through one artillery shell after another. they can use all the help they can get and soon. charlie d agata, cbs news, near bakhmut, ukraine. at a conservative conference this weekend in florida, former president trump went back on his mockery tour. his target, rival ron desantis. trump taunted the florida governor about his 30-point lead in national polls and told desantis to drop out. no campaign can survive without money and new quarrel early reports give a focused snapshot of various candidates and their campaigns. cbs news s skyler henry joins us from the white house. skyler? reporter: mark, good to see you. these numbers are revealing for
i think in the end, he realized that what is really important is the age that is coming, the military weapons, the material, the support, the humanitarian support, rather than the documents of nato. i think that is why he went somewhat mollified. we also looked at cluster munitions heading over. i was asking lloyd austin about them and he defended the decision and rationalized it. what is your sense of the necessity of those? i have to say my initial reaction was negative because of the history of cluster munitions. the danger of them is think of an artillery shell that shoots hand grenades. these things go out, so the danger is unexposed they might walk over eight years later. however, here is number one. the russians are using them big
has grabbed the most attention is the controversy and the row over cluster bombs. these are banned by 123 countries including britain and many nato members, but the us has decided to go it alone and after a request from ukraine, it has agreed to supply these controversial weapons to ukraine to help it in its bid to try and break through russian defence lines, we re not talking about in russia proper, but areas russia has illegally seized in southern ukraine. the reason they are controversial is because cluster bombs are basically a canister launched from an artillery shell, rocket, missile or plane which shatters in midair and distributes tiny bomblets. not all of these explode and the russian ones, over 40% dud rate. even american ones have a 2% dud rate. that means a number of them lie around as unexploded ordnance long after the war has finished, being picked up by kids, they think it is a toy and they pick it up and it blows their
U.S. Army explosive ordnance experts from Fort Riley were called to handle the safe removal and disposal of the artillery shell, according to the Olathe Fire Department.