i m katy tur. it has been a dramatic day on capitol hill. emphasis on dramatic as house lawmakers loudly debated whether to formalize an investigation into president biden. as you would imagine, it got combative. we were waiting on the vote, but if all republicans tow the line, it will pass. that is not all. this morning, right outside of the capitol. hunter biden told reporters he was ready to testify in front of the house. but only if republicans agree to do it in public stating, quote, my father was not financially involved in my business, not as a practicing lawyer, not as a board member of burisma, not my partnership with the chinese private businessmen, not in my investments at home nor abroad, and certainly not as an artist, and he s blaming republicans by name for using his own personal struggles to try to take down his father. in the depths of my addiction, i was extremely irresponsible with my finances. but to suggest that is grounds for an impeachment inquiry is
things to your listeners, but he s within that southern military district are areas like chechnyan, dagestan, bugagrad and crimea. he knows the area in which he s serving. the way he has conducted combat operations in the past has caused him to be he s received a lot of medals from putin himself, but he has also been the kind of executioner that we ve seen prosecute these campaigns where there s an awful lot of civilian attacks, civilian destruction, chaos on populations both in syria and in grozny. so this is a guy that is going to be asked to deliver success before the 9 may mayday parade in moscow. whether or not he s going to be able to do that is a different story because he doesn t have a lot of forces to execute some of the attacks in the eastern part of ukraine. very telling as you kind of
sometimes things go terribly wrong, but generally speaking, part and parcel of russian military operations tend to be a complete who cares about the number of civilian casualties, the amount of civilian destruction. it s interesting thus far, as i can read it on the tv reporting, that they haven t gotten into that yet. but i would just caution everybody to understand that once they decide to go at it, they don t really pay too much attention to civilian casualties, to precise military operations, that kind of thing. we ve heard a lot of prominent republicans, both in politics and in conservative media, praising vladimir putin, even calling him a genius. what s your response when you hear that? disbelief. he s a tyrant. he s a murderer. he has attacked an innocent
right, i think that time is, in fact, working against russia. they had lost the advantage of the shock and awe expectation people had for them. now the grinding nature of the war exposed them as more of a paper tire than they had been. it doesn t mean they can t ultimately win. they do still have, of course, superior fire power. they have the will of vladimir putin to do things that ordinary commanders wouldn t do, in terms of civilian destruction. general mccaffrey mentioned 25,000 russian soldiers so far reported wounded or killed. 10,000 reported to be killed. if that is the case, that s already, in a few weeks, two-thirds of the entire death toll the russians have reported from the afghan war when they fought there for ten years. that s more in three weeks than we, the united states, lost, the fatalities in iraq and afghanistan combined in 20 years. at some point, there s a lot of mothers and families back in russia who are losing sons and are going to be pretty you