on that. and i think it is essential to continue to move things like the javelin, like the stingers in and our ally s version of those, but ensuring they get that long range system. but ultimately, this may be a tank on tank battle. we have to be flexible and agile. i want to turn to your work on the january 6th. committee. your colleague, liz cheney, says it s absolutely clear that what former president trump was doing was unlawful. do you agree with her? yes. certainly. i think, yeah, all you have to do is look at donald trump s own statements when he says, put out a statement not that long ago where he said i m wanted vice president pence to overturn an election. that to me sounds like an admission to a coup attempt. the question now though from the
intelligence that s beenoge gon, let s be frank, that will give the ukrainians great advantage to take the fight to the russians and to really completely wrest the initiative away from the russians and set the tone of the engagement. the donbas is much different geographically than the area north and west of kyiv with more open landscapes. who has the edge in that kind of territory, general? well, the russians have the tanks and they have the numbers. this is classic tank battle. kharkiv was one of the most fought over cities in world war ii when the nazis were coming in and the russians were coming through in world war ii. however, the ukrainians this is their home turf, so it s a home game for them. they ve got familiarity with what this terrain provides in terms of advantages to them. so if the ukrainians can bring forward tanks that they have, the t72 tanks, many they ve
learning about the clash of armies thousands of miles away that don t have imbedded reporters like a lot of american units did. the more the information, the bigger grain of salt you should read it with. right now, the more reliable reports are the more high level-vague reports. something like russia is disappointed by their progress right now. some report that says 15 kilometers from kyiv, there was a tank battle that x number vehicles destroyed and x number killed. take that with a grain of salt. we don t have the resources. we may not know for a long time what happened where and when in this fight. to chime in what this means for russians at home. the reason the kremlin is not
tracking russian tank battalion to the city where they participated in a very important tank battle. russia has had troops there for years now. and i can understand why the biden administration at this minute does not want to impose the larger package of sanctions that they have been promising. because it is one thing for russia to bring more troops into the areas that artifact are already controlled by russia, the question, as your correspondent pointed out earlier in the program, will they move across the front line and try to retake, or rather take new territories in the rest of ukraine. i think that is what has everybody biting their nails at this point and why the biden administration wants to. right, they don t pull the trigger on the larger package of sanctions. unless they need. to let s talk a little bit, these are all different parts of the country s. the western part is different
focus today. for everyday americans we re in the 15th day of this and seeing things that only, well, colonels and generals and those in the field in combat have ever seen. what do you make of what putin is doing now? it s war, yes, but it seems so far afield from anything human. it is so far afield from anything that we ve seen in most of our lifetimes. although going back to desert storm when i was in the biggest tank battle up to that point since world war ii i saw extraordinary levels of destruction and civilians that had been knocked out of their homes in kuwait. it was just horrifying. and that was maybe a fraction of what we re seeing now. it is not just mariupol but it is also kharkiv and several other cities and probably more to come. it is just heartbreaking to see a lot of that and it is just this is total war and one of the reasons why we should avoid