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so, let's welcome admiral james stavridis. he is a 30 year navy veteran, who retired with four stars on his shoulders. he is also head of the u.s. southern command, and former supreme allied commander of nato. i'm really glad you are here, because how is it that one year ago, i stand with ukraine was ringing through the halls of congress? and now, president zelenskyy he's greeted with gridlock? what the hell happened in the year? >> i think three things, steph. number one, the famous american lack of patience. we like our war is very short. think persian gulf. we hate long wars -- >> that is fair. that's fair. >> it's totally fair. we hated vietnam. we dislike being embroiled in a lengthy time. and this one is starting to look like kind of a slow burn. number two, frankly -- and you've got to call it the lack of success on the offensive this summer. it really stalled out. and the ukrainians ended up, essentially, gridlocked. and that contributed to the frustration. third and finally, you don't need to be an expert political sc

gain a foothold, yes, but in principle they should have de-occupied crimea in february 24 from stavridis’sdon is not playing here, this man really played in the sand, that is gordon is not the only fool , i didn’t say that, but this counterattack, it suddenly became clear that these people are really fools, i’m gordon, i’m not sure that he played in the sand, except for the sandbox in the soldier, that’s for sure he played, because that... they opened the closet, found an old overcoat , and there was a wallet in the pocket, well, this is the first time that the pentagon has done this, no, this is not the first time they have recalculated, they have recalculated how many times, moreover, moreover, there is still something like this thing, when in the event of an emergency for the united states, difficulties for infringement of the interests of the united states can be uncorked by the decision of the president to transfer from the arsenals to the american army, that is, directly, and only then compensate for this, but god bless him, the fact is that... it’s interesting when we talk about who

almost like me and stavridis here. >> don't even go there. >> okay. retired four star navy admiral james stavridis, thank you very much. richard, stay with us if you can. we appreciate it. >>> ahead on "morning joe," after congressional hearing on anti-semitism on college campuses, now one university president is stepping down. what's going to be next? it was a pretty staggering hearing, and there's a lot of fallout and a lot to talk about. we'll have more on that. >>> also still ahead, hunter biden's lawyer, abbe lowell, will join us as the president's son faces a nine-count federal indictment on tax-related charges. >>> up next, a congressional comeback? former congressman tom suozzi officially the democratic candidate for george santos' seat, which will likely play a pivotal role in 2024. you're watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. rsv is out there. for those 60 years and older protect against rsv with arexvy. arexvy is a vaccine used to prevent lower respiratory disease from rsv in people 60 years and older. arexvy does not protect everyon

. >>> want to bring in admiral james stavridis, nbc news chief international correspondent. youagain. we spoke earlier today. i want to tal about this "ne york times" report first. and the admission from the idf. let me read for you from the military saying and i quote a preliminary investigation revealed that additional buildings near the targets were also hit which likely caused unintended harm to additional uninvolved civilians. when you vicinity national community, when you have the united states, when you have actors, allies, urging you to move from this phase of this war, where 20,000 plus according to the health ministry have died at the hands of israeli strikes, two more targeted strikes, is this yet more evidence that now is the time? >> 100% correct. and many of us have been pushing our israeli colleagues very, very hard publicly, privately. i think it really is the moment when the administration, our administration needs to go very public. i think that you'll see secretary of state blinken do that. he's been there once, twice, three times, four times. this is the

also with us retired admiral james stavridis, former supreme allied commander of nato and msnbc newsl analyst. we're marking two months since that terror attack as jewish people around the world celebrate the start of hanukkah today. what is it like there? >> reporter: yeah, jose. this is hanukkah in the heart of tel aviv, in a square that laelz has really become the beating heart of israel. for the last eight weeks, the families of the hostages have been gathering here. i want to stop and explain the setup here. this table has been here for weeks. it is set up, a shabbat table in memory of the hostages, seats placed for all of them. and here on this table, on this first night of hanukkah is the bibas family this is 10-month-old kfir, his brother ariel, his mother shiri and father yarden. as we talked about on air, hamas is claiming that these two little boys and their mother were killed by an israeli air strike inside of gaza. the israeli military not confirming that, but their father remains a hostage and there is this absolutely agonizing video of him having been told by his hamas

. >>> want to bring in retired admiral jooefs, james stavridis. let's pick up where courtney left off and we'll double back and talk about central and hamas and the assault in the south. you have these drone attacks on these commercial vessels, shot down by the u.s.s. carney. do you see this as an escalation? >> i do. let's couple it with something that's happening on land which is a continuing series of attacks, both drone and missile attacks against u.s. land forces in syria and iraq. what does it all have in common? one word, tehran. these are being orchestrated, masterminded. i suspect both hamas and hezbollah north of israel continue to get not only financial support, but a lot of their marching orders, we would say in the military, from the iranians. it's part of an orchestrated campaign. in terms of your excellent question a moment ago, why? why now, why are they doing this? number one, because it allows the iranians through this proxy group to show that they are striking back against israeli interests at sea. number two, anything that puts

and former nato ally and four-star navy admiral james stavridis. our legal experts are coming in to talk about the developments with rudy giuliani, mark meadows, and others. >>> first, israeli leaders say they are considering the next phase of the war in gaza as the u.s. pushes the country to shift away from a high intensity military operation. u.s. secretary of defense, lloyd austin, met with leaders in tel-aviv yesterday and called on israel to protect civilians, saying it is their moral duty. israeli officials said they will soon start working to bring back the local population. adding, this will likely happen in northern gaza first. but officials stopped short of saying what changes will be made to the military campaign. austin also explained the u.s. is not putting a timeline on when the next phase needs to begin, saying, this is, quote, israel's operation. >> you know, we have richard haass here. we have a semantics game going on. you know, joe biden said israel needed to stop its indiscriminate bombing. you have u.s. officials quietly behind

beginning a little come to your senses, westerners, here you go a man with such a good fish surname, stavridisch, stavrides. well, let's listen to him. how did it happen that a year ago the halls of congress were buzzing, i stood with ukraine, and now president zelensky is met with a political deadlock. what the hell happened this year? yes, i think there are three factors here. first, the well-known inability of americans to wait long. we love to fight short wars. remember the persian gulf. we hate. has not reached a dead end, and the closer we get, ding-ding-ding, to the election year, the clearer it is that the trend of disagreements on one issue or another is becoming more complex, so for zelensky this is a completely different place than a year ago. what happens if he leaves empty- handed? well, the supply of money from the american conveyor belt will be enough for ukraine for 2 months, perhaps three, at the expense of our european friends. that as we approach the remaining funds for replenishment, the question arises as to whether we will exceed them? we certainly have the ability to ful

former supreme allied commander of nato, four star navy admiral james stavridis.lyst for nbc news. thank you, all, for bearing with us. let's get to our top story this morning. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is here in the u.s. for the third time since russia launched its full-scale invasion in february of 2022. he'll meet with president biden at the white house to discuss his country's needs on the battlefield and the importance of america's continued support. president biden has proposed just over $60 billion in new wartime funding for ukraine as part of a national security package. but republicans say that foreign aid must be tried to additional funding and policy changes at the southern border. we'll talk more about that, willie. >>> the top senator on each side, meanwhile, of these talks, democrat chris murphy of connecticut, republican james langford of oklahoma, cautioned yesterday a deal involving foreign aid and border measures that would make both sides happy may not be reached by the end of this week. senator murphy has called republicans' dema

james stavridis believes that kiev will have to come to terms with the loss of crimea and the land corridorover, the ukrainian army, according to the military man, cannot compare with the russian one, primarily in terms of aviation, but the supply of other western weapons is on the verge of breakdown, primarily due to internal political struggle. in usa. the pentagon admitted that they already have to choose between their own combat readiness and sending weapons to ukraine. we have a little more than 4 billion dollars left to help ukraine and about 1 billion for replenishment of american reserves. of course, we have the opportunity to fully use 4 billion, but this is a difficult choice, because in the end we have to make decisions regarding our own combat readiness and the ability to continue to support ukraine in the way that it is. needs to continue working on military assistance to kiev, the us senate, where the democratic majority even postponed the christmas holiday, but the republican-controlled house of representatives did not follow this example, it still demands concessions on defe

with the transfer of territory to russia, in fact, as far as i understand in the context, i mean stavridis, while president zelenskyi generally expressed yesterday that if they stop helping us, then ukraine will have to wage a guerilla war, what is the mood of its military in general, how do you see the next year? i would say that the mood among the personnel is this, here are all the comrades who... came first of all voluntarily on february 24, those who were already, say, in the zone of the ato, oos, and so on, eh, well, there is no panic there is no mood , there is some kind of fatigue, well, it is actually there, but no one even wants to show it until our victory is complete, that’s it, that’s such a mood, everyone understands it, many have already not repeatedly injured and contused, but after such a short treatment, they will only be able to heal there, all the wounds have healed, they rush into battle, and this is very important, and i will say, no matter what happens there, here everyone, i say this for all our brothers, not only my brigade, i communicate with many, until the compl

so, the following. next admiral james stavridis writes in a column for bloomberg: "supporting the evente chances of peace talks in a year. it is likely that it would be better for kyiv to agree to the temporary or permanent transfer of crimea and the land bridge to russia in exchange for ukraine's accession to the eu and nato. i about what kind of massive attack is going on the heads of the ukrainians. next, then, i take the new york times, writes. this also this week, the united states of america recommended that ukraine temporarily secure these positions and increase its own production of weapons, all in order to, it means that it is enough to create a convincing enough threat for russia to go to negotiations at the end of the 24th or in the 25th year, and there it is written that the ukrainian leadership does not understand the instability of the help from the usa and is asking for weapons, which it does not. exists, that is, betrayal is going on on all fronts, but it is difficult to imagine the psychological state of ukrainians, who have all this in their heads, so we need to have a

i shared your research with admiral james stavridis, former commander of nato, and he said to me, be aware of the lesson, post world war i, we went the way of isolationism, and arguably that's what gave rise to world war ii. >> yeah, i think every context is different, but what we've done is gone so far in the direction of being the world's cop, and, you know, there is a militarized status quo in this country. the u.s. feels like it needs to do something abroad through military force primarily, we've gone extremely far in the direction of using the military as the primary tool of u.s. foreign policy, and arguably that's not keeping americans or anyone else in the world any safer. my other research has shown that in the so-called war on terror, the kind of ripple effects, the ways that these wars have caused indirect death, economic crisis and hunger and the collapse of health care infrastructure, that's caused 4.5 million deaths, not to say all due to u.s. actions, but the reverberating effects of these post-9/11 wars. >> donald trump likes to say that he kept the united states out o

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josh lederman joins me, and also with me is admiral stavridis, former supreme commander of nato. josh, i want to start with you. we know that israel is regularly coming un -- under attack, to give us the latest from both places. >> reporter: a lot of those attacks are coming from the north, from hezbollah, where some 30 rockets last night targeting the northernmost city in israel. additional strikes today, drones coming over the border with israel warning it may not be able to prevent a second front in the war there. we are also learning within the last hour or so that another american citizen is now dead as a result of this war. a 70 years judy weinstein has been believed to be held captive in the gaza strip after being kidnapped on october 7th. now her kibbutz says they have learned she was actually killed on october 7th, and her body brought to the gaza strip. that's also the case with her husband, who we learned several days ago was also in the same situation. it turned out had also been killed in israel, brought to gaza. now the number of american citizens believed to be hel

. >>> and retired navy admiral james stavridis joins the conversation. as the 2024 election now is just around the corner we're getting a sense of how voters feel about donald trump and president joe biden and their political goals if re-elected for a second term. in a recent poll the dai mail asked what trump and biden want if they're voted back to the white house next year and the newspaper compiled the results to a word cloud where the most popular is the most prominent. for biden the most popular word was nothing followed by economy and peace. but get this for trump, the most popular word was revenge followed closely by dictatorship and power. trump then touted the word cloud and posted it to his social media page. points for honesty, i suppose. >>> joining us now, senior politics reporter for axios, eugene scott. donald trump seems to be leaning in on the idea of a dictatorship he said he would be the retribution, he talked about using the powers of the office for his own personal and political gains and frankly getting revenge against his political

joining us now is admiral james stavridis.israeli offensive started about how dense the population is there and how difficult it would be. you said this would be fallujah on steroids, what we experienced in iraq. the urban warfare is that difficult. you have had the defense secretary and tony blinken meeting with the israeli war cabinet, pleading with them publically and privately to target their shootings, their attack. mark regev, an experienced diplomat and political leader, was saying that the rafah strike in the south, it supposedly is a safe zone, was a targeted attack. as a military analyst, is there any way to go after the hamas leaders that they want to get and still not have these kinds of civilian casualties? which are really intolerable from a humanitarian perspective, as well as politically now. secretary austin warning they could lose the war because of this. >> indeed. this is an absolute element in combat today. it is this global narrative. israel is losing. it will affect them in terms of resources that they a

navy admiral james stavridis who served in nato and the executive chairman of silverado policy acceleratortank focusing on national, cyberand energy security issues. admiral, first to you what does need to fight russia in this -- going into this winter period. it has been stalemated. and now the speaker says today nothing for ukraine, nothing for israel, until they figure out the border security and that's not going to happen this week before they go home for christmas. they don't come back until, you know, after january, mid-january, first, second week, second week. where does this leave ukraine? >> the pentagon still has sufficient money, armaments, kind of in the pipeline that can probably stretch for a month or so. europe similarly. beyond that it gets kind of dire for ukraine to be honest. and we ought to be deeply concerned about that. for starters, it would enable putin potentially to re-energize on the offensive side. they have been stalled offensively for over a year. but if ukraine were really cut off from the armaments it needs, and presumably the money would therefore choke dow

admiral james stavridis.ogether with ukraine.” secondly, frankly, and we need to call a spade a spade, is the lack of offensive success this summer. it really failed. and the ukrainian armed forces found themselves in a serious impasse. this was even more disappointing. and finally, thirdly, you don’t need to be a political expert to understand that our own politics. it means that i would say, i would say, you are on the right path, comrades, that means, what would you warn against, regarding advice, parting words, you must believe in the great russian russian people, this faith is the key to success. thanks to all the regional chefs, they have done a great job today, day and night, and they are working, our children are finally alone, when are they coming for a visit? thank you very much, i’ll be happy to come, uh, well, i was there, well, really i was so unnoticed, but nevertheless i drove around lugansk, looked, once again i want to repeat what i already said, i said, you know, that’s it looks quite modest

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russia, we understand this, and it’s interesting that they are a man with such a good fish surname, stavridisit happen that a year ago the halls of the congress were buzzing, i, along with ukraine. and now president zelensky is met with political deadlock. what the hell happened this year? yeah, i think there's a trifact there. we love to fight short wars. remember the persian gulf. we hate long wars. forever wars are a fear , that's right, we hated vietnam, we don't like being involved in something for a long time, this conflict is starting to resemble an lp record, secondly, to be honest, you need to call a spade a spade, it's the lack of success in attacking this in the summer, it really failed, the sssu found itself in a serious impasse, this is even more clearly visible that the trend of disagreements on certain issues is becoming more complex, so for... that’s what bykov and akunin turned out to be, that’s one thing, but there are no real sanctions yet, and the state here should, in my opinion , show the will, well, by the way, not only in these matters, alexander mikhailovich, i would

. >>> joining me now is retired admiral james stavridis, the msnbc chief international analyst and formerack with us as well. let me pick up there if i can, admiral because it's heartbreaking. you can't even imagine. first of all, you're held hostage. you're released. how joyous can you be if other members of your family have left behind and you have that trauma. what about a deal that would allow the release, frankly, of thousands of palestinian hostages. we just heard from benjamin netanyahu forcefully yesterday, they are not going to back down until they believe hamas is eliminated. are those two things by nature 1000% diametrically opposed? >> well, they're certainly opposed but if you kind of did them one after the other it's conceivable to me that you could have a hostage negotiation? i think it was very close to another tranche of hostages coming out. worth noting that that deal cratered because hamas refuses to release the young women between 20 and 30 who were captured at that rave concert, presumably -- and we hear this from our own state department -- because they have truly ho

and so he and admiral stavridis and others did solve the problem and they're right that the strike againstr the pirates was part of it. but i don't think it was the inclusive or necessarily even a principle thing. pivoting to this issue, i think if we strike some targets within yemen out of necessity, i don't think that's going to enflame the broader middle east and anything close to the same scale of what we're seeing now, you know, in the broader palestinian gaza region. my guess is that most countries in the region actually want the shipping to work. and don't really agree with what the houthi rebels are doing. again, iran is the obvious exception to that. but i'm not that concerned about an escalation if we do a couple of strikes against land targets. >> that's good to hear. michael, thank you very much. michael o'hao'hanlon. happy holidays. >>> coming up, a look at the top stocks on the move ahead of the morning opening bell on this friday. and eat, drink and be merry. ahead of christmas, author and restaurateur andy murray will join us to talk family and food, including a peanut butt

james stavridis. president emeritus on the council of foreign relations, richard haass. >> we have so much to talk about today. i mean, willie, i xwot the say, we also have a poll by the way, these polls go back and forth. we have a poll showing that joe biden leading in the swing states that he won last time. we'll get to that poll in just a minute. i wonder if people are going to obsess with this for all the polls that are bad news for joe biden. in the times report yesterday, republicans standing back, j.d. vance, why do we support -- russia, here are the numbers, russia started the war and you know these numbers 360,000 troops. they have lost 315,000. of those 360,000 troops. that means they'reavg to go into prisons. they're having to scrape people off the streets, they're having to fight with peoplet have never fought in war before and you even look at whatre fighting with, their tanks, 3500 tanks, they'vet two-thirds of them,y lost about tanks, they're going to have to go back the surplus and sa

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