member of the russian military, all the russian soldiers essentially saying that ukraine was not a legitimate independent state and rightfully, a part of russia and to me, that had really strong echoes of things that we ve heard from putin before, that it behooves us to pay close attention to. you can t negotiate about that and that s the fear that it s not a real diplomatic process. and listen, we haven t heard from putin publicly on this crisis since december and that s why we re eager ly anticipating to hear from him any moment as he s meeting with hungarian prime minister orban in moscow now. we ve spoken about this in the past but we go back to last summer in geneva where president biden said in terms of what he was hoping for in relationship with putin, he wanted a stable and predictable relationship with him. here we are now, seven months later, perhaps on the precipice of war. regardless of whether russia goes in now or whether it s a minor incursion or a major one, what does
national guard members, these crews are deployed in strategic areas around the state to respond to specific emergencies, we haven t heard of me of those emergencies just yet. governor greg abbott saying the power grid this time is not only going to hold, he says that it is going to have excess power. take a listen. the expected peak demand, there should be about 10,000 megawatts of extra power capacity. to put that in context, that s about enough extra power to supply about 2 million homes. reporter: now, more than 15,000 people are without power right now here in the state of texas, jim and bianna, but according to the governor, and sed on what we have seen by monitoring the power grid here in the state of texas, those are localized events, in essence power lines down, things like
let s not forget the names that have been brought forward of these women have impeccable credentials. maybe it will be someone s name whom we haven t heard. but i bet their credentials are better than the united states senator s is. at least their record is better. what is really important hear is that i notice that the democrats do not have the same kind of lineup as the federal society is to republicans. to talk about what their judicial ideology is. and that s really important. i hope they get firmly behind the nominee and make this as civil a process as it can be. it is interesting that we don t have an idea of what the democrats are looking for toward their appointments to the courts in the same way you would speck it from the republicans. don t you think though, and i ll note this to you.
there are sentencing guidelines, and that generally sets the parameter and as i understand it here, we re talking about in the likelihood of 6 to 8 years. but victim impact can be considerable and judges are deferential personally and sometimes legally to what they say. areva, what do you think is the possibility if kim potter would speak today? what impact do you think that would have? i think it would have a big impact, even on the family. because we haven t heard, we heard daunte wright s mom say, in her statement, did not refer to kim potter by name. she referred to her as the defendant because throughout the trial, we heard with kim testified, talking about daunte. she referred to him as the driver. she never referred to him by his name. so if kim potter was to speak today, one thing she didn t do in her testimony was apologize
as i m aware to what we are witnessing here in kyiv and what s taking place it seems in other parts of the country as well tonight at the hands of russia. and there is a delay. so pardon me for as you were getting that information in. thank you very much. i was just talking to clarissa ward and she said exactly who you said we haven t heard from is ukraine and now we re hearing from this interior minister you said, ministry saying the invasion has begun, explosions are missile strikes that we re hearing. this is what i wanted to ask you as you were getting that new information. cnn is also getting reporting that the explosions heard by cnn in kyiv came from the east, which is in the direction of the international airport. talk to us about the significance of that if that is indeed true, matthew. yeah. well, i mean, it does seem that this direction here is the east. and we ve got our camera positioned on this balcony here because it overlooks the direction of russia, to the east