the president to an active war zone, where we don t have a u.s. military presence. it was important for the president to go to kyiv and get a first-hand briefing from zelenskyy s team and discuss zelenskyy s military planning, security assistance ukraine has asked for that the u.s. is providing and energy assistance that we ve given. alexandria: president biden announced additional to think he could outlast ukraine and the president shared this, president zelenskyy and ukrainians remind the world everyday what freedom is, freedom is priceless and worth fighting for for as long as it takes. china s top diplomat was in russia, pushing back on claims that the country is considering providing lethal support to russia to further their invasion. a spokesperson says the united states is in no position to make demands tchina, russia is not targeting third parties and a matter within sovereignty of two independent countries. john ratcliffe on the relationship here. this only encou
seem to think that matters. todd: residents from portland join me now. angela todd, damon bunting, both join me now. dameien, can you answer the l.a. times, what is the matter with portland? i don t think we have long enough on the show, todd. so many things wrong, in a short sense, it is people s desire to do the right thing, but having inability to understand in order to do anything, you have to hold people accountable, there seems to be an effort to absolve people of being accountable for their own success, own happiness and own well being and that is having horrible results here. todd: angela, the l.a. times seems to blame covid, saying it
two things, putting their hand down and hope they are not accosted or harmed or they are leaving portland. the people that would bring the most to the city and have a great option and opportunity to make it place better, unfortunately, they are being pushed out and leaving to go to nearby cities or other states. todd: angela, homelessness, in 2022, up to almost 6700, 6600 to be exact. portland spends 94 million on the homeless, where is that money going? i hate to correct you, 255 million a year in portland with the joint office of homeless services and we are a drug destination. this is the place to come and word is out there, if you want to be fed, get free needles,
camp wherever you want and be able to use drugs with immunity and frankly if you commit a crime in the process, you probably are not going to be prosecuted. we talk about waking up voters here, the problem is, we have a very large facetted problem at many levels of our government and it is going to require more than voting. it is going to require people being aware of what is going on when it is happening with policies and pushing back with consistent pressure on the governing body. todd: oregon decriminalized hard drugs, isn t portland proof positive that does not work? it does not work, if anyone can verying using something that resembles measure 110, take a look at what is happening here, it is reprehensible that the