Good morning. Welcome to cnn this morning. Always a pleasure to be with you on a sunday morning. We are started with the historic United Auto Workers strike. Union members say they had reasonably productive talks with ford saturday, but the union and the three Major Companies are still far apart on wages and benefits. Ford and General Motors responded by threatening layoffs for nonstriking workers due to the lack of parts from striking plants. General motors says they will lay off up to 2,000 workers this week if the strike continues. The workers walking the picket lines say they will stick it out until they get a deal that suits them. Gabe cohen is in ohio with more. Reporter saturday we saw the first small signs of any progress in these negotiations between the union and any of the big three automakers. This after the union met with ford. A source for the union Telling C Fcnn we had reasonable negotiations. Ford saying that they are committed to reaching an agreement with auw that rewards the workers and allows ford to invest in the future. We are starting to see the Ripple Affect from the three plants that are now shut down by this strike. General motors and ford announcing at least 2,600 workers will be laid off in the days ahead because their facilities cant operate while these three factories are on strike. Still, so many of the workers i have spoken with who are on the Picket Line Making 500 a week in strike pay tell me, they are ready to strike for as long as they need to. Their 20 proposal is ridiculous. Six years and i have not had a raise in almost two years now. I tap out at 19. 28. Ive been making 19. 28 for two years. Its hard. It makes me hopeful they are getting the message we are on strike and we are ready for this and we have been preparing. Bring a good offer to the table. Reporter why did you want your daughter here today . I just brought her out to get her involved, so she knows whats going on with dad at work. Reporter the head of the Auto Workers Union said more factories could go on strike depending on how the negotiations play out. Gabe cohen, thank you. Are roughly four months until the iowa caucuses, weapon president ial hopefuls spent yesterday courting the states conservative evangelical activists. Nearly all of the candidates addressed the iowa faith and Freedom Coalition saturday. Nearly all. Former President Trump, confident in his numbers, did not show up. His absence gave room for others to talk. Reporter four months before the iowa caucuses, the field of candidates were in iowa on saturday evening, with the exception of donald trump. The candidates were reaching out to evangelical voters, a critical part of the constituency here. There were several distinctions made on key issues. Most notably on military promotions. One issue on capitol hill In Washington has been alabama senator Tommy Tubervilles blockade of military promotions. Florida governor ron desantis, the only veteran in the race, said he supporting the s the se actions. I support what he is doing. First of all, what the Defense Department is doing is outside the law. They are breaking, violating the law by Funding Abortion Tourism with tax dollars. Reporter former South Carolina governor nikki haley, whose Husband Michael is serving on a tour of duty, said she disagreed. She said military members should not be used as political pawns. Why go and create all of this and hold those who sacrifice so much for our freedoms, why hold them as political pawns, when all you have to do is get in there and ask for an Up Or Down Vote in the house and the senate . Reporter those differences underscore an increasing score of competition between desantis and nickrnikki haley. Later in the evening, mike pence said he supported the house Impeachment Inquiry against President Biden. I dont want to jump to conclusions about this. But i must tell you, where theres smoke, theres usually fire In Washington, d. C. The American People deserve the facts. Im going to be out there championing and defending House Republicans as they bring the facts to the American People and hold joe biden and his family accountable. Reporter President Biden, the center of much of the criticism. Former President Donald Trump not on hand and rarely spoke been. His supporters were here. Can anyone catch him or is this a race for second place . Thank you, jeff. Natos secretarygeneral offered a dire prediction on russias attempt to expand territory saying, we must prepare ourselves for a long war in ukraine. Stoltenberg made the comments in an interview with a german newspaper. New video shows the brutality of the long war for ukrainians. The military released this video of the destroyed settlement near bakhmut. It shows part of ukraines attempts to retake the region. Fred pleitgen is with us now from kyiv. Talk to us about these efforts to retake territory. Reporter its quite important for the ukrainians. Some of the video is extremely shocking that we have seen there from south of bakhmut with the Ukrainian Forces moving in. Its not a large settlement and not ones that were substantial and could offer a lot of cover. As we can see on the video, pretty much complete destruction of that area. We have that filmed in the fog as well. Thats something where the ukrainians say for them its important. We have an update for you from that region as well. We are hearing from some sources in the Ukrainian Military that the russians are extremely angry having lost the settlement. They are blanketing that area with artillery. The ukrainians have taken the territory, but the russians are firing at it with some pretty heavy guns. Ukrainians saying the fact that they were able to take that territory makes it easier to stop Supply Routes for the russians. They have momentum as far as the counteroffensive. This is in the east where the ukrainians are making headway. That is also going to be one of the messages that ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy will take with him as he goes to the u. S. , but to meet with President Biden. The ukrainians are telling us they have three things that they will continue to be asking for. The atacms, longer range tactical missiles, to hit the russians in the rear echelon, the f16. The most important thing is more munitions. More Artillery Munitions, 155 mill millimeters. We were able to speak to the Deputy Defense minister of the country. She told us that as the ukrainians are trying to move forward in some areas, the ratio of Artillery Munitions that they have is one to ten, with the russians being able to fire ten times where the ukrainians are able to fire once. That makes it difficult to move forward. That on top of the fact that the russians have substantial defenses in the south of the country as well. The ukrainians are saying, things are tough for them. But they also say that on all battlefronts, they have the initiative. They are the ones pushing the russians. The russians right now only with defensive actions. Sounds like the counteroffensive is a bit more productive. Fred pleitgen, thank you very much. I want to bring in david sanger, a cnn political and National Security analyst as well as a white house National Security correspondent for the New York Times. Good morning. Good morning. As you know and as you heard from fred, ukraine is pleating f pleading for more. How do you think the u. S. And western powers would respond . Its not a new criticism. Its not unwarranted. As the war started, 19 months ago, President Biden was quite concerned that certain kinds of weapons would cross a red line for the russians and lead to an expansion of the war, either horizontally, elsewhere beyond ukraine, or vertically, and that is to say that he would begin to reach for Tactical Nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction. That concern has abated a little bit by 19 months of experience. Thats why the administration appears to be edging toward giving the ukrainians something that months ago they said they would never give them, which was the atacms, these longer range artillery that can be go deep behind russian lines. While i understand the ukrainian frustration here, you could imagine the alternative, which was to give them everything at the beginning, before they actually even knew what they needed, and hope that there wasnt a red line that we were crossing unknowingly. The other alternative is for ukraine to produce its own weapons and ammunition. President zelenskyy announced ukraine will host the Defense Industry forum with 21 countries participating to try to find ways to do just that. From a political and strategic standpoint, what are your thoughts . Thats a very good and important longrange goal, because over time, the whole idea here is to make ukraine capable enough that russia would never again attempt a broad attack to take the entire country. But you dont have a long range unless you have a shortterm. The shortterm urgency, as you heard before, is for that kind of ammunition. By the way, that applies to the russians as well. Theres a reason that kim jongun has been on this fourday Extravaganza Tour of russia. The russians are trying to get a steady supply of Artillery Shells as well. In fact, some of the earlier ukrainian shells came from south korea. Wouldnt be surprising if the russians reached to north korea. You will hear a lot about this in the coming week as president zelenskyy comes to the united nations, then comes to washington as well to make an appeal for this. He is clearly worried that there is some War Fatigue Setting in, not only in the United States but in europe. On that point about north korea and russia, that will be a subject of discussion as the u. N. Convenes this week. On the topic of biden and zelenskyy meeting at the white house for his third white house meeting of course, zelenskyy will be on capitol hill. What will you be watching for in those meetings . The big target for zelenskyy at this point is to try to shore up the Republican Party. The democrats are pretty much with biden on providing the ukrainians whatever it is the Administration Says they believe the ukrainians need. The republicans are deeply split. The top three candidates for the nomination have all on the republican side, the nomination for president , have all said that they would not give this level of support to ukraine. Zelenskyy has to be worried about what things look like after november of next year. The mainstream of the Party Remains committed. The mainstream of the Republican Party was for decades the core of the antisoviet, anticommunist and later skeptical of russia coalition. So zelenskyy has to try to make sure that that part of the party holds on. My suspicion is that the u. S. Will continue to offer support. But zelenskyy is going to need support, as you heard before, from the secretarygeneral of nato, they are going to need support for years and years to come. Were not set up for that right now. Im sure you have heard the variety of views from the republican president ial candidates on how the u. S. Should or should not be involved in the ukraine war. I would mimagine there would be trepidation on zelenskyys part watching and listening to the rhetoric, looking to 2024. Whoever becomes president , i mean, they could make or break ukraine. Do you think thats a correct assessment . Absolutely. There are three ways, as you and i have discussed before there are three ways the russians win this. The first is the ukrainians run out of ammunition. The second is that the europeans crack in their support. So far, they have held on. But there is a right Wing Movement in italy, elsewhere, that has long been admiring of putin. Then the third way is that if former President Trump or another candidate wins among the republicans who believes the United States should not been gauge be engaged in this conflict, it would be game over. Its the u. S. That has been whipping the support. Its not only u. S. Providing the money, but keeping gnato and others contributing to the effort. If they see the u. S. Isnt doing it, they will not do it either. 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