SUCCESSFUL.
JON: JUDGMENT REPORTING LIVE AND
LVIV UKRAINE.
AMBASSADOR WILLIAM TAYLOR JOINS
US NOW.
I SUPPOSE THE BIGGEST NEWS OF
THE DAY AMBASSADOR IS VLADIMIR
PUTIN SAY THE NUCLEAR FORCES
HAVE BEEN PLACED ON HIGH ALERT.
WHAT DOES THAT SAY TO YOU?
>> THAT SAYS TO ME THAT
CONDOLEEZZA RICE IS RIGHT.
THIS MAN IS NOT OPERATING WITH A
FULL DECK ON THIS THING.
HE IS BEING ERRATIC, HE IS NOT
ACTING NATIONAL HE IS AN
IRRATIONAL ACTOR TO MAKE THAT
STATEMENT.
THAT SAID HIS FORCES ARE ON
ALERT.
ALTHOUGH FORCES ARE ON ALERT.
IT’S NOT CLEAR WHAT HE HAD IN
MIND FOR THAT.
MAYBE IT WAS JUST TO SHOW AND
TRY AS I THINK THE REPORTER
SUGGESTED.
ANOTHER TRY TO INTIMIDATE
PRESIDENT ZELENSKY OR THE WEST.
SO FAR, HE HAS FAILED.
JON: BUDDIES DONE IS MAKE NATO
IN THE WEST WERE UNIFIED.
LISTEN TO THIS FROM THE RELATIVELY NEW GERMAN CHANCELLOR
RELATIVELY NEW GERMAN CHANCELLOR
ALL OFF SCHULTZ.
>> IT IS A STATEMENT.
HE SAID THE RUSSIAN INVASION OF
UKRAINE MARKS A TURNING POINT,
AND THREATENS OUR ENTIRE POSTWAR
ORDER AND THE SITUATION IT IS
OUR DUTY TO DO HER UTMOST TO
SUPPORT UKRAINE IN DEFENDING
ITSELF AGAINST VLADIMIR PUTIN
AND DATING ARMY, GERMANY STANDS
CLOSELY BY UKRAINE’S SIDE.
SOMETHING OF A REMARKABLE
STATEMENT COMING FROM GERMANY.
>> IT IS NOT ONLY THAT
REMARKABLE STATEMENT HE BACKED
IT UP WITH A LOT OF ACTION.
HE IS TALKING ABOUT GETTING UP
TO THE 2% OF GDP THE NATO TARGET
THE GERMANS HAVE NOT DONE.
THERE WELL BELOW THAT.
THEY WILL PUT A LOT MORE INTO
THEIR DEFENSE.
THEY ARE ALSO GOING TO PROVIDE
WEAPONS, SOME OF THE ONES THAT
YOU TALKED ABOUT ON THE SHOW THE
STINGERS AND JAVELINS TO
UKRAINIANS.
THETHE GERMANS ARE STEPPING UP.
JON: THE TALK OF PEACE TALKS TO
TAKE PLACE ON THE BELARUSIAN
BORDER BETWEEN UKRAINE AND
RUSSIA ALSO IN THE NEWS TODAY.
ONE UKRAINIAN MOTHER HIDING OUT
IN A BOMB SHELTER POOH-POOHED
THE PROSPECTS OF THAT.
LISTEN TO HER.
>> WHY DO YOU THINK AFTER THE
TALK YOU CAN TRUST HIM.
WHY?
THIS IS A WORK IN PUTIN
UNDERSTANDS LANGUAGE OF THE WAR.
STOP BEING A DENIAL IT IS
STARTED THE DARK TIMES.
I WAS IN DENIAL FOUR DAYS AGO
WHEN I WAS TAKEN TO MY KIDS TO
KINDERGARTEN AND EVERYTHING WAS
FINE BUT NOW I REALIZE I’M IN
THE LIGHT AND IT IS REAL.
JON: THAT IS UKRAINIAN MOTHER
WHO UNDERSTANDS THAT PUTIN KNOWS
THE LANGUAGE OF FORCE, A PRETTY
GOOD ASSESSMENT IT SEEMS LIKE.
>> I AGREE WITH YOU AND I AGREE
WITH HER.
GOOD ASSESSMENT PRESIDENT PUTIN
WILL PUSH AND TELL HE FINDS SOME
FIRM.
HE HAS FOUND SOMETHING FIRM AND
WE TALKED ABOUT HOW THE
UKRAINIAN MILITARY HAS REALLY
STOOD FIRM, THEY HAVE BEEN
PUSHING BACK AND BLOODIED THIS
ATTACK THEY HAVE STOPPED MANY OF
THESE ATTACKS IN YOUR REPORTER
IS RIGHT.
THEN THE OVERWHELMING FORCE BUT
SO FAR THE UKRAINIAN MILITARY
HAS STOPPED THEM.
NOT ALL AND THEY ARE AROUND
KYIV.
I’VE BEEN IN TOUCH WITH MY GOOD
FRIEND AS SEVERAL GOOD FRIENDS
IN THE SAME BUNKERS THAT YOU
SHOWED AND THEY KNOW THEY CAN
HEAR THE RUSSIANS ARE CLOSE BY.
THEY ARE STANDING FIRM AND THEY
ARE NOT GOING TO GIVE UP.
JON: PUTIN HAD TO KNOW THAT
SANCTIONS WERE COMING.
HE MENTIONED SANCTIONS IN HIS
STATEMENT ABOUT ALERTING AND
PUTTING HIS NUCLEAR FORCES ON
HIGH ALERT.
IS THIS BLUSTER OR MIGHT HE PUSH
THE RED BUTTON?
>> I DON’T THINK A PUSH THE RED
BUTTON.
WE TALKED ABOUT THE TACTICS OF
THE RUSSIANS.
THEY DON’T USE THIS KIND OF A
WEAPON AGAINST A MUCH SMALLER
ADVERSARY.
THEY ARE NOT IN DANGER OF LOSING
THIS CASE.
THAT IS WHEN THE RUSSIAN
DOCTRINE SAID USE NUCLEAR
WEAPONS.
WHEN THEY’RE IN DANGER NOT ABOVE
LOSING.
THEY ARE IN DANGER OF FAILING TO
DO WHAT THEY INTENDED TO DO IN
THE TIMEFRAME THAT THEY INTENDED
TO DO IT.
THEY THOUGHT THEY WOULD’VE
ALREADY TAKEN OVER KYIV BUT THEY
HAVE NOT.
THEY DELAYED IT IN THE TALKS
THAT YOU MENTIONED ARE MORE
DELAYED.
THE DELAYS, THEY ACTUALLY HELP
THE UKRAINIANS.
THAT GIVES THE GERMANS AND THE
AMERICANS AND OTHERS TIME TO GET
MORE REINFORCEMENT AND MORE
SUPPLY IN THEIR.
THAT HELPS US AND THE UKRAINIANS
AND IT IS A DELAYING TACTIC.
JON: THE RUSSIANS ARE IN DANGER
OF BEING EMBARRASSED ON THE
WORLD STAGE.
THAT IS SOMETHING THAT VLADIMIR
PUTIN DOES NOT LIKE TO SEE.