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the kremlin or quote dissolve yourself all together. i hear you. ainsley: griff jenkins is live on the ground in lviv with the latest. griff? griff: good morning, ainsley, brian and steve. that s right. president zelenskyy had a very clear message for the u.n. security council saying that if they don t act that we can expect more of the same horrors we are seeing coming out of bucha and he lashed out at the world body for not doing more to hold the world accountable. watch. the u.n. security council exists and security in the world doesn t for anyone. this definitely means that the united nations is currently unable to carry out functions for which it was created. griff: steve, as you mentioned those sanctions are expected today. they include banning new investment in russia. increasing sanctions on financial institutions and new sanctions for russian government officials and their families. and at the pentagon they announced an additional 100 million in security assistance whi
grasp what is happening, but they understand that there people are at risk. they understand that if they do not fight back, many of them will be slaughtered. that is why there s so much pressure right now at the international community to do something. if they don t act soon enough, it may already be too late, more people in this country will die as a result of this russian offense of. dana: it is taken so long to get these missiles into ukraine and other sort of a panic to get them more so that they can have some better antiaircraft defense, there are reports that a couple of days ago president joe biden approved the shipments through, that would be an effective weapon for the ukraine s to have against russian air power in the past. have you heard anything about that, is there any indication that they could get the men through poland perhaps?
they have wanted it since september. they did that deal to get the infrastructure bill with the sort of feeling they had a deal to get this done and yet they don t seem to be at all on the same page in their own party. do they have faith that manchin will suddenly turn around and support this? it s really unclear at this point. there is disagreement over the structure of this bill. joe manchin has concerns over some of the temporary spending measures in this plan saying it should be extended out to ten years in order to give americans a true sense of the cost of this proposal. one of those provisions, the child tax credit. under this plan it would be extended for one year. the expansion of this would expire at the end of this year if they don t act, which adds a sense of urgency, but manchin does not want to go along with a one-year extension saying it would not reflect what americans wolf here. so i just had the chance to catch up with joe manchin and asked about the pressure he is
government funding bill, one of the holdups was how long that funding bill would go. they have agreed to extend it until mid-february. that bill is expected to pass the house as soon as today. but his fate is less certain in the senate. that s because they need the cooperation of all 100 senators to be able to move quickly on the bill. they don t need all 100 senators to pass the bill. again, they just need it to be able to move quickly enough to avoid that shutdown slated to happen tomorrow at midnight if they don t act. there has been a handful of conservative republicans who are demanding a vote on an amendment that would defund biden s vaccine mandate. some of the mandates have been challenged in the court system, some halted. some republicans are expressing skepticism with this shutdown strategy. but this could be a big fight and it is unclear whether there will be an agreement to nullify their demands. we could see a temporary shutdown over the weekend. that is something congress