look forward to working closely with spain going forward. james in the back. i m sorry ok. i have a question, thank you. wait, wait, wait, you don t have a question, james? are you kidding me? are you kidding me? can we just have this for the record you didn t have a question. i m going to frame that transcript. simply a tribute to your loclasity and el if russia strikes nato, poland or the baltics, nato, do you have enough troops in the region right now to respond, and from day one, not five months ahead, and the second question would be many of those who called for sending leonards and abrams to ukraine argued that russia right now is too weakened to militarily too weakened to respond conventionally in a significant way. how confident are you in this assessment that russia is so weak, or maybe you have a different assessment, but many people think russia is too weak to respond in a significant way to the move that was just announced about tanks? le
mccarthy may be coming to visit? the president is very much looking forward to meeting with speaker mccarthy. we have not locked anything in yet. they have a working relationship as we have said before, they want to continue and build on that relationship, don t have anything here to share, you know, we are expected, they are expected to talk on a range of issues when we have locked in that meeting, we certainly will let you all know. thanks, karine. another question about senator manchin. he had a meeting with the house speaker and reportedly said after the meeting that he wants the white house to negotiate over cutting spending in exchange for raising the debt limit. sandra: ok, we are continuing to monitor this press briefing at the white house there, trace. i don t know the answer to that question, we are getting it right now how she answered that. as we have seen in recent days she has not given any new information on this growing document scandal and obviously this is happe
united states anted up for that, and how we take our responsibilities to the article 5 commitments and mr. putin needs to understand that. do you have enough troops, many countries sent tanks and missile systems to ukraine. we are sending missile systems and tanks as well. every nation is making the best decision they can but they also have sovereign responsibilities to their citizens to defend their countries, so they are all making that calculus, as are we. i can tell you that from our perspective, i can t speak for every nato ally, we are confident that we have the capability, the energy, the talent, the man power, the resources to meet our article 5 commitments to our nato allies. are there any signs of a nuclear two questions about china, first karine told us the u.s. has been communicating with
reform? i m going to defer most of the document questions to karine. the only thing i say here is that you are welcome. thank you. [laughter] obviously the president, you ve heard karine say, he takes the treatment of classified materials seriously, i can assure you everybody here does too and the national security council staff, we know what the rules are, we follow the rules, and the procedures exist for a reason and they have been developed over many, many years as the nature of classified material has changed down to now including electronic capability, and so we are working at that very, very hard. i don t have any changes to speak to. the process of classified material handling, you know, not process, but guidelines change as technology changes and we are
goes forward. it s fascinating insight into what s happening behind the scenes at the pentagon and the white house. quoting kirby directly on the abrams tanks going into ukraine, you don t go after an alligator with a corn stalk, he was also questioned about misuse or corruption when it comes to military aid we have sent into ukraine. he was asked have you seen any evidence of misuse so far, he said no. so that was the case there. obviously a lot of challenges to the level to which we are sending in aid. mike pompeo joined us on this program yesterday, he was making the case to continue to send ukraine anything they ask for. we ll ask arkansas republican senator tom cotton about that. he is joining us now. we are going to continue, by the way, to monitor the briefing. kirby is taking the questions, and karine jean-pierre will brief in a moment, and dip back in as the news warrants. senator, you were listening to what you heard from kirby out of