core that core door. that s when people were saying may be, we should get american soldiers out of taiwan. we left 800 americans behind. that was the new number last week. the white house lied. they knew it was more than that when the whole world watched that moments, and stash their own citizens and afghanistan who would be under control and the travel ban afterwards, that was the moment when vladimir putin said what do i want? it was the same moment work china said that maybe taiwan looks good, because americans not going to show up in the ukraine, which is when the foreign policy of the u.s. went to a total disaster. the chief of staff was interviewed. this was crazy.
injured ten others. now all of this as the situation and the besieged port of mariupol is growing very dire the mayor there says they may only have hours not days as russians have the 2000 soldiers on some 1000 civilians trapped in that steel plant there. the commanders inside pleading for president biden or any other world leader to intervene and open up the humanitarian core door the secretary said earlier this week when he met with putin and moscow they re going to find a way to agree to it. that has yet to happen, alicia. alicia: be safe my friend, thank you. eric. as the plant and mario pulled the desperate siege of theirs continue thousand still trapped in an unknown civilians killed by the continuing russian bombing of that plant. so, what can turn vladimir putin
200,000 people trying to get ou of that city. how long is the core door in plays that will allow them to d that? where do they go to? does the corridor extend all th way to the polish border were s many people have flocked across? you re seeing some of those right now. this a lot of questions as to how these so-called you met a turn quarter horse will operate and how safe they will be for the civilians trying to get awa and how long they will be. intense fighting in many areas of mariupol. up around kyiv this been intens fighting north and west of the capital in several towns and villages. from what we have seen with the more recent pictures, depressio the russian approach seems to b simply to flatten at free singl town or village that they go through.
we re talking 12 hours ago of what was happening south of mariupol and those core doors bread but right there in kyiv looking in a map earlier today it looks like there are battles and towns are due west of kyiv. a mostly russian troops have come from the north and northwest. does that mean they re beginning to circle the city? is that something you are seeing ukrainians react to? is there any key engagements happening to show that core door to the west where we had hoped to bring weapons into kyiv is being cut off? the only corridor into the city right now here is through the south. the west is already cut off there are no safe words in there. their clashes up and down the western side. people are quite surprised frankly they have not moved around and cut off the south already. talk about the convoy again and again white stalled the thought was that was going to go down and do appear people are now closely watching troops the russian troops moving from the northeast as well coming d
and the pentagon said this today. this is about where they were on friday night so about 48 hours now not a lot of progress. they have made progress but over the last two days it has been what it is. jesse: can i take you to what i think i m going to see in a year or so? if you take odessa and come over here to moldova that will fall fest. you have that proppants there with so they inflame little actions there and these mountains. turkey has invaded this invasion core door. this gap. how many times? a couple of times. they have to shut that off. that is where they are after. there is a section here that artie has at least 1500 russian troops. they have been there for years. maybe your theory serves true but i think what is significant on the battlefront tonight i will point to two areas. this little slipper right here,