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We need to get ukraine aircraft. the administration secretly reverse their decision, get their migs to ukraine and for the first time ever get ahead of the russians and begin to train ukraine on our f-16s which we are going to be retiring. its going to be a long war, lets get ukraine those f-16s too. >> you know, ambassador -- go ahead, finish that thought. >> we do all those things and i think the chances of moscow losing in this new offensive go way up. >> its interesting, you bring up the mig...

Pentagon. courtney, thank you. its a good way to bring in the next guest, retired general reed. theres a lot of would have, could have, should have, before this began. lets start with the mig issue for ukraine. it would have been a lot easier to deal with the fighter yet issue three months ago than obviously it is now. what would be your advice how to make this happen? >> well, i think that the way theyre approaching it now, even though its late and we seem to have stumbled a little bit in this ...

Week ago, it has gotten more complicated. just in the past 24 hours in the fact that this is moving westward, the fact that they are becoming more aggressive along polands border. where does that leave the united states? >> well, im in the very cautious camp. i believe, as we discussed, and as you said, whats the maximum that the west can do to help ukraine isolate and neutralize russia without causing world war iii. i think the calculation of the biden administration is correct. i think the mig...

Nato in particular in dealing with russia in general and most recently it was the mig issue. unclear why poland was ready do it directly and then they were like no. we still dont know the full back story there. i notice it hasnt come up so far on this trip. do you expect it to? >> reporter: well, it will be interesting to see if it was a part of the private conversations we dont have a sense of that. certainly the president of poland was speaking today, he was emphasizing unity. they seemed to h...