operating right now, in the northern districts within the city limits of kyiv, the ukrainian capital. often the distance, in those districts, we can hear explosions right now. this is an indicator that the ukrainian forces trying to protect the city are engaging those russian troops. martha. martha: trey, very interesting. thank you so much. good to have you with us. trey s been doing a fantastic job force. breaking right now, a new statement just in from president biden, announcing i have ordered the deployment of additional forces to amend our capabilities in europe, to support our nato allies. with that we bring in casey mcfarlane, former security advisor for the trump administration. and dan hoffman a former cia station chief who serves in the former soviet union. great to have both of you with us today. you know, i just had one sort of logistical question about trey s reporting and dan, maybe you can address this for us. he is saying that there are some russian forces inside t
hearing, you would want the aerial assaults take place first, in order to then provide a base for russian ground troops to make their way in. it does not look like that is happened yet. does it? right. it probably hasn t. vladimir putin has a lot of experience over the past years fighting these sorts of battles. remember, he started his term as president with a war in chechnya that very much resembles this one. i would not the least bit surprised if vladimir putin has deployed his special forces, accompanied by russian intelligence officers, that would be their military intelligence, gru, to hunt down some of those key ukrainian government targets. i m talking about individuals. while they are conducting their air campaign and while there ground forces are moving on kyiv. martha: hang on just a minute, casey. we want to go back to tray pier there action and kyiv. martha, we just heard a number of explosions. you can hear behind me, the air
relationship with putin and russia, and i don t have the same concerns. bill: may be you for listening to john mccain, some kudos. meghan: i know him. if those two people can come together. bill: this is what we call a tough hombre, little known fact, he was involved in a tough battle in iraq and he is one of the people who invented the counterinsurgency, and i agree with you, this is an excellent choice. i think he along with casey mcfarlane he used to be our colleague here will do a fantastic job. sandra: what about concerns his vision is not in line with the president? that s not the first time we have heard it. bill: he has picked some really strong personalities. that tells me he likes that. we will see how they do. harris: that was about as politically correct
casey mcfarlane says not even close? what do we have to do? i think the best example is look at what israel does. israel lives under a constant threat of terrorist attack. we re not going to get to that point in the united states, god forbid, but what does israel do now? for example, they have an armed security guard at the entry of every school, last line of defense and have a hotline that goes between the ministry of education ant national security intelligence agencies so if there is a credible threat so you don t have to worry about finding the phone number of a school. you have a hotline and it immediate hi gets into the department of education. they don t have big security systems that they go through in the school but every guard has a wand, and if there s somebody that looks a little suspicious coming into the school, not a regular student, they do a routine check and then finely all israeli military, every israeli and male between the