well. you have the deputy national security adviser traveling to europe as well to try to get allies on board for what the response would be not for a traditional invasion but the cyber tactics russia can deploy as well. jim, let me pick up on the point mike made here. we have an understanding of the government assessment on what putin can do for the capabilities of a full-scale invasion. what are his options aside from that? well, you know, there s a lot of ideas circulating around about these measures short of war. the gray area type of thing. cyber is a major bit of that. if there s a major cyberattack on kyiv or some of the other major cities, the electrical grid goes down, that would also impact the economy. another weapon is energy. that could be shut off or it could be lessened so that there s cold houses and
loyalty sport, and it is going to be a rocky road as my old boss used to say he s not actually running from his congeniality in the democratic caucus, but it is a pragmatic approach that puts the thing back alive, even a faintly alive. to your point mike we don t emphasize it enough. trump did carry his state by 40 points. eugene i can give you 30 seconds before a break, go ahead. every democrat realizes that you have joe manchin, you have joe manchin, right? if you were not there, then the republicans wouldn t be in that seat and mitch mcconnell would be running the senate. joe manchin is a fact of life, and if you want to make him less of a fact of life, win a bigger majority in 22 and then he s not the signing vote on everything. but in the meantime, as i ve said, show me the ten votes and i actually think you ll get a
a way but after lengthy discussions we decided we would but under the condition that mike alone would take all decisions our team would accompany him merely as observers the meeting was arranged in turkey when mike arrived we were already there. smuggling people out of i asked territory was extremely dangerous especially when a woman was involved. michael met the smuggler in a hotel in southern turkey. we kept our distance while listening in mike did the negotiating. stuff and. i met with this was a smartly dressed guy. he said he had links to the news for a front. so basically. like us by the storm ike from the hamlet of pride and bach was having a cup of tea with 2 guys from al-qaeda i think of the smoking around 100 cigarettes
hi dad i m trying to send you a voice memo that we could you quickly. i m doing really well we have a really big apartment here. that is as decorated everything in purple of course. you know we don t have. which is here but these pillows you sit on so i m also sending you photos of the president he gave me gold because. nora was talking about how wedding aged just 15 she married an islamic state fighter this is the official wedding photo she was one of the man s 3 wives mike s layo was now living in another world in syria in the midst of a civil war. that previous world had been brightened by a village of 200 people in the hearts mountains region of eastern germany. at this point mike approached me. i am a journalist and already had years of on the ground experience covering i-s.
had been killed in a civil war that wasn t hers. 3 weeks after the news of her death we visited mike for the 1st time with the camera again . he told us he was trying to somehow get through the days that he hadn t made it through a 90 yet without or trying. thank you distort your child is dead. and if you fail to shaft us you failed to get her out of that situation of divorce or. we have got this bomb from going to plant this tree thought we were preparing her but we ll be saying farewell my child. we ll have a place we can go which is symbolically her last resting place at the border and.