sovereignty, independence of ukraine. it will continue to do that. it has been doing that. this support is in the form of mill stare support and in the form of political support against president putin by organizing the alliance, by galvanizing the alliance, by bringing the nato allies along with them. you see the unprecedented support and equipment and weapons coming from nato allies to ukraine. so, president zelenskyy knows that, appreciative of that and wants it to continue. and the president was very, very tough that he wants to join nato. now, that s not going to happen, correct? well, the door s open, negotiations are there. by the way, i think the president has been very firm. i thought the speech he gave in munich was uncomfortable. i think it was a very necessary
was a sloppy effort on the arm s party, he was going to rebuild the army. here we are 14 years later and it is an absolute mess. it is a human asian. this was putin s grand project. it is abysmal when you look at it. the expectation was that the russian military had undergone this 20-year modernization project. it was now no longer the old soviet military, but that we have now found out is not the truth. it is still very extremely topped out. we had a story last week reporting that the russian mill stare is this war is being run out of moscow, not even there s no battlefield commander. the orders are coming from the defense minister and vladimir putin himself. you cannot run this kind of war
and there are still diplomatic lanes available. but, again, this is a president that has better relationships with dictators like putin or duarte than he does with our credit the cal allows like macron and merkel. would you tell the u.n. general assembly you could pursue diplomat ib means to this crisis? would you take a military response off the table? i would never take a military response off the table. but you use this great nation s mill stare strength to create the continuestor diplomacy. this president has not done that. he s actually violated our constitution by taking military actions without the authorization from congress. so this is a president who is pushing us into crisis, not just in that region but in this country s security as well and violating the contusion along
important is it to the israeli government that the trump administration remains engaged in syria? reporter: well, and that is the key problem, bianca, the fact is they re wonder how engaged they ll remain. the comments of defense secretary mattis saying this is one-time shot will have really alarmed the israeli government. we expect them to have a cabinet meeting within the hour. perhaps we ll hear more. but they ve been saying loud and clear for years but really more forcefully in the last few years, look, the status quo in syria right now with iran on its doorstep really intreentrenchin their mill stare presence in syria is like a matchbook very close to a powder keg. and what they do not need is the united states saying, look, the status quo is fine, russia is there now and we want our troops out. with this one-time limited strike israel is becoming
security world and may be getting its feet under it, the counter terrorism community to include mill stare is well schooled and well oiled in terms of launching these kind of attacks. reporter: all were in agreement that made the high stake worth the risk. the chairman of the that possibility of capturing him would be a game changer. in making the case to proceed they told the president they doubted the obama administration would have been bold enough tho to try it. in 2011. a navy seal william ryan owens was killed during the raid when forces were faced with fierce resistance. counter terrorism work is