in terms of their ability to win, the first step in winning is believing that you can win. and so they believe that we can win, we believe that they can win if they have the right equipment, the right support. and we re going to do everything we can, continue to do everything we can to ensure that that gets there. we re seeing that when it comes to russia s war aims, russia is failing, ukraine is succeeding. we don t know how the rest of this war will unfold, but we do know that a sovereign, independent ukraine will be around a lot longer than vladimir putin is on the scene. the british ministry of defense said that russia has made minor advances in its push to take over the east. the uk also found that russia has, quote, yet to achieve a significant breakthrough. but if vladimir putin s forces continue to destroy more ukrainian buildings and lives. cnn just learning of a gas explosion in a government building in the luhansk region. officials say no one there survived
hearts we weren t going to kill them. that was training. that kind of training helped prepare them for the treatment that they got. john mccain was tortured. what they did to him in the hanoi hilton and other prisoner of war sites in north vietnam was torture. we ve never done that kind of thing. never condoned it. some of our allies may have done it but we department. the bottom line is, when congress made these things illegal, they re going to stay illegal until congress changes it. neil: when i hear the president said as he did today in this press conference and that he would defer i hope i have the right wording there to his defense secretary, what did you make of that? well, i make of it donald trump became famous for saying year you re fired. if he doesn t like that the
secretary of defense won t do it i know these mean well. i know jim mattis very well. he was not going to issue that kind of order and he has the authority to issue though orders. he s not goin
a crash of that plane into the alcoh capitol. president obama will observe a moment of silence marking the moment the first plane hit the north tower of the world trade center. bv moving to the memorial ceremony at the pentagon across the river where he will speak. donald trump appeared alongside rudy giuliani at ground zero this morning. he ll visit a firehouse later today. hillary clinton is also at the site of the attacks. she spoke to chris cuomo about visiting ground zero the day after the towers fell. i went the next day, chuck schumer and i. we were one of theery few planes in the sky that day. the 12th. and we landed at laguardia. we were on a fema plane. we took a helicopter. and we went over, circled the burning pile. and when we landed, we met up with the governor and the mayor and went walking toward ground zero. and as we moved further south and we saw this curtain of black smoke that was stretched across the island basically, occasionally it would be broken by
Islamic state jihadism. we have to fight over there. we ve been extremely absent and catering to the islamic mindset of fear of westernism. so we have to engage in the idealogical war and let the mad dog mattises of the world destroy them on the battled field. neil: i m getting a sense that this is the primary concern, back and forth and russia, back and forth about how we deal with china. but front and center right now is how we take on isis. so he s probably that is the president going to want a plan for that. and then an aggressive one. where do you see this going? well, i hope we shift the axis of domestic and global approach from violent extremism to violent islamism.
With the west, but i conflated russia with putin. russians have been helpful to the united states when it came to fighting radical islamic terrorism. because it s in their own self interest. putin is the president of a sovereign nation. he should not be allowed to invade other sovereign nations. when you re fighting an idealogical war, you have to work with people like putin. can i point out the difference between china and russia and the war on terror? the national interest. where is the threat to the national interest of russia going into crimea in ukraine? there s very little. national security is the united states commitment to our european allies. you have to see who has skin in the game. we do have skin in the game. talk about whether there s a national interest of americans abroad who are being blown to smith renes in certain areas or blown up here in america. the five s oscar breakdown is next.