people of ukraine. as they defend freedom and demand, in this moment, that we find out where that ordnance came from that cost lives in poland. bret: last thing on this. and that is inside your own party, you know there is some push back to the amount of money that s going over there. that the how long it will last. and the concern about getting drawn in further. and what do you say to the people in your party who have that thought? well, i believe that we ought to be very careful and we ought to scrub the intending. you know, very appropriately, bret. but, we cannot send a message that we are in any way backing off of providing a ukraine and president zelenskyy, who i came to know personally, with the resources they need to defend themselves. i mean, i have long considered myself a reagan republican. and the reagan doctrine was always, that if you are willing to fight communists in your
bret: jacqui heinrich live in bali, thank you. the latest we know that there was this barrage from russia into ukraine of missiles. some 90 of them. according to authorities. reuters is moving the front poland russian produced rocket fell on polish village and the polish foreign ministry has summoned the russian ambassador; however, it s important to point out that this could be a ukrainian surface-to-air missile that did or did not hit a russian missile targeting inside ukraine. so, we don t have all of those answers as of yet. but that is what authorities saying and there are a lot of meetings trying to find out exactly what hit inside poland. we re less than three hours away from what sources say will be the start of donald trump s third white house run. former president is scheduled to make a major announcement at 9:00 p.m. eastern time at his florida compound mar-a-lago.
poland and what it would mean for the united states causing biden administration officials to use extreme caution before making statements. president biden has been clear in the past about how the u.s. would respond to an attack on a nato ally. the white house now taking great pains to be certain of whether this incident could trigger article 5. as president biden said in warsaw back in march. we have sacred obligation under article 5 to defend each and every nato territory with the full force of our collective power. a spokes person for the national security council tweeting we have seen these reports out of poland and working with the polish government to gather more information. we cannot confirm the reports or any of the details at this time. we will determine what happened and what the appropriate next steps would be. earlier today, in indonesia, nfc spokesman john kirby told fox this is exactly the kind of scenario cia director bill barnes discussioned with counterpart in turkey
provided lethal arms to ukraine. under obama and biden, they literally provided military boxed meals and blankets and refused to provide armaments. we changed that. and at the beginning of the biden administration they, once again, slowed down in the provision of arms. i hold the view that they were slow to respond in the early days but with strong and bipartisan support in the congress, i m pleased that we provided the ukrainian people with the means to defend themselves. we have a sacred obligation and our nato treaty allies. but i have to tell you with my wife karen and i having visited poland in march of this year. having crossed into the border of ukraine, seeing women of every age, pulling children of every age along behind them at a refugee center, i think now, more than ever, we need make it clear that we re going to continue to stand with the
in any investigation into the strikes. back to you. bret: greg palkot live in kyiv. thanks. we are getting reaction from president biden s team to this incident as he wraps up participation at the g-20 summit in indonesia. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich is traveling with the president wednesday morning in bali there, jacqui. hello, bret. we just got a readout from president biden s call polish president duda. expressing full u.s. support for poland s investigation and reaffirming the u.s. commitment to nato. the statement notably did not ascribe any blame. rioters is now reporting that nato allies or nato ambassadors, rather, are being summoned for a meeting with poland ringing the alarm on article 4 as greg mentioned when a member state feels threatened by another country or terrorist organization. we are awaiting details on what exactly that means for the u.s. the potential seriousness of a russian missile strike on