we cannot take it seriously. we ve gotta dismiss that and do the business that the united states had set out to do. all right. we will leave it there, gentlemen. jason beers, lead peter baker and jeremy bash, thank you. coming up, democrats are calling on clarence thomas to resign, or at least recuse himself over his wife s delusions and pressure to campaign to overturn the 2020 election. republicans? they say not so fast. later, the brutal fight for the surrounded city of mariupol. more on the effort to free those still trapped and starving from ukrainian parliament who s from there where his home was bombed. the 11th hour just getting underway on friday night. getting underway on friday night postmenopausal osteoporosis and a high risk for fracture, it s time to make your move to help reduce your risk of fracture with prolia®. only prolia® is proven to help strengthen and protect bones from fracture with 1 shot every 6 months.
jason, i want to go to you first. starting with russia. scaling back on its face, really good news. but the former ambassador to russia, michael had a bit of a reality check earlier. watch this. on the one hand, ukrainians are performing heroically on the battlefield. and they ve achieved things that no one predicted, most certainly not me. and at the same time they are still in a fight for their lives. i ve seen no signal for putin, yes, the general said what he said. but putin himself had never said once, all, we re gonna stop here and done moss. that is why you hear zelenskyy saying, thank you for what you did, but you need to do more. what is your assessment of what is going on here? well, i think the former ambassador has a great. point it s not over. but we have seen ukrainians put up a fierce resistance. and we know the real calls to get putin to get to negotiation is to break the will of the
world war ii and a half. this has become a struggle between democracy autocracy. if we lose this fight, if putin is allowed to take all of ukraine, to subjugate ukraine, to split the west, and there will be nothing that will stop putin and tyranny and autocracy. however, if the west does prevail in helping ukraine defend itself and if putin can be pushed back, this is going to be a watershed moment for the advancement of democracy, for the advancement of nato alliance and it will deal a critical blow not just to putin s in, that tyranny all the world over. this is a consequential speech, and i think the president is exactly right to paint a conflict in this larger tableau. jason, you ve been in contact. the president shared pizza, took selfies with members of the armies 82nd airborne division and poland today. what does it mean to the troops when the commander of chief chief seoul shows up? it s always an honor to have a commander in chief. it shows a lot of solidarity, support.
in the east, tries to win military battles in the donbas then the whole nature of the conflict changes. and instead of the insurgency conflict that we were predicting and that we were preparing to on the ukrainians to fight, really now changes to a state on state kinetic war in which the ukrainians will like long-range fires, air power, drones, missiles, things they can launch across the border to hit the russians and inflict pain on them there. not nearly urban combat, house to house, inserted to capability. jason, the russian military is now saying and never intended to do more than a liberate just a few areas in the east. do you buy that, are they just trying to say face after the fact? stephanie, we ve got it. the receiving face. this is russia s way of trying to get to the negotiating big table. with leverage. we were clear of which glided putin intended. the decapitation of the
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