bret: good evening, welcome to washington. i m bret baier. breaking tonight two u.s. adversaries raising eyebrows this national security circles causing real concern here in washington as both country s leaders touted their nuclear ambitions today. russian president vladimir putin saying he will revisit his country s policies on using nuclear weapons while iran is drastically expanding one of its not so secret nuclear sites. we begin with russia. chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin has details tonight lye from the pnc. good evening, jennifer. jennifer: good evening, bret. more nuclear saber ratling from vladimir putin during his second stop in acre shah in search of friends. weapons for his war in ukraine, and a return to the cold war. the veiled threat came thursday during a press conference in vietnam. putin said he was thinking of changing russia s nuclear doctrine, lowering the threshold for the first use of a nuclear weapon. currently russian doctr
and the brutal invasion of russia by ukraine. this parliament have been resolute and falling on my discussions with president zelenskyy just over three weeks ago that there was need for more support. there was need for more effective sassistance to ukrain. we ll continue to call further sanctions and this will continue to discuss next week. this will parliament will continue to build on the momentum of this. unprecedented coordination that we have which is extremely important because we share the fundamental values and we share our defense if you can say that and all that ukraine s rights to
the legal sassistance is outrageous. let s go back andan read the transcript. not once does president trump say i stand with you against putin aggression. all theag things that pompeo claims if that interview you just played apart of trump administration policy may be true but the president of the united states is not committed to that particular objective. the second thing just to underscore what david said, it is not just about corruption. by the way, if you are against corruption, you are against all corruption, not all individual, one american. theyal also talked about this crazy idea about what ukraine may have done in the 2016 presidential election, always remember that because it seems to be a new talking point that republicans just want to leave it out of the conversation, yes, it was front and secenter in th transcript of that trump/s