The latest attacks in ukraine s sumy region. Volodymyr zelensky has accused the west of emboldening vladimir putin with its hesitation over long range missiles. President biden and sir keir starmer had met to decide whether to allow kyiv to use storm shadow missiles against targets inside russia. I don t think much about vladimir putin. Despite this putdown, there is still a cautious approach and no official change in policy. This wasn t a meeting about a particular capability. That wasn t why we got our heads down today. It was to allow ourselves the space which we took, the time which we took, to have a strategic discussion. These long range missiles are at the heart of the talks. The uk already supplies storm shadows to ukraine, but only for use within ukraine. The coming weeks could see that change, with them being allowed to be fired into russia at military installations. Some military observers say ukraine isjustified in wanting to stop the attacks at source. Now, what may happen
on tuesday. they re a lot of outstanding questions about when the police arrived at the scene, how long the shooter was in the building, how long it was before he went into the building, what officer did, or crucially, didn t do to stop him. this afternoon, local officials held a press conference and was clear that there are still many holes in the story. we re gonna talk more about that later in the show. but something that i am certain of, is that the most wrongheaded downright dystopian response to the murder in the town of uvalde is to call for quote, hardening schools. we have to harden our schools, not soften them up. the most important thing we can do is harden the schools. harden schools. hardening schools. god help us if we don t harden our schools and protect our kids. you ever notice when that happens, like some nasty new bit of lingo that didn t exist before in all like iran is saying it. clearly there was some memmel, somewhere. that was the enraging
comparison is a good one . i forgot about it but shehe didn t know what the letter she meant. but the sandy berger one for me ,you re in the middle of f the 9/11 commission. you have the nationalor securita adviser for the clintons go toth the archives, do some research stuff, some documents in his pants and socks walkout and ends up with probation and a fine and never rated. now, maybe because he wast cooperating. i don t know. the other thing i think is i ve going to make two other points.. say is nuclear documents. firstt of all, let me make two points. i had thought i had the clearance. you probably did, too.prob right. okay, so when you go to investigate a briefing, there s not much paperwork that s out. if there is , it s collected and everyone takes it back , i don t know how you would even have a cia document to put in a box. i don t understand that.st and also, if it is something to do with nuclear stuff, why would that be declassified like, what is it is it the letter that sa
do you conceive the school as a place? and, you know, the hardening ideas and thinking about the way that you think about a courthouse. yes. a prison, an airport, as opposed to, i don t know, a store, or a wreck center. that seems to me like one of the things here. and there s an enormous business that s been buildup, as i learn from your reporting and your colleagues, of trying to go over the school security. absolutely and here there is much stronger research stuff to talk about. the hundreds of millions and billions of dollars that have been spent in this industry of school hardening have not resulted in any measurable decreases and gun violence for kids in schools. so, we do have to ask a question. are these good expenditures? and, there are some simple low-cost actually free things that people can study school
time. the thing that is insidious about it that i didn t understand until the wake of the research stuff in russia was that it makes sense operationally for these online presences, these avatars, these accounts, to build up in a non-political context. and it can be, you know, that it s helpful hints for whitening your ogre teeth or how to tie your shoes faster or i love motorcycle or i love texas or i sure hate the police. you pick anything, any cause that might attract americans, any stripe of americans and you build up their interest and their following because you get them to trust you and then you become operational in the way that s designed to influence the election after you ve got them on the hook. i think it was important work by snopes to narrow this down now. we don t know what it would have looked like in a year. they had already been banned from buying ads on facebook.