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Chief in london, ontario. because he is going after somebody who spotted a trans person on this is not this is a strategy. this is an infrastructure that is based entirely on harassment, because they ve given up on democracy. i want to thank you for coming in this morning to talk to us about this. particularly worrisome organist allen. ben collins, nbc news senior reporter. straight ahead, the latest on the war in ukraine as russia s invasion enters month number six this week. plus the latest on the investigation involving the former president and their effect on the upcoming midterm elections. another hour of velshi begins right now. good morning. i m ali velshi. it s sunday, august 21st. it s day one 79 of russia s war in ukraine. a war that none of us imagined ....
i think that s exactly right. moving logistics faces forward you could do that through the commercial sector through kind of contractors. doesn t require boots on the ground, doesn t break the threshold there. the russians are not gonna be able to defeat it. i m also here for two other reasons. one is to get a better assessment of what s going on. provide better policy advice also bring attention back to critically important war with the ukrainians are fighting not just for their own freedom, for their own homes but they re fighting for kind of the order that allowed the u.s. to prosper since world war ii. the russians are trying to racket. ukrainians are fighting for it, bleeding for it. i just want to see if i can help remind american public that there is this is a very important war with huge stakes. if russia wins, u.s. is enormous peril. ukrainians, i think we have some breathing room. ....
We have a way to kind of converge democracy around democratic values. and keep making progress to a more democratic world. with the ukraine, we will be in a world of trouble. you are making that point long before there was a war in ukraine and before most americans knew anything about this. you continued to and it did cause to your career in the military. we thank you for your service once again. retired lieutenant colonel alexander vindman is the former director of european affairs for the national security council meanwhile after just one week after a congressional delegation a visit to taiwan, another elected american official has just arrived this morning. in the capital, taipei. indiana governor eric holder is the latest politician from the united states to visit the island nation in defiance of china which has pressured and warned american officials from making such trips. in a tweet governor holcomb turned his visit ....
Withdraw. i think there s legitimate scenario where they might be able to liberate kherson. in terms of the battlefield. i don t think there s going to be a great deal of movement on any side. maybe the moral and strategic victory and kherson could start to make the russian troops to collapse and fall back on ground. they might be able to hold. but there is no real prospect for a negotiated solutions. there is no tolerance from the ukrainian government. there is no tolerance from the ukrainian people. as a matter, fact the people i talked to are saying while crimea was not in place earlier in this war, they were going to commit the topic aside. now there is a thought about we re going to fight until there is no plan for it. there is no way to get. they re boring a fight until we liberate it. that s amazing the moral and fighting fatigue has not sudden among the ukrainian people. but do you worry that it has said in elsewhere. including in the u.s.. ....
The six month anniversary of this war starting. it s a somber day, it s also a day where ukrainians are hoping to be able to rally around their country. in the sense of patriotism here. but at the same time, president zelenskyy s warning pretty ominously that they expect potentially vicious attacks by russia on that day to try to dampen the sense of patriotism among ukrainians and to remind them, six months of this war, ukraine still remains vulnerable to the military of russia pretty much anywhere in this country. at the same time, we are hearing about some needs that the ukrainian military has now as this war drags on into six months. becomes a grinding war of attrition. and the needs are not simply the heavy weapons, the himars, the rockets are even talking about for so long. according to ukrainian officials as well as civility and so we ve been speaking to, the country is now running low on some much more basic ....