The false guise of an arrest. The chair of the inquiry into his conduct and background, says without a radical overhaul of Police Vetting and recruitment, theres nothing to stop another couzens operating in plain sight. June kelly reports. He was a predatory sex offender in a police uniform. A criminal with state sanctioned powers. Wayne couzens should never have been allowed to become a police officer, and Continualflawed Vetting meant he was able to stay in his role despite a series of red flags. These are among the stark conclusions of todays inquiry report into couzens. It examined his career, his behaviour and the way he was vetted. The metropolitan Police Service told the inquiry in 2022 that it still have recruited him if provided with the same information. I found this astonishing. Now is the time for change. Without a significant overhaul, there is nothing to stop another Wayne Couzens operating in plain sight. The report described how in 2004 and 2008, kent police turned down
standoff between its allies. lloyd austin meeting with european defense ministers at ramstein air base in germany. we are also, though, just getting in some breaking news, cnn white house reporter natasha bertrand, oren liebermann joining us. what are you hearing potentially about what more we re learning? even this secret meeting that the cia director held last week with president zelenskyy? yeah, so about the meeting between ukrainian president zelenskyy and cia director bill burns we are learning that burns went there really to brief the ukrainian president on what the u.s. believes are the potential battle plans by russia to launch an offensive in the spring. now, of course, bill burns has been a very key emissary between the u.s. and ukraine as well as even with russia over the course of the war and this really just signifies the urgency the u.s. feels in this moment getting ukraine the information the intelligence it needs ahead of this potential russian offensive see
Corrupt. they are relying on these paramilitary organizations to recruit criminals from prison putting them on the battlefield and having them attack en masse so that literally tens of thousands of them are killed used as meat grinders so what you re talking about is a military that hasn t been able to execute their war plans. have not been good tactically, operationally or strategically on the battlefield so they rely on prigozhin and his wagner group and it s causing a great deal of consternation within the pentagon itself, personalities are at each other s throats in moscow. having to do with cia director burns going to ukraine, giving additional information, you know, harken back to before the february invasion by russia into ukraine, burns had been to moscow several times, told them basically we knew what we were seeing them do, getting ready to prepare to attack into ukraine
Occupation issue especially when you have a lot of ukrainians, both military and civilians that are going to resist in various ways. lastly, they will go in if they do that, and then there will be a whole ring of european nations, going at them diplomatically, sanctions, support, weapons, and this is hard and the russians have to take a deep step and back up. if they go, it will be hard. also, yes, they have over match in the countryside, and they can move fast but now you have to go after large cities and they are meat grinders for conventional forces no matter how they try in the initial phase send in