A military question. that s a political question. i m glad you asked it. because there was no resistance. and that makes me think that there was much more planning, much more coordination. this wasn t just let s get on the road and see how far we can go. and that also has to make vladimir putin nervous. if you look at this the building in washington d.c., a federal office has at least some security. there was no security. that suggests that there was something agreed ahead of time before they got to rostov. i m glad i asked that question. ambassador, a reminder that there is no such thing of a stupid question. ambassador michael mcfaul, colin clark, thank you to the both of you. greatly appreciate it. coming up, president zelenskyy s first reaction to the rebellion in russia. stay with us. stay with us with smoking fast shipping. and wayfair deals so epic.
Alabama to say in the wake of the dobbs decision, overturning a woman s right to choose that he s going to hold up every flag officer in the military question for you. obviously his tactics are one thing. what he s saying is another, right. he s saying, and i know you heard him say this to manu raju. that you could separate this from his view on abortion that that that this is actually to him about american taxpayers having to pay for abortion, which he says is wrong because that policy has not come up for a vote in congress, and here s how he put it. hmm we don t have a national security problem here. you know, we got a problem with the department of defense. trying to make a law and they weren t elected. we were they want to run it through us, and we vote on it. i m good with it, but go through the proper channels. what do you say to that? that that this is actually about having taxpayers fund these abortions that, he says what s wrong? yeah. first of all, he is saying if he is sayin
Hardened border to places like mariupol to get back to their homes and families trapped on the other side. for a number of reasons not simply military, that border has hardened. what you re talking is a situation that has humanitarian implications, some people in a car trying to get across. you have all of the people found in russian-controlled land unable to get through. and you also have the military question, and that plea, from ukrainians that they really need the long-range rocket systems because what you re seeing just south of here, i m talking 40 kilometers or so, we have just been hearinging that soft thud of military fire they re not able to reach positions that continue to get close to zaporizhzhia, with the missions not only on the black sea, to military fire south of zaporizhzhia, but also long-range rockets. and ukraine says they need to get their own quickly if that front line is going to keep inches forward, brianna. yeah, some of those
Vladimir putin attempts to do about that next. there is the military question of what the offensive is attempting to do and what it is failing to do for the time being. and then, the question of how that is sold and what the consequences of that are. on the war in ukraine and on what next steps are taken. you mentioned that this would be the other strategic aims of vladimir putin engaging in this conflict to begin with. to hold nato back from the border. again, having failed spectacularly to announce that they are joining nato with a formal putting to parliament of that request to join in the next few days. that s the context that russia was announcing cutting off the supplies. that s the fronts on which putin s ambitions find
Answer that question. i won t answer that with a four-star general on tv. but i will say a couple of things, i ve talked to senior pentagon official this is week and i ve talked to senior ukrainian official this is week. what i think it signals is a big shift in terms of the american strategy. we re going to be sending in much more heavier equipment. we re going to be sending in american equipment, not just old soviet equipment and to me it seems like we are helping the ukrainians to try to win the battle of donbas. before it was always about stalemates, stopping, slowing the russians. this feels different. and just to put the numbers into perspective, it is $30 billion, $20 billion in military assistance, the entire russian military budget last year was $61 billion. so, general, i ll let you take a crack at that. the ambassador yielded his time to you on the military question. what is this new money mean to the fight in the don bass?