senator lindsey graham an ally of donald trump. is the seemingly never ending trump soap opera about to plunge the us into turmoil? senator lindsey graham, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. senator, you are one of the strongest republican supporters of ukraine and of us military assistance to ukraine. right. would you acknowledge that, right now, the war isn t going the way you wanted it to, or indeed the way you expected it to just a few months ago? not at all. i think it s going exceedingly well. i just got back from ukraine last wednesday. there s major breakthroughs in the south. the land mine situation was incredible. i could not be more proud of how they ve used the military equipment provided by our countries. they re putting pressure, they ve broken through the first defensive line. i think they ll split the russian forces in crimea in the next couple of weeks, months. so i am exceedingly proud of the ukrainian military. well, that is extraordinarily upbeat, if i may
plunge the us into turmoil? senator lindsey graham, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. senator, you are one of the strongest republican supporters of ukraine and of us military assistance to ukraine. right. would you acknowledge that, right now, the war isn t going the way you wanted it to, or indeed the way you expected it to just a few months ago? not at all. i think it s going exceedingly well. i just got back from ukraine last wednesday. there s major breakthroughs in the south. the land mine situation was incredible. i could not be more proud of how they ve used the military equipment provided by our countries. they re putting pressure, they ve broken through the first defensive line. i think they ll split the russian forces in crimea in the next couple of weeks, months. so i am exceedingly proud of the ukrainian military. well, that is extraordinarily upbeat, if i may say so, compared with what we see in leaks from classified pentagon documents suggesting and i m quoting
they ve broken through the first defensive line. i think they ll split the russian forces in crimea in the next couple of weeks, months. so i am exceedingly proud of the ukrainian military. well, that is extraordinarily upbeat, if i may say so, compared with what we see in leaks from classified pentagon documents suggesting and i m quoting here from a leak in the washington post that kyiv won t fulfil its principal objective of severing that land bridge to crimea in this year s counter offensive. i think they re wrong. those same people told us kyiv would fall in four days, that the whole country would be in russian hands in two weeks. i go there enough to know what s real and what s not. it s been extremely tough sledding because of all the mines, but when they get contact with the russians, the russians fold pretty quickly. you ve got a bunch of conscripts that would rather not die in ukraine if they didn t have to. you ve got highly motivated ukrainian civilian populat
come. hold onto your breeches because here they come. they re coming back. congratulations. that was just part of donald trump s anti-immigrant messaging yesterday as he hit the campaign trail for the first time in weeks. we ll bring you more from his stops in michigan and wisconsin. also ahead we ll go through brand new polling on president biden and his predecessor in the states that will likely decide november s election. meanwhile, president biden has more sharp criticism of israel following an air strike that killed several humanitarian workers in gaza. we ll have the latest on that deadly strike and the growing international outrage. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, april 3rd. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. and we ll begin this morning in the midwest where donald trump appeared on the campaign trail yesterday for the first time in nearly a month. in grand rapids, michigan, trump fear mongered about migrants
good luck going home for the holidays. he will imprison, he will execute whoever he is allowed. vote biden or trump will have you put to death? i am transgender day of remembrance we remember 26 americans who were killed this year. the white house celebrates a cop hating terrorist. plus, what happened on the first thanksgiving? the pilgrims pilgrims went on a bender. and then they ate turkey. yesterday was a very important day at the white house. no, the president and broker a peace deal in ukraine. he didn t free any hostages in gaza. we didn t catch the cocaine bandit. it was a somber day. it was a day of grieving. today on transgender day of remembrance we grieve the 26 transgender americans who were killed this year. year after year we see that these victims are disproportionately black women and women of color. no one should face violence or live in fear or be discriminated against simply for being themselves. we mourn the loss of lives that have been tak