mitchell in munich for a global security conference. for the first time this year, the germans have not invited russia because of vladimir putin s invasion of ukraine. we begin with my exclusive interview here today with vice president kamala harris. whether the u.s. with a divided congress will support ukraine for as long as it takes. we also talked about the 2024 campaign. starting with beijing s reaction today to president biden s speech about the shoot-down of china s spy balloon and whether the white house and president xi can reset their relationship. the president said that the three other objects were not a threat to the u.s. so why shoot them down? well, as the president said, we have approached this with the first priority being the safety of the american people, including civil aviation. so for those three as the president said, that was a big concern. the president s speech last night also made clear that after the chinese balloon incident, as it has been come t
biden s mishandling of classified documents. that was the message in a letter sent to house judiciary chairman jim jordan. the committee responded by accusing the doj of being, quote, scared to cooperate with the probe into how sensitive paperwork ended up in the president s home in delaware. in democrats are urging the president to be open about what happened. i want to see complete transparency on how this is handled and brought to the american people. i m convince thursday is no intent by the president to do something that was wrong. reporter: do you think this hurts him political? are you concerned at all? this is a matter that needs to get the president needs to get behind. he has to get all the information out. he has to square it away, make it clear that there was no intent here, that it was kept in a place that did not compromise the national security of america and that there are steps in place today to make sure this does not happen in the future. the whit
that has been a violation of what should be any person s moral interests in terms of how innocent civilians have been treated, andrea, you know there s a report that includes the fact that a child as young as 4 years old was the victim of sexual assault by russian forces. these are war crimes. and so our position and our resolve is quite clear. we will continue to support the ukrainian people as evidenced by the fact that we have sent military support ranging from stingers to javelins to himars, to our commitment to abrahm tanks. we will continue to do the work that i ve doing here in munich of working directly with our allies including germany, our host, who by the way chancellor shultz should be thanked for
russia regain momentum and make small but significant gains in places like bakhmut. kim? all right. one of the other major angles we ve been covering these past few days has been whether germany would allow leopard tanks to be sent to ukraine. you ve been watching that. what s the latest? reporter: a rare moment of disagreement or standoff, if you will, among western allies that really have from the start of the conflict been quite unified, been quite in lockstep. germany showing its reluctance to allow these tanks, the leopard 2 tanks, to be used in ukraine. it is also germany that has is on sign off for some over a dozen countries in europe that holds about 2,000 of these tanks to potentially begin to deploy those tanks on the ground. cnn has reported earlier and i have to indicate germany has denied that this is the reason behind its reluctance. cnn has reported that germany is looking to the united states, as well, to deploy abrahm tanks. now the u.s. has made the argument, u.s
to be a u.s. senator though, and be one of 100. he is used to being an executive, and i just don t think that judge is cut out for him but he is certainly somebody to keep an eye on, because right now, republicans smell blood, see blood in the water, and they re starting to recruit. and i just want to add, somebody did mention, talking about the local reaction, the democratic party statement this morning basically said, and don t let the door hit you on the way out. that tells you where kyrsten sinema stands with the arizona democratic party and many democrats. i ll put up on the screen the 2024 senate map and awful democrats who are up for re-election. it looks, you know, daunting, for the democrats, and this potentially made it even more daunting. if you will, forgive me, brahm, i want to switch gears and get my daily update on kevin mccarthy. what s going on with him? you re asking me? bres. oh, this one. yes. mccarthy is not there yet.