petraeus. i want to ask you the first question.ow do you assess, how do you see this big picture, this big picture of ukrainian progress on the battlefield and the international picture of further pressure on putin how to put pressure on putin in the future, please, i am very pleased to be with you and i am honored to be in the company of mr. ambassador and mr. prime minister. i think that the biggest dynamic on the fields in ukraine is the understanding that ukraine in as a result of total mobilization, it now has a military force that is much more powerful and more combat-capable than what russia has in ukraine. ukraine has made efforts in organizational mobilization training and has a lot of weapons and uses it all much more effectively . billion dollars. and also almost 18 billion dollars of economic aid from the united states, the support of western partners and nato members, this did not allow the liberation of more territory kharkiv region to make some progress in luhansk region and methodically continue offensive actions in

many things i would like to discuss with you if i may first of all let me start with what general petraeusd he mentioned the adviser to the president of the united states on national affairs of security, who said that we will not use salami-slicing tactics and distinguish between possible types of nuclear weapons that the russians can use in ukraine, what do you think, is biden's team doing enough to stop putin's investment, defeat him, whatever please on the nuclear issue and i think that president biden's statement at the un on american television in the 60 minutes program, these were very powerful words, that is, if russia uses weapons of mass destruction and nuclear weapons, the consequences will be devastating and what general petros said, what jake sullivan said at the weekend it sounded just as powerfully on television, and this is the right message to send, and this brings me back to the beginning of your question: the administration will not carefully look into what types and types of nuclear weapons can be used by russia as a nuclear weapon, they did not use it, the answer will b

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. >> sandra: former cia director david petraeus says that you must be forced to respond if putin goes respond by leading nato, collective effort that would take out every force we can see and identify on the battlefield in ukraine. also in crimea and every ship in the black scene fleet. >> sandra: how seriously should we be taking these nuclear threats? >> jesse: i don't take them seriously. he's not an idiot. that would destroy any sense of his country and his future. he would probably die in a bloody cool because we would destroy every target in ukraine and take out, as petraeus said, the fleet and everything in crimea. what i worry about is joe biden. is he listening to secretary of defense austen who i don't even know what he thinks about anything. i know he thinks white supremacy is our biggest threat. easy listening to other hawkish advisors that want more than anything to win their new cold war against the russians because it an aggressive and so soft on foreign policy or is he listening to rank amateurs like ron klein? we don't know. we have to have a little finesse. we have t

really, david petraeus, really think it'll end there? >> that would be the first use e of a nuclear weapon in almost 80 years since nineteen forty five . bu you thinkt you think you'd bw contain the inevitable chain reaction with the conventionh s. responsible to sink their ships? >> the problem, apparently, david petraeus does think that. and keep in mind in washington ,david petraeus is regarded as a genius . >> and b.y local standards, he a ever in authority, everyone with aalg megaphone, everyone with actual power is thinking and talking just like david petraeus. >> no problem. mid the daily beast, which is the tip sheet of the midwich who run our government, just had this today. o >> putin has left the world no other option but regime change. .no mention of the inevitable craz a crazy person with nuclear andy weapons and are telling him in public, you're going to kill him and you're hoping for the best. ntly you and if he launches nuclear weapons, which apparently you have accepted as a possibility, let's take out a ship's the we'll

petraeus, and general benajojes, yes, our mutual acquaintance, who at one time commanded the americanontingent on the european continent. and they said that that is they unequivocally hinted that the russian army and the russian navy would suffer colossal military losses in the event of unconventional use of tactical nuclear weapons, in your opinion or the biden administration will show all its willpower at a critical moment, i don't want to make assumptions about the specific military capabilities that the biden administration has, yes, general ben hodges is our friend, i have a lot of respect for general petraeus, they are not speaking on behalf of the administration, the administration is going to keep its plans to itself and will not divulge too much i think that the administration will very seriously come up with all possible options and putin must understand this, is there a prospect of attracting civilized humanity to the side china in order for him to put pressure on putin and russia and stop russian escalation and russian war crimes, we understand that beijing is trying to wi

administration has, yes, general ben-hodges is our friend and i have a lot of respect for general petraeusey are not speaking on behalf of the administration, the administration is going to keep its plans to itself and will not disclose too much. i think that the administration will very seriously come up with all possible options and putin must understand this, or is there a prospect of bringing china to the side of civilized humanity in order for it to put pressure on putin and russia and stop russian escalation and russian war crimes, we understand that beijing is trying to win in the current situation, in particular, at the expense of ukraine and at the expense of what is currently happening on the european continent, because the restructuring is colossal and for this finance, and about technology, about energy, but in your opinion , can shizenpin play now, in particular, on the eve of the elections in i just understood the question, but i don’t have a very good answer for you . china’s position is not clear to me at the moment. immediately before the war, the chinese promised an unlim

petraeus, and general b.ahojes, our mutual friend, who at one time commanded by the american contingent on the european continent and they said that, that is, they unequivocally hinted that the russian army and such a fleet would suffer colossal military losses in the event of unconventional use of tactical nuclear weapons. in your opinion, will the biden administration show all its willpower at a critical moment, i do not want to make assumptions about specific the military capabilities that the biden administration has, yes , general ben hodges is our friend and i have great respect for general petraeus, they do not speak on behalf of the administration, the administration is going to keep his plans to himself and will not divulge too much. i think that the administration will very seriously come up with all possible options and putin must understand this. is there a prospect of bringing china to the side of civilized humanity so that it puts pressure on putin and russia and stops russian escalation and rus

the opinion expressed by a retired american general, the former director of the cia, where from petraeus on the sidelines of the warsaw security forum , meanwhile, the head of the military committee does not allow the participants of the forum what they propose to do to prevent a potential nuclear threat from russia and not only let's talk about it with myroslava gongadze, who followed all the main events of the security forum in warsaw myroslava greetings to yulia varshavskyi the security forum is actually taking place while the ukrainian military continues to carry out a successful counteroffensive, the participants of the forum react to the latest successes of the ukrainians, and whether in their opinion it is possible to talk about the turning point in the price you already know yulia 2 days in a row both government officials and high-ranking military officials from different countries of the world here are present almost all the european leaders and european countries as well as the united states of other countries, they speak about the extraordinary successes of the ukrainian milit

statements, so far at the expert level for example , the former director of the cia, where from petraeusaf, an interview with the french newspaper a-a, a week-long round express, it was timed to the visit of the french foreign minister to washington, and there he says that he could quote the usa would take part in the war in ukraine and i want to emphasize that even a retired official is saying this, but here in the american information space it is being heard for the first time. well, let's listen to what he said specifically. i think that the red line for nato is directly related to the obligations of collective self-defense, respectively to the fifth article of the alliance agreement, that is, in the event of an attack on a nato member country, in the event of active actions by russia, the united states and other countries can react in one form or another, but how many national forces under by the american leadership and not as selenato, once again i have to summarize what the general says, he understands that in nato, where all decisions must be made unanimously , that unity may not

i think one thing are statements in the last few days, petraeus said some things, the fact we've seen similar things in detail with the signal being sent to muska. anchor: we will leave it there with you. thanks very much. chair bolsonaro received 43%. the tight race says voters face a runoff. reporter: rallying for two different kinds of brazil. the mood is festive despite an unexpectedly tight race. many hope a change in leadership bring an end to economic hardship. >> i'm celebrating because brazil happening difficult times. reporter: supporters of people make good on a campaign promise to address socioeconomic inequalities as well as stem and alarming use in deforestation. >> the economy is not good. the job market is not good. we want to make our country better again. >> there is a second round and we must work. it will be truth against lies. against corruption. reporter: bolsonaro has outperformed polls despite being blamed for crime. he faced criticism. the candidates will face a runoff on the 30th of october. anchor: our correspondent told us why the opinion polls appeared so

director da david petraeus is u.s. is losing. the battlefield reality is irreversible. over the last seven months president zelensky and ukraine have mobilized vastly better than has russia. >> julie: retired general jack keane, fox news senior strategic analyst joins us now. great to see you, general keane. if putin were to be bold and stupid enough to use nuclear weapons. the high probability the radiation from the strike would affect a member of the alliance that could be con trued as an attack against nato and fall under article five. with that said, how desperate is putin right now? >> well, he is pretty desperate because obviously he is losing this war. the things he is trying to do are not going to make a difference. he is annexing four regions inside the ukraine because he has lost so much territory he is trying to create a false narrative that he is gaining territory. and he wants a political victory. that's very hollow because we know full well that the ukrainians are in all of those four territories and in t

petraeus was notes, deutsch was information in a computer. those cases ended up being misdemeanors. in one case pled and the other case was pardoned, so a much more minor type of scenario. so there's just this wide variety of factors that go into it including the sensitive nature of the information. as andrew is describing the transmittal or potential transmittal to an outside party. because there's this known high sensitivity, highly classified cohorted information, sensitive compartment, did it get out? and i think that will be a critical factor as the justice department continues to look at this investigation. >> andrew, given what you said about just the sensitivity of this dw-- and this is of all th cases you've seen these are the most highly sensitive documents you've seen being mishantdled o allegedly mishandled. inidea made early on by some of the president's supporters that he can declassify anything he wants just by thinking about it as he said or just by saying it's declassified, these are not documents that anybody would declassify lithly or with the wave of a magic wand

army general david petraeus on sunday what -- laid out what might happen if putin went nuking. >> wepond by leading a nato, a collective effort that would take out every russian conventional force that we can see and identify on the battlefield of ukraine and and also in crimea and every ship in the black sea. kennedy: that sounds like fun. not an ideal situation for moscow or the world, really for us. so shouldn't we be stocking up our bomb shelters, or is the russian president all bark and no bite? here with me now, portman square group chairman and ceo, mike baker is back. so -- >> thank you. kennedy: so, baker, saber rattling has been met with a pretty firm media response here from david petraeus to h.r. mcmaster, and mcmaster said that if putin uses a music, it would be a suicide weapon. a nuke. what do you see here? >> yeah. i don't know that it's particularly good form or helpful maybe in the current environment for former generals or agency directors or anyone to be out there talking about how many russian soldiers we're going to kill if he uses or deploys a tactical nuke on

and david petraeus, probably speaking for the administration here on this week on sunday, said that ifuclear weapons in ukraine, that america would destroy their entire army in ukraine and sink the black sea fleet. they're already using nukes before that, what do you think they're going to do then? kennedy: well, that's my question -- >> self-righteousness here. kennedy: yeah. i think -- like, i thought that, you know, i understand that someone's trying to look tough who either is part of this administration or past administrations. but no one is answering what happens after that, which i think is really important. and that's the thing you should be really, really scared of. and, you know, these small scale tactical nuclear weapons, or they're not good, they're not easy to deploy, they're not accurate. but if they do that and then we do the second thing, the third thing is what sinks the planet. >> that's right. and here's the thing about that, kennedy, those tactical nukes like what they use on nagasaki, a 15-kill lo ton implosion if bomb, that's blasting cap for setting off a thermon

i'm glad to see i'm in good company as general petraeus. >> the concern from the start of this war whichy every u.s. nato step in response to the russian invasion, the quality of weapons, the range of weapons, the degree of military support for ukraine has been concerns about sparking a broader war with russia, for instance, that's why the idea of a no fly zone as eliminated because that would be putting nato war planes in direct conflict with russian forces. would a response like this, and this has to be part of the calculation, right, there is a risk of sparking a broader war, is there not? >> there certainly is, but i heard a description of putin yesterday that i thought was particularly apt. he started off as an autocrat, became a dictator and now he is a madman. >> wow. >> he may be a madman, but i don't think he's suicidal. i don't believe that he wants to be the leader of russia that ends the russian federation. so i think we ought to take his threats seriously, but i don't think we should be cowed or coerce ds in any particular action as a result. >> the u.s. to date has not dete

i think if you start to do something like what general petraeus suggested, you are assuming a risk of war, because as david said, our conventional forces are superior. russia may perceive that, hey, we have more of these battlefield nukes than the united states has. we also have a similar strategic arsenal that is a ballistic missile. that looks more attractive to us than a conventional war, where the united states and nato are clearly superior. you start getting into a blinking contest of deterrents as the war escalates. you have to be confident they're going to be the ones to blink. i think vladimir putin is essentially saying i'm willing to potentially destroy the world over parts of eastern ukraine. are you willing to do that, nato? unless the answer is yes, i'm not sure you enter into a shooting war that will force you to ultimately confront that decision in this tit for tat escalation. >> great to have you on. thank you. >>> new tonight, the nfl and the players union have agreed to update their concussion protocol following a review of the scary injury sustained by the dolphins'

a retired four-star general, david petraeus, told me in an interview that the response would be devastatingbut president biden would have to put that into consideration, having to operate from a difficult position where direct interference could spark a proxy war. so, putin in many ways has a leverage here, because it is still unknown what he will do and what he is capable of. brent: dw news ines pohl, as always, thank you. let's look now to other headlines around the wld. workers in iran's energy sector joint protests against the regime. these images from social media appear to show workers from an oil refinery walking off the job. the student-led protest continues to spread following the death of a 22-year-old woman in police custody. the council of europe has awarded its human rights prize to the detained russian opposition politician that in your current what's up. his wife accepted the award on his behalf. the critic is charged with treason for speaking out against the invasion of ukraine. chad's military ruler has been sworn in for a further two years. he has promised a unity governme

that they warn them about the catastrophic consequences and uh such generals as eh well yesterday petraeusther generals already talked about the fact that they will either destroy the black sea fleet or they will strike eh or they will do something else that we may not talk about and do not know, but we must be on i am 100% sure that signals are being sent behind the scenes. i am telling you this for sure from my experience that at the level of ambassadors , at the level of ministers, at the level of the highest military leadership, contacts with the russians take place and they warn about the consequences, and here we also have to keep in mind the psychological moment when ukraine demonstrates resilience and bravery and, most importantly, success on the battlefield, it is now unacceptable for american leaders to show weakness and fear in front of their public, in front of their voters, golden words . thank you very much, mr. leonid, for this brilliant analysis on the air of the espresso tv channel leonid polyakov , a military expert, the former deputy minister of defense of ukraine, worke

inadmissibility of the use of nuclear weapons, the former director of the cia , a retired army general, where petraeusat if the russians use nuclear weapons, the americans will drown the russian black sea fleet and warned that the americans , together with their allies, would destroy russian troops and equipment in ukraine. nuclear weapons in order to look at the reaction of the world because we know that after the second world war the americans did it for the sake of politics, it was a political step to use these nuclear weapons, many people died in hiroshima and nagasaki, not here in this situation, what do you think is there already a circle of people around putin who are ready to betray him in order not to become a victim of a corresponding attack by nato countries? well, i don't have such insider information, actually. but if you take a pure analysis, it should be yes, there must be people who are looking for contacts, who are looking for an opportunity to negotiate and consult, who can be accepted in putin's place? well, if not the leader, then as i say, it seems to me that it will not be a new

for me, for example, the number one most important piece of news in recent times is what general petraeusently said on the bbc tv channel, literally yesterday or tonight, and he said that he was asked what nato would do in the event that russia uses a tactical taxi or any other nuclear weapon weapons in ukraine to the former head of the intelligence agency of the cia. that's how we want to call it the management agency, so he said that all the russian military on the territory of ukraine along with crimea will be destroyed and will also be drowned the entire black sea fleet at once, the very first day, and then the russians will actually be given the opportunity to come to their senses. no, it will probably destroy putin along with karmal. and this is the best thing that i heard from the american generals: finally, solid, normal, understandable signals that explain why putin's lips are trembling so much and he says hurrah hurrah hurray he speaks very confidently hurray he has the first one, a certain one in the future has already found yes and is there any good news for egor firsov, he is

is doomed to defeat, according to the retired american general and former director of the cia 9 petraeuscording to him, the only question is when exactly it will lose it and when ukraine will return the seizure of territory to in the general's opinion, it largely depends on the uninterrupted supply of western weapons to ukraine, which ukraine needs more and more ukraine unconditional the sphere in which ukraine needs more anti-aircraft and anti-missile defense systems they were the first on this list they need a constant supply of other weapons and ammunition they always need more rocket launchers which really give an advantage on the battlefield especially targeting systems for launching guided missiles which can accurately land at a distance of about 70 km this forced the russians to move their material and technical support headquarters fuel reserves far from the front line as they further undermine what is already an inadequate logistical structure the reality in front of which put dimer putin and his military, i think it is not reversible, they will lose in this battle to this opera

you think that the former director of the united states central accountability office, generator petraeusis talking about the fact that the united states can really take part in the war against russia against ukraine at the head of some international coalition and not as part of the armed forces of the nato bloc. both boris johnson and lis taras have always emphasized that their countries are by no means and do not want to be a party to this conflict, and i do not yet see any hints that someone in washington or london has changed their position on this of a fundamental approach, how can this happen, you are absolutely right, i am not talking about today's mood , i am talking about strategy, if you just try to look at this whole situation from the outside, the usa cannot lose, they already, uh, well , in principle, they have clearly stated their position on the side of ukraine but not participating in the war and other allies also now everything depends on the development of the situation if the threats from russia will increase and they, let's be honest, will do it to prevent our victory

will give an adequate response to this in an interview with the abs channel , ex-cia director david petraeusto him. i did not speak about this and by the traitor of the us president on national security jacob sallin but i can say hypothetically we will lead a collective response within nato that will destroy all conventional forces of russia that we can see and identify on the battlefield in ukraine and also in crimea and everyone a ship in the black sea fleet is not the fifth article of the nato charter because ukraine is not in nato but it will be the answer of the us and nato to what is absolutely unacceptable, it is so terrible that the answer must be , it cannot be left unanswered, but it will not be anything more than that there cannot be a nuclear strike against a nuclear strike, no one wants a nuclear escalation , but we believe that this cannot be acceptable. there is no nuclear threat, the intelligence on maintenance will sow everything with a nuclear charge, the italian edition of lara publica wrote about this, according to the intelligence of the russian atomic the belgorod subma

necessary to wait for the start of a nuclear war, the former head of the cia is convinced, where from petraeuses its nuclear potential, nato allies will respond with destruction of the black sea fleet, as well as the disabling of all russian armed forces that can be identified on the battlefield, petrova is sure that there will be no nuclear response from nato, it cannot remain unanswered, but it will not be the outbreak of war, there will be no nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons, nobody wants to get into a nuclear escalation , but it must be shown that this cannot be accepted in any way, the use of nuclear weapons by putin seems very unlikely, this is what british defense minister boyan wallace says despite the fact that the doctrine of the russian federation provides for its application, such a step would be unacceptable for allies of moscow and india and china, the leaders of these countries made putin understand this clearly, it is quite clear that almost for of every country in the world, nuclear weapons were extraordinary and have been for decades, and changing this taboo was a tragedy for

are all extremely careful with with a pencil, so to speak, they read the lines of words of general petraeus, the former head of the cia and the former commander of the united states of america on the european continent, bena-ho for and i wanted to ask you if this algorithm of answers was implemented, so we understand well, what to sink the black sea fleet in general for the united states or for great britain is not particularly problematic, but here it is a matter of precedent and not on the basis of what they would give such an order, i will tell you, i am not happy with what was said to be honest, because yes, it was said that this would be a conventional answer, well, with powerful e-e means, bombers, fighters, missiles corresponding to the military object, that is, the black sea fleet, and those russian e-e military equipment located on our territory, why am i not delighted with that that this is our territory, no matter what it is. of course, this will immediately collapse er russia and all the desire to continue fighting. this is obvious. in this way, america will enter the war on our

plan worked out er, all our allies talked about that they are working on it, fortunately, general petraeusas present at the forum, who the day before made a harsh statement that if russia resorts to a nuclear attack, the united states of america's forces will destroy all conventional forces in the black sea, the forces of russia in the black sea and on the territory of ukraine, and of course the attention was focused on him and the statements he made based on this rather tough promise. the main question was whether this is the official position of the united states, in fact, it is not an official position - it is the position of the general, but it plays on us very much in hand , because it spreads this very harsh narrative that confirms that force can only be answered with force, that the previous strategies of the allies where putin was scared and introduced them only after his attack did not work or it must be said that the answer will be military and it will be sharp, unfortunately it is not, i have hardly met any skeptics who would doubt that sooner or later putin will resort to the u

got a nuclear pornography where putin every week talks about it, and we have a general, general petraeusal tv publicly war gaming what would happen if he set off a tactical nuclear weapon we would destroy all russian forces united states ukraine and sink the black fleet. what would be the expectation he would do. then we have joe biden and president zelenskyy saying we're going to humiliate him he has to leave office. okay, i don't like him. none of us like him, but he says he's not going to do that and he has nuclear weapons. he has maybe 6500, 7000 of them. so nobody is talking about how to step back. they're lowering the bar. meanwhile iran is talking about maybe it has a bomb and we saw 5,000 japanese going into shelters as this global nuclear bar goes lower and lower. there's all these agenda, the european aend today the european agenda the ukrainian aend today and russian agenda and they're all mutually exclusive if your position is there's nothing going to happen except we're getting every single russian out of the border land and vladimir putin won't retaliate. that would be good

a situation that they've petraeus says it would require the u.s. give you a hypothetical, we would respond by leading a collective nato effort to take it all the conventional forces that we can see and identify on the battlefield in ukraine and also crimea and every ship in the black sea. >> that sounds awful lot like world war iii. so, the u.s. and russia with a bloodthirsty dictator trying to call his bluff. president biden said since the first time since the cuban missile crisis, we have the threat of a nuclear weapon. if in fact things continue down the path that they are going. so, let's go back to that moment. let's go back to another democratic president when he made this announcement not so on similar 60 years ago this month. >> 1962 president john f. kennedy broadcast a special message from his office in the white house. >> nuclear weapons are so destructive, ballistic missiles are so square then a substantially increase in possibility of their use rightly said and change their department may well be regarded as a definite threat to peace.

general petraeus talked about sinking every ship in the back sea. this is quite doable for the american military. they own the skies. they know how to do this thing. this is like gulf war one. and i think something like that would be both a sufficient deterrent, and i know something like this has been communicated to the russians. i don't know the specifics, but some kind of major response. and at that point putin would have to think about -- because all putin is thinking about is his own power, how do i stay in power. and to have an utterly humiliating, crushing military defeat where your entire army is decimated. the ukrainians reunite their entire country within a few weeks, that's pretty bad for him. so i think that's a smart way to think about deterring him. >> thank you. i appreciate you coming in. >> wit may be the last time, unless you have me tomorrow. i do want to say you have done an amazing job, a terrific show as a viewer, i just loved it. i can't wait to see you in the other -- on the other side of the day. >> are you going to wake up?

i want to play what general petraeus said those consequences could be. >> just to give you a hypotheticalond by leading a nato, a collective effort that would take out every russian convention force that we could see and identify on the battlefield in ukraine and also in crimea and every ship on the black sea. >> if that is what is being considered in response, steve, how does vladimir putin receive that? >> vladimir putin is in a difficult position with his nuclear weapons as i indicated earlier. these are sort of the weapons that he dare not use unless he is willing to fully deal with the consequences. which of course could result in anything from a significant non-nuclear response from the west, potentially a nuclear response from the west, but the thing that he also has to consider is the price that he would pay both internally and internationally for use of any weapon, whether it was low yield or whether it was strategic. i mean, china and india have expressed grave concerns about that and i imagine there are folks within the kremlin that say we have to be careful for this. so it is

plus jon speaks exclusively with general david petraeus. about russia's annexation of ukrainian territories and about the mounting nuclear threat amid the stall in that war. >>> time now for a check of the weather, let's go to danielle breezy from our nashville affiliate wkrn. danielle, good morning to you. >> reporter: and good morning, whit. we continue to track the remnants of ian that's plaguing parts of the mid-atlantic this morning. take a look at this and you're going to see we're going to have rain showers across the mid atlantic. also cooler temperatures and strong gusty winds as we head into the afternoon and evening hours, winds in excess of 45 miles per hour among the jersey shore. it's a very slow-moving system, so it's going to continue to dump rain on monday and we could see anywhere from 1 to 2 inches of rain inland. towards the coastline, 4 to 6 inches of rain, that's the question. here's a look around the country. here's what's happening where you live. three two one good suny morning. three two one good suny i'm lisa arju

i will quote my friend and colleague david petraeus.tself. let's keep in mind the war is far from over but it's shifted the tides toward ukraine. >> charles: i don't like american's grasp how large an area this is, how much is going into this. maybe the initial media reporting it felt like it was going to be a skirmish. western leaders telling zelenskyy to get out of there, russia would won in 24 to 48 hours, escape the -- explain the scope and size of it. >> the scope of it is this is the largest land mass invasion since world war ii. it's extraordinary. not only in terms of the depth of the battlefield but in terms of the areas not in the east but in the south as well. it's provided a significant challenge to putin and his forces which i frankly thought russia is 7 feet tall. we learn perhaps they are only 5'5" tall. the challenge is russia is fighting in a way that ukraine and president so once you have showed tremendous might. they have out mobilized the ukrainian forces and their capabilities. ukraine has a fairly good military as

petraeus ♪ not >> bret: attacks are escalating against ukraine's capital city of kyiv.o take another step to try to salvage his invasion of that country. putin has declared martial law the areas he annexed last month. correspondent trey yingst tellsm kyiv. >> ukrainian civilians kherson wait to be evacuated across the nip per river. >> i got a call from work saying we were evacuating today. however i knew yesterday evening already that there would be evacuations. >> as ukrainian forces advance on the occupied area. russian president vladimir putin announced that he along with three other illegalld territories enter a state of martial law thursday. >> we are working to solvescaleo ensure russia's security and safe future to protect our people. >> the people people refer to are ukrainians, and the protection he references could come in the form of nuclear weapons used. that according to kremlin spokesperson dmitry petov who responded to a question about moscow's nuclear umbrella saying recently annexed territories will be offered the same protection as the russian federat

what do we do about the war in petraeus was in charge and republicans lost 36 seats.2002, george bush east approval rating was at 67% coming off 9/11. a security election all across america. and he bucked the trend. republicans gained eight house seats that year. very interesting when you go back 20 years the find out how americans feel. the toss-up races in the house are significant. you see this? this is right here as of today we have 33 toss-up seats. but on the board behind me, sometimes we call these chicklets here. you see 32 of the 33 are on the democratic side of the house. and we have one solo toss-up here that is now run by a republican on the right side of the house. so history tells us one thing. reality -- >> dana: have you ever want to revisit the 2006 mid-term i think i still have tire marks on my head. that was a tough one. >> bill: this thing based on history stacked up against you and maybe the reality says something about that tuesday night in november. wanted to share that with you, dana. back to you. >> dana: as we've been talking about a crime wa

the innocent people of ukraine, a situation that former cia director and retired four-star general petraeusire a u.s. response. >> just to give you a hypothetical, we would respond by leading a nato, a collective effort that would take out every conventional force we can see and identify on the battlefield in ukraine, also crimea and every ship on the black sea. >> which sounds a lot like world war iii. this is where we are right now. the u.s. and russia on the brink of a full-on war with a blood-thirsty dictator. president biden said for the first time since the cuban missile crisis, we have a threat of a nuclear weapon if things continue down the path they're going. let's go back to that moment. let's go back to the time that another democratic president made this announcement not so dissimilar 60 years ago this very month. >> on october 22nd, 1962, president john f. kennedy broadcast a special message to the nation from his office in the white house. >> nuclear weapons are so destructive, and ballistic missiles so swift, that any substantially increased possibility of their use or any su

, we just talked about it, but i think it's important here, this is for mercy i a director david petraeusnd. we were talked about, it but let's hear it. >> just give you a hypothetical. we would respond by leading a nato, a collective effort that would take out any rushing conventional force we can see and identify on the battlefield in ukraine, and also in crimea. >> that's what you said, but remember this would be a brutal plan. i think it's important to talk about 50,000 russian troops. -- last week on my program, lloyd austin, the secretary of defense, indicated that he had commuted today gated to his russian counterpart, the nature of the response, and probably not the specifics of it. so i think the russians are aware, my own senses, look, we've all gotten putin wrong, but right now i think lloyd austin said this, which i think is correct, he's going to try this mobilization first. it's been a very politically painful thing, it's been very popular in russia. remember, none of them are out there yet, so first is gonna try that. he's gonna see -- this is why the ukrainians are going t

speaking at a security conference in poland, david petraeus said the u. s and its allies would likely quote take out russian forces in ukraine and in the black sea if russia were to carry out a nuclear attack in ukraine, the retired general says russian strike would trigger nato's article five which obliges members to defend each other if attacked, but so far it doesn't appear. russia is moving toward that option. number of u. s. officials have noted that they have seen no indicators that there is any kind of preparation for this use of nuclear weapons beyond the somewhat irresponsible nuclear saber rattling that putin has done recently, president biden reconfirm the u. s s commitment to defend every single inch of nato territory. last week, north korea fired a ballistic missile right over japan for the first time in more than five years. that missile launch forced japan to issue temporary evacuation notices and suspend train service for several hours. air raid sirens were heard across the country. the missile flew over japan and is believed to have lande

and we have a general, general petraeus on national tv wasar publicly wargaming. happen if set off n a tactical nuclear weapon? we would destroy all russiann fs forces inside ukraine. we'd sintatek the black fleetfle with what would be theiden and expectation, what he would do.e then we have joe biden and the l president's linsky saying we're going to humiliate him. he's got to leave office. okay, i don't like. h none of us like him maybe. to but he says he's not going to do that. and he's got nuclear weapons. >> he's got maybe sixty five hundred so n. thousand so nobody is talking about how to step back . they're loweringey'r the bar. ou meanwhile, iran is talking about maybe it's got a bomb. saw and we saw five million japanese going intoo the shelters as this globalr nuclear bar goes loweres lower and lower. >> and there's all these agendas, the european agenda,d a the nato agenda, the american agenda, the ukrainian agenda, t the russian agenda. and they're all mutually exclusive. if your position is there's nothing going to happen except we're going to get eve

also on the shortlist is the wolfsburg and germany striker alexandra popp, alexey petraeus and wendyse details on how you vote for the winner of that award. for now, that is all from me. donald trump has launched a libel action against cnn, accusing the us broadcaster of comparing him to hitler. the former president is seeking $475 million dollars in damages. mr trump accuses cnn of carrying out a slanderous campaign against him because it fears he will stand again for the presidency. the network has not responded. our north america correspondent david willis says it's not the first time the former us president has threatened to sue the broadcaster. donald trump has used the phrase fake news and regards to all sorts of different media organisations here in the us, of course, but perhaps none more so than cnn, which, together with the new york times, have become his betes noires, if you like, as far as media organisations are concerned. he's filed this 29 page lawsuit in his home state of florida, which basically accuses cnn of attempting to undermine his political ambitions, and also

this is far from the first of a series of similar statements this week, former cia director davis petraeus not rule out that many us-led national contingents would take part in the conflict in ukraine and the commander, stationed in romania 101 airborne division of the united states screaming eagles. just like rear admiral denis wellis, he showed unusual sociability with western representatives. the media, too, as if by chance, a said that his eagles are ready for any the moment to enter the territory of ukraine well, after all, until recently, both politicians and the military in the west only said that they would try with all their might to avoid a military clash with russia, what has changed alexey petrushkova on why the relative calm was adopted in the battle zone of a special military operation ? it is very much like the calm before the real storm. it already seems to have become familiar for three weeks for the whole of kiev , illuminated by headlights, passing cars maidan abubadul and it seems its brightest object the ferris wheel certainly could not fail to impress the president of

implement the framework for promoting equity and inclusion for women and people of color working in petraeus. -- the trades. it contains components for making sure equity is embedded in this massive $1.2 trillion infrastructure investment. we know there has to be goals. i won't go through all the points but i will go through three of them. one of the most important ones is we want one half of 1% of all federal and state funding and infrastructure funding to be devoted to support services. it goes beyond transportation assistance and tools. all those things are important but we are thinking about free apprenticeship investment because providing those foundation skills through pre-apprenticeship is a strong pipeline for women to get into these male-dominated industries. we advocate for technical investment -- investment in technical assistance to make sure those jobs and subcontract -- subcontractors are harassment free and safe environments for women and people of color to thrive. one thing that nancy knows -- tradeswomen and tradeswomen are -- of color are the last ones hired and we want to

even the same petraeus has already made several speeches about nuclear weapons, but this is the lastmonstrate in response. yes, it won't change the situation. well, let half of ukraine be contaminated there with radioactive contamination. well, god bless them congregational, but the united states is getting involved with russia is in some kind of nuclear conflict and i am absolutely sure there are no crazy people there. there are people there, so to speak, uh aggressive, but still crazy in the leadership. i think not, because any nuclear conflict with the russian federation is guaranteed total mutual destruction. therefore, this talk about tactical nuclear weapons, i think, should be stopped altogether. uh, once and for all there is no reason to use it in ukraine, i understand that the russian federation has more so-called data buffer zones, the more difficult it is for the russian federation in this sense. it will dare any blow. that's how they talk. and, but they can reason whatever they want. but uh, you know, yes, we're having a hard time right now. yes, we wanted to solve all th

i used to think that it was only politicians, but it turns out that ben hodges petraeus does not keepdn’t fight anywhere, but the wars there yugoslavia libya iraq when there from the air to smithereens, uh, and then, uh, the only ground operation , they brought in iraq bought a republican there, brother. hmm beard. hussein does not hide this. this is an operation of the tseru and entered baghdad practically without a shot and without losses, but after turning it into dust and cancer, therefore, in vietnam, those who were then even lieutenants or privates there. now he is all over 70, they are already natural, they don’t influence anything, they don’t make any decisions, therefore, such ease. uh, in uh talk about the use of nuclear weapons. i've talked about this quite a few times. uh, i am absolutely convinced that escalation is impossible to control a nuclear conflict, and it will lead, uh, global catastrophe, and uh, here. uh, karen georgievich said that a new world would arise there on the ruins, like the roman empire unfortunately, we don’t have the roman empire now, i know about

and canada canada simply speaks, but when they asked a question of principle, there was already petraeuse said that canadians talk a lot, but when they are asked to take machine guns in their hands and go to war, they will smile at you. and they will never wave. and even more so in canada, we should not forget that the largest diaspora of bandera, of course, is those ukrainians who moved to canada in the forty- fifth and further years already from germany and west germany in the first place, therefore, this statement still wore largely inward political character alexey petrovich well, when the baltic countries are in favor of the speedy admission of ukraine to nato they understand that this will never happen, and therefore they can again change anything they want or they are seriously ready to become a front, because if there is a direct military conflict, russia is nato then these countries, because in the first place will become a theater of war. the fact is that the strange baltic states, which are actively involved in this conflict on the territory of ukraine, are supplied to their t