ukraine. and a decisive decade for the world. so make no mistake, we will support ukraine self-defense for as long as it takes. but how much and with what? this comes as the u.s. and germany are in something of a standoff over whether to send tanks to the ukrainian battlefield. the top pentagon officials are set to speak this hour. we expect to learn more information about if maybe tanks are on the way. we ll have much more on the dramatic negotiations ahead. plus, in his first public remarks since classified documents were found at his home and office, president biden said he has no regrets. i have no regrets on following what the lawyers have told me they want me to do. it is exactly what we re doing. there is no there, there. and reaction from hollywood as prosecutors say they will charge alec baldwin with involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of halyna hutchins. in ahead what industry leaders are saying about this case. but let s begin with the war in u
Re-settlement in decades. joining me the ceo of the hebrew migrant society. mark, thanks so much for joining us. a bold initiative here. walk us through how it works. i know it allows groups for five individuals to apply and sponsor refugees from around the world with as little as $3,000 per refugee? well, yeah. that is true. but let me let me add a little bit of color to that. so the u.s. has been re-settling refugees for many decades. highas has been doing it for 40 years through the traditional settlement program and so we had 22 sites around the country where we could re-settle refugees. the challenges, we had people all over the country who wants to welcome refugees and re-settle them but if they didn t live near the 22 sites, they were out of luck. now, we could re-settle refugees anywhere in the country where we have three to five people, or a congregations who want to welcome refugees into their
10,000 in his rural midwest state. it wasn t popular at the time. 1975 gallop poll showed 36% of americans supported refugee re-settlement, 54 opposed it. others wanted to turn the page from vietnam. others didn t like the idea of immigrants settling in the western heartland. robert ray thought it was the right thing to do. quote, i didn t think we could sit here idly and say let those people die. we wouldn t want the rest of the world to say that about us if we were in the same situation, said ray. do unto others as you would have them do unto you. that s the politics of the golden rule. we don t see it enough these days. this is a jump ball moment when the character of our country is being tested real-time, and despite political pressures some republican governors are meeting that robert ray test. like utah spencer cox who wrote president biden a letter accepting afghans his state was
Them. al? separation anxiety. i m a refugee. i came to america. i experienced it. the pain, the heart break of a child about that experience will never go away in their lifetime. and to justify that by saying to have a clean bed and food is such a cruel comment regarding what s going on with the children and their hearts and their parents. i will debunk two myths or lies from the white house right now. number one, things are not the same as before on two areas. number one, office of refugee re-settlement, before the white house changed the rules, they would be the ones that would intake these children, they would interview most of these children had relatives here, mostly undocumented, and they would turn the children over to these relatives. the president of the united states changed it and gave i.c.e. the jurisdiction that the office of refugee re-settlement