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greg, tell me what the sort of ukrainian media conversation is like. i know it s it s almost morning. but now it s almost i guess they are probably mostly in bed, but probably still watching the news because of the nature of this news cycle. tell me what the, you know, is there a call for more for the kinds of things general mccaffrey is talking about, more air defense system? is there a call for more advanced weaponry? tell me what the sort of conversation was at bedtime in ukraine tonight. sure, sure. a couple of things. they have been the ukrainians have been asking for better air defense systems throughout the war and now they are getting some more. it gets a little tricky if you have to integrate a number of different systems, the old soviet systems they had, new american systems, other systems from europe. so trying to integrate these. but they have been fast learners and that s exactly what they
missiles across ukraine to create and bring down the electrical grid and other utility systems. it has zero chance of the ukrainian people rising up and saying we will stop the war. they are tough, determined, well organized. they are bringing power back to kherson as we talk. so it s just a terror attack on civilians. it will be a miserable winter. the war will not slow down. the ukrainians will continue to press the russians. putin is in serious trouble, both at a strategic level and his army is failing on the battlefield. greg, this has been the description by ukrainians, including some who appear on this program. speaker pelosi and congressman himes, a member of the intelligence committee, describe
300 mile range. i sigh because your careful reporting, greg, and your years of experience, general, are exactly what the story like this that is still coming into focus requires. i am so grateful to have both of you. we will continue to follow this. we may call on you again in the next two hours and bring our viewers developments as soon as we get them. when we come back, we will bring our focus home for a bit with a story that has huge national security implications at home. the twice impeached ex-president is expected to launch a third presidential campaign tonight. with it he could be unleashing another round of chaos and dangerous insightful rhetoric that consumed in country for years now. the potential for more violence will be our focus.
joining us greg mowry and barry mccaffrey, former member of the national security council now an msnbc military analyst. we saw president zelenskyy describe this as a major escalation. tell us more. yeah. in terms of the russian missiles, the russians have been doing this for the past month and this was perhaps the biggest, not only in the past month, but in the war. close to 100 missiles. every major city. they did damage. power out here in kyiv, half the city has lost its lek tlisty. you may have the video you were playing there, that apartment building on fire. we were there just a couple of hours ago. people were standing around saying, you know, why are you hitting this place? what are the russians doing? absolute they are no longer in shock because it happened so many times, but they are just,