police cars. a giant mob forced a cruiser backward down the freeway. lauren has more from washington. good morning, these videos are just as wild as dangerous and dumb. this was a busy intersection saturday night. take a look. oh. [bleep] [engines revving] ashley: at police cars, a crowd swarming and forcing a police car back. one officer was injured, several police cars were damaged. the police department is understaffed from officers on the street and 911 operators. just 60% of calls is answered within seconds. they had to lower minimum job requirements to fill openings. in 2020 the austin city council defunded the police by $150 million. the austin police association tweeted austin policymakers are responsible for the overall safety of citizens and visitors, looked like the wrong decision and they continue to demoralize public safety. austin was one of the safest cities, not anymore. the police budget was reinstated, but not until after officers left. they are strugg
resources and they hope it can continue. we re looking at a major battle in the east. russia resupplying and using convicts and china might help russia with weapons. many believe ukraine has a window of about a year to push russia out of the east, they need help urgently and we ve seen it step by step, once you get long-range artillery, you ask for tanks, and then jets. really the demands don t stop here for aid. griff: steve harrigan live in kyiv. on that point in the president s statement released moments ago, he says he will announce another delivery of critical equipment, including ammunition and armor systems and raider to help protect the ukrainian people from aerial bompard bardment, the best defense is to put
playback we re able to show. sorry for cutting you off, steve. we want to show the viewers, you see at the presidential palace, president biden arriving and looking at security there. we will see shortly president and president zelenskyy walking in kyiv. you can see president zelenskyy, along with ilena zelenskyy. this is president biden moments ago in kyiv, a historic visit just days before the one-year anniversary of the russian invasion into ukraine taking us all by surprise as peter doocy was saying no indication this was happening, a big surprise, historic in nature in sending a very unambiguous message to vladamir putin, who is ramping
of state blinken was doing rounds on the sunday shows saying he recently met with chi counterpart and they are concerned about chinese support for russia in this effort. if that comes to bear where china and russia are essentially teaming up against ukraine and nato, that is entirely different can of worms and that would escalate this conflict in way it has not over the last year and we ve seen how brutal the last year has been without china getting involved that we know of. that s a big one. there is also, as the president referenced, there are in the new republican congress, there are a lot of lawmakers in the majority that want to essentially slow down some of the support that has been going to ukraine. it is billions upon billions of dollars and there is not as much support in the republican-led congress as there was maybe in
st. michaels monastery. apparently biden made two stops, at the presidential palace to meet with zelenskyy and the two coming to the seat of ukraine orthodox church to tour the church and to visit the memorial. two dead ukrainian soldiers outside when they walked down the streets. 36 degrees here on this sunny morning, taking place just before noon. this is extremely powerful one year laters, one year after the kremlin after russian president putin said he will take kyiv in three days, a year later you have zelenskyy and president biden walking the streets. this was certainly a high-risk effort, we did hear air raid sien ares during president biden s visit, but no sound of explosions and a strong statement from biden saying we at this one-year mark are