truth and they gave cluster bombs because the u.s. is low on other ammunition to give the ukrainians. that s a pretty shocking admission. is it acceptable to the biden administration that the u.s. is low on ammunition and what are you going to do about it? well, when we came into office we found that the overall stocks of 155 ammunition which is the nato standard ammunition you used for artillery rounds was relatively low, but more importantly, jake, we discovered that the ability to mass produce that ammunition would take, not days or weeksor months, but years to get to the level that we needed. so that president biden ordered his pentagon to work rapidly to scale up the ability of the united states to produce all of the ammunition we could ever need for any conflict at any time in the future. we are in the middle of doing that and month on month we are increasing our capacity to supply ammunition, but there is a need. there is a need for a bridge
between today and the day when we have hit the mark that we need some months from now where providing cluster munitions fills a gap for ukraine and it was determined not to leave it defenseless and to have that. the previous president used to talk frequently about how his generals told him they were running out of bullets. when we came into office, nothing was under way to solve that problem. we are solving that problem. we have been working on that going back to the beginning of this war when we discovered the problem. it takes some time, but the president is confident that we will put the united states in a position to have all of the ammunition that we need for any potential contingency at this point. a big issue and an area of concern has to do with the national security threat from china. chinese hackers, we learned, broke into e-mail accounts including the state department and the account for the secretary of commerce, gina raimondo herself, were they able to access sensitive i
how much support someone will be able to somebody is getting. biden and the democratic nationalttee, $72 million. trump, $35 million. desantis, $25, hailey $27.3 million. ramaswamy, 2.3 million. and burgum, $1.6 million and pence $1.3 million and some candidates who got under a million, suarez, hutchinson and elder. any surprises here for you? no surprises in terms of what they were able to do individually out of their campaign committees. i was interested that the cash on hand numbers which is what you have left to spend show that tim scott actually has more cash on hand than desantis. of course, the counter for that is that desantis has a massive super pac out there that will augment what he s doing. so, look, these candidates that have millions of dollars in the bank, there s an upper tier of it and a lower tier, as you mentioned. they ll have enough money to
there are a lot of campaigns to go here. in fact, we haven t had the first debate yet. as you mentioned it s not until august 23rd. i think most people, say my region of the country are down at the jersey shore right now enjoying their summer vacation. maybe in new hampshire and lake winnipesaukee. they re not focused on this. let s wait until people get here in late summer, early fall and let s engage and talk about some very simple issues, jake. first is, you know, are you going to get the truth? do you deserve the truth as a republican primary voter and as an american, and will you get a candidate who will make the truth important? we know donald trump hasn t done that. when you get someone who will deliver results on the issues that you care about? donald trump was arguing again last night about immigration and he didn t do anything to chase the immigration laws to make them better or stronger for america and he built 47 miles of new wall as four years as president. you know, jak
most republicans believe. they showed you what they believe with your vote, but let s move on at this week s nato summit. the g7 countries agreed to provide, quote, security guarantees to ukraine. two months ago, president biden finally decided that he would allow european countries to give f-16 fighter jets to ukraine and to teach ukrainian pilots how to use those jets, but a pentagon spokesperson told politico this week that formal approval was, quote, still being reviewed, unquote. will the u.s. allow european countries to start training ukrainian fighter pilots today? yes, they will. the president has given a green light and we will allow permit, support, facilitate and in fact, provide the necessary tools for ukrainians to begin being trained on f-16s as soon as the europeans are prepared. you said today with the europeans have said is that they need a couple of weeks to be