of funding in the face of the sanctions. if china were to do that, that would have impact. i don t know what else, what other arrows we have in our quiver short of doing something like a no-fly zone. although at this point, a no-artillery zone would be more effective than a no-fly zone. right. and be i guess, what other kinds of weaponry could be send in? i know colonel alexander vindman talked about, why don t we send in drones? are there other types of weapons to be fubnneled in to help ukrainians even things out a bit more? i don t know the state of play there. whether covertly or otherwise that that sort of thing isn t being provided either directly or indirectly. we have a lot of reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft flying in the area. obviously, they re looking into
that the military budget was going to be able to be cut. that is not the case anymore. vladimir putin, just as he has awakened, really, bipartisan democratic yearning in this congress and across europe, and just as he s inspired germany to spend more money on their military, the same is happening here. they re expecting more money to be spent in the u.s. defense budgets to move it up to perhaps 3, 3 1/2% of our gdp. a couple of things, joe, the president is expected to speak in a few hours, and deliver more aid, deliver news of more aid toward ukraine. sources very close to the white house say that a lot is being done that isn t being shared publicly to help arm the ukrainians in some way, shape or form, and finally president zelenskyy may be showing some video during this address.
spin the camera around here because if you just turn around, we re just watching some people placing flowers here. this is what s been happening today. people just coming up quietly, ones and twos, placing the flowers, showing their support for the people of ukraine. what is going to happen, the kremlin is clearly working against working against this becoming a more powerful narrative, the independent narrative being more powerful than their narrative. they re trying to shut down the independent media on this and push their own narrative. what the government isn t doing here is talking to the population about the number of casualties that they re getting in ukraine. the british and u.s. both believe that russia is having a tougher time progressing its forces through ukraine. the british defense ministry believes as many as 450 russian soldiers have been killed. and this is a their they ve isn t being explained here yet to the russian people. so where does this go?
white house believes that getting a deal that would prevent iran from getting a nuclear weapon is worth being at the table with russia. the question is how many can we trust what is happening in that deal and do we want to sign money attached to that deal, again, to iran to potentially put that in to their country where they have clearly been questions about their adherence to that nuclear deal. like i said, that s a head shaker. a lot of people wondering how we can watch what s going on in ukraine and also on the same side of a negotiating table with russia when it comes to iran. so we ll continue to dig into that. we thank ambassador haley for being with us earlier in this hour. so now we move to the situation in mariupol. it s absolutely horrific. so the attack that happened on this theater, which was a bomb shelter facility. where you see the yellow circles on either side of the building, they mapped out in rocks in the
point. martha: we her from chancellor stoltz says nato won t get involved. the other thing i want to ask you about is potential for negotiation. the spokesperson for the kremlin, he said the ukrainians are dragging their feet. we re ready to work around the clock. he thinks they re not at the same pace. what does that tell you where the russians are and how do you read that statement? i the read the russians of being in a position where they understand they re bogged down militarily on the ground. a point that isn t being made much here like the firing in to mariupol, the russians are now using stand-off missiles, right? some of these long range cruise middles are being fired from