vindman: yes, great, thanks. yes. so how do i see -- how do you things -- how do things play out as putin gets corn earned with the situation? it's going to be hairy because he's going to lash out and obfuscate his horrendous, terrible decision there. he's going to blame the west for providing support. the catastrophe on the ground in ukraine will deepen as russian ground forces are ground down, which is amazingly occurring right now. the ukrainian armed forces are grinding them down right now. tanks are coming to a halt. not receiving the fuel, food, or water to sustain themselves. they've exceeded their lines of communication. they don't have the air cover that they expected. it's getting hard. only about a third to half of the formation has crossed. so we're still in the early days. the lopsided morale suggests this will not play out well on the ground so vladimir putin will result to his other tools -- airpower, long-range strikes, aerial bombardments, and he's going to punish the ukrainian population into some so

vindman: i would. there are things we can do, frankly, there are more things we could have done yesterday. 12 hours ago, before this started, it was a symbol or geometry. we could have provided more with regards to armed defensive lethal aid, air defense, coastal defense, cruise missiles, we could have threatened russian naval forces. but now it has become more complex, because russian soldiers are dying, and that becomes risky. i would recommend still supplying ukraine, but being more cautious. certainly on the nonlethal side, there should be no restrictions. romaine: but when you hear the president of the united states say there will not be boots on the ground in ukraine, is that semantics? is there still an optionality that we could airstrikes or some sort of soup that maybe doesn't actually physically put boots on the ground? lt. col. vindman: no, i don't think so. this administration has zero appetite for any bilateral wrist with regards to russia. we have staked out a very, very firm position abo

last night, he said that you, alexander vindman, colonel vindman, believe you -- you think to the audience, you believe you have a moral obligation to defend your homeland. your job is to take up arms in -- or else you are evil. he is basically making you the face of ukraine and it feels like he is looking for a way to make you craning out there. make ukrainian a me. and the best way for him to do that is to make you the face of the anomie because you spoke out against trump. >> i 100% agree with tucker carlson. i am one hunted percent interested in defending my homeland. i am not saying that rhetorically. for 21 and a half years, i served in the u.s. army. i served in combat. i served in some of the most challenging locations in the world. i put my career on the line to defend this country and defend its interests. so, he is right. i am all in on defending this country. the problem is, i have to defend it against guys like him, guys like mike pompeo, and guys like donald trump that care less about this country. they are the ones that are putting this country in jeopardy. they are the ones

vindman spoke up and of course pushed back on that, reported it. and for that, he's now suing.hat the campaign against their client was, quote, designed to inflict maximum damage by creating and spreading disinformation they knew would be picked up and amplified by anchors at fox news. he is speaking to the close contact between the white house and fox news. he also talks about intimidation factor. the actions taken against vindman send a message to other potential witnesses as well, cooperate and tell the truth at your own peril. he points to one of trump's old tweets from 2019 insinuating big consequences for people within his administration who provided information about that call. he doesn't specify how much money he wants in this case, but he is taking them to federal court >> what did they say he alleges was over the line and what will this case, as a legal matter, hinge on? >> he points to a variety of information and disinformation that was on fox news about his past, his history, reputation. >> split loyalties with ukraine. >> exactly. but he points to how coordinated

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i think colonel vindman had a good assessment and much more informed than mine.ost frustrates me, it used to be -- again, we're not directly in this vis-a-vis russia and ukraine, obviously, our sentiments are on the side of ukraine, right? i hope. will it present a rally around the flag, in this era of polarization, where in the end, the division we had in this country stopped at the water's edge. that no longer seems to be the case. turn on cable television pundits, you can see some who are outright rooting for vladimir putin. i'd like to think there's things to unite us and that is the common enemy and the common enemy in this case is clearly russia and vladimir putin. >>> answer my question, should nato go to war for ukraine? >>> article 5 holds if one of the 30 nations is attacked the others can help defend it. that can also pertain to cyberwarfare. what if the ground war remains contained but cyber attacks go to nations. is america prepared to respond? richard clarke is the authority. and he is here. >>> plus, has putin lost it? when france's president met w

colonel vindman, i want to come back to you, and ask you an uncomfortable question. that i think tim's talking about, putin's unfavorability, the number of republicans who don't like putin is 39%. i thought that was a little high. biden's is 89%. frankly i thought that was a little low. but my question is did -- did six years of blasting america's allies and i don't even know the right verb to use for what he did to putin, russia, are you listening, he enlisted him in his general election campaign against hillary clinton, the helsinki moment, of course, when jonathan lemire asked him the question in front of the world sided with putin, not the u.s. intelligence agencies, at every turn, not just elevating putin to our level, but above american foreign policy, is it possible that it worked and we now can't as a united country participate with our allies or is it just a divided america? is it -- what do they think? >> no, it didn't work. i don't believe that about this country. i don't believe that about these people. the bottom line is what i see is based on my perspec

alexander vindman is in fact demanding it unlike the british foreign secretary alexander vindman knows quite a bit about ukraine. in fact,eign he was born there. alexander vindman believes you have a moral obligationwa to defend his homeland and if youhe don't, you're a murderer. watch him once again on msnbc. >> i think these folks, these right wing pundits and the gop that support him really frankly have blood on their hands qu they're encouraging and enticing this kind of opportunismec from putin. and it's not whether it's not just kind of plain rhetoric like you can say something without consequences butou too often happens in here in the united states. this has real consequences r and people are going to dieea because of this . >> they're goingil to die.uc so your job is to take up arms in defense of alexander vindman home country or else you're evil. you have of blood on your hands and that's effectively our policy. , you'veexander vindman got a compelling argument we'rea in what's is going to costil us to defend the country you were born it well, in fact, joe biden addressednt t

colonel vindman, what can you tell us? >> they're holding their own but they need some support.ipment. they've managed to establish territorial defense forces, large vast numbers of territorial defense forces, but they don't have the helmets and the body armor to equip them. that needs to get there today. that's an important thing. radios are critical. they're working in small distributive groups. those radios are critically important. and, of course f, all the stuff our allies have, there are planes that are -- could backfill ukranian losses, and everything needs to get there and get there right away. >> congressman, you are coming back to session this week. how much will the united states congress do to provide some of what we just heard from colonel vindman. >> i think we're going to have unanimity around supporting ukraine in this moment. we've all been inspired by their resistance. we understand that we need to provide them with tools to defend themselves and also to punish russia. wherever we were in the congress a few weeks ago, that's completely changed now. i think we'l

very quickly before we go, i'll ask you alexander vindman from the u.s. and nato side, what do you see as the sort of potential reaction, pitfalls on that side, the u.s. and nato? >> once the shots are fired, this could go in any number of directions. if russia encounters significant head winds in the military offensive and starts to take significant casualties and believes that the safe havens, provisions of weapons and equipment that originates from the baltics, from poland is responsible for that, we could see a situation in which we do see this expanding in a maybe even to implicate nato security directly. there is also, this is not going to play out in a matter of days but weeks. russia when it gets hit with punishing sanctions is going to retaliate and find a way to inflect pain. it's tried to do so before with counter sanctions. this time it will probably do that through energy pressure, shutting off oil and gas, it's built a war chest to with stand that and can probably do that from cyber attacks and through destroying the cable networks, the comm

and i understand the point that colonel vindman makes. by the way, congratulations to him on his heroism under enormous pressure in the last administration. so, you know, a huge fan. just saying that i think all of this is being debated, but at least as of yesterday, the administration's position was they did not want to ratchet up the sanctions ahead some of very clear and definitive action by russia. >> alex, do we -- i'll let you respond there to the congresswoman as well, but do we get lost in this discussion about what russia is saying they're doing, versus what they're really doing? it just creates -- seems pretty obvious that russia is not being honest, we're seeing independent photos of what is really going on. >> my daughter might say something lying liars that lie. that sounds whimsical. but there is very little that the president of russia, vladimir putin, will say or will, you know, kind of hold as true and that means that everything below him is even easier. so deception operations are engrained into russian kind of strategic

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vindman is seeking unspecified damages. accordings for those accused in the suit declined to comment or did not immediately respond. vindman's report on then president trump's phone call pressuring ukrainian president for dirt on joe bide 's son hunter ultimately led to trump's first impeachment. lieutenant colonel vindman will be a guest coming up on "morning joe." >>> two years into the pandemic now, and some lawmakers are calling for an end to the covid-19 state of emergency. here's the suggestion that senate minority leader mitch mcconnell made on the senate floor. >> but from a society-wide perspective, after two years, on a hellish highway, it appears our country is finally arriving at the off-ramp. the virus appears to be heading endemic. 70% of americans agree with the statement, it is time we accept that covid is here to stay and we just need to get on with our lives. it's time for the state of emergency to wind down. >> earlier this week, the world health organization advised some countries to carefully consider r

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. >>> stay with us we'll check on the ground and then return with alexander vindman. another special hour of velshi begins right now. i'm ali velshi it's 8:00 a.m. on the east coast, 3:00 p.m. in kyiv as ukraine enters day 3 of its invasion by russia. moments ago, secretary of state tony blinken authorized $350 million for immediate support to ukraine's defense. that brings the total assistance that the united states has committed to ukraine over the past year to more than $1 billion. stunning footage shows a gaping hole in the side of a high-rise apartment building that a ukrainian official tells nbc news was damaged by a russian missile. explosions and gun fire have been heard throughout the night. the u.n. refugee agency said more than 120,000 ukrainians have fled the country. meanwhile, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy took to twitter to debunk misinformation and reiterate and prove he's still in the country, still in the city of kyiv. he's not ordered ukrainian troops to stand down. just this morning he made a plea to his citizens on telegram, a social app

let me start with you in terms of how this works, lieutenant vindman, because so often as we're hearingbout, there seems to be this disconnect of sorts. maybe that's not even the right word, but there's a difference of perhaps opinion about the urgency or imminence of a threat that russia poses. you know, you know this country quite well and the military tactics of it. do you think the united states is getting ahead of its skis and ringing the alarm, or do you think that putin is now more than a provocateur at this point? >> well, it's interesting. i think there are actually three sides to this story. there's the u.s. side and the massive, enormous amount of data and evidence that the president had to consume to make the judgment that the russians have made the decision, that vladimir putin has made the decision and an attack is coming in the next couple days. that is coming not just from satellite intelligence. we have a powerful all-source analysis capability. we have signals intelligence that has surely picked up the communications between different echelons of military commands sayi

colonel vindman, who can maintain this posture for longer? vladimir putin or nato and, frankly, ukraine, who sometimes gets lost in the middle. if an invasion doesn't happen, if russia doesn't move its troops and it stays like this, who can last longer? >> no question that it's going to be ukraine and nato that outlast this current buildup. the fact is that it is simply militarily unsustainable to keep that kind of force posture on the border indefinitely. that's why i will breathe a deep sigh of relief if we start to get certainly deeper into march, because all those helicopters, planes, need and require maintenance. those personnel that are ready have low morale based on the reporting of drinking and ka rousing and covid running rampant in the camps. those forces can't be kept in the field forever. again, if we don't see this turn within the next several days into a violent military confrontation -- which i think is where we are. i think we're past the diplomacy stage and i don't see vladimir putin biting on anything, because the west and u

one of the military's former top experts on russia and ukraine retired colonel alexander vindman is suingiuliani. you may recall colonel vindman testified at a house impeachment hearing in 2018 and was harassed by members of the far right and his brother was fired from a job at the white house. vindman is suing under the ku klux klan act of 1871 which forbids people from preventing government workers from doing their jobs or retaliating against them for doing their jobs. now, trump's first impeachment came after trump stopped american weapons from going to ukraine to help defend against russia, unless ukraine agreed to investigate joe biden and his family. we know that happened because trump himself released the details of the phone call where he made that threat. well, as you know, the president, the current president will speak shortly about the raid in syria against terror targets. we're watching for that. we're talking about it on social media. on twitter you can follow me @scott mcgrew. >> it's 5:49 right now hand new this morning peninsula state lawmakers are pushing to provide free

colonel vindman, i start with you. two-part question for you.h and your sense of what is actually happening on the ground. >> well, i was very glad to hear the president give public remarks on this topic. i think they were a long time coming. i think the american public deserves to understand that we're on the brink of a very, very serious scenario from unfolding with significant consequences to the u.s. public. within these remarks, i picked out a couple of moments that were of particular concern. the fact that there's likely still a scenario, even if it's not conventional, of a cyber scenario and that there are -- that would be significant repercussions. symmetric or asymmetric responses to that as well as the idea that if russia targets u.s. personnel in ukraine, they would be a swift and decisive response. i think that's particularly important, because there were some ambiguity about u.s. personnel that remained. with regards to the situation in ukraine on the border between russia and ukraine, there's a saying that we have in the military.

we want to bring in the european affairs alexander vindman.tate of the battle and how much longer can ukrainian forces hold off this massive russian assault? >> you know, wolf, i wrote a lengthy piece on this and kind of laid out much of this scenario. i saw this coming for definitely quite a few weeks. and one thing that i certainly got wrong was how -- maybe overrated to be a good way to put it, the russian forces were and underrated the ukrainian forces are. the russians were supposed to land some massive blows, really disrupt and destroy a lot of the command and control, political leadership. they have not been particularly effective there. and the ukrainians are putting up a massive resistance. and this is going to be a slog. i don't think this is going to be as easy as the russian -- russians think that it is. and frankly i don't know if this is going to turn out the way vladimir putin thought it would, certainly not without the costs. the costs now seem pretty heavy, even amongst his domestic population. there are protests on the street

lieutenant colonel vindman listen to that phone call as the president was making it.d to testify about it. he now says in sworn legal documents, in this lawsuit, that there was a concerted conspiracy to intimidate him as a witness. did you sense that at the time when you were taking his testimony in that room? >> well, without a doubt, we sensed the effort by the former president and his allies, his son and others to smear lieutenant colonel vindman and attack him personally, to question his patriotism. sadly, i think some of the republicans during his deposition, similarly try to impugn his patriotism. he is a dedicated soldier who served and, i believe, earned a purple heart for his service. so i think that on the basis of what we have observed publicly, he has a pretty strong case to make. and i wish him every success. because no one should have gone through what he did, for doing his duty and -- a subpoena. >> before you go, i want to ask you based on your position in the intelligence committee. you certainly know more about the situation at the ukraine border rig

could start to plan assets to bear. >> nic, lieutenant colonel vindman, thank you. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> massive forces amassing on the border with ukraine, while here at home the election plot. a lot to talk about with congressman jason crow. he is here, and he is next. that's why i use the freestyle libre 2 system. with a painless, one-second scan i know my glucose numbers without fingersticks. now i'm managing my diabetes better and i've lowered my a1c from 8.2 to 6.7. take the mystery out of managing your diabetes and lower your a1c. now you know. try it for free at freestylelibre.us (music) ♪ i think to myself ♪ ♪ what a wonderful world ♪ as a professional bull-rider i'm used to taking chances. but when it comes to my insurance i don't. i use liberty mutual, they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. wooo, yeaa, woooooo and, by switching you could even save 665 dollars. hey tex, can someone else get a turn? yeah, hang on, i'm about to break my own record. yeah. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, libe

. >>> alexander vindman says his career and personal life were forever turned upside-down as he served as a star witness in president trump's first impeachment trial which he was subpoenaed to do. now he is saoulg trump jr., rudy giuliani and others because he was willing to tell the truth about trump. in a new lawsuit he allege it was designed to inflict maximum damage by creating and spreading disinformation that they knew would be picked up and amplified by angstors at fox news. retired lieutenant colonel alexander vindman is with us. . >> thank you for having me on again, brianna. . >> can you tell us, colonel, why you are filing this? >> sure. i think this is a critically important effort to hold accountable corrupt officials, close relatives and inner circle for donald trump in their effort to stifle the duties of an official in the u.s. government. this had enormous chilling effect on both the folks that would come forward to report wrongdoing in that administration but also intended to suppress officials in the conduct of their duties. to this day we see folks being too scared

you may recall colonel vindman testified at a house impeachment hearing in 2019. his brother was fired by a job at the white house. vindman is suing under the ku klux klan act of 1871 which forbids people from preventing government workers from doing their jobs or retaliating against them for doing their job. trump's impeachment came after trump stopped american weapons from going to ukraine to help defend itself against russia unless ukraine agreed to investigate joe biden hand his family. we know that happened because trump himself released the details of the phone call where he made that threat. the president we hi is going to speak on that attack on an isis leader here shortly. he's at the prayer breakfast. we're monitoring that and we'll talk about it ton social media as it happens. on twitter you'll find me @scottmcgrew. >> thanks, scott. 6:48 and new this morning peninsula state lawmakers are pushing to provide free tuition for san matteo county college students. new rule would give districts the ability to waive enrollment fees all together. students would

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and colonel vindman and many other people who look at these issues not from the point of view but from just a global perspective and i also trying to utilize my own experience as a dissident and also in my foundation bringing dissidents from other places to tell american, especially young american, how to fight for democracy and also to recognize the threat to democracy no matter whether it comes from far let of -- for a left or far right. host: our guest's claim to fame was being the youngest world chess champion in the world by 1985. gary kasparov. we have a tweet from a viewer if that says nato will do nothing because they need oil and gas but the u.s. might because of the biden relationship. guest: that's what we hear every night on tonguer carlson. this point of view. let's start with russian oil and gas. it's more about gas. and it's correct that europe buys nearly one third of its gas, natural gas consumption from russia. but russia sells # 0% -- 20rbg ts the vote on the vote of the the gentlewoman from from florida to suspend the rules and pass home run 5577. the clerk will rep

colonel vindman, you were the first to speak on this program extensively about preparing ourselves forhat's happening, exactly what's happening. i wonder if you can take a step back and just talk to me about the players, about what putin underestimated about zelenskyy and about what you think when you hear the analysis ant putin's seeming isolation and everyone seems to edge it instability. >> yeah. so maybe i'll start with a sad note and then a happy note and start with putin. he's actually the same guy he's been for a long time. there's a consistency in his action and the consistency is also on a trend line of increasingly provocative behavior. coming to power on the impression that he was going to sustain the fledgling russiian democracy. in fact very quickly he cracked down on opposition. he cracked up on oligarch that is had influence in the system. and proceeded to consolidate control. in 2004 he got a candidate to usher him in to office. the rhetoric increased in 2005 and 2007 as a result of reversals and the slipping grip on the former russian periphery and by 2007, in response

thank you for joining us this morning, retired lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, a former nationality director of eastern europe, the caucuses and russia, the author of an important book, not just of the story and impeachment, because what is going on between russia and ukraine right now. so pick up a copy of here, right matters on american story. for more on this, let's bring in my old friend jeff bennett, now the chief washington correspondent for the pbs news hour, and an msnbc political contributor! i can never introduce jeff bennett on my show, without a big, big smile! it is so good to have you back. but first, let's talk. let's talk about what's going on with the january six investigation. every week seems like there are developments people like us, follow closely. we've seen massive developments, both at the committee level and at donald trump, who seems to be campaigning, and revving up his base but the big line, mike pence finally came out and said, donald trump was wrong, i didn't have the right to overturn the election, and the center of the two republican members of th

your reaction to vindman and those other points you want to raise. >> vindman is absolutely right., the russians put that build-up on ukraine's border and we talked about providing ukraine weapons but we didn't when they withdrew. had we done that, they would be much better placed to deal with this aggression. also, the administration's been slow to send more advanced weapons. ukraine really needs the american stingers, which are much more powerful than the stingers coming from the baltic nations. it's my understanding they have not sent many of them there. so the administration needs to -- evelyn is absolutely right. we need to maintain military supplies to ukraine. we probably cannot do that by air anymore, but by land we can do this. we should send more advanced weapons. we should send predator drones because casualties for putin are deadly. meaning that as evelyn said earlier today, russian mothers don't like when their children die in wars, especially wars that the russian people disapprove of. no one in russia wants, except putin and a few people around them, want to be commi

army lieutenant colonel alexander vindman.ll with us as well. >> david remnick, you spent your life studying russia. give us your insights on what has happened over the past week. >> it is a horrendous tragedy for ukraine above all, a horrendous tragedy for ukraine. in the coming days i expect it to get worse. i think vladimir putin from the start has made very clear what he has intended to do and what he is going to do. it looks like he is going to take kyiv and take the ukrainian government, and the rhetoric in moscow is so ugly as to embarrass orwell. that he this are somehow the salvation of ukraine, that they are saving ukraine. this is the language of some orwellian novel. so i don't expect anything remotely good. they're taking their time. they're moving in on the capital. they're subduing other cities, and your excellent report showed a young guy with an ak-47 and he didn't know the first thing about how to use it. there's bravery everywhere in ukraine, but nothing like the military resources, the defense sources, the

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so your job is to take up arms in defense of alexander vindman's home country or else it is evil.t is our policy. all right, alexander vindman, you are compelling us to get in, what will this cost to defend the country? in fact joe biden address that question today. the cost will be here at home. we need to be honest about it. really? biden said the pain of our sanctions, watch. >> reprimanding full blocking sanctions on two financial institutions, deb and the military bank. reprimanding sanctions on sovereign debt. that means we cut off the russians government from western finance. it can no longer raise cannot have new debt on european. starting tomorrow, we continue ahead, and the sanctions on russian's lead center and family members. they share with the kremlin policies and share in the pain as well. because of russian's actions, we work with germany to ensure norden nord stream 2 and will not come as a promise, will not move forward. >> tucker: so let's put aside the question of why you would ever want to shut down any energy pipeline anywhere ever. especially now, nearly cru

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colonel vindman thank you for being with us tonight.derway right now that was called, an emergency meeting that vladimir zelensky asked, the united states and flat -- linda thomas-greenfield as said quote, putin wants the world to travel back in time. time before the united nations, times were empires world the world. the rest of the world has moved forward it's not 1919. it's 2022. i want to ask you what you think about that? >> it's exactly right, it somehow will return to the geopolitics -- of we're right mix right, where the powerful can do as they please. and it's very the age of empires, it's a throwback to centuries gone by. it's exactly the kind of world who thinks he can prosper. so this is what he's trying to do. -- by invading a peaceful neighbors and he setting the blueprint for the world wants. 11 >> are you a little bit puzzled at the responses coming from some right wing american media, and now members of the republican party that seem to be implying that maybe this isn't all that bad, give me a clear reason why we should

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normally i'd start with the congresswoman but i'll defer and start with you lieutenant colonel vindmanin ukraine. how does it feel to hear americans, including the house american caucus post essential recalling biden walk to where michael steele rebuked them and said this is called not supporting your country, essentially. this is what disloyalty to home looks like. let me play that really quick. >> today we sent another letter to putin for an interview, if we get it in ukraine and we'd like that interview, too. neither one of these men runs a democracy by traditional american standards, both are tyrants. >> no, no, ukraine is a democracy and last, i'll mention -- administration you formally worked for calling the reinvasion, the further invasion of ukraine genius. i wonder how that reads to you as an american as somebody who has roots in ukraine lieutenant colonel. >> thanks for having me on, joy. it's frightening. it's deeply disturbing for the former president to bend wagon and to cheer lead for the world's probably most belligerent authoritarian and enemy of the united states if he

. >>> joining me is alexander vindman, form director for european affairs for the national security councilngs to get to, colonel. thank you for joining me. we have u.s. intelligence that shows russia has assembled about 70% of the military forces needed to launch an invasion of ukraine. moscow is calling that detail alarmist and scare mongering. from your experience, what is the reality of the situation? where do you put the likelihood of an invasion? >> thanks for having me on, alex. i think the likelihood is basically where i believed it was for the past several months. i think it's likely. i think we're frankly on the cusp of the largest military offensive in europe since world war ii. there is nothing to indicate by russia's actions, not its words, because it has been engaging in some sort of tepid diplomacy, but nothing by its actions to indicate that it's no longer interested in this course of action. frankly i think the only thing russia is interested in is ukraine back into its fold, back into the russian sphere of influence. the only way it could achieve that is through a massive

army lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, previously served as european affairs director for the national security council, also the author of the book "here right matters." also with us, cnn national security analyst and former deputy director of national intelligence beth saner. i want to get your perspective on this news that is coming out of -- from the spokesman for the kremlin. he says moscow is now ready to send representatives to minsk, the capital of belarus, to talk with ukraine. he raises this idea that because zelenskyy has talked about neutrality. what do you make of this offer and is neutrality really enough for russia? >> i think the sides are really too far apart at the moment. i think if we -- even if parties meet, there is going to be very difficult series of negotiations. one of the criteria would have to be probably russians holding -- freezing their forces in place, i'm not sure if the russians are prepared to do that. otherwise there is no good faith measures from the russians to even engage in diplomacy. how that might look is interesting because i don't think they'

i think we have seen from the weird security council meeting a few days ago, where vindman putin basically humiliated all of his senior officials and his government, and his cabinet, forcing them to kowtow to him on national television. i'm sure trump would love to have a meeting like that broadcast on national tv. fortunately, when president trump was surrounded by officials, who are traditional republicans, who wanted to pursue a traditional american foreign policy towards russia. we managed to hold onto that, even when the former president was in the white house. his personal intentions were always clear, aligning with vladimir putin, getting the u.s. out of nato and blackmailing ukraine. that is the only thing that he ever consciously did for ukraine was blackmailed them. >> human rights is your background and expertise. how do you assess the state of and durability of ukraine's democracy, as it relates to human rights and potential human rights abuses that might come? tom: if there is a war, there will be human rights abuses. given the involvement of russia and some of the actors that

vindman blew the whistle to try to get trump to talk. >> in russia my act of expressing concern to theain of command in an official and private channel would have severe and reper kugs, nks the the that the whurl wool krabltly. he retired from the army. he falsed the lock of blowback. zrz some targets, some recent. but mr. pence's tardy, well-liblgd breath out of recall. by all accounts pence was still trying to figure out if there was any road back. last january he is taking this newer public stance which has some potential benefits for the same reason the other people did, as i told you, after it's clear the base is hardened against him. nine out of ten oppose him running next cycle. and while this may have people focused on this new thing pence said, his new cycle, those examples show, including some republicans, that the measure of political courage is on your actions and your full record. and by that standard, if you deal in facts, let's not forget the facts of pence's years of hypocrisy on behalf of trump, an awkward posturing that would put most rookie yogis to shame. >> preside

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. >> lieutenant colonial alexander vin vindman, great to hear your thoughts on this understand folding situation. >> thank you. >>> we have this video to share with you now of how volatile the situation on the boarder between russia and ukraine is. >> down, down. >> you're looking at ukrainian officials and foreign reporters running away from what appears to be shelling as they visited the conflict zone in eastern ukraine yesterday. the group was driving to a quote observational out post in the donetsk region when they had to take shielder from apparent incoming fire. the region is along the front lines. sam kylie visited a town there that shares the name with a vastly different and much larger american ma d ma. >> reporter: a short flight from a mortar bomb from rebel territory. after eight years of war so close to the front line, homes here are almost worth lless. these houses have been torn down and sold as recycled bricks and tiles, these houses sell for about $70. >> this is the end of this street. now, just down there is the check point and beyond that is rebel held territory. in

. >>> stay with us we'll check on the ground and then return with alexander vindman. begins right now. i'm ali velshi it's 8:00 a.m. on the east coast, 3:00 p.m. in kyiv as ukraine enters day 3 of its invasion by russia. moments ago, secretary of

i want to get to moscow for the very latest and also with lieutenant colonel alexander vindman. he's former director of european internal affairs. he's author of "here matters." nic robinson, i'm going to start with you. president biden made clear he wants russia to prevail. he said there will be sanctions if they invade ukraine. at times it felt like he was talking directly to president putin. >> you really felt he was trying to connect with president putin, and he was going to continue diplomacy, but we're not going to change our principles, we're not going to roll over and say ukraine can't become a member of nal nato, because a couple hours earlier, president putin said exactly that. president putin was saying, yes, i'm willing to negotiate, i'm willing to talk about these other issues like missile controls and transparency, but where troops are across the borders, but i'm going to speak about my core issues which is ukraine can't join nato. i think what president biden was very clearly addressing president putin and saying that may be what you're saying, but this is what up