500 million dollars and their in otherne package words, , one 80% of what you the american taxpayers are on the hook for because we re just going to borrow or print the money to send to ukraine. so the question now becomes why is schumerar, the democratse and far too manywa republicans, by the way, want to send 40 billion dollars more in aid to ukraine? pretty much no strings attached so quickly i ll let house majority leader steny hoyer sum up the establishment mindset. itt is unfortunate that a time of war that we spend all o the timeur blaming our own president. i wish we get off this and t really focushe on the onks the enemy. i know there s a lot of politics here, butut we re at war that we re okay. joining me now is indiana congressman jim banks, chairman of the republican studyte committee, a congressman bankse. apparently he says we re at war . has congress actually approved a declaration of war ?
cable news network such as jake tapper s book club and anderson cooper telling us how to be better parents. better pare i mean, think aboutnt that for a minute. they got some blowhard from nyum ,scott galloway talking about i don t understand why people would tune into this guy and i guess chris wallace, the aforementioned chris wallace who i i m not going to critique to critique hisbilities. journalism abilities, i m i m sure he s very good at his job. i don t watch him much. his i don t watch him much when d he was out on our network. but h matt , i m just going to say it s not going to sell it. you need something to sell it. and i think that s the problem they have and it took probablyw, david zasloff, who i know verys well. i know what s in his mind and that s kind of how i got onto the story about thirty five seconds to say, okay, we just pump 500 million dollars in this. wes have a big budget and guess what ? we have to get for four billion dollars of cost savings buy because we
we need to be on the fast track to membership because we need to be on equal footing with the european union as russia attacks our country. now, there are some members of the eu who are more reluctant about that. germany, for example, the german foreign minister said we need to slow down here. we can t make promises that we can t keep at this moment because there are many financial and legal kind of issues that countries that want to join the eu have to work out before they can actually become full members. some countries have been waiting about a decade to actually join. so, they re hoping this can gain steam within the eu. there will be a parliamentary emergency session here at the european parliament in a couple hours that zelenskyy will address, but important to remember here that the european union is doing quite a lot in its estimation to provide support for ukraine at this moment. providing over 500 million dollars worth of lethal equipment to ukraine to help them fend off the r
about this later on in the show that we knew they were going invade they told chyna told them to do it after olympics so why not do this before? because we have continued this administration has continued to pursue a series of half measures hoping that if we don t irritate russians too much maybe they won t go further now that strategy hasn t proven out again i also think it is far more sinister i think they want to be back in the iran deal more than they actually tpght to counter russia in ukraine under this new jcpoa iranians can potentially do things like give russia 500 million dollars they owe them and continue do that because of trump sanctions on them so russians may get $500 million from iran and also iranians able to buy conventional weapons and advance weaponry, from the russians. it is a joke if anyone thinks that this administration is
long time. lawmakers on capitol hill wednesday were briefed on the war in ukraine. there assessment the need on the ground in ukraine is urgent. russia continue to attack ukraine, including in areas where the kremlin claimed they would scale back in an effort to instill trust. we should have no faith whatsoever with vladimir putin . in a phone call wednesday with ukrainian president vladimir zelenskyy, president biden promised an additional 500 million dollars in aid. but the u.s. still not granting zelenskyy one of his biggest asks more fighter jets over fears it could escalate the war beyond ukrainian borders. i m astonished that we re five weeks into this and we still don t have the equipment flowing. plus, the white house now declassify intel they say suggests russian president vladimir putin is being misguided by his own inner circle. the fact that he may not have all the context that he may not