greatest challenge. in many ways the most profound test that c.i.a. has ever faced. they seek to overtake us in every domain from economic strength to military power and from space to cyber space. trace: k.t. mcfarland was the former adviser to president trump. k.t., always great to see you. you just heard william burns talking ant china and russia s silent partnership. congressman mike gallagher brought up a very good point about this. then i ll get your response on the other side. listen to this. director burns is right except it s not a silent partnership. prior to the invasion of ukraine, xi and putin signed a 5,000 word statement proclaiming a partnership without limits. trace: signing a statement is not silent to me, k.t. your thoughts. no, it s not very silent at all. these two are joined at the hip.
k.t. i don t think that will happen. that is a complicated legal thing. what is more likely is that president zelensky will get more cooperation and supplies and military equipment from the united states and nato. trace: but no planes. sandra: too bad. it s time to give ukraine the ability to defend itself by itself. trace: thanks, k.t. good to see you. 50 days in to war, president zelensky has rallied the war to help him defeat vladimir putin. now telling the atlantic, when some leader asks me what weapons i need, i need a moment to calm myself because i told them the week before. it s ground hogs day. i feel like bill murray. jennifer griffin live for us. she spoke about those shipments and joins us live from kiev. hi, jen. we heard some of their air
congressman tomko, you seemed especially excited about the pope s pronouncements on climate change. once he leave, do you thing tk t you and your republican colleagues will actually be able to get something done or will it be business as usual? i surely hope so. i believe the pope s message was bold but his style, his delivery is gentle. and he can throw the seed out there, it s up to us to nibble. i would hope that with such an effort made, time, energy and the like, to be here and to share a message not just for those of catholic faith or christian block but for the entire world. believers and nonbeliever, we need to take heed of that message. he did say that we as humans contribute to that pollution and so it s our responsibility. i do like that he stressed that the government and politics in general, if it s good to speak
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but in the longer term, we want to make sure that we do bring down the deficit. if we don t bring down the deficit, knowing that future generations are at risk but we ll also have an economy that will be at risk. so on the one hand, an effort to make sure that average working people, you can pick any figure, you re correct on that. but average working people below $250,000 don t get any increase in their taxes so they ll have money to spend, money to invest in growing their economy. on the other hand, we thing tk t we also ought to have an eye on the longer term to make sure that we have a stream of revenue to help us bring this deficit under control. both objectives are critical. yes, you can point out that we can pick any other figure as well. president obama has delegated the treasury secretary, the omb director to work with both members and staff, republicans in the senate and the house and democrats to come up with a