Well, we are going to show you some pretty stark video now.

It is a Russian helicopter being shot down by Ukrainian forces.

The pictures showing a Russian MI-24 helicopter being struck by a surface

to where a missile come from a Ukrainian government source.

It is not clear where exactly in Ukraine the strike took place.

It's Tuesday, March the 8th, and welcome back to Goodfellas, a Hoover Institution broadcast

examining social, economic, political, and geopolitical concerns.

I'm Bill Whalen, I'm a Hoover Distinguished Policy Fellow.

I'll be moderating today's show, joined as usual by the three Hoover Goodfellows, as we joke and refer to them. Now to include the historian Neil Ferguson, the economist John Cochran,

and the geostrategist, Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster, Hoover Institution Senior Fellows

All. And joining us today from the nation's capital is Wisconsin Congressman Mike Gallagher.

Representative Gallagher sits on the House Armed Services and Intelligence Committees.

He holds master's degrees in security studies and strategic intelligence as well as a PhD in

international relations. Add that to a seven years of service in the United States Marine Corps,

including two tours of duty in Iraq where I think he once came across HR McMaster.

He's an ideal choice for a conversation about Ukraine, Russia and the many military, geopolitical, economic aspects of this conflict.

Congressman Gallagher, welcome to Goodfellows.

It's an honor to be with you.

And I actually worked for HR in a more difficult battlefield in D.C.

When he was in charge of the CENTCOM assessment team, and I was fetching him coffee

and getting occasionally tackled by him in the

hallways of the National Defense University. Well, let's get to it. A lot happened in Washington today.

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