this means for special counsel jack smith s multiple investigations, and trump s third presidential bid. frightening future, the second year of a post-roe america looks worse than the first. we re going inside the all out episodes to keep the southeast swath of the country from turning into an abortion desert. all of this and more is coming up. and a good saturday morning to you i m katie phang. we begin with a major show of support from the white house on what could become a critical turning point in the war in ukraine. the biden administration defending their controversial decision to supply cluster munitions to ukraine to help that country gain grounds against vladimir putin is now 500-day war on ukraine. cluster munitions, also known as cluster bombs, are banned in 120 countries due to the high risk of killing civilians. despite blowback from his own party and human rights groups president biden says he spoken to allies about the decision. it comes as he prepares
ukrainians, in the presidents own words, because he says they are running out of ammunition. so, he did plainly defend this, saying even though he knows dozens and dozens of countries did not choose to use these kinds of cluster bombs, which was a treaty, by the way, the united states did not sign, he still felt it was appropriate. he says the ukrainians have assured him that these 10,000 or so cluster bombs that will be sent to ukraine in the coming days to have what s known as a low dug rate. that means that if they don t work as intended, the likelihood of them exploding later and then being a huge harm to civilians, the president, and the pentagon have said is quite low. still, he is facing some growing opposition on capitol hill, not just from republicans, but democrats as well, who have expressed some concern about using these. again, about the risk this could pose to people in the future. because as you see in this video, when it detonates, it really creates these smaller
the lob em and of course, trying to deploy them, but there are problems. the united states tried to deploy these problems and they have a high number of dug rate, and so these bombs can stay in the ground for months, years and decades afterwards, and hopefully when this war is over, the problem is that the civilians will come back to the area that are farmlands by and large around the area. yeah. and we know that russia has used the cluster bombs around ukraine, but ukraine is in talks with the united states to try and get some long range wep pops. what can you tell us about that