sensible, and functional republican party will rise from the ashes of this burning dumpster fire. leading off our discussion tonight is tom nichols, a former professor of the united states naval war college. he s a contributor writer of the atlantic and was the writer of the piece field use letter. stuart stevens is joining us too, he s a veteran of five republican presidential campaigns. he is the offer of, it was all a lie. how the republican party became donald trump. gents, it s good to have you here tonight. tom, you ve really put into words what s the issue here is. now this cannot be any longer about your small ideological concerns about how much you must be taxed or things like that. your choice as a voter now is, are you upholding democracy, or are you choosing not to? i would love a day where we have legitimate debates between democrats and republicans on an important policy issues. but that is not going to happen
until night, end and quote. the choice for republicans to put an end to trump s crusade against democracies is this, wreck the country by voting for trump endorsed candidates, or work for, vote for, and hope for big d democratic victories in the hopes that a small d, and tie early democratic sensible, and functional republican party will rise from the ashes of this burning dumpster fire. leading off our discussion tonight is tom nichols, a former professor of the united states war college. he s a contributor writer of the atlantic and was the writer of the piece field use letter. stuart stevens is joining us too, he s a veteran of five republican presidential campaigns. he is the offer of, it was all a lie. how the republican party became donald trump. jets, it s good to have you here tonight. tom, you ve really put into words what s the issue here is.
that framing calling the headline misleading, saying it was irresponsible. there also have been leaks from the intelligence committee about the u.s. helping ukraine target the top ship the moskva. they called the top officials urging them to plug the leaks and tom frieden reporting, i m told he called the director of the national intelligence and cia and secretary of defense to make clear in the strongest language this talk is reckless and needs to talk immediately. and i m told the president was livid about these weeks. joining me contributor writer for the atlantic, david french. david, are news writers right or wrong to publish the information they re told by these anoneymou officials? i think this fits within the u.s. s individuality function. i think there are circumstances in which an administration can go to, news outlet, and say this is an absolute matter of life and death.
more than 30 children were among those still trapped, he says. this as we are now just days away from may 9th, the day feared by all that celebrated in russia for marking the surrender of nazi germany and the end of world war ii in europe. in a new piece in the atlantic tom nichols warns vladimir putin may use it as an escalation writing no matter what putin says on may 9th, the russians will continue to inflict misery on the people of ukraine. the question next week is whether the russian president intends to extend this war to the rest of the planet. joining our coverage, tom nichols, contributor writer and with us amy mckinnon, national security reporter for foreign policy magazine and joining us live from kyiv, ukraine, is our friend, nbc news correspondent cal perry. cal, i have to start with the evacuation and thread you have pulled for us every single solitary day you ve reported, the horrors inflicted on the
joining our discussion now, tom nichols, contributor writer at the atlantic and retired professor at the u.s. naval war college. also with us, retired australian army major general mick ryan. he is the author of war transformed, the future of 21st century great power competition and conflict. tom nichols, i want to begin with the new commanding general, general dvornikov, what difference are you anticipating from that command change? you anticipatin from that command change i think whatever buddy is expecting, he is going to try to prove to putin that he is willing to kill enough ukrainians and destroy enough buildings, and butcher enough people to get the job done. the question is, what is the job he has been set to do? to capture mariupol? to secure the donbas? i think the problem here is that there is still, the russians are still reeling from the failure of plan a.