To talk to him, its a pleasure. I mean, its unbelievable. Look at his smile. Its not something that you can imagine that somebody would want to harm. This innocence. Absolutely senseless. Fraud and mark, i hope ohad and etan come home soon. Thank you so much for joining us. We are asking that today thats the main point, that there will brought home Safe And Sound and really ask the World Leaders have a lot of leverage to bring this about and we are asking this should be the main purpose. Yep. Especially the leaders in qatar which have close relationship with hamas but also in turkey and egypt and jordan and the uae and saudi arabia, anyone who has pull, anyone who can do anything and appeal to hamas to release these innocent sevcivilians hel hostage in gaza, please, please do what you can. Thank you so much, we appreciate it. Welcome to the lead kwit. Im jake tapper. Were following two major breaking story, first on capitol hill. House republicans mired in chaos, struggling mightily to
it s more visible to ukrainians and the rest of us and that has to continue alongside the military fight. i want to bring in arteme kulick, a native ukrainian. you have a question for the national security adviser. yeah, i do. i wanted to ask do you have a regret if the united states has started supplying weapons earlier, a lot of innocent lives would have been saved? so in 2021, the first year of the biden administration, the united states provided far more lethal assistance, weapons to ukraine than in any previous year in u.s. history. javelins and other critical anti-armor systems to help build the ukrainian defense. and we flowed that assistance as we were seeing the russian troop buildup in the spring of 2021 and we kept flowing it as we saw
gone in. there was all the speculation that it was about to happen. there were all the denials from the kremlin that it was going to happen. there had been a number of diplomatic initiatives, last minute visits by leaders. i think emmanuel macron was one of them and programs the prime minister of hungary who had also been there. there was this sense that whatever russia s troop buildup, that the united states abdominal lies had been warning the world about, there was a sense that this could still be stopped.abd the world about, there was a sense that this could still be stopped. but on the streets of moscow, this weird dichotomy, the huge walls around the kremlin where putin makes his decisions. but literally outside just days before, they didn t think that it was going to happen because they thought it was a brotherly nation. they had friends there. we were speaking to ukrainians
a russian strike against city hall five days ago means this plastic sheeting can be put to better use. what are you going to do with that? i ll board up the windows. the window is out. no glass. he ll have to walk home. no one will drive to his neighborhood. it looks out across the river to the russians. facing off the russians, poppy, in the east, it s been a very, very violent business. there are deep concerns in ukraine with the big troop buildup on the other side of the front line, they may open a front in the south. sam kiley, thank you. they re removed omar from the high profile foreign affairs committee. the gop serving up retribution, they say, in response to democrats and the long running
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