said about six truckloads of soil were headed to michigan. officials in michigan said they never received a warning about those shipments. a representative saying our priority is to keep the people we represent safe. with me now is congresswoman dingle. how did you find out about these reported shipments to your state and what can you do? it began in the grapevine late afternoon yesterday that we have two different sites in my district. one is an injection well, which is accepting liquids. the other is a contamination site in belleville township. i quickly made some calls. the governor was not aware of this either. we spoke to each other very quickly. we learned that the governor of ohio had posted it on his website that they were headed for here. i called everybody. i called the epa, the norfolk southern and demanded answers. we very quickly realized that no one had been given a heads-up that it was coming here. there are issues related to the injection well, specifically
our seasoned military thinks he needs now. he needs tanks, he needs artillery, he needs air defense, including another himar. there are things he needs now. you don t think he needs f-16s now? no, he doesn t need f-16s now. reporter: this is a controversial ask because of concerns it could es kacalate t conflict. our own jeremy diamond asked president biden whether or not this had come up in his conversations with zelenskyy this week, and biden said it was, quote, a private discussion. zelenskyy even going onto ask a group of republican lawmakers, giving them a list of weaponry he s looking for, including those f-16s. the united states, president biden says, is going to continue its support for ukraine, be it military assistance, humanitarian assistance. but as far as f-16s, those are