for that rebecca and fred, as we stand by waiting. thank you both for dropping in . good to see you. thank you . shannon, canadian authorities spent most of her life attempting to methodically clear the freedom convoy from the streets of ottawa, arresting dozens of protesters towing nearly two dozen vehicles. correspondent ashley strohmeyer tracking the very latest developments in canada s capital tonight. good evening, ashley. ighi, shannon. yeah, there s been more than one hundred arrests in ottawa today, mainly on mischiefld charges, which could b honestly be a whole slew of things. but about two dozen vehicles were towed, as you said, including all of those blocking a major street in the city, police in riot gear and automatic weapons pushing through the protesters on friday to try and clear the area. police there tweeting, quote, you must leave, you must cease further unlawful activity and immediately remove your vehicle and your property from unlawful sites. anyone within unlawfu
russia s control, including by military meansro. but we have not developed a deterrence strategy to deterrence strategy, something the pentagon is really not good . look at afghanistan. we have lost effectively a low a tech adversary after 20 yearsar having invested two point two trillion dollars and sacrificed 6000 american livesn alone. so unfortunately, the one trick pony that president biden has, which is sanctions, has no tricks because putin has sanctioned putin s economy for a long time. op ed by max boot over and washington post is this if the world does not respond more strongly to russian transgressions in the future than it has in the past, putin will ben emboldened to commit even worse crimes. and so will other dictators. fred,s what is your concern about not only this incursion potentially, but what happens because of it i more broadly?
happen is still anyone s best guess. however, there are still millions of americans tonight asking a very simple question why so much attention being paid to ukraine when there s so many problems right here at home that truly need attention shannon. all right. een.kevin, we will see you back here in just a minute. thank you very much. take a deeper dove intoon the russia ukraine crisis tonight with a couple of experts, former cia intel officer and the author of putin s playbook, rebecca koffler, along with former cia analyst in america first policy institute vice chair fred flights. great to have both of you back tonight on this very a important night as we inch closer to what will be and we wait to see. but today the president s assessment, he thinks that putin has decided to move forward with an attack. fred, what do you think? i think that s probably right. i ve been predicting for atay least the last week that an attack was likely after the olympics. i think putin made a promis
because they can do anything from just during a minor ransomware attack or a massive ransom attack to turning the power grid off. and that is a possibility as well. fred, how worried are you aboutf that kind of cyber attack on the u.s.? you know, i m worried about but i also think the russians know that we re much better at cyber attacks and they are it if they do that , there will be a devastating counterattack by the united states. and i mean we will know where these attacks came from and concerning whether whether there s anco off ramp or not, i think there could be we have to talk and press putin toos the last possible moment. i mean, until he invades, there s a chance we can somehow talk him out of it. so cyber attacks are already beginning in ukraine this week. we ve b been told that s going e be part of the softening to really disorient things toal confuse the society there, to begin taking things out and leave the people with fewer