We are not backing up her men and women in uniform. i m becoming frustrated and almost embarrassed by these two political parties, your thought? we have the pentagon for instance and we haven t oval office that does not understand the urgency. the chinese in fact are preparing for war is the fastest mentor build up since the second world war. jinping talks about war all the time. he is section proofing his regime he is mobilizing china civilians for war. i don t know, as you say, what more we need clear that we consider changing pink is doing. unfortunately the pentagon doesn t. 316 outboard and struggling strangely enough people to see this, able to understand recent history. people are listening to what they are saying and the regime, the fundamentalists are saying and doing. we are ringing the bells. we are begging the pots and pans. therefore you and i and ronald
Ukraine. u.s. president joe biden delivered a hard no on friday, saying the pentagon doesn t believe f-16 fighters are a good fit right now. mr. biden also gave a thumbs down on friday to a chinese proposal to end the conflict. he said it would only benefit moscow. meanwhile, sources tell cnn that u.s. intelligence suggests beijing is leaning towards sending drones and small arms and munitions to russia despite warnings from the u.s. to stay out of the conflict. ukraine s president has been front and center since the war began, repeatedly calling on allies to send more weapons and rallying his country to stay strong. and that was especially true on friday as he held a somber ceremony in kyiv to mark the war s anniversary. cnn s melissa bell has our report. reporter: still in power and still in kyiv.
What they can tell us about what that has taught the pentagon about chinese technologies when it comes to surveillance. and setting aside the extraordinary thing that happened today, which is that the u.s. military shot down a piece of aircraft from a foreign super power in china. that s remarkable in and of it itself. to have it splash down and have this retrieval and recovery effort underway. this is going to be highly critical as to what is salvaged, ultimately. as part of that end of the mission. absolutely. that s where the real value of this comes in. there s a whole other part to this. that s the diplomatic question. how do you handle china diplomatically? they did apologize multiple times and they seem to have taken responsibility for this but the pentagon doesn t buy their explanation that this was simply a weather balloon, as they initially claimed. so that question is one part of it. the intelligence gathering and what you can learn about is it
Around. that s a simple way. there are more complicated ways that the pentagon doesn t like to talk about, but they do have ways that they can obscure some things from a spy balloon or weather balloon. there are a lot of lawmakers reacting to this. republicans are angry that it wasn t just shot down, taken down, especially when it was over a less populated area. what else are you hearing about the coordination between the white house and congress, specifically in terms of this trip for secretary blinken, that he was supposed to start embark on tomorrow being cancelled, the white house or blinken, i believe, said that there was a meeting and it was decided that it just wasn t a good time. yeah, i think it s fair to say there s a range of emotions on capitol hill, and they start at angst and get progressively more concerned as you go along the way. republicans and democrats seem to be very concerned about this. they seem concerned that they aren t getting enough information as to wha
This is not that big of a deal. this is not by any means a major city that has been taken by the russians, and the fact that they are making such a big deal overtaking this town shows, according to several defense officials, just how far they have them come in the war. we are seeing all this talk right now about big russian offensives that might be coming, and the reality is people at the pentagon doesn t believe russia has the comeback power they might need in order to be able to do that much. where is vladimir putin going to be getting able to get the reserves, the is he going to do another mobilization? is he going to do another kind of another draft? he doesn t have very many trained troops who are ready to do anything remotely towards coming towards kyiv.