police cars. a giant mob forced a cruiser backward down the freeway. lauren has more from washington. good morning, these videos are just as wild as dangerous and dumb. this was a busy intersection saturday night. take a look. oh. [bleep] [engines revving] ashley: at police cars, a crowd swarming and forcing a police car back. one officer was injured, several police cars were damaged. the police department is understaffed from officers on the street and 911 operators. just 60% of calls is answered within seconds. they had to lower minimum job requirements to fill openings. in 2020 the austin city council defunded the police by $150 million. the austin police association tweeted austin policymakers are responsible for the overall safety of citizens and visitors, looked like the wrong decision and they continue to demoralize public safety. austin was one of the safest cities, not anymore. the police budget was reinstated, but not until after officers left. they are strugg
playback we re able to show. sorry for cutting you off, steve. we want to show the viewers, you see at the presidential palace, president biden arriving and looking at security there. we will see shortly president and president zelenskyy walking in kyiv. you can see president zelenskyy, along with ilena zelenskyy. this is president biden moments ago in kyiv, a historic visit just days before the one-year anniversary of the russian invasion into ukraine taking us all by surprise as peter doocy was saying no indication this was happening, a big surprise, historic in nature in sending a very unambiguous message to vladamir putin, who is ramping
democracy. and i came in 2017, just before i left office as vice president. i knew i d be back, i wanted to be sure, even though the elections were over, barack obama and i were out of office, i decided to make one more trip before the next president was sworn in to kyiv. so president zelenskyy, you deeply honor me in kyiv today to meet with your diplomatic teams, community leaders who stepped up and helped their country in their hour of need, it is astounding who stood up, everybody. everybody. women and young children trying
of arming and supplying ukraine and so has number of other allies, the war in my view starts to take a turn, where russia conducts this offensive action in the east and a little in the south, we need to provide precision hardware and we had a discussion regarding air power, in this case, f-16s, would be vital. president zelenskyy griff: hold for one second and dip back in, translation going on, president zelenskyy is making a statement, let s listen for a second. president of the united states over the course of this large-scale war, this is the first visit over 15 years and this is really the most important visit of the history of ukraine and u.s. relationship, this is the visit in this most difficult period for ukraine, when ukraine is
game changer, how big of impact would f-16s have? they would be significant, but let s manage expectations here. right now the ukrainian air force hvintage aircraft, we wil have to train the pilots and provide weapons and training for maintainers to maintain the aircraft. talking months of getting them in the cockpit of f-16s to fly missions. the fact we could be doing that, i m ahead of myself, if that is in the offering with the president, not only from operational standpoint griff: hold that thought, we re playing tape back, can we listen in, i believe president zelenskyy is speaking. please. help in this year. you are very welcome, mr. president. thank you for having me.