Democrats arent fooling around on impeachment and it sounds like more subpoenas are under way. Proof that mike pence can read the papers. A not so thinly veiled effort by his aides to keep him clear of the wreckage over ukraine. The problem with that is mike pence was also involved with ukraine and the questions are mounting over what he knew and when he knew it. But wait, theres more. Rudy giuliani has been communicating with Paul Manafort through an attorney on the topic of ukraine. All of it as the 11th hour gets under way on a wednesday night. And good evening once again from our headquarters in new york. Day 986 of the Trump Administration and the president is clearly deeply troubled by the escalating impeachment inquiry headed his way. Weve seen him invoke witch hunts and hoaxes just this week but today it all came out while the president of finland was next to him. We dont call him shifty schiff for nothing. Hes a shifty, dishonest guy, who, by the way, was critical of the one o
Proof that mike pence can read the papers. A not so thinly veiled effort by his aides to keep him clear of the wreckage over ukraine. The problem with that is mike pence was also involved with ukraine and the questions are mounting over what he knew and when he knew it. But wait, theres more. Rudy giuliani has been communicating with Paul Manafort through an attorney on the topic of ukraine. All of it as the 11th hour gets under way on a wednesday night. And good evening once again from our headquarters in new york. Day 986 of the Trump Administration and the president is clearly deeply troubled by the escalating impeachment inquiry headed his way. Weve seen him invoke witch hunts and hoaxes just this week but today it all came out while the president of finland was next to him. We dont call him shifty schiff for nothing. Hes a shifty, dishonest guy, who, by the way, was critical of the one of the great secretary of states of states. He couldnt carry you know, theres an suppression. He
I will adult, or former u.s. ambassador to nato, now the president of the chicago council for global affairs. jason, can we start with what we just heard, both in that plea from inside mariupol, as well as the details that we just got from ally. there is a desperate humanitarian situation there, they re begging for help to get out. is there any way to evacuate them, anyway to negotiate some sort of extraction, as you see it? well, as i see it, the russians have sort of play that game before, and often used faints to draw people out in these evacuation corridors, where than they proceed to artillery fire, on the civilians evacuating. that is a psychological warfare attack, i don t look for russia to try to expedite any evacuation, but they are the sudden mind as well. mariupol has been under siege, as you said, for about 56 days. so even though russia may take the city, nominally, in the near term, this is a disaster
Switchblade drones, that will be used to go in and sort of strike these artillery pieces. things like the toes and the javelins and stingers. so, the advantage still lies with the ukraine. a point out, as you did, chris, the russians are having a terrible time in this war. they ve had their senior military leaders on the ground decapitated, so general, after general, after general has been killed. this is not a good prospect for them, and ukraine has done a tremendous job, of resorting to will and creativity. and ambassador, jason mentioned something very critical, and there s this ongoing debate in washington circles on how much of it to provide to ukraine. is the u.s. doing enough in terms of providing intelligence? in part because it is intelligence we don t really know what they are providing. but by every indication, we are providing them with the kind of intelligence that you want in order to fight this fight. to identify targets to be able
Important materials that the ukrainian economy produces, among them wheat, about 17% of the global supply of wheat comes from ukraine. it s shipped out of mariupol. the good news is that odessa, another major port, remains, of course, open. at the same time, the russian navy is blockading any shipments of economic means, commodities, and everything else, exports out of ukraine. so the immediate impact, i think, is going to be relatively minor, in terms of the economy of ukraine. the longer term impact is, this is the major city that, once the russians capture, it allows a land bridge between russia and crimea to be controlled by the russians. that s really what this is all about. so let s talk about the immediate situation, ambassador, which is the fact that these folks are in there. we don t know exactly how many. we know it includes children,