but what i worry about and what i think colonel vindman also worries about is if russia's plan a has failed to take the major cities. then their plan b cannot be allowed to succeed. to go to the donbas, to claim the territory and have a permanent presence on ukrainian soil. we have to deprive the russian military of that capability by continuing to arm the ukrainians with high-capacity weaponry, stings, drones, other capabilities so the russians can never have a offensive. i don't think there's any peace process in the world that should allow to let the russians stay in ukraine. >> well, to that point, the chairman of the joint chiefs, general milley, was speaking at the senate arms services committee. let me ask you about it on the other side. >> this is not an easy fight they're involved in. the first part of it is probably unsuccessfully waged. they managed to defeat the russian onslaught on to kyiv. but there's a significant battle ahead in the southeast, around the donbas region where the russians intend to amass forces and continue their assault. i think it's an open question h

colonel vindman, thank you for joining us. look, you and i have been talking for a very, very long time. and we haven't had a full chance to explore this part of the conversation, which your book goes into very clearly. what is happening on the other side of the world, in ukraine, a country which you hail, is directly tied to the attacks on democracy that you witnessed in the white house while you were the director for european affairs at the national security council. >> absolutely. i think the first thing we should learn is that these guys are not very good on phone calls. they seem to implicate themselves often. but setting that aside on a light note this morning, you know, it's -- to me, i don't know why this issue sometimes is hard to communicate, but memories are short, people don't pay attention to politics. but to me, this was all about -- for the first impeachment of donald trump was all about holding up aid to ukraine. that's why he was impeached. he did that in exchange for a -- aid -- an extra helping hand with reg

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. >> joining our conversation, retired army lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, former director ofs happening in a way that makes people uncomfortable. i think before the war started, you and ambassador mcfaul were serving up difficult truths about what this would look like and what would happen and i want to continue to use you in that way because you've been right again, we do not know who is responsible for the attack of an oil depot inside russia about 20 miles from the border of ukraine. some of the reporting suggests that helicopters could have flown at such low elevations that maybe they weren't detected by anti-aircraft defenses. the ukrainians have not confirmed or denied whether or not it was them. but to its significance in terms of the war, your thoughts? >> well, first, let me thank you for coming on your show this many times, and the runway you give me to provide answers and inform the public. i really appreciate that opportunity. >> thank you. >> with regard to this incident, it is -- it's interesting, but in a way, it's not unprecedented in this war. there have been

joining me now is the retired military colonel alexander vindman. he's charge of european affairs for the security council, and author of the important book here, right matters, an american story. colonel vindman, i want to talk about something that you have said to us many times over the past weeks. i'm not 100 percent sure our viewers know what it means. but, with respect to the weaponry that ukraine has been asking for from the west, you discuss something called a lend lease program. something that united states congress has now overwhelmingly approved, what is it and how will it help? >> it will be a huge improvement in the kind of support that we would be providing ukraine. and a lot of, ways this would be finally getting off the sidelines for a reluctant administration, a reluctant national security council. what it would mean is that we actually start taking a longer view of the fact that this will be a protracted war and start looking to train ukraine on more advanced weaponry, western weaponry. not just -- weaponry. in a lot of, ways it mea

. >> let's bring in alexander vindman. he's the author of "life matters." good evening to you, colonel. vladimir putin is rarely confronted face to face. in fact, cnn has been told he's misinformed about the top adv adviser's russian military performance in ukraine. so how do you think he reacted to the chancellor giving him the facts about this war? >> i think that was probably a very difficult conversation. vladimir putin is not going to be pushed around by anybody, world leaders or let alone austria, who he doesn't believe is really that much of a state to deal with. he only really believes that russia, china and the u.s. are sovereign states. everybody else is kind of aligned to a particular block. as far as he's concerned, this is somebody else talking at him. he probably allowed the chancellor to speak his peace. but in general, he was probably advocating his own point of view as he's done consistently. what we haven't seen is the readout of the russian side from this particular meeting, and of course the austrian leadership is going to paint this as

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i think colonel vindman is right we are sending a signal we are with ukraine for the long haul.the russians were worried about the u.s. using ukraine as a proxy in a proxy war against russia, they will be more worried about that. i noted president biden said that he was concerned about russian rhetoric increasingly speaking about the risks that this could escalate into a nuclear conflict. u.s. actions suggest that in the end, there's a strong belief in the pentagon that the russians won't take that risk, that they are recognizing nato's superiority and this won't escalate. we are moving more and more toward a hardening, i think, on both sides. this is going to be a real slug fest for the next few weeks, maybe next few months. >> in fact, there's considerable concern in washington and also in europe that we're now really in it for the long haul. this could be a frozen war with grave impacts on the economy globally. a global recession would be the likely result. >> clearly, something has shifted in a pretty significant way. i think it came in the immediate aftermath of the picture

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let's bring in retired army lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, he's the former director for european affairs, u.s. national security council with his expertise in ukraine. colonel, i was under the impression that ukraine has said over and over to european countries, stop buying your oil and gas from russia. so, isn't this what ukraine wanted? >> it is. and in fact, there was a dependency that many countries in europe were reluctant to we need themselves off of. the bottom line is in a lot of ways, vladimir putin continues to miscalculate. and by shutting off these gas flows, he is making it easier for countries to make the decision to make abrupt calls on shifting over to other suppliers. he is going after the smaller targets, bulgaria, poland is not quite as small. but he is certainly holding off on trying to do the same thing with the big revenue flows coming in from germany and from western europe. he is testing the water to see where he can develop seams and go after easier targets. signaling that that's the direction he's going in. but that is his nature. he's going to continue

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alexander vindman is a retired colonel who served as director for military affairs -- michael newton is a professor at -- law school. he is -- and they both join me now. lieutenant colonel, let me ask you first about your reaction to this, again, there is a pattern here. there is a history here. it is nonetheless, those images, they came out on bhutan saturday, i think you found these horrifying and shocking. >> it is absolutely horrifying and this is why it should have been such a greater quest to try y kind of ring non competitive democracy that he has created, what the peoples will is? because his fans are like, he won a huge victory! this is what hungarians want. this is it. this is democracy mansion. >> yeah, that is true. now, there are two things going on here. one is that for the first time the opposition united against him, six parties, but part of that calculation backfired because part of that big opposition was the -- a far-right party trying to be more central. and voters of -- defected to or bonds party or even the really hard rights, fascist party. this is what happens

. >> retired lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, we thank you for your time this morning. . we hear the russian lies about events in ukraine, see what the russian people are being told on television. and human shields. a teacher recounting the russian occupation of her town. she joins us live. stay with us. ♪ ♪ we believe there's an innovator in all of us. ♪ that's why we build technology that makes it possible for every business... and every person... to come to the table and do more incredible things. inner voice (furniture maker): i'm constantly nodding... ...because i know everything about furniture ...but with the business side... ...i'm feeling a little lost. quickbooks can help. an easy way to get paid, pay your staff, and know where your business stands. new business? no problem. success starts with intuit quickbooks. it was a tragedy. with knockoff batteries, little miss cupcake never stood a chance. until, energizer ultimate lithium. who wants a cupcake? the number one longest-lasting aa battery. yay! case closed. at xfinity, we live and work in the same neighborho

. >> reporter: retired arm yu lieutenant colonel alexander vindman is known as a crucial witness in former-presidentmp's first impeachment proceedings but he was also a child refugee from ukraine whose family moved to the u.s. in 1979. >> refugees have been a weapon for a long time. russia is used refugees as a weapon for years. >> how do you deploy refugees as weapons? >> you bomb cities and those cities result in civilian populations, women and children in particular. >> what is the theory behind that? >> well, they are weaponized just by the mere fact that these are large numbers of people flowing into a country that is not prepared to handle refugee camps that has to, you know, now spend funds on those refugees. >> reporter: the alleged goal? destabilize poland, a nato country, from within. but that hasn't happened yet. >> poland, which was having a mixed record with regards to democratic activities and democratic backsliding has actually, you know, kind of gone back to its roots. it has been extremely welcoming to the ukrainian population, welcoming ukrainians into their homes as members of the

. >> well i want to share than what lieutenant colonel alexander vindman said today about the same topic. >> we are going to see a lot of it this. we have not even had the full reporting of the things that have unfolded in mariupol. where thousands of people are recorded killed. we need to recognize that the u. s. has the ability to help and this conflict. if we sit on the sidelines the way we have for the previous six weeks, we are going to see a lot more of this in the coming months. >> but are we sitting on the sidelines? today alone, the u. s. said it was sending a patriot mitchell defense system to sabathia, after they provided an air defense system. i mean, -- >> we are doing anything but sitting on the sidelines. that is a ridiculous comment. the united states has been deeply involved in this. we have sent 17,000 javelins, enough to take out ten times over the number of russian tanks. the u. s. has been intimately involved in this, as have our nato allies. we are completely involved in this. and i think that we will continue to be so. the scenes that we are seeing unfolding will o

. >> all right, colonel alexander vindman thank you so much for coming on and offering your analysis. >> thank you. >>> well here in the u.s. where so many of us are asking how we can help, u.s. police and a former new york governor come up with some practical and innovative solutions. cnn's paula sandoval with the details, some of these ideas called unprecedent, tell us about that. >> that's because you have local law enforcement agencies across the country basically willing to help and sending police and military grade nonlethal military equipment to a country still locked in war so that to answer your question is unprecedented alone, look at these images from falls township pennsylvania, when you see these images, is home to a large ukrainian community and the police chief there and other local officials launching what they call operation urgent aid, goal is to collect more than 100 ballistic vests and dozens of helmets there, the police chief there saying this has certainly sparked or triggered something among their officers and this extends far beyond just stepping up to help peo

. >> reporter: retired army lieutenant colonel alexander vindman is known as a crucial witness in formerily moved to the u.s. in 1979. >> refugees have a been a weapon for a long time. russia has used refugees as weapons for years. >> reporter: how do you deploy refugees as weapons in. >> you bomb cities and those cities result ipcivilian populations, women and children in particular. these are large numbersf people flown into a country not prepared to handle refugee camps that have to now spend funds of those refugees. >> reporter: the large goal, destabilize poland, a nato country from within. but that hasn't happened yet. >> poland was having mixed regards with its democratic activity has gone back to its roots. it's been extremely welcoming to the ukrainian population. >> reporter: but warsaw's mayor says the pressure on his country grows by the day. >> he lost. he wanted to divide us and the west. he lost. we are also waging a war against this effort to destabilize us, and we have to prove to him that we stand united, that we share the burden. >> reporter: we're just so thankful to

you had alex vindman, these immigrants believing more in the country than those that benefit fromthe system . >> i know i became an american by choice at the age of 18 and you have to think about what that means and where you want to live and the values of the united states and i wanted to identify myselfwith that . my parents either came here with nothing and they were healways grateful to the united states sand we had safe harbor, they could bring up their children. they could do well here and they told me i needed to give back just as they did. they were teachers who brought up generations of students . so that was a huge influence on me. bo>> you write about another part of the book we haven't talked that much about but it goes to this question of what's happening to american democracy and what about the democracies you saw challenged . you were in russia a couple of times in your career but you were there in 1993 in boris yeltsin's standing on the tank noble staring down the two boris yeltsin of 1991 but what later generations of moscow correspondents like me would refer to as t

joining us now is alexander vindman, director at national security counsel and a military fellow at law you think they're going to be pushed by the russians? >> i think this is a particular by big week. in a lot of ways maybe a pivotal week. what you have unfolding is early this week you had the defense minister's from 40 different countries assembled pledge basically a support everything that ukraine might need to win this war. that's still rhetorical to a certain extent. there is a lot of equipment coming in but everything would imply more strike capabilities and we haven't seen those. that's still very, very important meeting. we have reluctant allies like bulgaria shifting their tone and prepared to provide more aid. germany shifting its tone is providing lethal aid. the shift towards blocking sanctions on oil and gas trade winding down budget revenues. that's huge from an ex ternlt p -- external perspective. ukraine conducted a successful mobile defense imposing significant costs as russia advances casualties on the russian side and taking casualties to and losing equipment but bei