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Enormous amounts of support to the ukrainian as we should and need to do but at the same time trying not to escalate the conflict in a full on nato or u.s. war with russia. >> there is a difference between anti-tank, combat aircraft and a jet that could cross a border and actually conduct operations on russian soil. >> general todd walters, the head of u.s. european command and nato supreme allied commander said other weapons are proving more effective. quote: adding aircraft to the ukrainian in...

Israelis could play a productive role here. and also the turks who brought together the russian and ukrainian foreign ministers in the last day or so, for a meeting in person in turkey. that also yielded no obvious signs of progress. but it comes as the u.s. is increasing its own military support to ukraine, short of what president zelenskyy has been asking, which is of course, and no fly zone. the ability for poland to hand over old make jets to the ukrainians. short of that, the u.s. is saying...

Is there any way the u.s. can play this, so five years down the road, iran doesnt have nuclear capabilities. >> what we should do is what we did under the trump administration. and get out of the deal like that not even be negotiating with the regime that chants death to america and israel. thats the last thing we should be doing. we should continue the sanctions against the iranian regime because it hampered their economic status if we got back in the deal and lifted sanctions. if he with allow...

Fear of being murdered, they need three things to do this and they dont have those three things. they dont have the time, they dont have the manpower and i dont think they have the ammunition. so in about ten days, in my assessment, and this is assuming that we, the west, not only continue but accelerate the delivery of the capabilities ukrainians need to destroy russian long-range artillery rockets and cruise missile sites, in the next ten days russian will culminate and not be able to continue...

Question. >> we here in the senate, in this committee today, are in the middle of a policy fight. its my understanding that across this nation more than 70% of district court judges who impose sentences in cases such as the ones that have been so vigorously debated here depart downwards from the sentencing guidelines, from the request of the prosecutors. and as youve explained repeatedly and in detail thats because the sentencing judge is required to weigh a whole series of factors. how many opi...

Targeting specifically civilians. >> it does seem like the u.s. is, you know, trying to provide greater anti-aircraft, anti-missile capabilities to ukrainian forces. how essential will that be moving forward for them? >> well, both the javelins and stingers that we have talked about so many times are important. drones will be critically important. the ukrainians are pushic back with their artillery, and i think thats what were seeing outside kyiv. in order to have a counterartillery barrage to t...

Alliance led my america needs to deter any russian attack into nato, air defense, missile systems to protect nato territory from russia missile attack and also conventional troops suitably equipped for 21st century warfare. but with a combined arms capability to make it clear to putin that the risk of any incursion is not worth taking. >> martha: you think that those elements are a deterrent to him using these other forms of warfare that are so scary? >> they would be if theyre in place. you hav...

>> i hope the answer is no. at the moment, all we see is an increasing campaign from the russian side, accusations about what is happening in ukraine about the possibility of ukraine using chemical weapons against russia, but of course, the track record we have, both in terms of the possible use of chemical anythings by russia, it points in the other direction, so it is a possibility that this could cause indeed a false flag attack, a false flag enterprise, and that some people in the russian mi...

And, also, for the one year construct —— conscripts, their term of service is done in about two or three months. how motivated are they going to be, how aggressive are they going to be in the face of that short period of time left while they are watching many of our counterparts die in front of the ukrainian resistance? think part of that is what is frustrating putin, the fact that his troops are not performing well.- that his troops are not performing well. that is an absolutely _ performin...

>> because the ukrainians are saying they have killed 14,000 russian troops. does that sound like a realistic number to you? >> you know, i -- i dont doubt it. although, i have certain reservations. we had the benefit, just a few minutes ago, of a conversation with secretary austin with whom i indirectly worked when i was in uniform. and he gave a very astute assessment of the russian capabilities and the fact that russian forces have, to some extent, been degraded. but, you know, when you start...