president shortly, as he addresses the russian nation, then he s doing the same with eastern parts of ukraine, that would be quite a development. one we know the u.s., and nato opposes. we ll wait to see what the u.s. and nato response would be. as i go back to you, i wanted to show that map again. when you say the russian president will talk about the independence of that region, obviously, that is a clever diplomatic term to suggest that they are going to potentially take it. but you can see there the donbas region, why the russians would want thapt bt because it s an additional piece of land that goes into the sea. that among other reasons. i was picturing it from terms of, say, an american perspective. picture russia arming for eight years americans in alaska, right, and then claiming evidence of crimes of ethnic
mussolini to the present. more about russia arming nuclear forces, having nuclear forces go on high alert right after the break. stay with us. t after the break. stay with us.
policy. with the u.s. forces that will be arriving with the new authority we ve been given, with the fact we re conditioned based, not time based, we set all the conditions to win. the general also said he s heard reports of russia providing support to the taliban with small arms. nbc s hans nichols joins us from kandahar, afghanistan. hans, that was a pretty frank assessment from the general this thanksgiving, no? well, what the general wants to do and what i think everyone here wants to do is provide accurate information up the chain of command to political leaders so they can make decisions they need to make. sometimes there s signalings from generals. you remember general nicholson in february was calling for more troops. an additional number of troops have arrived in afghanistan. the number is roughly around 14,000. there are about 3,000 down here in kandahar. in reality, the troops that they re talking about is part of this new strategy won t arrive
about public policy and not the media. we have new developments in the desperate search for a missing submarine from argentina. officials say they may have a clue about why the sub vanished from the radar. plus, the u.s. navy is expanding its search for three missing sailors in the philippine sea. officials are now asking for prayers to bring them home. and nbc s hans nichols speaks one on one with the top u.s. commander in afghanistan. their frank conversation about the conflict in that country including reports of russia arming the taliban. i don t want to sound paranoid, but d ya think our recent online sales success seems a little. strange? na. ever since we switched to fedex ground business has been great. they re affordable and fast. maybe too affordable and fast. what if. people aren t buying these books online, but they are buying them to protect their secrets?!?! hi bill. if that is your real name. it s william actually. hmph! affordable, fast fedex ground.
against us. no, absolutely. by using fake news, by using these kinds of cyber attacks, hacking, what they are trying to do is with false news try to influence how people react to certain candidates and how they cast their vote. it s very disruptive, and frankly it s tough to be able to pinpoint. that s why it s really important that we conduct our investigations into what russia did because there is no question in my mind that given the opportunity they will try to do it again, not only in this country, but in other countries as well. speaking of russian meddling i want to ask you about reports of russia arming the taliban in afghanistan. russia denies it, but u.s. military officials aren t holding back in making these claims. how much does that complicate not only the war in afghanistan but any kind of relationship that the trump administration wanted to have with russia?