of their air fort still intact. that is miraculous at this time. but nato forces are not flying inside, even surveillance flights insigned ukraine. what is interesting, neil and we ve been reporting on this, the deconfliction hotline that was established march 1, we got more details about that today. that did confliction line was set up at european command headquarters in stuttgart under the command of the supreme allied commander, general todd walters and staffed by a lower staffer. it goes to the russian ministry of defense. what is alarming that we have no confirmation that that hotline was used last night at that moment of crisis when the fire broke out and the gun fire and attack on that nuclear facility. we don t have any indications that the hotline was used. if any time there was a moment where a hotline could be used, we also learned that the press briefing today that general mark
send the s-300, but only if they get back protections from the u.s. and nato. they want to make sure that they can defend themselves if they send their systems to ukraine. secretary austin said that these discussions are still john going and they weren t able to commit to sending the resources in. this is something that we will continue to watch. neil? neil: thanks, mark. i want to go right now to lieutenant general david, u.s. air fort general on the switchblade drones. if you can help me with this. they re very accurate. they launch on the ground. they hit their target. no human beings involved. the russians already upon hearing this seem to be signalling, that is an offensive weapon. how do you describe it, general? well, neil, first, thanks for having me on. what i d tell you is what are being called drones, the switchblade, is more appropriately termed a loitering
intelligence and a range of advanced technologies that could give beijing a decisive military edge and possible dominance over healthcare and other essential sectors in america. nicholas joins me now. he resigned from the air fort in protest over the department defense s lack of action to do what he sees needs to be done to best china when it comes to a.i. he says it s a thread to the united states. a.i. is the foundation of all future warfare. nicholas, thanks very much. welcome back. good to have you with us today. so i wonder what you make of this, this report that comes out. it says from our intelligence folks, we re concerned. we see a lot of stuff going on here with chinese businesses and the interaction that they have with their defense department. so we re not telling you not to do business in china. we re just telling you you ought to be very careful and basically
neither did we rule it out. we identified critical indicators of an impending collapse of afghan defense forces. we tried to account for a complete collapse of the afghan security forces. the secretary took action in may to make forces available to me for planning. on july 9th i requested that our base neo force the core package that would go in be put on 96 hour prepare to deploy orders. by august 11th it was evident kabul was at risk and i requested the 82nd airborne decision and our premra nd force package and requested they be deployed into the kabul air fort. the forces flowed into theert. thousands of sif ailance had access to the airfield. working with afghan partners composed of commando units and