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Of dollars in addition to these boats, the united states handed over their equipment and tactical equipment including lethal weapon such as javelin anti—tank missiles, and the united kingdom has also stepped up its military assistance lately. last year, the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelensky, and prime minister, borisjohnson signed a memorandum to enhance ukraines naval capability, and as part of that deal, the united kingdom will build naval bases and attack military vessels for ukraine...

Kiev says that in light of the russian troops built up near its border they need such military assistance more than ever and this event, the official handover of these patrol boats, is happening just ahead of the video call between presidentjoe biden and russian leader vladimir putin, where they may discuss the issue of military assistance as well. countries like the united states have already provided equipment, military equipment worth millions of dollars. in addition to this, more than boats,...

Conflict. >> laura: but conflict is precisely what plenty in the military industrial are itching for in the russia-ukraine situation. publicly, austen kept the conversation very general. >> we are going to remain engaged with our allies in the region, our partners in the region. we are going to continue to do everything we can to help provide ukraine the capability. >> laura: translations: america will foot the bill again. the ukrainians know this and they are gleefully fanning the flames. >> i ...

He has the able to go in. so, what the united states and others have to do is essentially look at more than anything else, how do we deter this? what do we do in terms of threats and sanctions and military aide to ukraine. what is there a role for diplomacy. is there something that could be started with putin that would whine things down or at least pull things back from the blink. thats where we are. >> so richard, you talk about caabilities of invading. what are our caabilities when it comes i...

Chris: let me ask about one aspect. one of the things that we are doing is putting lower cost satellites up. the idea that you create a swarm of satellites and you create too many targets in space. >> exactly right, the term we use is resilience and make it such too hard and too expensive into likely that theyll create the likely that they want. in the past weve had a small number, very sophisticated and capable satellites. we now intend to feel more and more lower cost and capable that provide ...

Number of different things over the years including lethal capability allotted nonlethal capability. >> russia is trying to block ukraine from joining nato. biden vladimir putin met face-to-face at the june summit. publicly putin has and continue to praise biden saying recently biden is a professional who doesnt miss a thing. but private u.s. officials admit flattery only go so far and president biden will tell putin to back off and recognize ukrainian sovereignty. >> the president will reported...

>> bret: what would the u.s. do if china invades taiwan. >> our one china policy remains the same. we are committed to helping taiwan develop and maintain the ability to defend itself. again, thats another hypothetical. nobody wants to see things develop into a conflict in this region. >> bret: one of your space comm attacking satellites, could be considered an act of war. in your mind, is there an active military conflict happening now in space with our adversaries? >> well, bret, you know, spa...

What are the standards? are there any? what are the practices the school put in place to try to make that judgment? >> schools are put in a really difficult position. weve been tracking both school shootings and threats of school shootings and this year they are at absolute record highs. schools are having to deal with is this a joke? is this just a drawing? is this a real threat? does the person really have capability, and there are no real standards for how they operate. what we find in our re...

Credible what the president is saying. theres resolve there and determination there. >> martha: the call hasnt taken place yet but we hear something about tougher language, sanctions that could be more onerous. tony blinken talked about that. this is lloyd austin, the secretary of defense this weekend at the reagan defense forum when he was asked -- this is part of his spoken comments. watch this. >> im sure that there are a number of things that hell want to explore with president putin. i thin...

Advisers? does it include equipment? >> as you know, bret, we have provided them with a number of different things over the years including lethal capability and a lot of nonlethal capability. >> bret: the president is talking tuesday with vladimir putin. can he say something, even the threat of pushing for invite into nato that gets putin in your mind to back down from that border? >> im sure there are a number of things that he will want to explore with president putin. i think he knows presid...