katie. thank you, mark. last night, america got its first taste of a republican presidential primary debate ahead of next year s election. ukraine didn t feature heavily in the fox news extravaganza, but the party s divides over the issue were on full display, with ron desantis and the tech millionaire vivek ramaswamy against future us aid. nikki haley the only woman in the eight person debate accused ramaswamy of wanting to hand ukraine to russia. david grossman is here with more. the conflict in ukraine in right of centre us politics at the moment is often discussed in terms of choices. why is america choosing to spend so much money on protecting a country in eastern europe, when the us homeland is facing so many problems of its own? at last night s repbublican debate, in milwaukee, the subject got a brief look in, less than ten minutes towards the end of a two hour discussion.
to defence of ukraine but in terms of their commitment to nato in general, and, you know, collective defence and article 5, etc. so it s kind of bringing back the anxieties from 2016 electoral debates and from trump s presidency but this time with a war going on in europe. of some comfort to those worried europeans, there was plenty of pushback from other candidates at last night s debate. if we don t stand up against this type of autocratic killing in the world, we will be next. vivek, if we do the giveaway that you want to give to putin, - to give him his land, . it s not going to be too long before he rolls - across a nato border and, frankly, our men and women of our armed forces are going to have - to go and fight him. cheers and applause. he will make america less safe. under your watch, you will make america less safe.