being there for us. let s bring in brigadier general patrick ryder. thanks so much for being here. it was just a few days ago that we heard about how these m1 abrams tanks were too labor-intensive, too complex, too hard to refuel, and too hard to send to ukraine. what changed in the past couple of days? well, it s important to highlight too, that what we have been focused on is the near-term ri requirements for ukraine on the battlefield, the capabilities that they need to be immediately effective to address the things that sam highlighted. however, we do assess that ukraine requires a combination of armored personnel carriers, fighting vehicles, and tanks to be able to have the maneuver capability that will need to be successful, both in the near term and in the longer term in this fight, and so really what you are seeing here is the united states making a commitment, demonstrating its commitment to ukraine for the long-term, combined with the near-term capabilities that
have okayed the sending of the longsh requested tanks that the wall street journal says are critical. the u.s. made m-1 abrams runs on jet fuel, requires maintenance. heavily armored and withstanding direct hits in some cases. the kremlin not happy about this a rangement. lashing out at what they call an escalatory and disastrous plan. with this warning these tanks burn just like all the others. just they cost a great deal. my interview with john kirby from the white house in a moment. first to alex hogan reporting live from kyiv. hi, alex. hi, martha. joe biden said that the u.s. worked in partnership with coming to this decision with germany, which is encouraging other countries around the world to follow suit sending in their own tanks as well. olaf schultz praised the u.s. and german relationship. germany will receive 14 leopard tanks. the goal is to send in 88 tanks. germany s defense minister hopefully the german tanks could be there in a matter of a few months.
i mentioned that maggie was killed with a 300 blackout rifle, an ar-style rifle chambered in 300 blackout ammunition. you re going to hear evidence that back in christmas of 2016, alex murdaugh over there bought two 300 blackout ar-style rifles. then not long after that, one of them went missing from paul s truck, and time went by, and in april of 2018, alex murdaugh replaced that rifle and bought another one. three total blackout rifles that they have. one of them went missing years ago, and a replacement was bought. you re going to hear evidence that paul and his friend were using that replacement gun. they were standing right outside the side door to the gun room of
two 300 black-out ar-style rifles. not long after that, one of them went missing from paul s truck. time went by and in april of 2018, alec murdaugh replaced that rifle and bought another one. three total blackout rifles that they had. one of them went missing years ago. a replacement was bought. you re going to hear evidence that paul and his friend were using that replacement gun, they were standing outside the side door to the gun room of the house and they were sighting it in, firing down in to a field. the cases of the empty shell were ejecting out in to the flower bed right there and that there s a range across the street and they shot it there and there s cases ejected there as well. they were shooting that third replacement gun just weeks prior