this again on meet the press today. asking whether the u.s. is going to manufacture more cluster bombs to replace the munitions that we are giving to ukraine. take a listen to what he said. our current plan is not to replenish that stockpile. we need a bridge from today when we need to ensure that ukraine has the necessary supply of ammunition to a few months down the road when we believe that we can supply enough of the round to meet ukraine s defense needs. and the pentagon is confirming that those munitions have now arrived in ukraine. they arrived a couple of days ago. they are not clear yet, yasmin, whether the ukrainians have used them in the battlefield, yasmin? all right kelly, thank you, appreciate it. strong reaction today, everybody, from lawmakers and the biden administration after the house passed the defense authorization bill that includes several republican backed amendments on issues like enforcing transgender health care, and diversity
ukraine is going to be dependent on two things. ukraine s own military power. ukraine is going to have the strongest army in europe coming out of this war. ukraine is going to need weapons. it s going to need f-16s. it s going to need more tanks so that it really is this power that can prevent russia from ever, ever doing it again. secondly, like israel, it is going to need an american guarantee. when people talk about the israel model that mika s brother, ian, rejected, what they mean is the commitment the united states has made to israel for decades, that you will have a quantitative and qualitative edge in military weapons as far ahead as we can see, against your arab enemies. it is an absolute commitment, and it s been kept by every president. i think ukraine is going to have as strong a lobby in america for its future defense needs as israel does. i felt the president was just
comments on f-16 fighter jets, he said that they can accommodate nuclear weapons and would escalate the conflict further. the first thing i would say to minister lavrov, if you are worried about ukrainian capabilities, take the troops and leave ukraine. number two, the f-16s are going to be provided as a part of long-term defense needs for ukraine. very, very open and transparent about that. it will take some time for those jets to get there. we are going to start with a training program for ukrainian pilots and that has not started yet and it is about helping ukraine with the self-defense needs and the last thing i would say, president biden has been extremely consistent that we don t want to see this war escalate, certainly not into the nuclear realm and it not the united states tossing around
city s azovstal steel plant where he says russia had set up an ammunition depot. the plant became a symbol of kyiv s resistance to the kremlin because ukrainian troops defended it for weeks before surrendering last may. officials say search and rescue operations are still under way after russia s rocket strike on a medical facility in ukraine. friday s attack obliterated the facility in the city of dnipro, killing at least two people, leaving more than 30 wounded. officials say rescuers have found more human remains during their search. forensic experts are checking if they belong to any of the three people who are still missing. some first responders say there are no military targets in the area. translator: this is a residential area. behind us are facilities, playgrounds, a stadium, schools. there are not even any regular factories here or of any defense needs.
well, he s going to the obviously plead not guilty to the crimes he s been indicted for on monday. then what will happen is almost certainly the judge will set another date for the lawyers to come back to discuss any open items involving witnesses or any discovery that they still want to ache and possibly it s the possible on monday they may even set a tentative trial date. of course, trial dates are always subject to, again, the process and what evidence has been, you know, still uncovered, how much time the defense needs, in their rue, to build a case to defend against the district attorney s case here. so, yeah, i think in some ways money is not a monday is not a huge event other than a timetable that we can look down the chessboard as to the what s going to play out in this case going forward. griff: and we know there are some key pieces of evidence we are likely to see. we ve got about five of them, or really the one that stands out is, of course, we understand that they didn