go into some of these apartments where people have been locked up for three or four weeks, they will find dead bodies of people starved to death. people died of strokes and heart attacks. the death toll from the lockdown the cost of the lockdown is going to be much greater i think than the number of lives saved from covid at the end of the day. brian: 994 people say i feel symptoms. 22,000 test positive had no idea. so you lock down 25 million. do you know how you know? because you go to use your door and there is a padlock on the other side or they tape and seal it shut and they don t deliver food. what type of government treats their people like this and you say this is all about a battle of will and leadership. what is really going on here? well, what s really going on is politics all the time in china. you have got in china the head of the national health system saying we can t stop now because if we stop now, locking down everything we did in the past would be in vein. well ev
ukrainians fight for this, this would be a battle of will. it will be a battle of attrition, and it will be as hobbs would say, nasty and brutish, but it will not be short. general kimmitt, ambassador taylor, thank you so much for getting us started. still ahead this hour, biden warns china against sending military help to russia, but should those autocrats ignore biden, and ultimately, a line? what might it mean for the war? right after this break. using the truth to win, the risk that facts posed to putin wars, and efforts behind the scenes by american spies to flip russians against the kremlin. but first, to dara brown who is tracking the other big stories out there this hour. dara? thank you, alicia. u.s. capitol flying half staff this saturday honoring the life in service of republican congressman don young. he passed away friday. young was the longest serving member of the current congress. first elected in 1973. the president honored the dean of the house, saying few
north of kyiv. they re shelling the outskirts of the city, irpin, as fred just mentioned baugs thecause that s they can reach with their artillery. russia certainly has the advantage in the artillery, missiles and rockets category. what i think we re seeing, jim, if i may, we re seeing shifts in war aims, strategy and tactics within this entire fight. both sides are talking about what they might do, what they will do, but we re seeing also a culmination and really a testing of the battle of will and logistics. that s what we re going to see over the next several weeks. each force is going to adapt, and you re going to continue to have, while all this occurs, the conundrum of the horrors of the civilian attacks on the city. russia may be shifting their focus of attention.
there are nine children as i said it s a large family. and they don t want the public defender to represent him. they re going to be getting back to me at the end of the week. i hope that i can represent him because i think we ll win and he ll be found not guilty. robin ficker there s still a whole lot of questions that need to be answered at this point. what we do know four people are dead. thank you so much for joining us today. my pleasure. we re following a whole lot of news this morning. let s get right to it. 200 to 300 homes completely destroyed still looking for 12 missing. our wildest imagination think of the wall of water that would come down. the road was washed away. the challenges are not over yet. a massive attack on isis. the ministry operations will be northeast of fallujah and around ramadi. we ve talked about this as a battle for territory. it is a battle of will. i love it and i hate it but it s home. an iranian-american journalist for the wa
that is the bottom line. call it for what it is, john. the majority of counselors on city hall, left-wing, tax-and-spend socialists. reporter: it is a down to a battle of will between ford and political opponents. the advantage, ford is past embarassment and in having his pants pulled down in public and he told me frankly he doesn t care what the city council does to him. martha. martha: interesting interview. thank you very much. bill: not a boring day in toronto. martha: a lot of people are missing poor, deceased chris farley, would be perfect person to play him on saturday night live. i couldn t help but seeing john talk to the real rob ford is more interesting frankly that you could do with him. bill: 9:30. nancy pelosi is on the spot forced to explain her comment that you have to pass the law before we understand the law,. how the democrats are trying to dig out of the health care