fervour— speech.ur time. _ speech. mark montgomery, thank you for your time. thank - speech. mark montgomery, thank you for your time. thank you. - let's get some of the day's other news. a new york court has found mexico's former security chief guilty of taking bribes in return for allowing safe passage for drugs. prosecutors said genaro garcia luna was secretly taking millions from the country's biggest crime group, the sinaloa drug cartel — the same one he was supposed to be pursuing. luna faces ten years to life in prison. a train operator has been ordered to fund the entire cost of cleaning up contamination after one of its freight trains derailed earlier this month. the accident caused hundreds of tons of chemicals to be spilt in east palestine, ohio. now the head of the environmental protection agency says norfolk southern would bear the cost for the trauma it inflicted on the town. rescuers in southeastern brazil are scrambling to find dozens of people still missing after record rainfalls caus

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and he said of trying to research with 20 to the research in new york city and by mark montgomery, he's with the foundation for the defense of democracies. he joins me from washington. d. c. gentlemen to both of you. well, it's good to have you on the program, michael. let me start with you. help us understand here what china was trying to do . what, what did we see here in, in this balloon that was moving across north america? well, i think that's actually the hardest part here is to determine china's intentions. it's always difficult to speculate what's happening within china's system. i think based on the comments from us, defense officials, i doubt that it was a weather balloon. but i also would be skeptical that this was an intentionally provocative act on the chinese side. surely times military knew, you know where the balloon was going and what the goal was, but i don't think that china's leadership wanted to scuttle the trip or, or wanted events to unfold as they have mark. what do you think it will allow that if it were, if we believe the pentagon, this is a spy balloon for bei

anniversary of ukraine war and related expectations joining me live in studios retired admiral mark montgomerythank you for having me, mike. mike: we are heading at one-year mark, this is a look at the map of ukraine and the region. the blue areas are where the ukrainians are launching counteroffensives. your view of the war at this stage, sir? >> well, mike, it has been -- it appears static but it really anything but that. this is a really critical time. russia is -- is mass -- mobilized heavily. it's massing up to four divisions. it's beginning to look, you know, either for diversion area, actual purposes, putting forces in belarus, for them a critical time. mike: that's up here. a lot of focus obviously here in the east, right, sir? >> that's right, exactly. for ukraine this is a time to reinforce themselves, get units up to full strength, make sure they have the right artillery and logistics in place and make sure russia can't gain initiative or leverage. mike: show the next scene. so focus here on the east and bakhmut, luhanst and mariupol. >> big fighting in the bakhmut area and the idea