action combined from iraq and afghanistan over 20 years. so russia s, clearly, in unprecedented territory. pete: and you would know this better than i as a military planner, but you lose that percentage of your troops, and you re not mission capable anymore. your ability to operate is extremely limited. i want to get your expertise on the training of ukrainians. up until january you were serving as strategic adviser to ukrainian special forces. you know their capabilities as well as anyone that could be on our channel. when you consider the fact that the russians attacked from every conceivable direction even more than we would have ever anticipated in the beginning, and ukrainians have effectively been able to hold them off, does it surprise you get us inside the training of ukrainian special forces and their capabilities. so across nato 15 different nations contributed to training the special operations forces. it s a very intense training period that really started in
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in florida, that arena can hold up to 17,000 people for an event staged like that one was. trump bragged it would be sold out, standing room only, but of the 17,000 available seats in the arena, apparently he was only able to sell about 5,400 seats which means the venue was more than 2/3 empty. the next two events on the big tour are this weekend, tomorrow, and sunday, in dallas and houston texas. maybe he ll do better there. there are reports that the q-anon doomsday cult people who have been staying in dallas for a few weeks now, because they say john f kennedy and his son jfk junior are coming back from the dead and will reinstall trump as president or maybe world king, those people have been in dallas for weeks, reports this week that all of those people are going to go to the trump event this weekend. so maybe that will fill out the crowd.
graded to empty seats in the lower bowl. the closure of the upper bowl with tarps was similar to what was done at the previous trump/oreilly event in florida the day before. at the orlando event, the second in florida, that arena can hold up to 17,000 people for an event staged like that one was. trump bragged it would be sold out, standing room only, but of the 17,000 available seats in the arena, apparently he was only able to sell about 5,400 seats which means the venue was more than 2/3 empty. the next two events on the big tour are this weekend, tomorrow, and sunday, in dallas and houston texas. maybe he ll do better there. there are reports that the q-anon doomsday cult people who have been staying in dallas for a few weeks now, because they say john f kennedy and his son jfk junior are coming back from the dead and will reinstall
happen. turns out he s right but only because things caved and now they have pulled the plug on the whole program. ainsley: that s right. the biden administration were about 5400 children that were separated. 9940 filed lawsuits. that infuriated republicans. the aclu says politics has gotten in the way of helping little children deliberately abused by our government. brian: meanwhile still a mess at the border and they want to focus on what happened early on in the trump administration saying this about the talks and what happened. well, the parties have been global settlement agreement at this time. we remain committed to engaging with the plaintiffs and to bring justice to the victims victims of policy all the unaccompanied minors flooding in here and detention centers. today, meanwhile, if you want to know how things are going toe border, can you underline write this down and circle it: not good. in november of 2021 the number is stunning, 173,000, 600 apprehensions, which mean th