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Its possible that russia is attempting to build some leverage in events of ongoing negotiations or talks with the ukrainians that is is kind of a es escalatory strategy. its possible russia is attempting to send a message to united states and fnato the demonstrate their capabilities and send a keep out message to russia, to nato and the united states. its equally possible, according to this defense official that russia is running out of its so-called precision guided you in ad -- munitions which...

Russians every time. >> more on the weapons now. weve got the list, partial list here of the requests from ukrainian military to the u.s. government, including combat aircraft, weve got the reconnaissance and attack drones, electronic warfare anti-drone systems, the list here on the screen. what weapons stand out to you that would help the ukrainians most here? >> they need -- i mean, the javelin weapons systems, if theyre getting depleted, they absolutely need those. they do neat electronic war...

Zelenskyy many times in recent weeks. weve heard their requests for assistance. in many cases weve delivered those anti-aircraft, anti-armor capabilities. were assessing the air defense needs. the answer is no, if youre talking about the soviet-era jets, the united states decided the particular proposal put forward by poland is untenable. honestly, if any nato ally wanted to provide those types of pieces of equipment, the fighter jets, the migs, that is a sovereign decision. they can take that s...

Intelligence community. he listened to the advice of his military commanders, he consulted with his nato allies. he ultimately determined that the risk-benefit analysis of flying planes from nato bases into contested airspace over ukraine did not make sense, was not something that he would authorize. what he did talk to president zelenskyy about on friday was other capabilities that could achieve a similar purpose. so we are working on that now. other anti-air systems that could help take some -...

Corporations really making the investment to up their game in cybersecurity. and eric, talking of those the public private partnership and these corporations, are we as good on offense as we are at defense right now or do we is it really a case of everybodys really got to get them very quickly? so certainly offensively we have incredible capabilities with our defense and intelligence agencies and that really is the domain of the government where where i spend a lot of my time at cyber sheath and...

Because malicious cyber activity is part of the russian playbook. and so there could be unintended cascading consequences from russian attacks, cyber attacks in ukraine, in europe. there could be an uptick in ransomware activity, and there could be deliberate retaliatory attacks for the very severe, very punitive sanctions that the u.s. and our allies have come together as a community to levy on russia. and the russian government may feel like they can use these capabilities, this preparatory ac...

Historic deficit reduction, historic investment in our security at home and abroad by modernizing our capabilities in both areas, and an unprecedented commitment to building an economy where everyone has a chance to succeed. a plan to pay for those investments that we need as a nation. thats what we do. so i look forward to working with members of congress, democrats, republicans, independents to deliver this budget and keep delivering for the american people. i want to thank you all. god bless ...

One. importantly were making a lot migs. there plenty of ukrainian aircraft flying over skies of ukraine. al real problem we need to continue to ship as many air defense capabilities we have. we are shipping stinger anti-aircraft missiles working hard with countries with soviet era defense equipment, of course, the united states does not, to have those equipment shipped across the border and replaced by more modern nato-level equipment. so lots going in to the country and also important to remem...

In kharkiv before they can shut off the eastern part of the country. we heard them talking about the jets and the inherent difficulty and transferring the jets. heres a little bit of whats happened. take a listen. >> the answer is no. if youre asking about the soviet era jets, the united states has decided that the particular proposal put forward by poland is untenable. honestly, if any nato ally wanted to provide those types of pieces of equipment, the fighter jets, the mission, that is a sover...

Been to get accurate intel on putin, given his apparent pred lix for him staying isolated? >> general walters, the supreme nato commander, made a comment, our miscalculations on the capabilities of the russian army was perhaps due to a collection gap. inherently, intelligence is almost incomplete, so its impe imperfect. lets say the cia did its job to the utmost and had eyes and years all around putin and we were hearing and seeing everything putin heard. well, if were getting the same intellige...