our american people and men and women in uniform. what s going to happen to them? this is a back door to, i think, a federal ban on abortion. republicans obviously see it differently and they believe the military should be about one thing. lethality, protecting america and under the biden administration ancillary programming, and they voted to strip it out. my sense is that this will all be worked out in committee and what can pass the house under kevin mckarthy and it s different than what will pass the senate under chuck schumer. i want to turn to something on the democratic side that emerged this weekend. there s growing angst that potential third-party challengers, robert kennedy, jr. and marion williamson can hurt president biden s re-election chances. rfk jr., the new york post reports with video and not just their account spreading some really deranged lies about covid that really walk into
able to put in place the necessary training facilities and the president has said we are going to meet whatever timeline our european partners need today, tomorrow, the next day. it doesn t matter. the united states will not be the hold up in ensuring that this f-16 training can get under way. another momentous and quite controversial decision by the president had to do with the decision to give ukraine cluster bombs to use on the battlefield against russia. has ukraine started using those cluster bombs yet? so the cluster bombs have arrived in country. i don t have a report for you today as to whether they have actually been deployed at this point, but if they have not yet they will be in the coming hours or days because they have now very rapidly been shipped into the fight and are in the hands of the ukrainian defenders on the front lines. mike enzi described the gaffe as when the presidential candidate accidentally tells the
hill? arizona democratic senator mark kelly will join me. hello. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is deadlocked. this morning ukraine is digging in for a drawn-out war with russia asking allies for more weapons to support their ongoing fight as vladimir putin declares the ukraine counteroffensive a failure. president biden is home from a summit with nato allies where president biden keeps supporting ukraine as long as it takes and biden returns to washington to find biden at odds over the pentagon spending authorization bill, bipartisan legislation that traditionally passes overwhelmingly and that s how the bill looked as it came out of the house arms services committee and passed 58-1, but this bill night not even get to president biden s desk for the first time in 60 years. republicans adding amendments
bipartisan exercise in defending america, defending americans national security and historically year after year you have seen the authorization act passed with overwhelming bipartisan majorities and we should not walk away from that and this should be an area where politics starts and national security starts and we believe that at the end of the day after the senate has come back to the house we will end up in a place where there is a broad, bipartisan bill that could go to the president s desk that he can sign. that is what is necessary for our men and women in uniform and to keep faith with the american people our fundamental duty to keep them safe. jake, you blame this on an extreme group of republicans. those amendments passed the house of representatives. they got a majority of the house of representatives. a huge number of folks in the house including republicans in my view are not particularly interested in having politics come into the middle of the defense authorization
shore right now enjoying their summer vacation, maybe new hampshire, lakewinpesake. they re not focused on this yet. let s get people engaged when they get here late summer, early fall. let s get people engaged in some very simple issues. first, you going to get the truth? do you deserve the truth as a republican primary voter, and as as american. and will you get a candidate who will make the truth important. we know donald trump hasn t done that. and we ll get someone who will deliver results. donald trump was arguing again last night about immigration. he didn t do anything to change the immigration laws and make them better or stronger for america and he built 47 miles of new wall in his four years as president. you know, jake, at that rate, he would need 110 more years as president to be able to finish the wall between the united states and mexico. the first debate, as you note now almost a month away.