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Sighting and recognition and we can then guide those munitions in. and we can do that against mobile targets. russians have demonstrated they have zero ability to do that. so theyre just going to lob all these stupid weapon systems and hope they hit hospitals and hope they hit buildings. its absolutely brutal and tragic and a war crime when youre going after those kind of targets. >> they dont have it appears people on the ground calling in coordinates. we have seen movies. someone is in calling...

Concerns about possible encirclement. i think you had raised some questions about the capabilities of russians to actually encircle the city. what do you think is going on now? >> first, anderson, clarissas report was very good. when she was saying she heard repeated booms having been a tanker all my life, living close to tank range on various ports in the united states and in europe, those were probably tank battles truthfully or tanks against anti-tank weapon systems, which weve repeatedly see...

Responding on request, to bring supplies in as the season ukraine asked for them. of course, in the last three weeks, the need has exploded but so has the support. lithuania, a country of under 3 million people, has donated more than 18 million euros, almost $20 million, in the last three weeks. most of it is going to this particular group, that started in 2014, as you said. they have, quickly, more than increased by ten fold. it is a number of people that are buying, converting, and shipping an...

Is he thinking tonight and what is taiwan thinking tonight? >> i was just in taiwan. i can tell you with a time people are thinking. they are thinking that being stuck in the middle without an american set of leaders that are prepared to assist you when a superpower, big nation comes to attack you, theyre very concerned, it puts them on edge. i think xi jinping is watching this too and while it seen the biden administration applauding saying we have european unity. that unity came only after an ...

Number of munitions are not and therefore not precise and raises the likelihood and the chances of civilian casualties and damage to civilian infrastructure. not precise. even in their use of precise weapon systems or so-called precise by russian accounts, we have seen again civilian infrastructure hit and civilian casualties caused. cara? >> hi. how concerned is the pentagon of the risks to escalate into the nuclear conflict increased and did that weigh into the decision to say the u.s. would n...

70 years and we continue to do that. thats the reason why we reenforce our collective defense. especially in the eastern part of the alliance. ukraine is not a nato member, but ukraine is a highly valued partner and nato allies have trained tens of thousands of ukrainian troops for many years. we have over many, many years provided essential equipment to ukraine and allies and are providing even more support including with air defense systems and other advanced weapon systems to help them to fig...

Impact, for instance, on military jets. there is, as we were reporting, further systems for that category going in. manu raju on the hill, thank you very much. the president is expected to unveil $8 billion for ukraine assistance. do we know what specific weapon systems are in this package? >> i think what we expect, jim, is that this $800 million will include more stinger surface to air missiles, perhaps a different kind of surface to air missiles, more of the javelin, anti-tank weapons. not ...

But everything else, theres lots of weapon systems, lots of weapon systems, surface-to-air missile systems, some of them post-soviet systems, by the way, that when i talked to president zelenskyy he is pretty crystal clear about what the menu is. rather than talking about it and deliberating and say, well, the pols can do it if they want, i think it is a very weak move. we are -- the nato alliance should be moving together offensively in my view, that is proactively and quietly. >> well, and one...

Theres those that are both again overt, in the public eye announced and im sure theres others that can be provided through covert means without getting into the details of that. theres a number of different weapon systems, capabilities and supplies that would help ukraine enormously noting that we have already been just flying c-17s in to air bases very near the border with ukraine to get those supplies in to the country. of course, another very key dimension of this, martha, is that the ukraini...

Sams. the ukraines want to carry the fight. let them. if they need these weapon systems, we ought to make it possible for them to help defend the airspace over ukraine. it think at least the speech this morning was very powerful, very effective. everybody had a chance to see it. it was kind of delivered to the american congress. the american congress i think has been effective in persuading the biden administration to provide more aid. the administration has been drug into this, but i think to t...