military forces who are already garrisoned, tens of thousands of them in eastern ukraine near the donbas. because the russians are facing a tough fight there. they have to close something like 300 miles of territory from north to south if they want to cut off that part of the country. and every single ukrainian unit that comes and joins that fight is going to make it that much harder for russian troops to do. so kimberly, what are you hearing from military leaders, what is their gauge of russian capabilities at this point and do they believe it to be accurate? the russians have a lot of military fire power. a lot of equipment. they don t have the personnel to run that equipment. they seem to be having trouble massing forces that they pulled a lot of the forces out from places like kyiv and have been bringing them around to the town of belgorod inside of russia
president is getting his tanks and his planes not to mention his political friends and donors in prime seating. this is the fourth of july celebration he wanted. the one bringing military fire power to our nation s capital. the price tag completely unknown. but the washington post is beginning to uncover some of the details. and reports this morning that the national park service is diverting nearly $2.5 million in entrance fees to help pay for it. and that s just a fraction of it. let s bring in the white house reporter for the washington post who broke this story. josh, great to have you on this morning. $2.5 million from national park entrance fees. again, this is only a small part of what this could cost, correct? correct, john. $2.5 million that usually would go to the parks is being diverted to organizing the national lawn, setting up the
majesty with new things in those areas and we believe we can do good things. thank you, everybody. thank you. thank you very much. let s go. let s go. terrible. terrible thing. the president of the united states in the cabinet room at the white house there refusing to answer a question about whether he plans to fire the special counsel robert mueller. a terrible thing in response to the school shooting. sitting across from the crown prince of saudi arabia promoted the fact he thinks it s great for jobs, they re buying billions of dollars in u.s. military equipment. it always sounds odd that the president of the united states is bragging that we make the best military fire power in the
it is good to see you on this saturday morning, i m christi paul. i m victor blackwell. good morning to you. this morning north korea is showing off its military fire power, it is on display on the birthday of its founding father leader kim jong-un s grandfather. pyongyang putting the u.s. essentially many people say on notice as we see the weaponry that they displayed and as tensions spike between the u.s. and north korea. you see here the big centerpiece of the parade, two new intercontinental ballistic missile size canisters. we don t know if there s anything inside them. north korea f they really have these missiles, they could give the country the ability to strike targets on the u.s. mainland. now this is coming as vice president mike pence leaves for seoul at the top of the hour in a show of solidarity with its ally. this trip will also include visits to japan, indonesia and australia. in the mist of president trump s major foreign policy
that was dropped in afghanistan against these isis targets he said the u.s. military over the past eight weeks has shown a tremendous difference much more effect than the u.s. military over the past eight years. he was pretty specific on that. he s got a much greater renewed confidence on the u.s. military right now. first of all, the u.s. military is the most capable military in the world regardless of president. i think it serves his narrative to say he s turn the page, there s a new sheriff in town and the military is being more aggressive. that being said, let s face it, president obama was fighting isis since 2014, the mosul operation was well underway already and plenty of drone strikes and air attacks. he has gotten comfortable as rebecca said with using military fire power in these last couple of weeks so he wants to project that. also, i think an important point is that donald trump has made the point he did in his