this is our issue. that and women s reproductive freedom. 2024 ought to be the year that the democrats run on guns. amen. clint, i want to bring you in on this and come back to nashville, tennessee, and show you what one resident thought was happening as this unfolded today. i thought maybe it was a bomb threat. and then there was so many police cars and then ambulances started coming away from the school and that s when i heard it was a school shooting and it s the worst. there are no words, but every week in america, a couple times a week, as dave accurately points out, we have to come up with the words and we start this show trying to find the words to describe how this is how we decide to live.
continuing to see some of the worst fighting. they captured a nearby vj only to have it challenged later by ukrainian forces. ukraine said yesterday there had been 14 separate clashes on the back muts front line as loan as russian forces attempt to surround the area. they suffered shelling by tanks and mortar and rocket launchers which killed two people and injured at least three others. joining us now national security analyst for nbc news and msnbc, our friend clint watt. good to see you this morning. let s talk about bakhmut. it s a town that s seen such fierce fighting. the russians have seemingly made it a significant priority, but tell us why. does it offer a real strategic advantage, or is this some sort of potential moral victory? yeah, a couple of things to
performances happening at the square. it comes down here and then the musical performances at the end and then the big man santa claus finishing it out. i introduced my daughter to that christmas classic. thank you. you bet. back with us now is clint watt. of course this is a tradition, an incredible day. people lined up having fun but we have that in the back of our mind. no specific or credible threat to the parade. what additional steps are the nypd taking? it is morn to remember that across the board nypd is the best police force in the word to deal with situations like this. you can tell they re the best
have had it. i don t know that he can take the donbas. you can see the board every. that is not that much more ground. here this is the border to the western donbas. the ukrainians are fighting. i don t know that he can get here. it is hard to say i m done and trying to take the areas to be russian he would have a ukrainian insurgency to defend. what happens come july and august when sanctions kick in? what can putin do? yeah. how this all goes in into summer with western patience and whether the russian people start to feel the pain is going to be fascinating to watch. clint watts at the map for us,
may have come at a steep cost. it depleted the ranks and now talk of russians looking for older russians to join the military. matt bradley now joins me from kyiv and clint watt is here to talk about russia s military strategy. matt, give us some more context of what president zelenskyy said the region is a hell scape. reporter: yeah. this is a region that s been at wash since 2014. it was recently that the russians made the push out on february 24th to try to take the entire donbas region and had control over 30% of what we consider the donbas. that s in eastern ukraine. the 30% of that had been under