traveling public very seriously. either way, dana, terrible timing for the showdown as the holiday travel season is upon us. as you can see here at chicago s o hare airport. dana: it is underway indeed. grady trimble, thank you. bill: a new reagan national defense survey showing a disturbing trend as fewer americans hold trust in the u.s. military. majority of americans believe the institution is being overly politicized. a washington director of the ronald reagan presidential foundation and institute with us at the library in simi valley. roger, nice to see you. good morning to you. we gave the top line story on the survey. how do you interpret that? we ve seen this drop as you mentioned, a 22% drop since 2018. we asked the respondents why. why is this going down? why do you lack trust and confidence? they see the military being drug into political matters whether
this was a gamble and it s not going the way he hoped. the flights some of them full. military age males trying to get out of the country. they don t believe this mobilization is necessarily partial. the restrictions this will just be veterans, reservists, those with special skills for the military being called up. also we have these protests, 1300 detained. i should point out. when they say no for war, it s when russian soldiers they potentially know are being sent to the front line after six, seven months. president volodymyr zelenskyy using his speech to say that russia should use its veto on the u.n. security council to say all this talk of referendum, mobilization, essentially russia delaying its retreat because it wants to spend the winter in occupied territories. that winter is coming very fast.
mid-may in moscow, but for the russian economy, winter is coming. the effect of sanction and export control over time are going to be crushing for this economy. most especially for the russian defense industrial base, which is something we do want to make sure doesn t target other countries, isn t able to control its aggression against ukraine or target other countries. that seems to me, ambassador, one of the many miscalculations putin made. nato expanding. the world rallying behind ukraine. putin s military being turned away from the prize of kyiv he thought he d roll tanks into and have a military parade and install a puppet government. as someone who understands russia and putin better than most, what is your sense of his new end game or new aims?
to do it. he could immediately seize every one of the machines around the country on his order and also order the within the swing states if he wanted to he could take military capabilities and place them in the states and basically re-run an election in each of those states. that guy used to be a respected general. talking about the military going in to swing states and re-running an election. mr. giuliani was opposed to military being used to seize the machines even though he spent weeks pedaling the most outrageous claims about election fraud said bringing in the
the most important naval base in sebastopol and it has been an armoury for russia and the forces of their and in the east so it is no surprise they are doing better, they have what the ukrainians for eight years and have been operational, forces from belarus thought they were going on exercises and found out they weren t and they are very much less experienced in working together and they have taken longer together and they have taken longer to get going. we together and they have taken longer to get going- to get going. we have had reports of seniorfigures to get going. we have had reports of senior figures and to get going. we have had reports of senior figures and the to get going. we have had reports of senior figures and the russian - senior figures and the russian military being killed. haifa senior figures and the russian military being killed. how much does that damage military being killed. how much does that damage the military being killed. how much does that damag