infrastructure sectors could be painful. that s why we should be on offense and not on defense. impacting putin s ability to operate in the field. in other words, if we used our offensive weapons against his communications, it would make him more difficult to executed an invasion against the ukraine. we don t see that happening. i don t know why. martha: it would be great if we could lend offensive capabilities to the ukraine to affect their systems. it s not happened yesterday. thank you, john ratcliffe. always good to see you, sir. we re waiting for the pentagon. john kirby obviously a lotf pressing questions for kirby today and we ll take you there live. our breaking coverage continues with robert o brien, the russia-ukraine conflict driving u.s. gas prices higher and stocks lower, a tough combination for american pocket books and wallets. ashley webster, mark penn, tom
it s already a huge type of machine to put together, let alone coming from your own administration own forces, making it that much more difficult. we all know the russian military is overwhelming and god willing ukraine can hold on much longer. but it does help, it does help that you can see [indiscernible] could also help bring about its own defeat. are right. the russian military is overwhelming by you look at the convoy and you look at some other instances and a lot of times the military looks like it s in a bit of disarray. that is bolstering a lotf the ukrainian soldiers and the people were living there because they believe that there is a morale issue and there are some
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espn. so he s got a lotf of complaints of a lot of people. i could go on. unfortunately, we re out of time and i didn t want to overstrain you. i wanted a soft landing on your way back in. thanks. welcome back. calling president trump s infamous ukraine call the crescendo involving people closest to him. what mike pence, mick mulvaney, lots of micks and mike s here. mike pompeo might have to answer for next. she wanted to move someplace warm. but he wanted snow for the holidays. so we built a snow globe. i ll get that later. dylan! but the one thing we could both agree on was getting geico to help with homeowners insurance.
information and testimony about other elements of othis scandal in terms of what he was able to see from the u.s. embassy in ukrain and he was there after marie yovanovitch has left. a lotf of the criticism was you weren t there when the worst of all of it happened. and it s a new witness we didn t even know the name of until yesterday. when the news of this call emerged and it first emerge said in ambassador daytaylor s testimony, a staff member over heard the phone call. i was so stunned at the imagery of gordon sondland in kiev calling thes of the united states on a cell phone. the unsecure nature of that call is so wild and we ve since had