Obligation to account fully for my role in these events. Did by obligation, you mean simply your legal obligation . Or did you mean something bigger . Well, both my legal obligation and my moral obligation. Your moral obligation . I actually want to present an alternative theory. Your family came here escaping the holocaust via uruguay. And your parents moved lucy and later you here where, frankly, youve been an american success story. Through dent of hard work and innovation, good idea, and knack to hire the right people and some luck, youve built a considerable successful business. One that i know for a fact would make your parents proud. They came here because they knew
that it was here that they could have freedom that they had not enjoyed, security that they had not enjoyed, and opportunity that they had not enjoyed. And no doubt, on some level, youre grateful and its created a sense of patriotism in you. Is that fair to say . Very fair. Why then, sir, with your courage to come be
Robert mueller. In his take home forms that his lawyers filled out for him. Yes, and it just continues and the Court Battles involving tax returns, chief Justice Roberts provided a stay for a few days which was really people overplayed that yesterday. That was administrative decision, but a lot coming at this president. A lot coming at this president , and i think a lot coming at the Republican Party this morning. Ari, the testimony of Colonel Vindman, the crossexamination will be interesting to see how far they go in trying to Demean Vindman in front of a national tv audience. I think that is a precarious place for them and if you want to put aside the obvious ethics of it, that these are people
that serve, diplomatic or military, there is also a a problem with going against a witness when is there are not many facts known to the witness. So if you want to look bad by exploding someone. It doesnt buy you much if two or three other people can basically testify to the same material. I t
but not calling out the reservists, not going to the metro stations if there is bombing, you go to the metro station, in ukraine, and not doing that runs the risk of his people not being prepared should god forbid there be this giant military intervention. so, he is trying to thread that needle, and he is saying since the biden administration came into power, i hosted president zelensky over the summer, i saw him the day after he saw president biden, he has been asking for more military assistance for months. and so, he wants, just like the quote you just had, he wants ten more jets, he wants more anti aircraft he wants more ability to deter the fight rather than talking about the threat that might or might not be coming. we appreciate your expertise on this. evelyn and michael, thank you very much for your time tonight. coming up, next we are going to get a report from kyiv on how
donald trump and then president elect zelensky that led to donald trump s first impeachment. joining us now is retired lieutenant colonel, alexander vindman. colonel, good to see you. thank you for being with us again. i want to explore with you this argument that vladimir putin and people like and around him are making, that there are russians speakers and pro russian people who live in a lot of these countries along russians western border, including ukraine. and they want to extend their umbrella of protection over those people. nothing more. well, that s true. it is a very complex history. russia was an empire before it was a communist state and soviet union. when it was an empire, it got extended into all directions of moscow, north, east, south, and west. and colonizing those territories, it s settled in ukraine, there is a fairly significant russian population.
political rivals don t jump at him and that sees the moment. because when i have been told by numerous officials is that putin school, ultimately, is to collapse zelensky s government and put a more pint government in place. put a more pro-russian regime here, like he used to have, like he has and belarus, like he hugs in kazakhstan. and that zelensky is standing in the way of that. so one way to do that would be to collapse his government from within, by putting pressure, psychological pressure, organizing some sort of coup, or taking a piece of the country, making it a failed state, and then hoping that there is a change of government that way. we re taking the whole thing. richard angle you are in eastern ukraine, there is an argument made mostly by the russian that there are a lot of russian speakers, pro russian people that live in that part of ukraine. they would be most happy to see a russian invasion, or would be happy to live under the