jeremy bash. former chief of staff at the cia, and the pentagon. jeremy, i turn to you first. russian forces thought that they would crush ukraine s military within one week. but russia has, clearly, stalled. now there is a billion dollars, a new u.s. military aid, coming to ukraine, any day now. can you speak to what is next in this fight? absolutely, stephanie. i think the battle for kyiv is shaping up to be not remember the most consequential battles of the 21st century, but maybe the most consequential fight since the battle of britain, in world war ii, in 1940. what ukraine is having to contend with, our russian aircraft, trying to bomb, and straight, civilian targets, across the city. laying siege as richard, and cal, reported to the city. cutting off key lifelines. if the zelenskyy government can hold on, stay in power, and continue to operate from a commanding control position, in its own capital city, i think
could hear throughout my story there, but where do they go next? where is safe? the capital kyiv where we are, it s still not safe. right? this is just grades or shades of real danger. it but the fighting is encroaching. the ukrainians are defending as best they can. they ve had some success pushing the russian forces back but the russians are slowly but surely beginning the process of fully encircling this city with the ultimate aim of laying siege and potentially engaging in even more severe bombardment. so, really, the illusion, or the idea that you re passing to safety is an illusion. it s a temporary reprieve for a moment, and then the next question becomes where do you go next? and how can this country with its infrastructure keep up and cope with this huge swell of more than 1 million people forced from their homes?
in this fight? absolutely, stephanie. i think the battle for kyiv is shaping up to be not remember the most consequential battles of the 21st century, but maybe the most consequential fight since the battle of britain, in world war ii, in 1940. what ukraine is having to contend with, our russian aircraft, trying to bomb, and straight, civilian targets, across the city. laying siege as richard, and cal, reported to the city. cutting off key lifelines. if the zelenskyy government can hold on, stay in power, and continue to operate from a commanding control position, in its own capital city, i think that will create, essentially, a long-standing war of attrition, a standoff between russian forces, and ukrainian forces. i think this is shaping up to be, stephanie, as world war ii and a half. not yet world war iii, not yet all out nuclear confrontation between russia, in the west,
stalingrad. russia is laying siege. amid this, the residents are surviving. the day after a missile slammed into kharkiv s town hall, we asked a resident of the city to document what s happening to her home. my city, kharkiv, is under contact attack, bombing, rocket fire, artillery fire, all day, nonstop. just today, four russian warplanes flew near my house. reporter: she s trying to keep her body, mind and soul together with her family in their apartment where they are sheltering from the bombs. this is our hiding place. it s a vestibule area between two walls with no windows. we also have a little bit of
as this committee s investigation ramps up with more subpoenas coming, what are you expecting to see? name, activities by this committee as part of the investigation? the committee has been pretty broad, ali, in trying to tackle several different buckets of witnesses. essentially witnesses to what happened in the oval in the days before january 6th about what the president himself was saying and doing as senior aides pleaded with him to try to call off the dogs, to try to tell his supporters to stop laying siege on the capitol. there is a lot of emphasis on the legal wrangling that various trump allies were engaged in to try to dispute totally free and fair elections in various states and try to dispute them especially in georgia.