an acute threat. and we chose the word acute carefully. unlike china, russia can t systematically challenge the united states, but russian aggression does pose an immediate and sharp threat to our interest and values. immediate and short being the key terms and that s what russia is to the united states, and they are not a long term potential adversary as china is with their modernization effort. and they have laid out several key areas that the pentagon, the military, are supposed to be focusing on. one of those is defending the homeland. from potential attacks. and particularly, from the continued threats, and the growing threats from china. also, deterring potential strategic attacks against u.s. and allies overseas. outside of the homeland. and then finally, containing china and russia and europe and in the asia-pacific, and building a resilience in the
listening to you talk about this, which is what does the pro-lbgtq community look like in russia, and what are the options, right, to push back on this, in a nation like russia where there is no such thing, right? yes, so there are still lbgtq organizations in russia. they re monitored. they re surveilled. they re harassed. they re treated as sort of an arm of the u.s. government. they re treated as subversive foreigners even though they re just russians who are organizing and trying to protect their rights. they have pretty few options. one of the things we re seeing is they want to try to generate online petitions and they want to try to show that there is a groundswell inside russia that objects to this treatment of lbgtq people. but they can t go speak to their members of parliament. one of the things we ve seen actually on some of these forums, is a number of these groups suspect there are lbgtq
members of the russian parliament who voted for this law tonight. now, we don t, we can t get inside the heads of these russian parliamentarians, we don t know, but if that is true, you have to assume that these are people who feel enormous pressure from vladimir putin s ruling party to vote against their own communities, to vote against their own families, to vote against their own lives, which is, you know, about as tragic of a thing as you can imagine, a government forcing somebody to do, right? for sure. raf sanchez live for us, thank you. appreciate it. still ahead, elon musk, visiting twitter, as he gets ready to take it over in about 24 hours from now. can he change what it s like for you? we ll talk about it. first, new comments from house republicans on the prospect of impeaching president biden if they get control on election day. new reporting what is going down behind the scenes after the break. behind the scenes after t break. e with new neuriva relax and sleep.
and basically should be a part of russia and a civil sort of incident in his mind. he is talking about the people of the donbas, one of these regions that he has annexed that he is here to save them, that for years, as they have been shelled by ukrainian forces. it was sort of more of the same tone, the same tenor and i think one of the headlines you laid out here, that he says he is not planning, or has no intention of using nuclear weapons. there is a saying here in kyiv that if you want to know what is a lie, you just listen to vladimir putin speak, so i don t think people here are going to take that at face value. people here are still very worried. as you said here, in kherson, in the south, is one that is an hour by hour sort of watch. people here are hoping that that city will fall back into ukrainian lands, but it needs to be mentioned that the russian military has withdrawn all of the civilians. forcefully moving them from that city. so the hopes that the ukrainian army would
the pentagon today, a key document, laying out the priorities and challenges and china, the top threat to america? when russia is the one at war in ukraine? what s behind that thinking? here is defense secretary lloyd austin. the prc is the only competitor out there with both the intent to reshape the international order, and increasingly the power to do so. nbc news pentagon correspondent, joining us, courtney, talk us through that, a national security strategy out that looks at missile defense and give us the highlights what we should know. that s right, so this is unusual for all to be released at the same time but to be put together at the same time. the idea according to the defense officials we spoke with today is that they were hoping they would feed off of one another and inform one another and become more coordinated product. but you mentioned the national