>>> GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE.
WE BEGIN "THE REIDOUT" WITH A
STARK CONTRAST IN LEADERSHIP.
IN JUST TWO HOURS, PRESIDENT JOE
BIDEN WILL DELIVER HIS FIRST
STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS AS HE
FACES MAJOR CHALLENGES HERE AT
HOME AND A WORLD TRANSFORMED BY
WAR.
AS UKRAINIANS FACE DOWN VLADIMIR
PUTIN'S NAKED AGGRESSION,
ACCORDING TO KPERPTDSEXCERPTS RE
BY THE WHITE HOUSE, BIDEN WILL
TELL THE COUNTRY PUTIN'S WAR WAS
PREMEDITATED UNPROVOKED.
HE THOUGHT THE WASTE EVEREST AND
WOULDN'T RESPOND AND HE THOUGHT
HE COULD DIVIDE US AT HOME.
PUTIN WAS WRONG.
WE WERE READY.
AND LOOK, LET'S JUST GIVE BIDEN
HIS CREDIT.
WHAT HE HAS DONE SO FAR IS
REMARKABLE.
NOT ONLY USING HIS EXPERIENCE
AND LONG-TIME RELATIONSHIPS ON
THE WORLD STAGE TO UNIFY THE
WEST AGAINST RUSSIA'S
AGGRESSION, BUT ALSO
REINVIGORATING NATO AND BRINGING
TO BEAR UNPRECEDENTED SANCTIONS.
AND WHAT AMOUNTS TO A PHOTO
NEGATIVE OF THE RUNUP TO THE
IRAQ WAR, BIDEN MADE THE
STRATEGIC CHOICE TO PUT IT OUT
THERE RELEASING HIGHLY ACCURATE
U.S. INTELLIGENCE TO PUBLICLY
REVEAL ALL OF PUTIN'S INTENTIONS
AND BEFORE, AND NOW DURING THE
INVASION.
IN DOING SO, BIDEN HAS FULLY AND
POSED VLADIMIR PUTIN FOR WHAT HE
IS.
A BRUTAL AND MAYBE EVEN MENTAL
DICTATOR WHO IS INCOME PATBLEKOM
WITH THE FREE WORLD AND A
REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT WOULD HAVE
RECEIVED IMMENSE CREDIT
INCLUDING IN THE PRESS FOR WHAT
BIDEN HAS ACCOMPLISHED.
MEANWHILE, THE RUSSIAN PRESIDENT
IS NOT ONLY AN INTERNATIONAL
PARIAH BUT INCREASINGLY
ISOLATED, HAVING BADLY UNDER
ESTIMATED UKRAINE'S
DETERMINATION AND DISCOUNTING
THE POSSIBILITY OF A UNIFIED
TOUGH RESPONSE FROM THE WEST.
NBC NEWS LEARNED U.S.
INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES DETERMINED
PUTIN IS INCREASINGLY FRUSTRATED
BY HIS MILITARY STRUGGLES AND HE
MAY SEE HIS ONLY OPTION AS
DOUBLING DOWN ON VIOLENCE AS
WELL AS LASHING OUT AT UNDER
LINLT EVER LINK
LINKS AND THE WORLDWIDE CONDEMN
CONDEMNATION OF HIS ACTIONS.
TOUGH SANCTIONS LEFT RUSSIA'S
ECONOMY AND THE RUBLE IN FREE
FALL WITH BANKS AT RISK OF
FAILURE AS RUSSIAN CITIZENS TRY
TO WITHDRAWAL THEIR SAVINGS.
RUSSIA'S STOCK MARKET REMAINS
CLOSED FOR THE WEEK.
THE RUSSIAN DICTATOR BADLY
MISCALCULATE HIS UKRAINIAN
COUNTERPART VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY
THAT MADE AN EMOTIONAL SPEECH
FROM HIS BARHOMELAND.
HE SAID UKRAINIANS WILL NOT BE
BROKEN AND ACCUSED PUTIN OF WAR
CRIMES.
>> WE HAVE A DESIRE TO SEE OUR
CHILDREN ALIVE.
I THINK IT'S A FAIR ONE.
YESTERDAY, 16 CHILDREN WERE
KILLED.
AGAIN AND AGAIN PRESIDENT PUTIN
IS GOING TO SAY THAT IS SOME
KIND OF OPERATION WITH MILITARY
INFRASTRUCTURE.
WHAT KIND OF MILITARY FACTORS DO
THEY WORK AT?
WHAT TANKS ARE THEY GOING WITH
OR LAUNCHING CRUISE MISSILES.
>> ZELENSKYY RECEIVED A STANDING
OVATION FROM THE PARLIAMENT THAT
OVERWHELMINGLY APPROVED A
RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF
UKRAINE.
ZELENSKYY SPOKE WITH PRESIDENT
BIDEN TODAY AND DISCUSSED
RUSSIA'S ESCALATION OF ATTACKS
ON SITES USED BY CIVILIANS IN UKRAINE.
ZELENSKYY TOLD ROUTERS ERROUTERS
STOP BOMBING.
WE'RE SEEING AN APPARENT EITHER
SCORCHED CAMPAIGN TRYING TO
REGAIN THE MOMENTUM HE'S LOST
FACING HUMILIATION ON THE BATTLE
FIELD.
HE'S ESCALATINGINDES
SHELLING NEIGHBOR HOOVES.
KHARKIV HAD BOAR THE BLUNT OF
ATTACKS.
THEY ARE USING CLUSTER BOMBS TO
POSE RISK THAN PRECISION GUIDED
MISSILES
MISSILES.
IN THE FIRST FIVE DAYS RUSSIAN
FORCES KILLED 136 UKRAINIAN
CIVILIANS AND THAT NUMBER IS
EXPECTED TO RISE SHARPLY.
THAT INCLUDES 13 CHILDREN.
ONE OF WHOM WAS A 6-YEAR-OLD WHO
SUCCUMB TO INJURIES OF RUSSIAN
SHELLING SAD ON THE SOUTHERN
CITY.
AND NOW BEFORE I PROCEED, I'LL
WARN YOU THAT THE VIDEO YOU'RE
ABOUT TO SEE IS GRAPHIC AND
EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO WATCH SO
IN THIS TERRIFYING SCENE, MEDICS
WORKED TIRELESSLY TO SAVE THE
INJURED CHILD BUT WERE
UNSUCCESSFUL.
THEY TRIED TO REVIVE HER, THE
DOCTOR ADDRESSED THE CAMERA
ANGRILY SAYING SHOW THIS TO
PUTIN.
SHOW HIM THE EYES OF THIS CHILD
AND CRYING DOCTORS.
TRAGIC SCENES LIKE THAT ONE ARE
UNFOLDING ACROSS UKRAINE RIGHT
NOW.
BUT DESPITE BEING OUT NUMBERED
AND OUT GUNNED, THE UKRAINIAN
PEOPLE DEMONSTRATED UNCANDID
RESOLVE AND RESILIENCE.
WE'VE SEEN THEM THROW THEMSELVES
IN FRONT OF TANKS TO STOP THEIR
ADVANCE AND SEEN THEM TAKING UP
ARMS AND STOCKPILING MOLOTOV
COCKTAILS TO RAGE A GORE RAILILL
AND RIDICULED THE INVADERS TO
THEIR FACES.
ANOTHER VIDEO THAT WENT VIRAL ON
SOCIAL MEDIA LATE LAST WEEK
APPEARS TO SHOW A WOMAN
CONFRONTING A RUSSIAN SOLDIER
AND WHILE NBC NEWS CAN'T CONFIRM
WHEN AND WHERE THIS TOOK PLACE,
THE WOMAN TOLD THE SOLDIERS TO
TAKE SEEDS SO SUNFLOWERS WILL
GROW WHEN YOU DIE HERE.
UKRAINE'S MINISTRY OF INTERNAL
AFFAIRS HAS ALSO BEEN REPEATING
INTERVIEWS WITH CAPTURED RUSSIAN
SOLIDERS, MANY OF WHOM BELIEVE
THEY WERE PARISTICIPATEING IN
MILITARY DRILLS, NOT ACTIVE
COMBAT.
IN OTHER WORDS, IT APPEARS PUTIN
UNDER ESTIMATED UKRAINE
RESISTANCE BUT OVER ESTIMATED
HIS MILITARY'S CAPABILITY.
THE RUSSIAN GROUND FORCES THAT
IS STALLED OUTSIDE OF KYIV IS
ESTIMATED TO BE 40 MILES LONG.
IF THAT CONVOY IS ALLOWED TO
REACH KYIV, PUTIN COULD OPEN A
NEW BARBARIC PHASE OF THE WAR.
NBC NEWS KEIR SIMMONS IN MOSCOW.
I AM GOING TO START WITH YOU,
CAL.
GIVE US A SENSE WHAT IS GOING ON
ON THE GROUND BECAUSE THE SENSE
I GOT OVER THE PAST FIVE DAYS,
THE RESISTANCE IS STRONGER AND
MOREFECTIVE AS ANYONE THOUGHT I
COULD BE AND CERTAINLY AS PUTIN
THOUGHT IT COULD BE AND THE
RUSSIAN FORCES HAVE BEEN MUCH
MORE INEFFECTIVE AND IN SOME
CASES NOT AWARE OF WHAT THEY
WERE REALLY GETTING THEMSELVES
INTO.
WHAT ARE YOU SEEING?
>> Reporter: YEAH, I THINK
THAT'S CERTAINLY THE MESSAGE
THAT THE UKRAINIANS ARE PUTTING OUT.
LOOK, IT WAS LAST WEEK LATE WE
HEARD ABOUT RUSSIAN SOLDIERS
SURRENDERING NOT KNOWING WHAT
THEY WERE DOING, THINKING THEY
WERE THERE FOR EXERCISE.
FOR FOUR OR FIVE DAYS I WOULD
TURN ON THE TELEVISION AND IT
WOULD BE A PARADE OF ONE YOUNG
RUSSIAN SOLDIER AFTER ANOTHER
BEING INTERVIEWED BUT UKRAINIAN
SOLDIERS, WHICH IS THE SAME
VARIATION.
A YOUNG SUGGESTION SOLDIER
SAYING I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M
DOING HERE.
I WANT TO BE GOING HOME.
I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND WHY I WAS
SENT HERE AND THEN TODAY AS YOU
SAID, WE HAD THIS MISSILE STRIKE
ON UKRAINEIAN TELEVISION, THE
TRANSMISSION TOWER SO ALL NIGHT
UKRAINIAN TELEVISION HAS BEEN
KNOCKED OFF THE R.
SURPRISING THIS IS HAPPENING ON
DAY SIX.
THE WAR GAMES WERE THE
COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS WOULD BE
TAKEN OUT IMMEDIATELY.
IT'S IMPORTANT BECAUSE WE'VE
SEEN THE RISE OF VOLODYMYR
ZELENSKYY, THE RISE OF THIS
UKRAINIAN LEADER WHO USES NOT
ONLY SOCIAL MEDIA BUT TV TO GET
TO THE PUBLIC.
WHERE I AM IN THE WEST, THERE IS
A DECISION GRATEKA TAS CATASTROP
WHEN YOU SEE THE FACES OF THE
FOLKS WHEN THEY GET OFF THE
TRAIN IN THE FAR WEST OF THE
COUNTRY, 350 MILES FROM WHERE
THE VIOLENCE IS, THEY'RE SCARED.
THEY ARE TERRIFIED AND THEY
DON'T KNOW WHERE TO GO BECAUSE
IN MANY CASES, THIS IS NOWHERE
TO GO SO PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO
SLEEP OUTSIDE.
THE RED CROSS IS HERE.
THOSE NUMBERS ARE SWELLING.
THIS CITY IS SWELLING AND FOR
THE FIRST TIME IN THE WEEK I'VE
BEEN HERE, YOU CAN SEE IT.
THIS WAR IS REACHING INDIVIDUAL
PEOPLE.
IT'S NO LONGER REACHING
EVERYBODY AS A WHOLE IN THE
COUNTRY, EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN
THIS COUNTRY IS BEING AFFECTED
FROM THE FATHERS AND BROTHERS
WHO ARE BETWEEN 18 AND 60 AND
CAN'T LEAVE AND TAKE THEIR
FAMILIES TO THE BORDER AND LEAVE
THEM WALKING ACROSS THE BORDER
AND HEADED BACK TO THE FIGHT TO
THE VOLUNTEERS MAKING THE
MOLOTOV COCKTAILS TO SEND TO THE
FRONT.
EVERYBODY IN THIS COUNTRY IS NOW
ENGAGED IN THIS WAR.
>> IT IS REMARKABLE.
ABSOLUTELY REMARKABLE.
I WANT TO GO TO YOU, KEIR.
IT SEEMS PUTIN UNDER ESTIMATED
THE WEST AND AMERICANS AND
CLEARLY UNDER ESTIMATED THIS
YOUNG PRESIDENT IN UKRAINE.
IS THERE ANY SENSE THAT THERE IS
ANYONE AROUND HIM THAT IS
ATTEMPTING TO FEED REALITY TO
HIM OR SHOULD WE EXPECT THAT HE
DOUBLES DOWN AND THINGS JUST GET
WORSE AND MORE VIOLENT?
>> Reporter: ONE THING, JOY, WE
HAVE TO TURN TO A PHRASE FROM A
PREVIOUS EUROPEAN WAR IN ANOTHER
ERA AND THAT IS NO PLAN SURVIVES
FIRST CONTACT WITH THE ENEMY.
WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT WE ARE
ONLY IN THE FIRST FEW DAYS, THE
RUSSIANS WILL BE RETHINKING.
THEY MAY WELL BE AND WE'RE
SEEING THIS PLANNING TO GET
BLOODIER AND BLOODIER TO WIN.
I THINK IN TERMS OF WHETHER OR
NOT THERE IS LEADERSHIP HERE
FROM MOSCOW, WELL, THAT CONVOY
THAT WE'VE SEEN HEADING TOWARDS
KYIV, I THINK THAT TELLS US TWO
THINGS.
FIRSTLY, IT IS ASTONISHING THAT
THERE IS NO COMEAMOUFLAGE.
IT LOOKS DISORGANIZED.
IT DOESN'T REFLECT WELL ON THE
RUSSIAN ORGANIZATION AND TELLS
US SOMETHING ABOUT THE ABILITY
OF THE UKRAINIANS TO FIGHT BACK.
THEY DON'T HAVE THE AIR POWER TO
ATTACK THAT CONVOY.
NOW, LOOKS LIKE EVEN BACK IN
2014, THE RUSSIANS HAVE HAD
TROUBLE WITH ORGANIZATION WITH
THEIR COMMAND STRUCTURE AND IT
MAY BE THAT THAT IS WHY
PRESIDENT PUTIN IS GETTING SO
ANGRY BECAUSE THIS SHOULD HAVE
BEEN FIXED AND IT WASN'T FIXED.
PERHAPS WE HAVE TO TURN TO
ANOTHER PHRASE FROM ANOTHER
EUROPEAN WAR, THE FIRST WORLD
WAR AND THAT IS LIONS LED BY
DONKEYS BECAUSE YOU KNOW, JOY,
THIS IDEA THAT WE HAVE HAD ABOUT
PRESIDENT PUTIN IS CLEAR EYED
TACTICIAN, THIS TERRIFYING
LEADER.
WELL, WE MAY BE BEGINNING GET A
DIFFERENT PICTURE THERE.
ONE MORE THING, JOY, AS WE
PREPARE TO LISTEN TO PRESIDENT
BIDEN TALK TO THE CONGRESS, TO
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO THE
WORLD, WHAT WE'RE SEEING IS
PRESIDENT PUTIN TRYING TO CLOSE
DOWN THE ABILITY OF HIS PEOPLE
TO HEAR WHAT IS REALLY HAPPENING
IN UKRAINE.
HE'S CLOSED DOWN THE RADIO ECHO
MOSCOW RADIO STATION THAT WAS AN
INDEPENDENT STATION.
YOU CAN HEAR IT STILL ONLINE BUT
NOT ON AIR AND THE RUSSIAN
PROSECUTOR ACCORDING TO THE
WIKIPEDIA PAGE IS THREATENING
THEM
THEM.
>> GOOD LUCK WITH THAT.
PEOPLE WILL FIND A WAY TO GET