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welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king in washington. thank you for sharing a remarkable news day with us. we begin with a brazen spy drama. straight to the pentagon, the briefing on a chinese balloon over montana. >> conducting press briefings in our temporary press briefing room while other primary location undergoes technical renovations and upgrades. we greatly appreciate your patience and flexibility as we work to install some long, overdue upgrades to the pentagon press briefing room. because we do not have internet or phone capability in this area of the pentagon for a va...

thing. the pentagon briefing has begun, let's go there. >> the pentagon for a variety of reasons our normal call-in options will not be available, for those that have had to call in, we apologize. we will get it up as quickly as possible for reporting purposes and answer questions from the dod press desk. moving forward we'll look at ways to improve briefing operations and expect regular press briefings will resume in the press briefing room in middle to late may. we appreciate your patience and extend our thanks to department of air force for using airmen's hall for temporary briefi...

New enhanced defense cooperation agreement locations, and both secretary austin and secretary gulvez noted a key pillar of alliance cooperation and supports combined training exercises and interoperability. separately the department of defense announced today a significant new package of security assistance for ukraine. this includes the authorization of a presidential draw down of security assistance, valued at up to $425 million, as well as $1.75 billion in ukraine security assistance initiative funds. the presidential draw down is the 31st such draw down of equipment from d.o.d. inventories...

Of security assistance valued at $25 million and 1.75 billion in ukraine security assistance initiative funds. presidential drawdown is 31st drawdown of equipment for ukraine. in total, the u.s. committed $32 billion in security assi assistantance to ukraine and 29.3 billion since russia unprovoked and illegal invasion one year ago this month. today announcement includes air defense capabilities to help ukraine defend their people and armored vehicles and more equipment ukraine is using to effectively javelin anti-tank missile, ammunition and long-range rocket for u.s. provided high mars. addi...