to respond on the back end. trace: they re getting more than blankets. the new york post writes trace: your final thoughts. well, look, the germans have not lived up to their commitment of 2% of their gdp to spend militarily. we saw thankfully president trump step in and say enough is enough with the nord stream 2. ironically, the biden administration on the one hand lifted sanctions. lobbied against sanctions in congress just two weeks ago. but now its saying the nord stream 2 pipeline will never come on line. they re going further to stalk to talk to the qatarrys about
jen psaki says this is old footage and old news. the policy has not changed since when this happened. it s continued through. this is new footage. it underscores it continues to happen. trace: and ari, they re getting on the planes with warrants issued to them from ice. the issue is because they don t have identification. the reason they don t have i.d., nobody knows who they are. i want to play this sound bite from vice president kamala harris and get your response. the strategy that has always been clear. we ve been clear. the work we need to do is work that we manifest over a long period of time. certainly not overnight. the problems that we need to address are problems. the solution will not happen overnight. trace: its not going to happen overnight if you go to
particularly germany, the largest economy for its energy needs. trace: that s a fair assessment on the other side. the other side, secretary of defense lloyd austin talked about the troop build-up from russia. listen to this. as we look at that number of troops and that amount of hardware that is sitting aboard a region, it far and away exceeding what we typically see them do for exercises. so it s very concerning. trace: it is concerning what do you think? well, i think the additional piece is that is concerning on the build-up, it s not just the numbers but the types of troops. many of them are from the russian reserves and national guard and their sole purpose is occupation duty. that does lean us more and more towards a full invasion. what i would have liked to have seen today from secretary austin and general milley is, one, a
we re not going to give the name of the st. louis police injured that was injured. do you believe he s going to survive? trace, it sounds promising right now. it was not promises when he was wheeled into the hospital. the hospital doctors did a tremendous job but he s not out of the woods yet. trace: our best to him, this is from the new york sometimes last summer. critical to read this. it says a survey of 200 police officers indicates that retirements were up 45%, resignation, 18% in the period between april 2020 and april 2021 when compared with the preceding 12 months. you look at those numbers, chief, you look at what many are calling a war on police, this is not going to help rebuild our police departments across the
wake up, baby, i m here. the little bit of hope i had that you would come back to life just to say i love you or good-bye one more time has left. trace: just heart wrenching statements. officer rivera and his partner were are one of many shot in the line of duty this year. in just the past 48 hour, three wounded in this broad daylight shootout in houston. another shot in a chaotic encounter in milwaukee in which the suspect stole the officer s squad car. in st. louis, a young police officer now clinging to life shot in the stomach while pursuing a s.u.v. believed too be connected to a murder. with us now tim stitch a county councilman chief in st. louis.