paul: top un intelligent official warning russia s offenses in ukraine could be entering a more volatile and bloodied phase per director of national intelligence admiral hain on the senate armed services committee letter putin is prepared for a long conflict as it were grinds on could become more unpredictable per. the nature of the battle which is a war of attrition combined with his ambitions current conventional capabilities likely means next few months moviegoing will more fun predictable and escalatory trajectory. specify spring and retired four-star general jack keane s chairman of the institute for the study of war and a fox news senior strategic analyst. welcome general. as always good to see you. do you agree with admiral haynes
going into ukraine. huge kudos to the biden administration and admiral haynes to essentially allow them to control the perception globally that vladimir putin is the aggressor. what s interesting is that may not have any effect on vladimir putin. that s important to keep allies together. what s interesting in watching even the events described in eastern ukraine today is he seems to be doing what he was planning to do anyway and that may be enough for him to have a narrative for his public at home and kick his disinformation machine into high gear abroad. the point is that he doesn t have to worry about the polls, the political opposition. he s wiped them out pretty much. exactly. the only one message is from the kremlin, putin s kremlin and i want to ask you a as a former
anthrax. one possible explanation is they re playing down a pretext. bill? bill: thanks, mike. my next guest oversaw operations in europe, russia and the middle east and suffered savannah symptoms from a silent energy attack. mark, thanks for your time. you wrote the book clarity and crisis, leadership lessons from the cia. here s admiral haynes, dni director from this week on how she believes the russians and putin don t stop. putin says this is a war that he cannot afford to lose. what he might be willing to accept is a victory over time. bill: we ll see how that develops. what do you think about this story of the chemical weapons? the fact that this is even being talked about is alarming.
very specific prediction. but, you know, we also had a comment from admiral haynes that they did miss the ultimate collapse. they weren t able to predict that they were five days away, ten days away, but there was adequate warning here. warning that they need to speed up the evacuations and that the situation on the ground was changing. and so that is for the white house to answer, why not more preparation for a chaotic end. i want to show you i mean answering they are, they have got the president doing a big interview with abc anchor george stephanopolous. we have our first excerpt from that interview where he fields some of these very questions julian is talking about. let me show it to all of you and we ll talk about it on the other side. when you look at what s happened over the last week, was it a failure of intelligence, planning, execution or judgment? look, i don t think it was a fail look, it was a simple
though they have taken over 60% of the country, they are 60 or 90 days away from getting anywhere near kabul. i was hearing that last week. how could you be so wrong? how could biden tell the country that all this confidence in this afghan military when in fact, there was no confidence to be had at all. how do you mess up that badly? you have been in intelligence for decades. we knew all of this, and i absolutely expect that there will be a lot of hearings to follow and expect director cia burns and dni admiral haynes to be in the hot seat testifying before congress and talking about what assessment they were providing the president. but let s make it clear, it was not a secret that the government of afghanistan lacked a lid of legitimacy, only 200 people voted in their last election of