welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing a remarkable news day with us. we begin with a brazen spy drama. straight to the pentagon, the briefing on a chinese balloon over montana. conducting press briefings in our temporary press briefing room while other primary location undergoes technical renovations and upgrades. we greatly appreciate your patience and flexibility as we work to install some long, overdue upgrades to the pentagon press briefing room. because we do not have internet or phone capability in this area of the pentagon for a variety of reasons, our normal call in options will not be available so for those who have had to call in, we apologize for the inconvenience. however, we will aim to get our briefing transcripts and the audio as quickly as possible for reporting purposes and we ll aim to answer your questions through our dod press desk when you send them to us. moving forward we ll look at ways to improve our briefi
democrat dechlic precinctses. the plan as outlined by a republican national committee staffer in michigan includes utilizing rules to provide political balance among poll workers to install party-trained volunteers prepared to challenge voters at democratic majority polling places to connect a website in establishing a network of party-friendly district attorneys who can intervene to block vote counts at certain precincts. here is a clip of an rnc official in michigan making his pitch to potential recruits in october 2021. that is what we are here tonight for. to show the program that we are creating to create that safety net on the polls before election day, after election day to make sure that fraud does not happen again. i understand that we are upset with the 2020 result, but we cannot just look at the 2020 results or else the exact same thing will happen in 2022. we need volunteers on the ground on election day ahead of election day working so that that fraud does not
new enhanced defense cooperation agreement locations, and both secretary austin and secretary gulvez noted a key pillar of alliance cooperation and supports combined training exercises and interoperability. separately the department of defense announced today a significant new package of security assistance for ukraine. this includes the authorization of a presidential draw down of security assistance, valued at up to $425 million, as well as $1.75 billion in ukraine security assistance initiative funds. the presidential draw down is the 31st such draw down of equipment from d.o.d. inventories for ukraine. in total the u.s. has committed $32 billion in security assistance to ukraine since 2014, and $29.3 billion since russia s unprovoked and illegal invasion nearly one year ago this month. today s announcement includes critical air defense
i m going to stay with you here. the rocket systems are part of a $700 million security assistance package. it s the 11th drawdown of equipment for dod inventories for ukraine since august of 2021. you ve got a thousand javelins. 6,000 antiarmor weapons. and 15 tactical vehicles. and so we ve been pouring hardware into that country, and i think what you have been describing here is essentially we re still at a place of stalemate and i wonder on the psychological piece of this, right, this has obviously been a humiliation to russia on n a lot of ways, and yet as it drags out longer and longer, it is the case russia is a much bigger country and ukraine is a much smaller country, much weaker country, the drawed out nature of stalemate eventually starts to tip the advantage towards russia sheerly on the basis of its size and ability to withstand a long, drawn out