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new enhanced defense cooperation agreement locations, and both secretary austin and secretary gulvez noted a key pillar of alliance cooperation and supports combined training exercises and interoperability. separately the department of defense announced today a significant new package of security assistance for ukraine. this includes the authorization of a presidential draw down of security assistance, valued at up to $425 million, as well as $1.75 billion in ukraine security assistance initiative funds. the presidential draw down is the 31st such draw down of equipment from d.o.d. inventories for ukraine. in total the u.s. has committed $32 billion in security assistance to ukraine since 2014, and $29.3 billion since russia s unprovoked and illegal invasion nearly one year ago this month. today s announcement includes critical air defense
over in delaware, some new drama in bankruptcy court today over the formerly big deal crypto giant ftx. lawyers now revealing some new details about the billions of dollars of basically missing crypto saying ftx has recovered $5 billion in liquid assets, cash, crypto and securities but that does not include the $425 million that the sec is holding in the bahamas. what does that mean. a little bit of good news for ftx customers after the company initially said $8 billion worth of stuff was missing. the question is how much does ftx still owe creditors? that s still tbd. lets me bring in eamon javers who is joining us live. what else are we finding out from this hearing today? what else do we know about the recovered assets? are people going to get their money back or what? that s the big question.
playing field. unlimited money seems to be the way things will be in the near term. the ballot member we saw was a when it gets these dark money groups. but at the same, time just this week, we saw a report out from politico about one of the biggest dark money conservative organizations, donors trust, receiving to 425 million dollar donations last year. how do we hold these organizations accountable when the donors are remaining anonymous? i mean, the reality is is that we will not hold them accountable. that is really not the issue. our issue is being able to continue to get people out of vote, regardless of who is trying to buy our elections. what i think should be the message that we received from this l.a. mayor race is that regardless of if you re putting in 100 million dollars of your own money, if you cannot persuade the people that you can do the work for them, that you can change their lives, that you can make their lives better, then they re not coming up to vote for yo
replicated in all 49 states. but i frankly just don t see a federal bill coming. even if it did, with the current composition of the supreme court, it is not going anywhere because it will be struck down. they made their precedent known and they will even out this playing field. unlimited money seems to be the way things will be in the near term. the ballot member we saw was a win it gets these dark money groups. but at the same, time just this week, we saw a report out from politico about one of the biggest dark money conservative organizations, donors trust, receiving two 425 million dollar donations last year. how do we hold these organizations accountable when the donors are remaining anonymous? i mean, the reality is is that we will not hold them accountable. that is really not the issue. our issue is being able to continue to get people out of vote, regardless of who is trying to buy our elections. what i think should be the message that we received from this l. a. mayor ra