if we talk about the aims of the united states and this war right now, as david just pointed out, it was a pretty strong statement from defense secretary austin, where he said, we want to weaken russia to the point where, militarily, it can t do the things it s been doing in ukraine. headline in the new york times, u.s. vows to dull russia s capacity to act militarily. what does that mean as a practical question? does it mean more weapons? does it mean more american intervention? two key words came out of the blinken/austin news conference over the beak end. one we talked about, the idea of weakening. that s from austin. the other is winning. they said ukraine can win this war. it is no longer managing defeat or ceding some territory to russia. they believe ukraine can win. it is a couple things. first of all, a number of the western sanctions really haven t taken hold yet. the longer this war goes on, the longer that will build up. the russian economy that much more decimated.
notice. now he has escalated, and he could quite possibly be trying to figure out the correct formula, the correct method, the correct pressure device, mercury device, trigger, timer, tripwir tripwire, whatever that would affect the most damage to a human target. because he hasn t been incredibly effective in his explosive devices, so i would suspect that his explosive element of his bombs might be homemade. i would suspect it s not commercial or military grade. and terry should address this because, like i said, it s way outside of my expertise. laura: terry, hold that thought. we have a lot more to get to. news is breaking at the moment. thanks, guys. we ll have you stick around as we wait for this austin news conference. we ll see when that happens. we ll take you right there. next, tonight s angle on washington s real march madness with exclusive reaction from
notice. now he has escalated, and he could quite possibly be trying to figure out the correct formula, the correct method, the correct pressure device, mercury device, trigger, timer, tripwir tripwire, whatever that would affect the most damage to a human target. because he hasn t been incredibly effective in his explosive devices, so i would suspect that his explosive element of his bombs might be homemade. i would suspect it s not commercial or military grade. and terry should address this because, like i said, it s way outside of my expertise. laura: terry, hold that thought. we have a lot more to get to. news is breaking at the moment. thanks, guys. we ll have you stick around as we wait for this austin news conference. we ll see when that happens. we ll take you right there. next, tonight s angle on washington s real march madness with exclusive reaction from