let s turn to this note that came from russia to the state department warning unpredictable consequences should the u.s. continue to offer weapon support to ukraine. what s the state department s response to that? i m not in a position to speak to any specific correspondent between russia and the department of state but sheer what i can say. if the allegation on the part of moscow is that we are providing unprecedented amounts of security assistance, $3.2 billion during the doucourse of this administration and that the ukrainians are using this security assistance effectively to defend their country, well, then we re guilty as charged. the russians shouldn t be surprised by this. long before putin s invasion of ukraine began, we made clear we would do three things. i ve already mentioned two of
people and because we have been helping them with weapon support. brian: you mean, congressman, the same pentagon and mark milley who told us that the afghan army would withstand any type of taliban run and no way gahannay was in danger? is that the same pentagon going to fall in 72 hours same pentagon? yeah. same one. you know, the picture that i think is in so many americans minds about the biden administration and what we have been told by the biden administration i will never forget that plane in afghanistan last summer, that taking off and you guys had this clip on your show some times where that plane is taking off and people are literally trying to jump on the wheels of an airplane and it s leaving. that shows you how wrong they have been on so many foreign policy decisions. and it demonstrates that you can t project weakness from the oval office because, when you do, bad things are going to happen. brian: there is good and bad in the world. putin is evil. russian kreml
would munich and asking whether germany would be munich and asking whether germany would be willing to review its policy would be willing to review its policy concerning weapon support, and the policy concerning weapon support, and the answer was a very clear no. i and the answer was a very clear no. i asked and the answer was a very clear no. i asked her and the answer was a very clear no. i asked her a and the answer was a very clear no. i asked her a question about germany spending i asked her a question about germany spending 2% on defence, there was a kind of. spending 2% on defence, there was a kind of. you spending 2% on defence, there was a kind of, you know, skirting the question kind of, you know, skirting the question of fudging it by saying they would broadly spend 3% on development, diplomacy and defence, and this development, diplomacy and defence, and this is, development, diplomacy and defence, and this is, again, in a context in which and this
this is being handled, though, are they all in agreement on sanctions, what sanctions, how they should be enforced, weapons to ukraine, weapon support and so on? i think there are some slight differences, and i think we got a hint of that from president biden last night and his advisers. there may be some pluses and minuses in the combined response and reaction on sanctions to to president putin if he invades ukraine. you know, i think we ve heard from the italian prime minister late last night indicating that perhaps energy wouldn t be among the the energy sector wouldn t be among the sanctions imposed on russia. the italian prime minister spoke that he had had some assurances from president putin that there could be ways that gas supplies would come to come to italy. we heard as well president putin