have okayed the sending of the longsh requested tanks that the wall street journal says are critical. the u.s. made m-1 abrams runs on jet fuel, requires maintenance. heavily armored and withstanding direct hits in some cases. the kremlin not happy about this a rangement. lashing out at what they call an escalatory and disastrous plan. with this warning these tanks burn just like all the others. just they cost a great deal. my interview with john kirby from the white house in a moment. first to alex hogan reporting live from kyiv. hi, alex. hi, martha. joe biden said that the u.s. worked in partnership with coming to this decision with germany, which is encouraging other countries around the world to follow suit sending in their own tanks as well. olaf schultz praised the u.s. and german relationship. germany will receive 14 leopard tanks. the goal is to send in 88 tanks. germany s defense minister hopefully the german tanks could be there in a matter of a few months.
season, tourism season for western europe. is it stopping tourists from seeing the sights, this heat? reporter: well, absolutely not. if you look behind me, we are here. it s 1:00 in the afternoon. this is the time of the day when authorities say everyone should be getting out of the heat, into the shade. you have just got so many tourists here. these are people lined up to take a tour inside the ancient roman colosseum. that is not covered. it s not air-conditioned. obviously, no one here is really taking the advice of the health officials. but it s hard to convince them to do so. so many people come to italy and other tourist towns to spend their vacation, their expensive holidays. you are not go going to con sell. it s going to get worse. we are expecting for the, you know, more and more actdifficul to come. even people used to the heat are finding it hot. listen to a tourist from washington, d.c. it was suffocating.
with the pence revelation, his lawyers are blaming a hurried exit from the white house. the biden explanation remains to be heard. martha? martha: with that, we bring in bret baier. good to have you with us this afternoon. kirby spoke off the cuff, went a little further than what we ve heard karine jean-pierre do in recent days on this issue. what do you think of that? anything is a little bit further than karine jean-pierre has been as referring to the white house con sell or the special counsel s office. kirby is right. a scif is a very specific place that the documents do not leave. so the senators up there are scratching their heads. it s not just republicans as you heard. it s democrats about how that part of it happened. the senate part of it happened. the vice president and taking classified documents home, you know, there s this caveat that we have to be careful that we
three young boys murdered. at 9:00 that night, i knew that i would never see him alive again. three teenage boys suspected. i wanted to bash their head up against the wall, kick his face in. three teens demonized. that was the first thing that everybody started saying that it was a ritualistic killing, satanic killing. three teens convicted. guilty of capital murder. their accused ring leader sent to death row. i m in solitary confinement 24 hours a day, seven days a week. he deserves to be to be chured and punished for the rest of his life for murdering three 8-year-old children! it was a crime almost too horrible to imagine. three teens worshipping satan murdering three 8-year-old boys. that happened right here back in 1993. two of the teens got life in prison, a third was judged to be so evil that he was sentenced to die. but after spending 18 years behind bars, a dramatic new development. the so-called west memphis three were abruptly granted their f
stand . another saying it could put civilians in the cross hairs. both officials say they don t know what form a final offensive might take. recent nato air strikes are clearly upping the ante. our people there telling us they are under way again tonight, loud explosions being heard in tripoli within the past hour. opposition forces telling us they re making use of the air attacks to try to make progress on the ground. those forces now in the middle of a major push on zawhi, the keyport city on tripoli s doorstep. fierce artillery fire could be heard today. opposition fighters telling our sara sidener they could become moving on the capital within a matter of days. that could just be optimistic talk on their part. meantime the opposition says a orm libyan prime minister has defected, fleeing tripoli with his family. no sign, though, that his former boss, muammar gadhafi, is going anywhere. and that s the potential problem. a potentially very violent and bloody problem. joinin