on a dramatic note. cameras caught utah republican mitt romney scolding new york congressman george santos for attending the address. he shouldn t be there, and if he had any shame at all, he wouldn t be there. i think it is referenceable the senator would save such a thing to me. it was not very mormon of him. reporter: in the republican response to present biden, arkansas governor sarah huckabee sanders argued he is unfit for the job and said the choice between the right and the left is really the choice between normal and crazy. tomorrow, the press and heads to florida, another battleground state, as he prepares to launch that reelection campaign. norah? norah: weijia jiang at theukn today, urging britain and its allies to send ukraine warplanes to fight off russia s invasion. zelenskyy called the requested combat jets wings of freedom, suggesting they could help change the course of the war and history.
package to ukraine, including helicopters, more javelin missiles, and for the first time, heavy artillery. but ukraine s president zelenskyy today again asking for more, including tanks and combat jets. so will the new help be enough? west of kyiv, this is the second bombed school we ve visited in as many days. this is what it used to look like the principal cries when she sees it now the russians were driving their tanks and shooting, she says, and the kids saw it all. tonight the students are safe, but their teachers are shaken as ukraine wonders what s next. the collective sense of security just shattered there. gabe, i know the focus is now turning to the southeastern city of mariupol, which has been cut off for weeks by russian forces. reporter: yes, lester russia is now claiming that more than 1,000 ukrainian troops have surrendered in mariupol though that
defense assistance with partners and can you comment on the e.u. offer to give ukraine combat jets? i can t combat on the e.u. offer. we ve seen that. that is for the european union to speak to. but separate and distinct from that and i think this gets more at your first question, we absolutely remain in close consultation and coordination with allies and partners about security assistance. and i don t have a coordination mechanism to speak to like all of it is being funneled through a single point or that kind of thing. but we continue to coordinate closely with allies and partners about the security assistance that the ukrainians continue to get, not just from us, but from them as well. yeah. so, um you are providing ukrainians with advanced weapons and they re not shy and revealing what types of weapons they re providing to ukraine in the past the u.s. has been
director burns yesterday telling the house intelligence committee it will be an ugly next few weeks, adding that in the most likely scenario putin doubles with scant regard for civilian casualties. as for the capital kyiv, just this morning we saw the air defenses in action for the first time right here in the center not far from where we are. and it now seems it was inevitable that this city is the next to be targeted and targeted in discriminately . best estimates are that the city of kyiv will be surrounded in the next 24 to 96 hours. and the cia director burned saying once that happens, the city has just between 10 and 14 days of supplies which time we start to see the same scenes here as we ve seen elsewhere. but it hasn t happened yet. the ukrainians have been remarkably successful holding back the russian forces. the question is how long can they keep it up truly how long? benjamin, thank you . vice president kamala harris is in poland hoping to resolve a diplomatic spat over pl
dangerous. president zelenskyy reiterating his demands for a no-fly zone and saying eight russian missiles had hit the sit of vinnystia, completely trying the airport. he said if the west failed to supply ukraine with combat jets, then we can make only one conclusion, he said: you also want us to be slowly killed. meanwhile, russian a tanks continue their push towards kyiv, the capital. putin demanded that ukraine end the fighting. in a phone call with turkish president erdogan who appealedded for a ceasefire. putin told erdogan he was ready for a dialogue with ukraine. one of the big discussions at the moment is whether or not poland can supply mig fighter jets to ukraine. they have some they re willing to give, they just want to backfill those from the u.s. before they go ahead and give them. jon: there s been a lot of speculation, benjamin, that tonight might be the night that air raids or air attacks really