Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170120:11:53:00
I do support giving them the means not only to defend themselves but protect their families. it's very, very important that we do that. and i've been supportive of that measure for the last two years. i think it is something that we need to act on. >> why do you suspect we have not and done that, senator? >> it got bipartisan support in the senate armed services committee. >> why did the president oppose that? >> i think he feared it might escalate and i think he told people around him he wasn't willing to risk nuclear war for ukraine. >> he is doing things -- we were saying a year and a half ...