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Many regular men and women coming off the streets. they need weapons, things like a rifle. ive been hearing more and more from u.s. officials about the need to arm these individuals to fight. 20 million rounds of ammunition. thats important. no battle ever has been enough ammunition in a conflict. then, of course, the drones you mentioned extremely important. we had an exclusive report last night that the u.s. is considering sending switchblade drones. the president didnt specify what drones, bu...

Missiles raining down on their cities. >> one of the things zelenskyy wanted were armed drones. the president said theyre sending drones to help in this fight. is that your understanding, that those are the armed drones that zelenskyy has been calling for or not? >> actually, what we have been told here at the pentagon is that there is a turkish drone system armed that the u.s. -- that the ukraine forces have that they are using with great success. i think whatever additional drones go into ukra...

Have shown, it moved me to tears. i was speechless when i left the room, and what i know now is that we must do everything we can working with our allies and partners with and through them to increase our fighter jets, be sure we get those drones to them, increase their air defenses, and i can tell you that i am chairwoman of the subcommittee on commerce. we need to shut down american trade and we theyd to sanction the moscow stock exchange. so there are things we can do in every avenue to isola...

Administration a list of requests. that list includes equipment like armed drones, anti-ship missiles, off-the-shelf electronic jamming equipment and surface-to-air missiles, but also more of what the united states has already been providing, more of those stinger anti-aircraft missiles, more javelin anti-tank weapons. nbcs intelligence ken delaney is behind this reporting and were joined by jason beardsly, national executive director of the association of the u.s. navy. ken, you laid out that l...

The drones that were sending, these armed drones, is there much of a difference in what they can do versus what a mig can do for them? >> yes. the migs, 100%, they are a symbol. it would be a show of strength or conversation in the ukrainians, but the reality is, from an operational perspective, theyre not necessarily whats been needed. ukraine isnt flying most of the migs they have. what is more valuable from an operational perspective for ukraine right now are a couple things that president bi...

>> today when the president said drones, that was the first time i heard drones in the conversation. you have to look at it through the lens and listen to it through the lens of not the professional security folks sitting at this table, but folks listening and could have been on their lunch today listening to that. >> does president biden need to do more? >> i dont think he needs to explain why the fight matters because the american people are seeing the pictures and images on their television, ...

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>> you heard president bidens remarks. do you get the sense that hes saying, yes, were going to do that? we will give us this. >> he seems to be leaning in a direction of we can do more. he was very careful talking about a major deviation from what there has been, and the white house knows the s-300 missile systems could help. >> its a symbol because zelenskyy made it a symbol. >> u.s. intelligence officials also determined they think putin will see the planes as a step too far, and ukrainians l...

Attacking. we have identified and are helping ukraine acquire additional longer-range anti-aircraft systems, and the munitions for those systems. in the new assistance package also included 9,000 antiarmor systems. these are portable, high accuracy shoulder-mounted missiles that ukrainian forces have been use with great effect to destroy invading tanks and armored vehicles. it would caleb 7,000 small arms to the equip the ukrainians, including civilians. as well as the ammunition and artillery a...

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