what did we learn from the unsealed affidavit? let s bring our panel also journal columnist dan henninger and kempster also part columnist in manhattan senior fellow jason riley. kim, you have had a chance to go through this document. what have we learned? here s what we learned, paul in terms of a timeline. apparently there was extensive discussion for the national archives and the trump team about the retrieval of some documents they felt along to others at the presidential record act with the archives. fifteen boxes of those were delivered to the archives in january. in february the archives at a referral to the department of justice because they said they had found classified information in the boxes. sometime after that the fbi start a criminal investigation. fast-forward up until may when there is discussion with the trump team about getting a hole of more of this information. at some point the department of justice seemed to feel as though there was a risk there were
right? he s going to keep pushing, but it s also not clear, don that russian forces are capable of achieving what putin wants and certainly not quickly and that adds up to sort of a depressing conclusion and that is that this war could drag on for some time, with a lot more fighting, a lot more bombing, sadly, a lot more civilian casualties, and really a world war ii-like battle in the east. this has the potential for a long, hard, and deadly slog. jim sciutto, see you get some rest. thank you for your coverage. this is don lemon tonight and we have new video which shows the brutality and indiscriminate destruction of vladimir putin s war. here it is. take a look at that. new drone video devastated town, the ukrainian forces there in nearby irpin and bucha were key to stopping putin s march to the capitol and chilling warning from the president of ukraine tonight, volodomyr zelenskyy, watch. translator: comment by russian commander shows russia wants to invade other cou
probably lying ahead. paul: dan, the question i get most often how does this end? what do you make of the point some site ukraine need to start taking back territory some of the territory to get back to that. if they want to get back to the pre-fabric 24th the borders are going to have to start taking land and be able to negotiate a more favorable terms in the next few months before that cold winter really arrives. as we saw president zelensky is talking about trying to take back some of crimea for sure. they ve been doing an extraordinarily good job of sabotaging the russians and their troops. everything russian administrators and place in eastern ukraine. i think the greater reality is the russians have no ability whatsoever to pacify ukraine decisively. the ukrainians will fight to the
( i ve been everywhere by johnny cash) i ve traveled every road in this here land! i ve been everywhere, man. i ve been everywhere, man. of travel i ve had my share, man. i ve been everywhere. russia new goal in ukraine, total control of the east and the south, which would give russia the capability of opening a land bridge to crimea, the
tonight, volodomyr zelenskyy, watch. translator: comment by russian commander shows russia wants to invade other countries. an attack on ukraine was only the beginning. only the beginning, and now we know what vladimir putin wants. he wants full control, not just of eastern ukraine where his forces have been pounding the region, but southern ukraine too, giving him a landbridge directly to crimea the peninsula he annexed back in 2014. but don t forget, putin thought he could take kyiv, he failed, leaving a trail of destruction behind, civilians dead in the streets of bucha, he has been battering mariupol for weeks but ukrainians hold up at that city s massive steel plant, they are holding on. that, as the mystery grows over the deaths of two russian gas executives in 24 hours this week, the circumstances strangely similar, one found dead on monday with his wife and daughter in their moscow apartment, the other found dead tuesday with his wife and