reporting from the key independ, russia s losses include 21,800 troops, 2200 armored personnel carriers, 873 tanks, 179 planes and the list goes on. this, of course, does not include russia s battle chip and, of course, it does not account for all of the innocent ukrainian civilians killed by putin s assault. general, can this war be won on the battlefield? i think very definitely the ukrainians are going to be they will have the capability but this will not be easy, it will not be quick to continue to those numbers are staggering losses when you put it in the context or even russian experience. russia was in afghanistan for 20 years and they ve lost as many soldiers in 20 days as they lost there. so the impact on morale of the
gloria borger is with us, cnn s chief political analyst. both john king and have i been talking to sources as well as peter hanby. none of our sources are steering us away from paul ryan. some of us are steering us towards paul ryan. in fact a few of them are. i think what this shows us, a paul ryan pick is a calculation that mitt romney is going to a different generation, and that he intends to make the fiscal future of the country and the budget issue a real centerpiece of the campaign. i think what is interesting to me, you were talking to john a few minutes ago about joe biden and how joe biden would have a debate with paul ryan. it s interesting because both of these men, biden and ryan came to congress at very young ages. i mean ryan ran for congress first when he was the age of 27 in 1988. and he 1998, and he asked his mentors jack kemp and bill bennett whether it would pass the laugh test. and they said yeah, it kind of would. but he remained the kid from janesvil