baseline. that s what they still struggle to do. that s baseline. keep the government open so they will have to do that and pass the ndaa bill with funding for defense issues. beyond that are must pass bills i think the only from talking to my sources my guess is only other thing to actually do that isn t just talking about stuff is same-sex marriage bill. that just means they are kind of in the clear. take a moment and say if that happens that would be really it is a big deal. extraordinary. i want to pivot to president biden and his future. he is in nantucket with his family. deliberating perhaps what he is going to do. meanwhile i think democrats around the country, democrats broadly, a couple polls given an indication where they are. here s one from marrist that
A training programme for Ukrainian fighters is also being composed with the support of the European Union. Slovakia has agreed to train military personnel
merrick garland gave, it was an anomaly, it does not happen very often, if ever, so don t expect in the future it to be standard practice for d.o.j. to announce or give a status update as to what s going on in an investigation. well, essentially, merrick garland acknowledged what had happened, but again, you are right there, were very few details, the contents or specifically what they were looking for, that said danny, the washington post is reporting that the search at least partially had to do with nuclear-related documents, so if that s true, what are the implications of that? it is a potential federal crime for a custodian of records to remove those records, in this example, from the white house, or from the government, and take them away or destroy them, or something else. so there are potential criminal charges involved with taking government documents, but there are a lot of thorny defense issues for merrick garland to consider if he were even
mccaffrey. we watch every day, the horrific performance of the russian military. we have covered their failures on the battlefield, their withdrawal from kyiv. what is a u.s. secretary of defense who is rushing weapons assistance to ukraine say to his counter part? well, first of all, i think we re very fortunate we got lloyd austin as secretary of defense. he has enormous experience and good judgment on defense issues. one can argue this phone call has symbolic importance. we want to be in contact with the russian higher echelon, both military and political. they walled us off for three months, so having an hour conversation is a good thing. look, the russian minister of defense is in the ejection seat, and the chief of general staff is in the ejection seat. putin is locked up, put behind bars some of his intelligence chiefs, and he s locked a bunch of people trying to shove this
ukraine. airborne and amphibious landings, missile strikes from air, ground and naval forces, electronic and cyberattacks and a large ground force to occupy a large swath of territory. what s your response to that? have you been briefed on this? well, we ve been briefed regularly throughout this process. as i said, we ve had transparency hour by hour as to what we expect mr. putin to be doing. so a lot of what we re seeing happening in regards to the apparent air attacks on the defense issues infrastructure of ukraine was all part of what was expected we would see. so yes, we ve been briefed as to what to expect. there will be a senators briefing tomorrow that we will be participating in with the white house. we will be getting a full briefing tomorrow to update us as to the current plans. but this administration, the biden administration, has been briefing us almost on a daily basis, giving us information on a daily basis to members of the