we met many times with xi jinping and we were candid and clear with one another across the board. any and i do not think there s any imminent attempt on the part off china to invade taiwan. threa no imminent threat, event. was secretary of state said last month that china was moving to to seize taiwan and a much faster timeline than in recent years. buthat wast that wasn t all. biden sounded more like kind of a marriage advisor than a leader telling xi that dif they could manage their differences. foining me now is miller, former senior adviser to president trump, founder of america first legal, and elbridge colbie, former deputy assistant secretary of defense, author of the strategy of denia secretal. elbridge, your takeaway frome today. well, great to be with youma,in laura . i mean, i think the main thingg. is that nothing has changed.a china s military buildup has the presidenits internalbu pressure has not stopped.t sayig will circulation s not stopped. and so, saying the presiden
this morning massive blackouts and limited water supplies across ukraine after another round of brutal russian strikes. russia again terrorizing the skies with so-called kamikaze drones supplied by iran that continue to target nonmilitary locations like markets and apartment buildings. ukraine s president volodymyr zelenskyy called it part of russia s campaign to drive ukraine into the cold and dark, leaving in his words no space left for negotiations with putin s regime. meanwhile inside russia hours before the new attacks a russian bomber crashed into an apartment building in a russian resort town killing more than a dozen and raising questions from both moscow and kyiv. joining me now is nbc s cal perry in kyiv and the former deputy assistant secretary of
were drafted, were drafted immediately. that is raising fears that this mobilization order will go beyond just the people who have experience fighting, with combat experience, people in the military, reservists, which is what putin had said initially in his speech, and that this mobilization could in fact be broadened out to include many more russians. victor. alex marquardt with the reporting for us. i m going to start right there with our next two guests. thank you, alex. evelyn farkas, she s the former deputy assistant secretary of defense for russia, ukraine and eurasia. evelyn is also the executive director of the mccain institute. also with me retired u.s. army major mike lyons. good to have you both. major, let me start with you on what alex just reported there, that some of these 1300 protesters have been conscripted directly into the army. now, there was obviously a morale problem, a training problem before. but if you add people who oppose this war in the army now, that obv
ursula von der leyen, president of the european commission, remebered him as a trusted and respected leader who played a crucial role to end the cold war, bring down the iron curtain and open the way for a free europe. she said his legacy is one we will not forget. antonio guterres, the un secretary general, praised mikhail gorbachev as a one of a kind statesman who changed the course of history. he said, the world has lost a towering global leader, committed multilateralist, and tireless advocate for peace. we can now speak to dr evelyn farkas, who was deputy assistant secretary of defense for russia, ukraine, and eurasia under the obama administration. she joins us from washington. ijust want i just want to start by focusing on the importance of personality politics that gorbachev represented. margaret
the return of any detainee would bring hope to others, but not dispel their desperate, agonising uncertainty. barbara plett usher, bbc news, washington. earlier i spoke to evelyn farkas, who served in the obama administration as deputy assistant secretary of defense for russia, ukraine, and eurasia, and is currently executive director of the mccain institute. i asked her why she thought the united states had decided to negotiate this deal so publicly. it sounds, david, like they didn t actually announce it right away but time has passed and so they may be getting uncertain and a little bit nervous about what the russian move is going to be, whether the russians will accept this swap or not stop efi had to predict i think that the russians well because they have been almost desperate to get