provocative actions. i strongly stabbed with senators who have met with president xie and speaker mccarthy and i would urge president biden to make it clear to china not only are we going to continue this practice but we will stand up to any provocation that china undertakes in the western pacific because of these meetings. brian: senator, we have pledged to get them the defensive weapons they need to defend themselves and three years now. they are blaming it on supply chain issues. we know the supply chain issues. but is that really the cause of why taiwan doesn t have the arms they paid for? no, brian. i think one of the main causes here is president biden, again, is projecting weakness. trying to conciliate with xi jinping. every time america even announces a weapons delivery, china gets angry and china denounces the action and president biden, again, you have seen him for his first two years in office continues to try to find ways to appease the chinese. they sent a spy balloon
and circling the acute crisis in ukraine. you are also well aware that we are always open for the negotiation forces. we will discuss these issues, including your initiatives. ukrainian leaders say negotiations are a nonstarter unless russia makes a complete withdrawal from ukraine including crimea. though it can be from the best possibility that president xi will explain to putin that what putin is doing is disrupting the whole world and economy and china is also suffering from it. the weekend before the meeting, vladimir putin was nothing short of defiant. he responded to charges of war crimes and an icc arrest warrant by traveling to mariupol in russian-occupied ukraine. a town left in ruin by the invasion. home to a maternity ward and theater where women and children were killed by russian bombs. the u.s. stepped up weapons delivery and announcing $350 worth of ammunition including hawrtsz ukrainians have been using to hold ground as the u.s.
that innovated ukraine. putin s remarks comes 24 hours after president biden visited kyiv for support. during his trip, biden announced a $450 million military aid package. more details on the much-needed support this week as an american congressional delegation was in the ukrainian capitol this afternoon. led by house foreign affairs committee michael mccaul, the group met with president zelensky and is speaking out about the need for a more aggressive timeline when it comes to weapons delivery. the plan right now from the administration is just enough to bleed through the winter and spring. but not enough for victory. we need to give them enough for victory. there are members within this cab cabinet, within this administration that agree with me. general mccaul visited bucca
warns might expand beyond c ukraine. it s obvious ukraine is not going to be his last stop. if we break, he will consume other country, including all the other states that at some point in time were part of the soviet block. another thing that volodymyr zelenskyy said at that meeting in munich is he said that the ukrainians really need this war to end during the course of this year. he said that weapons delivery, modern weapons would be key to make that happen, but from the russian side, there certainly is no sign that vladimir putin tends to back down. one of the things we re looking at is next week, they are set to hold a key speech here in moscow and then we ll certainly see whether or not russia might escalate even further. fred pleitgen, moscow, cnn. a developing story out of north korea. south korea s joint chiefs of staff says pyongyang fired one missile into the waters in the korean peninsula on saturday. they say it s presumed to have
we need everything you promised us to get to us and get to the front line in time for it to be useful and to make a difference. you heard him talk about a sling. that s obviously his reference to david and goliath. putin is goliath but says david can win if their friends, the nato allies, speed up and increase their weapons delivery. this is, you know, vintage eventually asking for this stuff from the beginning and the amount of hardware that he has received has been ramped up a lot but there is a problem with ammunition and they addressed it here but this is what olaf scholz talked about the long haul. you in your speech said we have to be ready for the long haul. i mean, you just strategize, you must think amongst yourselves how long this could last. do you have a target date? i think it is best to be prepared for a long war and it is wise to give putin the message that we are ready to stay all the time together with