special master. delay in the criminal investigation if the justice department can t get their hands on the documents to review them and most importantly there could be a delay in the intelligence community s damage assessment. one of the things we heard this weekend is that dni director haines has ordered a damage assessment to review the documents to determine whether sources have been compromised overseas, whether methods of dlekss, surveillance channels have been compromised and they need to shut those down or be aware of false flag operations. that needs to be done with urgency. every day, a delay caused by a special master, risks our national security. a special master would mean that dni would not be able to get access to the materials. they would have to wait for a special master to go through them again? i believe so. the judge can fashion whatever order she deems to be appropriate. if that s the idea, donald trump
solved in 48 hours and pointing the finger on ukraine a couple of days in front of the victory day celebrations. does that speed and does the past russian track record raise questions for you? oh, absolutely, jim. they wouldn t have had time to collect the shrapnel and everything else from this, the detonators. it happened too fast. the russians can t do this. there s absolutely no reason to believe they have the evidence against ukraine. it s way too fast. these things take months. so i think they made a political decision to blame ukraine to justify whatever they re going to do next. there is a long history, including in this war, we re about six months into the russian investigation of ukraine, of russia attempting what is called false flag operations. an operation at home that you carry out and blame the other side in effect. by the way, u.s. and western
a repeat of existing position. the power station is effectively on the front line. the international community want to see it demilitarized. it s going to be difficult to get inspectors in there, very dangerous for them. the russians are we know because we ve witnessed the results with our own eyes, firing rockets out of that location. the russians are claiming the ukrainians are firing back. that claim is undermined by our own analysis of satellite imagery which would indicate there hasn t been any significant shelling of that location for just over a month, and indeed recent eyewitnesses i ve spoken to personally who have escaped from the town next to the nuclear power station who say it is the russians themselves who are orchestrating low level mortar attacks and similar false flag operations to try to make the ukrainians look bad. now, that is only their claim again. we ve not been able to get in there because international journalists very rarely admitted to any of the russian occ
this plant? absolutely. because fred, what putin is doing here is actually using this as a place where he can do the so-called false flag operations and by that what is meant is that they will do something, make it look as if the ukrainians are doing it and in essence, blame the ukrainians for something they themselves, the russians themselves have done and that s the biggest danger here. i think for the most part, we re on to them but it s still a very big danger and attribution is one of the key things in this war that becomes a very hard thing to do sometimes. and then additionally now, it appears vladimir putin has agreed to let a mission from the atomic energy watchdog into the plant. what do you think is behind that decision? so in someways, it givesegit
we do not want to experience a new chernobyl. military equipment and personnel should be withdrawn from the plant. further deployment of forces or equipment to the site must be avoided. the area needs to denuc denuclearized. any potential damage to zaporizhzhia is suicide. cnn has verified video showing russian military trucks inside the plant parked near a nuclear reactor. it is not known when the video was taken. ukraine accuses russia of using the site to shield its military equipment from ukrainian attacks and to fire on nearby towns. sam kiley is joining us live from zaporizhzhia. and sam, we saw yesterday claims of false flag operations that have raised fears that russia may be preparing for a provocation at the plant. so what more are you hearing? reporter: i think one of the