staff. steve: in russia. brian: a leaker but being charged with wasteful scawn derg of fuel. arrested evidently final of them. hills higher ups, military officers. four of his generals are dead. and now, according to his rhetoric on nightly news last night and the night before. he is not no longer talking about nazi regime has to be ousted, ukraine being a phony country. is he no longer saying is he going to capture kyiv. now he is talking about the relevance of the donbas region and the need to get new roads in crimea. could this be the ground could he be getting his public ready for truce talks? steve: well, let s hope so. rachel: earlier in the week we heard video from zelenskyy speaking directly to russian soldiers saying, listen, we hear your conversations, we are able to intervene those conversations between you and your family. we know you don t really want to be here. put your weapons down. we don t want to kill you and you don t want to be here. well, arnold schwarze