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Russia may use chemical weapons but is not saying whether president biden would let an attack like that go unanswered. >> i wont get into hypotheticals. they have the capacity and the capabilities. i wont get into intelligence. the presidents intention of sending u.s. military to fate in ukraine against russia has not changed. >> that sounds like, even if there is a chemical weapons attack, that calculus will not change. i want to be clear on what the u.s. response would be. >> again. there has ...

Lets bring in barbara starr. not only did admiral kirby say they dont support this transfer. he said transferring these mig 29 little increase capabilities at high risk. doesnt think fighter jets is what ta ukrainians need now any way. >> that appears to be the military analysis this afternoon. one that ukraine still has several squadrons of jets available to it. not clear how much they are able to fly in this contested environment they operate in with the russians but they have the air power an...

Look, i think i said in my statement, were -- we made these revelations public. we announced some of the additional nsr and enhanced readiness because we believe it is important to -- to call out the behavior that weve been seeing. particularly in the last few weeks. and that we believe it is important for the entire international community to speak with one voice about the concerns that we know they have over dpr continued ballistic missile program. im not going to get into any more details in ...

This yesterday, here is what he said. >> one thing i will say is that the only thing more dangerous than iran armed with ballistic missiles and advanced military capabilities is an iran that has all of those things and a nuclear weapon and president biden is still determined to stop iran from getting a nuclear weapon. >> john: that is somewhat misguided according to the wall street editorial page, saying it will not stop iran from pursuing or getting a nuclear weapon. they could make progress at...

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By lloyd austin in consultation with poland. u.s. defense officials tell me president zelenskyy has most of his air force in flakt. the weapons they are having the biggest effect in stopping russian forces, javelins, anti-tank missiles, stinger and shoulder fired. and this umbrella blankets much of ukraines air space which makes flying any war planes over ukraine difficult right now. anti-aircraft systems would have to be taken out before it could fly the migs to any effect. again, the pentagon ...

We take seriously the assessments and their views based on the information that we get. >> making the potential for escalation worse. thats not only not good for nato and not good for the united states and our national security, should this conflict escalate even further, but its certainly not good for the ukrainian people to have what is already a destructive and terrible war get even more destructive and terrible given the fact that mr. putin has other capabilities at his

Theres those that are both again overt, in the public eye announced and im sure theres others that can be provided through covert means without getting into the details of that. theres a number of different weapon systems, capabilities and supplies that would help ukraine enormously noting that we have already been just flying c-17s in to air bases very near the border with ukraine to get those supplies in to the country. of course, another very key dimension of this, martha, is that the ukraini...

Firing at planes, i mean if there is a humanitarian corridor, one of the problems weve seen is artillery by russians violating that humanitarian corridor and firing or firing during a ceasefire. would those planes then try to take out artillery on the ground that was violating the humanitarian corridor also? >> it really depends, anderson, because humanitarian no fly zones would be defined by what we call the roe, rules of engagement. and whatever the nations would lay out is their rules of enga...

They staged? >> well, because they dont have enough resupply capabilities within this area here, victor. what they could do alternately is taking the transsiberian railway. that does not have the capacity to do what they want to do. so they are taking this route by sea in order to make this work for them. and it is one other thing to note about this, there is an american and japanese air base here which is pretty close to where theyre transiting right now. >> colonel, lets talk about whats alrea...