expressions of support for a possible fast tracking to allow ukraine to perhaps become an accession candidate from some countries in eastern europe. poland, the baltic states, the czech republic and a number of other countries put out a statement yesterday saying that they would support perhaps fast tracking this process. in other countries noticeably in the west of the european union has said this isn t the moment to be doing that. speaking after mr zelensky s address, the european commission president said this. the destiny of ukraine is at stake but our the destiny of ukraine is at stake but our own fate also lies in the balance for the first time ever ursula von leyen said the eu would be using funds from the european budget to provide ukraine with military equipment pledging 1 billion euros to the crisis, that is e500m to purchase and deliver equipment and e500m for humanitarian aid. let s hear more.
mr zelensky repeated his call for ukraine to be admitted into the eu under a fast track procedure. the accession path to the european union is a long and complicated process and it takes years to complete. here s our correspondent bethany bell from brussels. before the war ukraine, which is not officially an accession candidate, it was thought it needed to do much more work in terms of democratic sunak democratic norms and curbing corruption. now there have been expressions of support for a possible fast tracking to allow ukraine to perhaps become an accession candidate from some countries in eastern europe. poland, the baltic states, the czech republic and a number of other countries put out a statement yesterday saying that they would support perhaps fast tracking this process. in other countries noticeably in the west of the european union has said this isn t the moment
dana: last question would be about our allies because it is not just americans that they would like to attack, we ve seen this in europe over the last several years as well. australia. nato allies. there are reports they remain extremely furious with the united states. does that matter? it matters an awful lot because what we re focused on afghanistan today, dana make no mistakes they aren t limited to afghanistan. they re in yemen, southeast asia, africa, every one of those terrorists is watching american weakness in afghanistan and i m sure they re all contemplating whether this isn t the moment to strike and well oel need our friends and allies to have confidence in us in all of these places. in afghanistan, too. that we ll be prepared to do and honor the commitments we ve made. they are all very concerned. i ve heard from many of them and very worried this president is not prepared to lead in the way we did for four years. bill: thank you for your time. one more question. why
republicans need to believe, and i think they will believe, that if trump is removed from office mike pence will succeed. one of the big things is keeping trump is half of the republican primary electorate thinks if trump is impeached nancy pelosi becomes president or hillary clinton or something. so i think with all due respect to whatever pence should have known, could have known, may even have some taint, we have a serious question about the president of the united states and it isn t a time to follow too many other trails. i m sure there are many other things rudy giuliani knew, what mike pence knew, what mick mulvaney knew, but this isn t the moment to sort of try to bring down, you know, every person in the administration i think. that s fair. our thanks to two returning veterans, maya wily, bill kristol. appreciate it. please come back. coming up, we shift our attention to the west and a crisis most people out east cannot fathom. brown-bagging it. so why you paying so much for
if trump is removed from office, mike pence will succeed. i mean one of the big things is keeping trump alive is half of the republican electorate thinks if trump is impeached, nancy pelosi becomes president or hillary clinton or something. i think with all due respect to whatever pence should have known, could have known may have some taint. we have a serious question of the president of the united states, and it isn t a time to follow too many other trails. this isn t the moment to sort of try to bring down, you know, every person in the administration, i think. that s fair. our thanks to two returning veterans, maya wiley, bill kristol, appreciate it. please come back. coming up, we shift our attention to the west and a crisis most people out east cannot fathom.