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freedom everywhere. its about the kind of world we want to live in, and the world we want to leave to our children. >> president joe bidens remarks yesterday announcing that the u.s. will send several tanks to ukraine. well dig into this major policy reversal. and what impact the tanks could have on the war. plus, former president trump will soon have more places to post his social media rants. well tell you which platforms are reactivating his accounts. also ahead, republican congre...

Will send 14 leopard tanks to ukraine. it follows a dispute between allies. germany earlier suggesting it would not send any tanks unless the u.s. did the same. some u.s. officials argued abrams tanks were too difficult to maintain and operate and worried russia could view it as an escalation. the president was asked if he was forced into the decision. >> did germany force you to change your mind on sending tanks? >> germany didnt force me to change my mind. >> reporter: we pressed the white hou...

Bradleys and strikers. the abrams cant get there anytime fast. the leopards, the challengers, these more than 2,000 other variants of tanks that are already there in europe with some of these allies very close in some cases like poland to ukraine, they can get there much faster. they can be in place for a potential coming counter offensive as early as this spring, those are the ones that have the potential to make the difference here, and you just mentioned, ukraine has a hundred tanks that have...

Get the russians on their back heel, and hopefully move both sides towards a negotiated peace settlement. >> the sub text of everything you laid out and the sub text of the decisions from these countries is that this war is going to go on for a while, and this appears to be a concession by the biden administration, they are digging in for a long war with russia, and they dont expect vladimir putin to look for that off ramp we have been talking about for almost a year now. >> thats true but you c...

Need to point out here. these tanks are not going to arrive anytime soon. they are still in the procurement process meaning they have to be built or refurbished from other tanks, which will take months. the ukrainians have to be trained. you asked what kind of difference they can make. its not the difference that the abrams can make. its a recognition that ukraine needs tanks for the upcoming battle. if you look at what the situation on the ground right now, russia is running very low on precisi...

Correspondent, courtney kube. first of all, how did the biden administration come to this decision? obviously president zelenskyy had been nudging him toward it for many many months, and also what difference are these 31 abrams tanks expected to make in the fight against russia. >> so its fair to say that the decision that -- the reversal for not sending or resisting sending these tanks to deciding to send them was a very quick reversal. as recently as last week we had senior biden administratio...