criminal. watch this. mr. president, after everything that we ve seen are you ready to call putin a war criminal? no. [question inaudible] martha: interesting. the president circled back to make sure that he heard the question correctly. he changed his answer. jacqui heinrich with me.
committed to it, then this war won t end. putin s strategy, similar to other strong-men leaders, is when they re backed into a corner, that he escalate, they look for a new opportunity, they create the crisis, they escalate and escalate and escalate hoping that some card will turn their way and they can find an off-ramp. that s been the pattern of a lot of megalomaniac strong-men leaders throughout history. we ll see if putin follows that pattern. in many cases the russian military, when they run into a wall. richard engel in kyiv for us. thank you. let me bring in courtney kube and clint watts. courtney, let me start with the military aid and the logistics of getting there. i know the pentagon is careful not to share how this is done, sources and methods, those things. is it getting more difficult, or is the russian lack of advancement continuing to make the flow pretty smooth? reporter: so, we don t have any indicationings it s getting
know, we don t have to guess at this. and the other thing we do when we are doing things like this, is we create trust. you know, and you can t surge trust at the 11th hour. austin was in slovakia thursday where his counterpart said he would send ukraine the s 300 a family of russian made surface to air systems shoot down aircraft, drones cruise and ballistic missiles. the dutch industry says it would install patriot in slovakia so that they can send their s 300 defense geerts ukraine, bret? bret: jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. jennifer, thank you. now let s get details on that call between president biden and china s leader. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich has that part of the story live from the north lawn. good evening, bret. twice today the president was in front of reporters and he took no questions. he has not spoken about the call
suddenly she s not there anymore. she has been shot out of the sky. regards, elsemeek s father, hans de borst of the netherlands whose life is ruined now. hans, personally, very good to see you. your story resonated with me over the years. painful. now you are seeing what s happening in ukraine and russia s aggression, i wonder if you think it could have been different had the world held putin, vladimir putin and russia responsible for what happened to your daughter. we tried at the moment, the dutch military ready to go there. the world thought it s better not to because maybe we can talk and first we have to investigate what happens. you saw my letter i wrote to all
the i can tell you this: that just yesterday on a bipartisan basis, nearly all the members of the intelligence committee issued a statement calling on the administration to assist to expedite the transfer of those migs to ukraine. and although i can t tell you what s in our intelligence, i can tell you that as you might assume, we wouldn t be taking such a strong stand if it was something that was absolutely going to be viewed as escalatory. we think it s going to be viewed as something that would assist ukraine. president zelenskyy has asked for it a morale builder and essential for them to regain control of the skies. bret: mr. chairman refresh your recollection seeing any optimism in diplomacy here with the talks with putin? well, i don t trust putin at this point. you know, how can you believe him? that s the problem. he said he did not have any intentions on invading ukraine. yet, he invaded. you try to have some humanitarian corridors, and you see people dying. so, you know