general wesley clark, great to see you. thank you so much. >> thank you, fredrica. >> former president trump's calls for protests have law enforcement officials in new york preparing for a possible week of uncertainty. in a social media post, trump says he expects to be arrested on tuesday for his alleged role in a hush money payment plan made to stormy daniels before the 2016 election. in the statement, he urged his supporters to quote protest, take our nation back. trump dialed up the rhetoric with a followup post saying we just can't allow this anymore. we must save america. protest, protest, protest. the posts are similar to his calls to protest before january of 2021. gloria is joining us now with more. what precautions are being taken, if they are even sharing that? >> reporter: yeah, we know from law enforcement sources that nypd federal agencies, the secret service, as well as the officers inside the court, they're the ones that provide security there, have all been talking to each other and coordinating ahead of th

. >>> general wesley clark is a cnn military analyst and former nato supreme commander. general, good to see you. i'm interested to get your take. we heard from the defense secretary today hearing in his view a retreat from bakhmut would not be an operational or strategic set back and the same day we're hearing u krin y -- ukrainian military officials are continuing to send in reinforcements to fight for this city. is that a mistake on their part at this point? >> well, it's really hard to second guess this bianna because we're not there and don't see the terrain and ground. now, if you look at bakhmut and you look west, it's several miles to the next really good defensible terrain location. and if they get there, if they fall back, they're going to have to hold there. falling back a withdraw under pressure is one of the most difficult military operations. you suffer the risk of a catastrophic collapse and big losses when you do this. so it does make some sense and i can understand the logic of the ukrainians to hold where they are as long as they can. there are inflicti

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general wesley clark. evelyn farkas. thank you both very much. thank you.ryday ukrainians are dying to defend their country, and so are foreigners who have gone to ukraine to help in that fight against russia. i do want to take a moment to remember. one of them came to tie a new zealander was killed recently and i met him on the front lines in eastern ukraine. just last month, he went by the nickname turtle. he had been fighting for most of this war in ukraine. it was clear to me that he was deeply committed to ukraine to its people to that fight, and fully aware that he could be killed. cain told me. quote for some of us. there's no better way for us to go than to be here next to our friends, doing what we're supposed to be doing my team and i send our deepest condolences to came to ties, family and to his brothers in arms in ukraine. coming up. we'll go live to paris as france reels from 1/9 day of extremely disruptive, sometimes violent protests. stay with us. you're in the situation. i can't believe this is how you kids talk to your friends. this iss ta

i want to bring back alex marquardt and wesley clark and rucks affairs cnn contributor and western affairs expert jill doherty with us now. general clark, is the u.s. announcing yet another military aid package today but are you concerned this doesn't include weapons on ukraine's wish list? >> we know we're not going to get those weapons to ukraine. they have 16s, thadministration decided in its policy that ukraine is not going to get those, but getting more ammunition, getting artillery, getting combat vehicles, getting all the other answer cillary assistance, yes, i'm glad to see that announced. >> bilden and part of vladimir use cale cuous is out lasting and where do you think that contest stands at this point in time? >> well, i think it's holding so far. you know, this is very complicated because all of these countries, especially in europe, getting the united states and europe on one page. getting the united states and germany on one page concerning the tanks that the germans are going to be providing, the leopard 2 tanks. these are very complicated things, not only internationally b

remember the bosnia serbia attack, kos of oh, wesley clark, under president clinton, they came togetherbrought everybody together, locked them in a room in dayton, ohio, developed the peace accord. it wasn't perfect but it is workable. today we have small economy, maintaining peace in the balkans. it' s a similar kind of operation where heavy artillery, brutal combat, the same thing is happening here and when you look at this through the elements of national power, diplomacy, information, military, economic, military has carried the brunt of this. we deployed combat teams to poland and romania and the baltics. diplomacy has been todd:. where secretary blinken on this? i'm not sure. there's been no conversation. there has been no outreach to the russians to find a solution. stuart: would you let the russians win? when? would you let the ukrainians -- that's entirely possible. >> i don't think it is a 0-sum game. i think any time you have this kind of combat, the balkans are a good example. everybody was a little bit upset at the solution but at the end of the day we have peace in the bal

want to bring in the former deputy assistant secretary of defense is with us, and retired general wesley clark, a consultant for the drone company called hush aerospace. general clark, this is the first time i know of that u.s. and russia military have come into direct contact. how alarming is this russian aggression? >> look, this is -- there are different ways to interpret this wolf, but a couple of russian pilots were playing cowboy and tried to screw it up, or it was directed to interfere, or most damaging would be deliberate ploy to bring it down, recover it, get the secret intelligence assets that are inside the drone. now, we have been very, very careful with these drones. we don't want the ukrainians to have them. they're full of classified information. we don't know what this one has in it, exactly. but presumably, we can self-destruct that stuff that's in there. i hope we did. >> i think that sounds like a good plan. evalyn, the administration is clearly, and you just heard, slamming this ooz as unsafe act by the russians and summoned the russian ambassador to come to the state depar

. >>> let's bring in former nato supreme allied commander general wesley clark.t heard melissa bell's report. so many missiles fired overnight. ukraine's military says that russia is firing types of missiles that they haven't seen before. even a hypersonic rocket that they can't defend against. how much did those types of rockets change the game on the ground? >> well, they don't change the immediate game on the battlefield. these are directed against infrastructure, and the infrastructure can be rebuilt. it's a question of how int intentional the strikes are, how often they're conducted. it's been about a month since last big strikes by the russians on infrastructure. ukrainians got their electricity system back and operational before this latest set of strikes. it's a long-term problem. we have got to find a way to secure ukraine. however this war ends, ukraine can't be left under attack by russian missiles. so i know we're trying to push air defense there. we don't have it there yet. some of the missiles probably wouldn't be intercepted even by our technology,

and you bring up the same point general wesley clark did with me this morning. the fact of the strikes isn't new. it's to precision. which seems to raise the stakes here in his worth watching. how much communication do you think general occurs between iran and these proxy groups believed to have carried out the strikes? a lot, you know, and john truthfully, i have experience with this from our time in iraq. my boundary of my divisional headquarters was on the border of iran, and they were constantly pushing things across the border into the into their militia groups. now they have plausible deniability. this is not being done by the iranian government, but it's certainly being done by people who are supported by the iranian government, both with weapons and other kinds of equipment. you can't pinpoint it, but certain only they are connected . and when you're talking about the fight in northern syria and the fight against the kurds, these these provincial militia, these popular front militia groups are certainly wanting to continue that fight against the kurdish

so much for that report with me now is retired u s general wesley clark. general. thanks so much for being with us. natasha reporting that the u. s. says there's been 78 drone strikes within that syria region since 2021 by these iranian proxies first. what does that mean? iranian proxy when we're talking about this number two what are they up to? if they're striking the us so much there? so these are groups that are affiliated with hizbollah or other groups in the region. they are conducting resupply reconnaissance operations. they're building their forces against israel. um they're supporting bashar assad. to some extent, uh, the israelis go against them and our mission there is to support our allies. both are kurdish allies working against isis and also we collected information and intelligence now why this is particularly disturbing is when they're able to bring accurate targeting against the united states and inflict casualties. uh this raises the level of risk for our personnel in the region. attacks mortars and mortar falls inaccurately and so forth. that's a

that is , do you think that these are jokes, listen to what wesley clark tells him.ing the operation in the balkans . yes, i don't remember. in what position did he simply retire , this already middle-aged man somehow went to the pentagon let's listen. i went to the pentagon just after the 9/11 days. through 10 met with the head of the pentagon rumsfeld and his deputy with whom he worked and one of them says, sir, stop by for a minute, we need to chat. i can’t do that now, but he does, we decided to fight iraq here. it was around september 20th. i told him what, and why, but he, i have no idea there are options. the show unearthed ties to adam salka, but he didn't, nothing like that. we just decided to go to iraq , we don’t know what to do as terrorists, but we have a cool army, and it is capable of overthrowing regimes , our only tool is a hammer, so any problem should look like a nail. in a few weeks. we met again, by that time we had already bombed afghanistan. i told him that there in iraq. we still want to fight him. and yes, he would take a piece of paper from

wesley clark, who planned the war in iraq, he said to us americans, the ideal war is where the soldiere aircraft deal with the enemy , it doesn’t matter, the civilian military, the slightest resistance, all at christmas time. russian consciousness rejects the idea of ​​an air war. it is easier for us to mobilize psychologically than to start air terror against another country, which the americans are willing to use, by the way, so long ago you, in my opinion, the other day on wall street, jordal wrote an interest. nuyu note, which i laughed at and sing russia use the tactics of napoleon and caesar in ukraine, you explain to me how you can use the tactics of napoleon and caesar , napoleon's tactics are blitz in modern terms. this is the rapid destruction of opponents. let's read the german edition of the focus, they explain. in the russian offensive war in ukraine, the battle for bahmud continues with unrelenting ferocity, russia seems to have changed its the tactics of her troops created a horseshoe around bakhmut. only one road left connecting bakmouth with the outside world suggests