today s republican party exists in is that there s a so-called deep state and that is out to persecute the ex-president, his allies and other conservatives. now having managed to become house speaker by the skin of his teeth, kevin mccarthy is enacting an agenda based entirely off of that warped and delusional world view. one of his first acts, removing congressman adam schiff and eric swalwell from the house intelligence committee. mccarthy denied it had anything to do with the fact that they are critics of a disgraced twice impeached ex-president and his allies. the cardinal sin appears to be i led the impeachment of his master in mar-a-lago, for withholding hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid in ukraine, a nation that was then at war with russia, in order to extort that country and to help donald trump s re-election campaign. you are seeing the fulfillment of kevin mccarthy s corrupt bargain, with marjorie taylor greene, somebody who declared on january 5,
of our enduring, unflighting confidence in ukraine and the kill of the ukrainian forces. hi there, everyone. a major advance in ukraine s fight against russia. the u.s. announcing there it will supply abrams tanks to help ukrainian forces. these 31 abrams tanks as the president said right there mark an escalation in assistance ahead of an effective spring assistance by russia. ukraine s president zelenskyy called the move, quote, an important step on the path to victory and said today the free world is united as never before for a common goal, liberation of ukraine. we are moving forward. the new york times reports on this decision this way. quote, the pentagon had long been reluctant to send the abrams in part because they re exceptionally complex machines, they re challenging to operate and maintain. as it is officials have said it could take a year or longer for them to actually reach the battlefield in ukraine. but defense secretary lloyd austin came around to the move in order
command post, ammo, fuel. when it comes to abrams tanks a lot of these arguments about how complicated it is is nonsense. an experienced ukrainian tank crew could be fully trained in 30 days. those tanks and other armored vehicles are already in europe. it doesn t take a year to get them there. you can fly them out of fort you know, stewart georgia, and get them there in less than a month. so we re really dragging our feet when it comes to being intimidated by putin. by the way, biden has to take into account the threat of nuclear war, of escalation, the horizontal or vertical escalation. so, you know, that s his job, but i think we re dragging our feet and nowhere near the ball game. gas guzzler abrams tanks, it goes 265 miles on a one fill up. it goes 45 miles an hour uphill. it kills russian armored at
represent any offensive threat to russia, to russian homeland. they do, however, represent a very viable, credible threat and it s not just the abrams but the leopards as well to russian soldiers that are inside ukraine illegally and in an unprovoked way. so they do represent a threat to russian armed forces inside ukraine, and they are meant to. and they re meant to be able to help ukraine not only defend itself but claw back some of the territory that the russians have taken from them. you ask about escalation management, and you and i have been talking for months now, that has always been a consideration. whatever system we agree to provide ukraine, we always want to factor in the possible reactions by mr. putin and russia and certainly work in no way to escalate this war beyond what it already has dreadfully escalated to at this point. it serves no one s interests let alone ukraine s interests for this to actually become a war between the united states and