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that trip in the coming days. kri jasmine wright traveling with president biden. thank you. joining me is a senior fellow in foreign policy at the brookings industry and a distinguished fellow on the council on foreign relations. gentlemen, thank you so much for getting up early and being with us this sunday morning. nice to be with you. michael, let s start with you, and this news that russia has confirmed that it used hypersonic missiles against ukraine, the very first known use of such weapons in combat. how significant of a development do you think this is? hi, kristin. i think your correspondent has it about right, it has more symbolic value than anything else. these missiles are expensive, they re not going to be used in a widespread way. and they can t solve the targeting problem. if you don t know what you re trying to hit or you don t know where the most important assets or concentration of forces may be, being able to fly fast and
likely human error. they are usually human mistakes. they have got tremendous pilots and great technology. it is a targeting problem i would image as opposed to an error. it is one of those two things, wrong target or an errant missile. these things do happen, as sad as that is. doctors without borders says they can t understand how that could happen. they say the u.s. and afghan government all had their coordinates, all knew their exact locations. kristin nisher live from dc. thanks. four students under arrest accused of noting a deadly attack on the california high school. police say students of summerville high school east of san francisco had a list of teachers and students they planned on shooting. they were in the process of getting those weapons for the attack when someone thank goodness told an administrator about the group s plans. all of the suspects are under
then do it. that is not an end, in and of itself, but could change the dynamics to make the russians and clai and their client, bashar al assad, to arrange for him to leave syria. gentlemen, we re running out of time. i want to ask you about the big news of this weekend and that, of course, is the tragic eebven of afghanistan where apparently a u.s. air strike in the effort to help the afghans take back the kunduz, it hit a doctors without borders hospital killing at least 19. general keane, how can something like that happen? they are usually human mistakes. we ve got tremendous pilots and we ve got great technology and it s a targeting problem, i would imagine, as opposed to an errant missile. wrong target or errant missile. these things do happen.
itself but it could change the political dynamics to make the russians, iranians and the client, to realize they have to negotiate a settlement that is going to involve him leaving syria. gentleman, i am sorry to interrupt we are running out of time. i want to ask you about the big news which is the tragic event in afghanistan where a united states airstrike and the of the by the united states to help the afghans take back the city of kunduz from the taliban an american airstrike hit a doctors without borders hospital killing 19. general keane, how can something like that happen? they are usually human mistakes. we have tremendous pilots and we have great technology and there is a targeting problem i on imagine were opposed to a mill. either wrong target or an errant missile and these things happen. it is sad.