Has found when the boxes came back from north korea. A very meaningful, important moment for that Mcdaniel Family and for all americans its an honor to show it to you. Thanks for joining us, everyone. Im dana perino. Up next, shep smith. Shepard its noon on the west coast. 3 00 here in New York City where republican congressman is facing a judge on charges of Insider Trading. The lawmaker denies he did anything wrong. Were live at the courthouse. President trumps lawyers making what they are calling a Counter Offer for an interview with the special counsel Robert Mueller. Ahead, the details on what they call the last chance to avoid a possible subpoena of the president. And the star witness on the defense at the trial of President Trumps former Campaign Chairman. But rick gates says he has a very good reason to tell the truth about everything Paul Manafort did. Lets get to it. Shepard smith reporting live from the Fox News Deck. And first from the Fox News Deck this afternoon a sitting
obama administration would provide no lethal aid. trump started with small arms ammunition and anti-tank weapons. but there was no additional provocation from putin. now we have had provocation and i think we should have significantly increased it. we have done some of that, but we have not given them all that they need and some of it they desperately need. we are talking about an air campaign here that putin has in his kick bag and could be very significant, not just supporting ground forces, but taking down strategic targets in and around major cities and infrastructure. they need anti-aircraft missiles. they also need missile defense, and need anti-drone capability. i did not realize we had given them artillery, good news. i believe that after this major provocation that we certainly should have up-gunned our armament. we say we are not going to war to defend ukraine, i understand that, and i respect that
press conference. they were talking to the american people but also looked like they were talking almost directly to putin himself. director clapper, we heard the secretary of defense saying putin can choose to de-escalate. he can order troops away. he can choose dialogue and diplomacy and whatever he chooses, the u.s. will be right there with its allies and partners. do you think this will convince putin to stand down? well, probably not, but i do think that this was very important session. and i ll just offer a style comment. i thought secretary austin was exhibiting the best characteristics of in terms of his command presence. and i think both from a style and substance standpoint, general clark, i think, hit the main themes. it was very important messaging here. to putin, to our european allies and to the american people.
have a listen to what he had to say. i don t think this is about trusting putin. this is about our allies trusting us. that s really what we re focused on. mr. putin at some point in time will reveal what he s thinking. i m not sure he made the final decisions on what he be do yet. the u.s. military still has more than 8,000 troops on alert. a heightened state of readiness to be ready to move into eastern europe whether they were to come from the u.s. or be repositioned from other places in europe. much of the focus is trying to assure the u.s. will live up to commitments and will be there for them. thank you for the update.
types of things we do with them routinely is train with them and enable them. and really increase their level of readiness and so that s been very helpful to them. and it has strengthened our bonds with our allies and partners in the region. these are temporary deployments, and so, again, we will continue to sort this out as we go forward but, again, we are focused on nato, we re focused on reassuring our allies and that s what this is all about. in terms of trusting putin, i don t think this is about trusting putin. this is about our allies trusting us. and so that s really what we re focused on. and we, you know, mr. putin at