Is that enough to refreeze the 6 billion to unlock to exchange the prisoners . We have not had a dollar of that 6 billion spent, and i will leave it at that. Will you refreeze it based on this activity that you just laid out all of the ways that they are complicit in this . The administration said if we see them going in the wrong direction that we would stop that down. I understand the position that you guys have that not a dollar of this has been spent. So im not going to get ahead of the president s request and the director who will present the request that we send out, but the president was very clear today that we will be making a request to the congress, and it will include a request for funding for support to israel and he made clear that we will renew the question for congress for aid to ukraine. What exact form that all takes that will be worked out and presented by others and not by me and the notion that we will go up and ask for israel aid and ask for ukraine aid, thats une
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seeing sunflowers grow when his dead body lies down on ukrainian soil. it putin has mobilized every grandmother in ukraine and unite nato, which had come to be viewed by some as a sleepy, anachronistic alliance. today, for the first time in nato s history, the north atlantic council voted to mobilize the nato response force and defensive group of up to 40,000 troops that was created in 2003. some, if not all of the 7,000 70 u.s. troops announced yesterday will be part of the force, which will be commanded by general todd walters and american four-star general currently serves as the supreme allied commander. nato s secretary-general said it has 100 warplanes on high alert, including a 35 s that the u.s. just sent to the baltics, and 120 warships deployed to protect your rep, including three aircraft carrier strike groups. these american apache helicopter
trucks, but they also have more tars, and overwhelming forces coming in in the air. when you re talking about combines a-10s and f-15s with ground forces in a desert environment, you have a significant advantage over isis, which doesn t have those aircraft. reporter: the pentagon considering further expansion, including more special operations forces for raids in syria and iraq against isis leadership, more apache helicopter gunships for low-eight attitude attacks and possibly u.s. forward air controllers on the ground to help pick out targets. u.s. troops in iraq may in and out be based with smaller iraqi units closer to the front lines. a u.s. official tells cnn the russians are also expanding their now now flying from a third air base just as the
kurdish forces are poorly equipped. the pentagon has yet to provide heavy weapons. but u.s. air support is moving in. they do have small arms and trucks, but they also have mortars. and they now have overwhelming forces coming in from the air. when you re talking about combining a-10s and f-15s with ground forces in a desert environment, you have a significant advantage over isis which doesn t have those aircraft. and the pentagon considering further expansion including more special operations forces for raids in syria and iraq against isis leadership, more apache helicopter gun ships for low altitude attacks and possibly u.s. forward air controllers on the ground to help pick out targets. u.s. troops in iraq may now be based with smaller iraqi units closer to the front lines. all still as advisers the pentagon insists.