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Down those russian aircrafts, bring down those missiles. >> they need more, we ought to give them more. look, this is a way to have a no-fly zone in effect, to have these weapon systems, ground air weapon systems, give them a fighting chance. >> if there is a chemicals weapon attack, we should impose a no-fly zone immediately. >> shouldnt you apologize for the last debacle that we can our country and killed americans? thanks, geniuses. obviously every republican is going to want to jump on board...

Us. $800 million worth of new equipment. 800 stinger anti-aircraft systems. 9,000 anti-armor systems, including javelins. 7,000 small arms, including machine guns, shotguns, grenade launchers, 20 million rounds of small arms ammunition. drones. will this change the equation on the ground? >> it will help them keep going and maintain this bloody stalemate and keep beating the russians back. it doesnt include the sophisticated weapon systems that president zelenskyy had been pushing for. the u.s. ...

It is a number of people that are buying, converting, and shipping and amount of equipment that they are buying. there are shopping all across europe, and china, and north america, to find the bullet proof estimate, helmets. really, just basic supplies. the governments are dealing with the have a weapon systems, but they basically need basic equipment. it is that need, that these private, volunteer operations, are beginning to fill in a fairly impressive way. >> what do the make of the idea that...

Countries. thats what you heard president biden trying to explain. the pentagon is also extremely concerned about certain weapon systems falling in to the hands of the russians and chechen terrorists. that matters what kinds of weapons to send. in terms of those polish migs, theyre not stopping poland from providing the migs. they just dont want to take possession of them in germany and transfer them to ukraine themselves. they dont think that that is the weapons systems that the ukrainians need...

Is war crime and should be seen as such. >> yeah. of course the russians arent denying they are targeting civilians. clearly civilians are dying. theyre dying every day. and civilian targets are being bombed. for instance, the theater that was used as a shelter in maripol. does that hold any water the russian denial they are targeting civilians? >> i dont think it does. its happening too often. even in the day of modern super accurate weapon systems, things do occasionally go wrong. theres alway...

Why putin may be using these hypersonic missiles. he said, is he running low on precision-guided munition, kind of raising point that maybe theyre using it, in part, because theyre running out of other stuff. could that be? >> its a possibility, erin. but im going to go back to what kim said before. i think it is sort of a bluster moment. remember the first time putin rolled this thing out a couple of years ago. he had a big film, he was standing on a stage. and one of these missile whats aimed ...

Assessment on this, at least for assessment of the fight right now, is it a stalemate or does ukraine have the upper hand here? >> i think its a bloody stalemate and id have to underscore and highlight the word bloody, because on the one hand, the ukrainians have basically stopped the russians in many areas. they have inflicted enormous losses on the russians. by some estimates now, in the first, whatever, 27, 28 days of this campaign, the russians have lost nearly twice as many soldiers as we l...

The problem here for the russians is the ukrainians are actually. survive in an urban fight because of their success so far. we talked about the javelin a lot. and a lot of people are talking about this high explosive anti-tank round fired by the javelin, right? the javelin is a two component missile system. here is the most part of the javelin, command launch unit. thats the targeting system on the javelin. i rode out every day in iraq with my unit in iraq we carried a clue not a javelin missil...

Weve already done or are talking about. >> with me now retired army brigadier general a former u.s. senior defense attache to the russian federation. general good to see you again. to the layman, some distinctions can seem silly, i think. allies are giving ukraine this lethal aid. the u.s. has been supplying ukraine with weaponry. why does it matter whos the last one to touch it? and what do you think? where do you stand on this? >> jim, im -- ive been long supportive of not putting in major ove...

Particularly given the methods that russia is using in attacking the city. what the president wants to do is underscore his support for ukraine and hes going to do that at the nato summit in brussels. not only are the allies going to talk about deterrence and defense of nato territory, but certainly on the agenda is going to be the question of how much and what more they should do in terms of supplying the ukrainians with the weapon systems that they need in order to push back against the russia...