tonight, the nation is struggling to come to grips with another massacre, saturdays racially motivated shooting in buffalo, new york, was allegedly carried out by a white 18 year old man who traveled hours to a black community, or police say he opened fire at a supermarket. ten people were killed, three others injured. tomorrow, president biden and first lady jill biden will travel to buffalo degree with that community. earlier today, white house honoring public safety officers at the white house. biden spoke about the victims and their families. no one understands more than all of you here today, the pain and anguish those families and buffalo feel. but, if they were you feel like you are pulled into a black hole inside your chest, and everything, everything and it s hard. the suspect, peyton gendron drawn has pleaded not guilty. tonight, the new york times report, that he lied legally purchasing a gun, after he made threats at a high school back in june 2021, acco
if not for the swift response by the buffalo s police department, getting to the scene of this mass shooting in about two minutes time, and being able to get him to surrender himself to police, there might have been many more people killed outside in the community, that was his goal, unfortunately the buffalo police were able to stop his heinous plan. we re grateful for that. mayor brown, thank you for joining us tonight, i appreciated. our thoughts are with you and your city. thank you, stephanie. with that, let s bring in the evenings experts, peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the new york times, professor melissa murray of nyu law school, she was a law clerk for sonia sotomayor on the federal bench, before her nomination to the supreme court. and nbc political analyst brittany cunningham, she s a former member of president
they have what appeared to be what a remarkable victories. either real victories with a force that the russians or places where russians are bogged down, at a fuel, and motivated, not quite sure what they re doing it and have orders to back out. there is a sense that there is not a battlefield commander here, somebody on russia on the russia side, a battlefield genius. ukrainians have that. they continue to recruit. more civilians are joining the civilian defense. they re getting more weaponry each passing day. for the moment, it is exhausting, the pressing, but they are not demoralize. ukrainian forces seem ready to continue to fight. the fear of course is that this is not a matter of weeks or months, it might be substantially longer. extraordinary resilience. ali velshi, thank you so much for joining us tonight. with that, i want to bring in this evenings experts. aaron schmidt, a senior writer for the new york times covering
continue to fight. the fear of course is that this is not a matter of weeks or months, it might be substantially longer. extraordinary resilience. ali velshi, thank you so much for joining us tonight. with that, i want to bring in this evenings experts. eric schmidt, covering international security. he won a pulitzer prize for his coverage. we also the former chief of staff at the cia in the pentagon. and julia, she is the senior policy adviser for europe at the treasury department where she focused specifically on sanctions now she s the deputy director for the atlantic council. eric, talk to us about the status for the focus on the east. what is the ukrainian government tying civilians to do there? as i said in his report is now, we see a group of russian forces north of kyiv, as many as 40, 000, have basically