Impeachment. Robin biro, appreciate you on the program. And this is breaking. We just found out Speaker Pelosi will speak at 5 p. M. Eastern right after that meeting with the democratic caucus. Stay tuned to fox. Dana fox news alert. Major developments expected this hour as democrats beat the drums on impeachment amid the ukraine controversy. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she will make an announcement at 5 p. M. After meeting with other leaders this afternoon. Her office now says she will make the announcement at 5 p. M. But first shes set to take questions at a forum in washington. Well also hear from former Vice President joe biden this hour. Hes expected to say congress will have no choice, that the house will have to impeach if the president refuses to fully cooperate with all of their investigations. Hello, everyone. Join me for this wild ride. Im dana perino and this is the Daily Briefing. Complete coverage this hour. We start with chief White House Correspondent john roberts c
three people including one child, died during the bombing of a maternity and children s hospital in mariupol this week. joining us now is alexander danniella. he s the co-founder of the center for national resilience and development. he s the former minister of finance and head of the national security and defense council. and alexander, when you hear that the world health organization has now documented 21 separate attacks against ukrainian health facilities. how do you respond to that , sir? well, we ll need we will need this in order to bring kremlin and russian leadership to justice and that will not be long, i m sure about this . unfortunately, the atrocities that being committed so far, those are not the atrocities that russians actually will do . they feel they see now that plan didn t work and they are
stakeholder groups in his circle but you also look at how the game is going so far, and the simple answer to that, the game is not going well for either constituency in his circle, which we can talk about the strongmen and the oligarchs. and what it means is that the blitzkrieg that was planned, obviously, this was planned as a short engagement with limited troops. that plan didn t work. kyiv still stands. ukraine still stands. president zelenskyy is a leader of a nationwide resistance, and so this means that there were some key strategic miscalculations in the original game plan. the miscalculation about how strong the ukrainian resistance would be and, you know, plenty of people on your program have already talked about this. but basically, this they are
which every soldier, you know, from a 22-year-old corporal up to a colonel really understands deeply the mission. so when communications break down and the chaos and fog of war, everything breaks down, they re able to get the mission done. in the soviet form of warfare, everything is centralized. individual initiative is not encouraged. and we re seeing that breakdown on the battlefield. most representative of that is we ve seen so many russian generals killed. the generals have to go forward when the plan falls apart. for instance, that 40-mile-long traffic jam outside of kyiv early on in the war was indicative of the fact that when their plan didn t work, when the russian plan didn t work, you could see a total break down of command and control because everything was so centralized. interesting. great information. okay, so listener, let s talk about the marine again. i know i don t want to use his
federal prosecutors have charged four iranians in an alleged plot against an iranian-american who is an outspoken critic of the regime in tehran. the four suspects remain at large this morning. but what they were planning is shocking. cnn s brynn gingras is joining me with the details on this. reporter: there s a fifth person of iranian descent living in california. she s already been arrested. she s the only one so far of all five. she has pleaded not guilty to the charges she faces. like you said, those four men, iranian intelligence agents essentially part of this plot according to the united states attorneys in the southern district of new york. they allege that this really started in 2018 when the iranian government went to the family members living in iran of this american journalist and tried to pay them to lure her out of the country and back to iran. when that plan didn t work, it picked back up in 2020 according