gone now, whether it s full mobilization or even use of weapons of mass destruction? well, again, full mobilization is too late and beyond that they ve stripped their base, they don t have the replacement vehicles, the export sanctions on micro chips to russia have crushed their industrial base and so forth. that s too late. the consideration of tactical nuclear weapons, yes, you could have a tactically very disastrous situation but it doesn t change the fundamental realities which are that russia just cannot generate the forces, much less employ them cape plea and competently. their morale is rock bottom, they are not even sure what they re fighting for other than a paycheck or perhaps to stay out of jail. the morale on the ukrainian sky is sky high, they re winning. so the question at first is can the russians find new defensive lines or do they have to fall all the way back in the east, for example, to the original
increase production of desperately needed micro chips which are in short supply but it seems that was not quite enough to state their ang sore senate republicans, members of a party which love to wave a flag and say they support the troops, seemed to take their frustrations out about the advance on joe biden s agenda on sick and ailing veterans. they blocked, they blocked that bill, to help veterans affected by toxic burn pits. today, in a press conference outside the capitol, sergeant first class heath robinson s mother-in-law took the podium in her late son-in-law s army jacket, to offer her thoughts on the republicans brave stance against veterans. senator toomey, senator portman was heath s senators. they voted against my family. they voted for all of us to suffer. every single one has pictures with veterans on their facebook
wanted them to support crazy things. other cases have, most cases, people were just trying to take advantage, try to win, and try to play the game. but what they did is, people who knew better, people who knew the vaccines don t put micro chips and bodies, people who knew that donald trump lost a legitimate election in 2020, they play footsie with the conspiracy nonsense, with the extremism stuff, because that s what they think they need to do to win. and overtime, these, quote, unquote, normal people, the people who know better, have been co-opted by the extremists. and it is very clear that that is happened right now. and 2012, this has been going on minimum i cover 14 years of my book, i m sure that some people who have been around for a longer say that it s been going on longer than it, but it s been going on for over a decade. and yet, the vast majority of my former colleagues continue to play this same losing game
in the book, it s been going over a decade. where people in some cases were well intentioned republicans, who are just trying to deal with the fact that the voters wanted them to support crazy things. other cases have, most cases, people were just trying to take advantage, try to win, and try to play the game. but what they did is, people who knew better, people who knew the vaccines don t put micro chips and bodies, people who knew that donald trump lost a legitimate election in 2020, they play footsie with the conspiracy nonsense but the extremism stuff, because that s what they think they need to do to win. and overtime, these, quote, unquote, normal people, the people who know better, have been co-opted by the extremists. and it is very clear that that is happened right now. and 2012, this has been going on minimum i cover 14 years of my book, i m sure that some people who have been around for a longer say that it s been going on longer than it, but it s been going on for over a
wilson center and a former director for korea, japan and oceanic affairs. the president visited this samsung plant. what can you tell us about that? reporter: well, the president is here as part of a five-day tour. he ll be in south korea for a few days before he heads off to japan and really i think in many ways this is an effort for the president to demonstrate that while much of his attention has been focused on what s taking place in eastern europe with the war in ukraine, that the u.s. s relations with its allies here remain strong. south korea, japan and others, and a chance to buttress the rise of china right now. so as you noted, the president did make that first stop of his trip at the samsung semiconductor plant. those micro chips have been facing a shortage worldwide and the president went there not only because samsung would be building the $17 billion facility in tyler, texas, that