we are coming on the air with several developing stories, the big international pledge secret meeting on secret doc with a little bit of committee chaos, let s start with what is happening right now with the u.s. and allies getting ready to add tanks to the battlefield in ukraine. the white house just now outlining when those tanks will be on the ground, part of a bigger international push to try to get other countries to do the same. our teemg is standing by with the latest. also this hour, senators getting briefed by the head of the u.s. intelligence and what is at the top of the agenda, a whole bunch of classified documents ending up in places where they shouldn t be. we will have the team on what to expect. plus the committee, democrats blasting speaker kevin mccarthy s move to boot top democrats from the in tem committee and his expected push to try to block one member of congress from foreign affairs. we will get into it all later in the show. i m hallie jackson in
whether the u.s. might sends f-16 fighter jets to ukraine. john kirby speaking earlier, he doesn t begrudge the ukrainians asking for everything they can, this is a country at war, they are fighting for their very survival, think if the past is anything to go by, it is likely that the biden administration is going to assess what happens with these tanks, how effectively the ukrainians incorporate them, and how the russians react, and then maybe they there will be a discussion about fighter jets, hallie. raf sanchez, i will let you know, i know it is a situation where we want to you be focused what you have to do on the ground there. appreciate it. jim, let me go to you and close a bit of a loop that we laid out with kristen at the top here which is the question of timing here. you heard the president say it will take some time for the tanks to get there and become operational, john kirby says many months, you have to train troops to use these tanks, realistically, if these are to b
cooper, new york times pentagon correspondent and msnbc political contributor and jim towns en, former assistant defense secretary for europe for nato under president obama as well. let s start with the news we are getting out of the u.s. and germany. high-tech tanks are getting ready to be sent to ukraine in what the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy hopes will be a game changer on the battlefield. here is what we know. germany is sending 14 leopard 2 tanks to ukraine opening the door for maybe more european countries to do the same. in the u.s., president biden says 31 of our abrams tanks will be sent. the united states is working in lock-step with our allies, our partners around the world, to make sure the ukrainian people are in the strongest possible position to defend their nation, their families against the truly brutal aggression of russia. we haven t seen the likes of this in a long time. the united states and europe are fully united. that was something that the