and general mccaffrey, he said, "they don't want to die for some mystical vision of a greater russian empire that exists only in vladimir putin's head." pretty extraordinary. one side fighting for their lives and liberty and the other who doesn't know what they're fight for and it's starting to show. >> that's right. six months ago we talked about will ukraine make it through first week. now i think question is in the seventh and eighth month will russia be able to conduct the war. because you can dress people up in uniforms but you cannot make them fight. that's very clear from what we've seen in ukraine over the last six weeks. i want to remind just a little bit. some people might remember interesting videos in crimea about six weeks ago. western military weapons have been used to strike key targets back in crimea and in and around kherson and the ukrainian military a month ago said prepare for a counteroffensive in the south. as they said that, russian forces started to redeploy into the south, and what did we see just a couple weeks back? we saw the ukrainians start to advance. it

. >> retired four star army general barry mccaffrey offered some additional insight into where russiantoday, and really, how are they are. watch this. >> the discipline of the russian army at the playing level, is not there. it's just astonishing, they're just drunk, stupid ill trained they left units without transporters as they started to free out of the northeast of kharkiv, and it's really astonishing to see the low quality, not just off the private, but it was in tackle directions. >> drunk, stupid, and ill trained. not a good look for putin. how does ukraine capitalize on that? >> what they're doing, i think, is showing they can go toe to toe with russians on the ground, right? that's what mccaffrey is talking about russian forces have proven themselves to be under trained, their core lacking meaning there's nobody between the generals and moscow and the guys on the ground, and the constant reports we keep hearing of russia reaching deeper and deeper to find people to fight all the way up to senior citizens, right? the general leaves out russia still has things like cruise missil

i want to bring in jay gray, in ukraine and retired four-star general barry mccaffrey.ukraine? >> absolutely, jose. let's start with where we are right now. a fire caused by that shelling, as he reported, they had to disconnect what is the only line taking power out of that facility. it is the reserve line, because the mainline was damaged. so, that was disconnected, the fire extinguished. here is the situation. no outgoing power instead, the power from the loan reactor which is still operational was being used to cool the reactor cores so they could avoid a nuclear meltdown. this prompted the energy minister here in ukraine to say, and i am quoting here, the world is once again on the brink of nuclear disaster. the plant is being held by russian troops, but run by ukrainian scientists and engineers inside. we know that no power is going out, as i talked about. they think that they can restore the line. the problem is, they have not had the chance because the shelling has been too intense, the fighting to intense surrounding the area. there were six inspectors inside to

we want to bring in now, talking more about the military implications here, general barry mccaffrey, retired four star general in the u.s. army and msnbc and military analyst. general, as always, we appreciate you joining us on this. i first want to kind of talk about what we heard from president putin just a couple of days ago, the possibility here of a nuclear threat. here we are once again, eight months, it seems at this point, into this conflict and we're talking about the threat of nuclear. and we talked about this, i believe you and i, on the air, many months ago, and there was a sense at that time, that the russian president was bluffing about this threat. now it seems to be much more series. and we're not talking about the nuclear weapons that were used in world war ii. we're talking about more nuclear tactical weapons, and can you talk about the damage that could feasibly come from the use of tactical nuclear weapons by moscow? >> well, it is self evident that putin strategically is in a disaster. talk about endlessly the economy is tanking, yale university has some great wo

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retired general barry mccaffrey. always a pleasure to see you.ts on taiwan about four times now. just your thoughts when you hear the president, he is pretty unequivocal there, it is a pretty clear message that i see. >> well, yes, it's surprising, there is no more experience and knowledgeable president on foreign policy issues than mr. biden, clearly. and the public policy has always been strategic ambiguity. will we fight, yes or no. the whole notion about this, to preserve a diction that there is one china and two separate entities, and peacefully resolve this issue, in some future day. though to the extent to which you're unambiguous, and saying yes we will fight to protect taiwan, and by the way in that interview, president biden went on to say that the taiwanese solely have in their hands the notion of whether they will declare full independence, which technically maybe true, but again, as a provocative act, to mineland china, and we don't want to see war over taiwan. that's the purpose of our foreign policy. >> so china is clearly looking,