against top democrats for leading the trump impeachment by kicking them off the house intelligence committee while ignoring george santos campaign financial possible violations and false resume? we will have the latest tit for tat from capitol hill. good day, i m andrea mitchell in washington. president biden is about to announce a major shift in his policy for arming ukraine. he is sending advanced u.s. tanks that the pentagon has been insisting cannot be properly maintained on the battlefield. what s changed? we see the president walking into the roosevelt room. 11 months since russia s invasion of ukraine. 11 months in which ukrainian people have showed putin and the world the full force of their courage and the determination to live free. through every single step of this horrific war, the american people have been strong and unwavering in their support. democrats and republicans in congress have stood together. the united states worked with our allies and partners a
leave him alone. it s certainly a change of tone from what trump had been saying about pence over the last year. remember, pence broke with trump over january 6th and the aftermath. but it seems that trump is trying to come to pence s defense over these classified documents in part because it s so much worse when it comes to trump and the classified documents. he has vastly more documents with classified markings found at mar-a-lago than the seem to be been found at pence s home. and in addition, pence is being forthcoming in cooperating with the fbi handing these documents over, disclosing it publicly. those are steps that trump and his team did not take last year, which was one of the reasons why there s a special counsel investigation into trump s handling of the documents. as mike pence s involvement make it almost inevitable we ll see a third special counsel given the equivalency that
white houses have done over the time which is stay out of the department of justice s business when it comes to these type of prosecutions, et cetera. so i appreciate what kamala and joe biden are doing by just allowing this committee and allowing the department of justice to do their work. stuart, the washington post also has some new reporting about how trump loyalists in congress are trying to purge republicans that they feel are not loyal to trump sufficiently. one of the candidates supporting is a gentleman joe kent. he s challenging republican congresswoman jamie herary butler of washington state because herrera butler voted to impeach president trump over january 6th. he said a lot of it will be shaming republicans. i need to be going after the people in the republican party who want to go back to go along to get along. it s put up or shut up, unquote. we should note kent is out there pushing the lie that there was widespread fraud in the 2020