ramp is. they don t know what will get him to the negotiating table. they re looking for signs that they want to move forward. that, president putin cornered, his penchant for escalation and the realities of this moment are real and so is the threat. that more than anything else is what the president was trying to convey, even if it was in blunt and very unsettling terms. one thing the president made particularly clear, the idea that russians are using a tactical nuclear weapon is not a half measure. he said regardless of the scale, the end game would be the same. armageddon, something the administration would be dealing with, grappling with, facing tomorrow or the next day for months ahead. phil mattingly, cnn, new york. senior military analyst mark hurtling suggested mr. biden might have a point. a lot of people have been
if that s all true, why do they continue to want to visit the west? lieutenant general mark hurtling, thank you for being with us. turning to unrest in iraq. nearly two dozen people are dead. hundreds more hurt in the green zone. that violence after a cleric announced his resignation from politics. it is raising concerns that iraq could get to a civil war. what is happening right now in baghdad? e er erica, now, baghdad is almost back to itself. at 9:00 p.m. local time in baghdad, muqtada sadr, announced he was retiring from politics, that set off clashes that left
everything that belongs to ukraine. great deal of determination in the voice of the ukrainian president. in the last hour or so, erica, he s been meeting with the head of the iaea inspectors team, the nuclear watchdog here in kyiv and hoping to get to the zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, that has been the subject of speculation of the damage caused. there was going to be a press conference earlier today. president zelensky is calling for it to be demilitarized and it s russian shelling that is preventing the iaea from heading to zaporizhzhya. joining me to discuss, retired lieutenant general mark hurtling. and also with us, steve hall, a former cia chief of russia operations. there s been talk that this is a
appointment. i want to bring in guests to drill down into this. what does it mean? jennifer rogers is a former federal prosecutor and cnn military analyst retired lieutenant general mark hurtling, former commanding general of u.s. army europe and seventh army is here with us, as well. general hertling, let s start with you. some of these documents contain information that could compromise human sources. is it a stretch to say people s lives could be in danger if these documents fell into the wrong hands? not a stretch at all, logic and reason but truthfully there is a lot of passion behind this. i ve seen these kind of documents in my job as a military officer. they definitely give information that put individuals at risk and i m talking about the risk of death. it also they also contained
catastrophic. if those pumps quit, heat building up, steam builds up and the fuel itself can melt down leading to the potential for radio act ctive material to be released. mark says the russian army is essentially holding that nuclear plant hostage. russia is playing with fire both a literal and figurative spence when they re playing with six nuclear reactors that have nuclear rods. it doesn t matter if it s shelled or not. it has to do with the potential for causing chaos in this kind of energy source, i m not a nuclear engineer but i ve been around soldiers a lot. when you put a lot of soldiers, especially the undisciplined type of soldiers russia has in its armed forces in a facility that requires this level of care, you re asking for