happened. china is still the enemy. what now? i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. secretary blinken says his talk with china s foreign minister and other officials was constructive. earlier after his meeting with the president of the communist nation, blinken said this. united states is committed to doing that. in the interest of china and unities and the world. we covered a broad range of subjects. i appreciate this opportunity to discuss this with you. harris: i pay way more attention to they do than what china says. the white house said it didn t exist and cleared up last week there is in fact a communist chinese spy base in cuba watching the united states. there are remaining tensions over the chinese spy craft that flew across the continental u.s. sending intelligence back to china realtime. china s ramped up aggression toward taiwan. so was it good to meet now? mixed reaction from republicans. despite our differences and despite the ratcheting
reclaiming another village from the russians, so they say. lloyd austin says the fighting is fierce there and ukraine s forces are suffering major losses of both troops and western tanks and other armored vehicles. the united states has given ukraine, as you know, look at the price tag, tens of billion else of dollars in military aid since russia invaded nearly 16 months ago. it was exactly 481 days. the biden administration announced another $205 million in humanitarian aid for people there. up to 2.1 billion since february of 2022. i want to ask you about our role there and when our dollars, our treasure and our men and women will no longer be involved in ukraine. what is the endgame here? the endgame is not to have our men and women in ukraine. we haven t had one soldier in ukraine. this counter offensive is
forces in the past. what capacity do you believe they have with a full onon ononslaught of the russian military. they have received training sense. what s your sense of the ukraine s will to fight and capability. they love to fight. they love their country. they are very proud to be ukrainian. i m telling you right now there are men and women in ukraine right now willing to give everything for their country. that s something that is incredibly special. here in the united states continue to give them resources to fight and defend themselves. it s also a cautionary tale for us here. we have to secure our own borders and we also have to restore pride in our own country. and we need to be proud to be american and proud to lay down our lives for our country. in ukraine, that s what they re willing to do for theirs. here in the united states we have our military leaders leaders not military leaders but senior officials in the
to how the culture of the city was operating just a few days ago. you actually said this in a tweet and i want to read it for folks, because it speaks to what people are doing their in ukraine, how they are in abandoning whatever responsibilities that they had because they are fighting for their countries, they are nationalists and they want to defend our country against russians you wrote, everybody give a salute to my dear loved one and ukrainian patriot and i m hoping i m seeing his name right he is an linguist and now a volunteer fighter who is going to fight the russians, he said i will be back, i know he will, what was that decision like for him as he left to fight on behalf of his country? like many men and women in ukraine, it wasn t a very difficult one, it was something that he was contemplating leading up to this day in fact when we were driving around to support him to sign up, there
significant impact on ukraine s fight against russia. to put into perspective if a clip of ammo holds 30 rounds this will be enough for 33,000 guns. over the past few days as word of this donation spread the company has been flooded by calls and emails from folks wanting to help. many of them to be able to supply those brave men and women in ukraine who are fighting for the first time in their lives and they say they want to do something more to help them directly to fight. dana: interesting, garrett. bill: this is an interesting story. the f.b.i. saying the russian oligarch known as putin s chef has been hit by sanctions and is on their most wanted list. he was reportedly behind an internet propaganda factory. he is also accused allegedly of interfering with american elections by hacking into the fec now using his private