looking for are these javelins, which are tank armour piercing. but one ukrainian official told cnn, it s not enough. they would like to also see patriot missiles deployed here. that is very unlikely to happen. but i think you have to also understand this shipment that arrived last night the 200,000 pounds, mostly of am 96 for the front lines. but other weaponry as well, the context of the symbolism to show even as these diplomatic efforts continue. we saw yesterday in the talks between secretary of state antony blinken and counterpart sergei lavrov there is a path ahead diplomatically. that i have not reached a dead end. still it s important for the u.s. and it s allies to continue to apply pressure. to make it clear that they are resolute and working in lockstep with ukraine to be prepared for any event weight. because there are many people in
lind. peter baker, talk about whether or not this president realizes that even the idea of floating around whether he could pardon himself could be potentially extraordinarily problematic for his reception for his dealings with the congress? there was some republicans today that said if he tries to fire bob mueller, he s going to have a serious problem on capitol hill, and that s not just with the democrats. yeah. that s exactly right. i think the republican congressman was on andrea mitchell earlier stowed on your channel saying exactly that. that s a pretty stark message from a sitting republican member of congress. and i think that is one of the red lines right now that many members in congress have set at least in their own minds whether they would do something in that event weight. we don t know. there have been a lot of lines crossed, i think, in this administration so far, things that have been done that aren t normally done by most
with ice sis. thank you for that perspective. let s turn to a retired sergeant for more than 20 years of policing experience peter barnhart, cnn political commentator. you heard from our reporter. rocky police were prepared. they said they were prepared. how can they ever prepare for something that looks like it could have been a political terrorist attack? you can always prepare. so obviously, they had an idea that maybe something could go on. they wanted to have logistically the things that go in place to help them. right? you can t prepare for every event weight. you don t know what the suspect knows. you can only react. hopefully in a proactive way, right? they had people fixed outside. they fixed that would be obviously the point of entry, they were prepared. when they heard gunfire, they killed these two gunmen. it seems very effective what they were able do because i
airfield. the fact that the police have been able to move into the aircraft and arrest people so swiftly does seem to st. that whatever the incident, it did not have a huge security immediate security implication. that meaning that there wasn t some sort of standoff information. the police at the stansted airport the airport, itself, is an airport used for just that sort of event weight. the event weight. eventuality. it does indicate there wasn t a hostile standoff of any sort. again, the details are just coming in. we don t know precisely why an arrest. a disturbance possibly of some kind on the aircraft, carol. i just want to be clear, have authorities rolled out terrorism? they haven t said that, precisely. what they have said is, at this early stage, this doesn t appear