an ongoing threat to our democracy today. washington post is out with new reporting that an election official in a rural georgia county threw open the doors to a stop the steal activist who was looking to probe election results there, looking for fraud, fraud that we all know now simply does not exist. that activist later claimed to have arranged for investigators to fly down to that georgia county to copy data from voting equipment. from the post reporting, quote, trump had carried the conservative county by 40 points but election supervisor misty hampton said she remained suspicious of joe biden s win in georgia. hampton made a video that went viral soon after the election, claim to go show that dom i don t know voting systems machines, the ones used in her county, could be manipulated. she said in interviews that she hoped the georgia businessman who visited later, scott hall and others who accompanied him could help identify vulnerabilities and prove, quote, that this e
ukrainian operation into high gear. it must be apparent now to even the most dim witted of putin s military senior advisers that they re in a strategic box. for god sakes, not only have they tactically lost 25% of their got force in ukraine, but potentially a million man finished mobilized army wanting to join nato. they ve got germany doubling their defense expenditures. they ve got japan on the other side facing russian-held japanese islands, a significant increase in their defense budgets. they re a pariah nation, diplomatically isolated and their economy is going to grind to a halt in the coming years. so minister of defense reaching out finally to lloyd austin, a pretty good signal they re in trouble. helene, i wonder what the
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
weapons and humanitarian aid get to ukraine? well, you know, senator paul has a history of quick sort of erratic behavior. i might add, though, 57 republicans in the house voted against this bill. so there is a minority of the congressional republican party who are unilateralists who don t understand that u.s. national security is wrapped up in the defense of europe and that ukraine is really a set piece problem that if we don t support them in the heart of europe, suddenly putin will have his fourth successful invasion of a neighboring state. so it s astonishing failure on the part of congress and both the republican and democratic parties in the senate were poised to move this bill forward. i think the other audience to be concerned about is the other 29 members of nato watching this