last 24 hours are 90 some odd missiles overwhelming ukrainian air defense and striking their power infrastructure. it s not going to change the course of the war. it s a lousy military strategy. the terror attack on the ukrainian people. so nato isn t going to be involved in discussions in the next 48 hours over this missile attack. they re going to be talking about what do we do about devastating impact on the ukrainian economy and civilian life. general mccaffrey, thank you. molly, back to you because we talked about it here at the top of the show, but i want to make sure to people because again, hearing from russia is going to be critical here, that the russian defense ministry is again denying that it was their missile that is landed in poland, if in fact that is what happened. yeah. we were getting that from russian state media before we now have a russian ministry of
general mccaffrey, your thoughts a t this moment. well, i think monica gave a comprehensive answer. this was obviously in my mind an errant missile. target doesn t make any sense. clearly russia is not served by attacking a nato deliberately. secondly, just to add a definitive note, within an hour of an artillery lieutenant arriving at this greater analysis, you ll know what it was. you ll get the direction of attack. depth of the crater. you ll be able to instantaneously put on video and share with the political leadership of nato who struck it and i m sure it was a russian missile. possibly hit by anti-aircraft and thrown off. finally, the importance of the
delicate moment to what we have been hearing from white house officials is that the door to diplomacy is open. another administration put it over the weekend just after the president spoke with president putin on the saturday that the stakes are too high not to give russia every opportunity to step back. you heard a comment about voluntarily saying that they re not pursuing it. there s an open door policy on the issue of nato and the state of the union address in two weeks and the president is continuing with plans to travel to ohio thursday to tout the agenda and trying to walk and chew gum as they say they re capable to do. general mccaffrey, to you and
managed and enables die version to europe. you have been listening to the white house principle deputy press secretary delivering a briefing in the middle of the tensions from the white house briefing room and the door to diplomacy is open and russ could invade at any moment possibly this week. i want to bring in mike memoli near the white house and retired four star general mccaffrey. mike, as expected i think wlm all the questions we heard most of them related to what s happening on the border with russ and ukraine. russia placed more troops on the border. tell me what you took away from this. reporter: yeah. obviously sticking closely at a
which will cause a run on the banks. you can t pay employees, rent and the fact that the russian economy is in a free fall with countries like switzerland and other countries joining in the sanctions. a lot of american corporate and multinational corporations joining indiana boycotts of russia and cutting ties, including energy companies. he s experiencing these reversals on the battle field and he can t like the look of his economy right now. jeremy bash, michael mcfall. we ll be in the chamber tonight, i expect and our general mccaffrey, our four-star general. thank you all so much. and the end game. how does the war end for vladimir putin? and should the world be concerned about his bursts of anger? marco rubio, vice chair of the. e chair of the. (music)