expeditiously. sometimes, martha, it feels like we are just one step behind. we would have known that air defense systems might have helped protect ukraine from some of the russian missile garage we watched over the last couple of months. do it before that becomes the set of circumstances. i think the biden administration is doing a lot of the right things, we just need to do it as urgency as possible. and we need to urge the allies to do it as urgently as possible. martha: one last question, carlos del toro, secretary of the navy, said if this was on another six months to a year, certainly continues to stress the supply chain in ways that are challenging. we are hearing we are using resources or this effort that will deplete our ability to defend, perhaps taiwan in the future, and a lot of folks look at putin and say look, his army is nowhere near what everybody thought it was, he is going to lose this. why are we spending all of this time and money on ukraine? this is the argument
say wait a second, the winter is coming we are paying a lot more for oil and gas and they are in the middle of a recession. should we be reinforcing us? a lot of times i hope there leaders can explain to their people a empowered and emboldened russia will only be more problematic if they are not stopped in the ukraine. ainsley: it s hard to watch the video of the bridge being blown up because you know people are trying to get across it, look at this image here it s the front cover of the new york post too. this is where they lobbed missiles at a playground. you can see equipment where our children play in the background, we can all relate to that, look at the plumes of smoke over the city in the ukraine. here is the front cover i was talking about kids in line of fire as mad lad targets civilians in the missile garage periods is said they unleashed 84 missiles on civilian targets in major cities yesterday. steve: it was all revenge
when the missile garage, the governor says in the evacuation and transfer of traffic to matt casually s is ongoing. he called the airbase which is about 45 kilometers, 28 miles east of hom for terrorism. militants operate in the central homs province. rebels say that it s her to one of the government s most active launching pad for air strikes on all verbal areas in central and northern syria. it s government calls all armed groups terrorists. i should tell you that that is the very base for which it is believed, excuse me. it s been a few hours. it s believed that syrian forces launch that sarin gas attack, which ended up killing some 80 people including 27 children. it is from that base that the terror attack was launched that president trump now says was the reason for the u.s. retaliation. jennifer griffin is live from her position at the pentagon tonight. jennifer, what concern to u.s. military commanders in choosing this target in syria? the biggest concern was they