i would not have thought nian drones would be up in the air at this stage of the conflict, butthat russia's air force simply has not secured command of the skies. And i think it's clear to me that russian morale in many places is low. We've seen vidios of russians where you now thy don't know exactly why they're there and many of them are captured. So i think i think puten has underestimated at least the initial stage of this.
On the ground, Ukrainian resistance is holding—so far—and Vladimir Putin’s nuclear posturing reveals a crumbling of his plans. Meanwhile the international response grows more serious and more united. We examine President Joe Biden’s savvy Supreme Court pick, Ketanji Brown Jackson. And how to get around the fact that eyewitness testimony can be fuzzy or change over time.
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