positions in donetsk and the forces continued to advance. the town was empty because they already moved on to the next target and so with the pressure mounting in the east and in the south as well against russian forces, very dark weeks ahead here for moscow s invasion of choice of its neighboring country, pam. nick paton walsh, thank you for that. and let s bring in the former commanding general of u.s. army and europe and seventh army. first off, what an incredible piece by our nick paton walsh. illuminating seeing lyman now december empty. i ve been watching this for weeks now. it s interesting because nick has really a great soda straw on
unsuccessful. and that retaking the area would give ukraine more leverage to push farther east into russian-occupied territory. it s getting complicated now. let s bring in retired lieutenant general mark hertling, senior general and europe and the seventh army. lieutenant general, good morning to you, the question is are we about to see a major escalation now, with this land grab? well, i certainly think, we re talking, first of all, a land grab that s in flagrant violation of international law has no legitimacy. and it s going to generate repercussions on the world stage, to be sure. you mix that, amara, as you just said, there s been additional successes on the battlefield year the city of lyman where ukrainian forces have surrounded what s estimated to be about 5,000 russian troops in that key city. in one of the o blocks that had
The other Sunday, Bob Schieffer, the longtime CBS journalist and anchor of the network’s Sunday morning show Face the Nation, had Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on his show. Mysteriously, a seriously hard fact of the 1964 Barry Goldwater campaign a fact about the role of CBS News itself disappeared from Mr. Schieffer’s recounting of that “historic landslide” to Mr. Priebus and the CBS audience. Vaporized more thoroughly than Lois Lerner’s e-mails from the IRS. As noted here by Jeffrey Meyer, the two had the following exchange about the state of the Repubican Party:
appointment. i want to bring in guests to drill down into this. what does it mean? jennifer rogers is a former federal prosecutor and cnn military analyst retired lieutenant general mark hurtling, former commanding general of u.s. army europe and seventh army is here with us, as well. general hertling, let s start with you. some of these documents contain information that could compromise human sources. is it a stretch to say people s lives could be in danger if these documents fell into the wrong hands? not a stretch at all, logic and reason but truthfully there is a lot of passion behind this. i ve seen these kind of documents in my job as a military officer. they definitely give information that put individuals at risk and i m talking about the risk of death. it also they also contained