well, i would like to think not and the thing about chemical weapons are they don t work to russia s advantage actually. um, this is a a nonpersistent agent if they use something, it would hurt the soldiers that were there at that point. but they don t want to go back into an area, for example, if they use a persistent chemical weapon so i just don t think it makes any sense for them to do this at this point. this new general officer they have, the dvornikov, you know, he s this reputation of being a butcher or so but i don t think it matters. there is no such thing as humane russian general officer. this is an army that leaves its dead on the battlefield. i think he was put in that place to consolidate russian forces and make sure they start fighting in a way they haven t proven they have been fighting yet. so again, chemical weapons are are a very slippery slope for russia to use knowing full well that they will have a challenge to go into those areas if they decide to use t
ukrainians is pushing back against this onslaught, willie. yes. we know it s coming. joining us now, nbc news national security analyst clint watts and president and founder of eurasia group, ian bremer. good morning to you both. clint, so a lot of the talk this morning is about russia preparing for something in the east of the country after having failed around kyiv and other places. we have some idea what it might look like given what we re now seeing inside mariupol, where the mayor says there may be as many as 20,000 civilians dead because of the russian assault. what does this preparation look like right now for russia? when do we expect it and how big an invasion are we looking at here? yesterday we were talking about the convoy moving in from the north. i want to emphasize the south, mariupol. we re starting to see a new strategy for the russians. dvornikov, the new general, he comes down to this group in crimea, one of the more
0 thomas, other people inside the administration. the idea was if we can t win this legally, with the votes, we re just going to steal it and jesus is on our side if you listen to mark meadows or read his texts. in georgia, i mean, there is this increased intensity because they think, people like trump think they have a god-given right to win that state so deep in the south. not the case anymore, and there s making thissing uplier. i think it will get even uglier, joe. georgia is not alone in this. pennsylvania will be another state like georgia with the flipside of it, with the democrats thinking we have a lock on pennsylvania, it s our state, a working-class state. no more. pennsylvania will be huge. whoever would have thought that on the ballot for primaries and the general election that one of the most sought-after offices state by state by state e is that of secretary of state in those states. you control the voting apparatus. all right. it is the top of the hour. we re going
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