the biden administration will have to decide how far it wants to go. >> so malcolm, since you have been traveling around the country. what is your sense around with that approach will look like. you gave us that sort of vivid destruction of what it would look like in kyiv. and what are your thoughts about that approach and how it would play out? >> the russians are going to carry out a military operation with various phase lands, they think that they can control once they start the operation. kyiv itself is its own entire phase. you have to get the study of how they're going to get down to the capital city. i spent two weeks just doing that. they're going to have to attack on three different fronts. a western front, central front and eight eastern front. but the ukrainians have an army. this army appears ready to fight. it appears that they have the ability to slow this down. the russians want to establish a piecemeal swath of the entire