knox gold to see the total eclipse of the sun. that s what public service is all about, opportunities like that. wow, so we re going to dig into that in just a minute t. treasury department has an official explanation for it. meanwhile, today, president trump will travel to florida to survie the damage left behind by hurricane irma. he and the first lady scheduled to make stops in ft. meyers and naples, were irma struck as a category 3 on sunday. across the state of florida, about 3 million without power. 100 emergency shelters are opened. from the keys to the caribbean, it s becoming an increasingly dire situation in the aftermath of the storm a. week after the hurricane hit the virgin islands, they call it cot strofk. can you see from these pictures it is, many residents have been surviving military rations passed out by the national guard t. basics still hard to come by.
hopefully they will also join us in these tougher sanctions. again, sir let me finish. let me finish. the president is prepared to take additional steps, and we are discussing with the ukrainians right now what they need, what else we can do, and i don t think anything except american troops going there, other things are on the table, chris. wait a minute, sir, that is not sir, respectfully, that is not true. you just gave a long list of what putin is providing the separatists from surface-to-air missiles to tanks, we re providing the ukrainian troops with mres, with military rations. you talk about putting pressure on the europeans. the president didn t put any pressure on the europeans. instead he is a said this. take a look. we feel confident at this point the sanctions we put in place are imposed on russia, that their overall global impact on economy is minimal.
good trash talking for the basketball court but just the kind of thing that s going to enrage putin. the comment that the president made, here is what we need. no. we need to frame this in terms of what russia needs. and what russia needs to do is find an off-ramp and we need to force them on to that off-ramp. the question is, what is the president doing to get ahead of this to find ways to pressure putin on to an off-ramp? meanwhile, ukrainian officials keep asking the u.s. and europe for military weapons to defend their country. you heard mike rogers say we are finally providing military rations to the ukrainians, which means they will be able to eat but not necessarily fight. ron, do you think military aid might be effective in forcing putin to recalculate what the cost is or, as the president seems to think, further inflame the situation? i think it might. might what? it might actually help to
good trash talking for the basketball court but just the kind of thing that s going to enrage putin. the comment that the president made, here is what we need. no. we need to frame this in terms of what russia needs. and what russia needs to do is find an off-ramp and we need to force them on to that off-ramp. the question is, what is the president doing to get ahead of this to find ways to pressure putin on to an off-ramp? meanwhile, ukrainian officials keep asking the u.s. and europe for military weapons to defend their country. you heard mike rogers say we are finally providing military rations to the ukrainians, which means they will be able to eat but not necessarily fight. ron, do you think military aid might be effective in forcing putin to recalculate what the cost is or, as the president seems to think, further inflame the situation? i think it might.
worse. good trash talking for the basketball court but just the kind of thing that s going to enrage putin. the comment that the president made, here is what we need. no. we need to frame this in terms of what russia needs. and what russia needs to do is find an off-ramp and we need to force them on to that off-ramp. the question is, what is the president doing to get ahead of this to find ways to pressure putin on to an off-ramp? meanwhile, ukrainian offic l officials keep asking the u.s. and europe for military weapons to defend their country. you heard mike rogers say we are finally providing military rations to the ukrainians, which means they will be able to eat but not necessarily fight. ron, do you think military aid might be effective in forcing put toin recal calculate what the cost is or, as the president seems to think, further inflame