actually going to take a toll on support for putin and for the war and especially as people grow weary over the months and the sanctions bite even more deeply. yeah, already a report coming out they re not being able to get spare parts and chips and so onto repair military systems, which is hurting the war effort. many believe that an extended stalemate is what is the near future in ukraine. what do you think russia do you think they re just wanting to put in place so-called facts on the ground so that territory gained is territory kept in any future deal? ukraine wouldn t agree to that, of course. indeed. that is putin s goal, but those facts on the ground are not facts for ukrainians or for the western alliance or for the rest of the world. they re only facts for putin. and ukrainians are not going to respect these so-called facts on the ground. the real fact to keep in mind any territory russia occupies
militarily tells me that he has prepped the battlefield and then secondly, alex, it s his tone, his rhetoric, and thirdly, it s the history. let s face it. if this were the first time putin was contemplating an invasion, i might score it slightly differently, but he s invaded georgia in 2008. already invaded ukraine in 2014. so when you put together the facts on the ground, the rett rhys coming out of moscow and the history, i think that two and three chance is where we are today. can i ask you about something that i learned about in preparation for war. you ll have a leader put together field hospitals. right? they anticipate in battle they re going to have casualties. you ll have blood donations brought. into the area. because they are going to have to, you know, help repair the
the price of gasoline which has gone up dramatically, the number of jobs that are unfilled, the number of trucking companies that can t find truckers. you look around and you think if this is the joe biden plan, it is a disaster. let s look pragmatically, facts on the ground, not statements from the white house that have no inaction to reality. laura: we are just hearing the fifth circuit court of appeals has ruled in favor of allowing texas abortion law to go forward. which of course overturned that district court initial decision saying it couldn t go forward. that is good news for the pro-life community across this country and also a sign that they are in for a fight on multiple fronts. they wanted these culture wars by taking this decision away from people and they ve gotten these culture wars on their
the general officers will be accountable for their decisions that they made it back august of this year. laura: he was apparently your client also questioned by the judge over something completely unrelated to this case, watch. s. the judge has asked lieutenant colonel scheller about a number of statements he made in the past that may have been in several cases praising or at least complementary to the protesters on january 6th at the capital. colonel scheller said these were offhand conversations. laura: what? how is that in order, how is that relevant? how was that possibly related to this conversation? it has nothing whatever to do with what we were trying to do in court. that rabbit trail the marine corps tried to run down,
is isis-k. it is also a very easy area to do a large amount of damage. the blast walls mean if you re close to it, you could almost magnify and channel if you have blast walls on either side of routes which for example exist on the way to the abby gate. that is a canal and a road that have the road has blast walls on other side so you could direct the blast up and down the road. there is nothing going out to the side. you get ricochet effect. so very deliberate tarngeting here and clearly something was imminent and now it seems to have happened, jim. the sad facts on the ground. sam kiley, thanks very much. our kylie atwood is at the state department as we continue to monitor news from kabul that continues to be a live picture there, an explosion at one of the gates to kabul airport where crowds have been gathering to get on, hopefully try one of the evacuation flights, our latest information is this appears to be a suicide attack consistent