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Three baltic countries are calling on ukraine's allies to provide air capabilities to deter russian air force. this news stops short of another proposal you've heard, a no-fly zone, or even a limited no-fly zone. we are joined by one of those people who signed the most recent letter. army navy general patton is on one of the navy forces in europe. thank you for joining us this morning. you're well aware of the debate of how to help more, in effect, and a no-fly zone rejected by u.s. officials because of the prospect of putting u.s. or nato war planes head to head with russian war planes and pe...

Has not been an amphibious assault from the black sea fleet. the soviet forces are not working together in an integrated fashion the way the u.s. does routinely with nato. it's just been unbelievable to watch this. >> so as we are seeing those deficiencies, we are also seeing putin ramp up the brutality specifically targeting civilians. does that then change the calculus for how the u.s. and allies militarily support ukraine's fight? >> yes, i think it does. some good things are being done. some good weapons, defensive weapons are being provided to ukrainians. we need to get at those artillery...

But general nelly said f-16 to 1:30, drones, watch every street all the time. and right now, they are aircrew up in that region using their sensors and they can see a lot and they have that right. because they have ready to go. yes, we have good can americanize on that scene right now. feel and even post-august 31st? >> they can still be there through the drowns and i would like to see martha counterterrorism development having stayed. definitely a loss on the ground. but do not forget that our air capabilities are outstanding at this point and that stays in place. >> trace: still the best in ...

Adviser face in the context of the end of a 20-year war. those blackhawks were not gimp to the taliban. they were given to the afghan national security forces to defend themselves at the specific request of president ghani who came to the oval office and asked for air capabilities. the president had a choice. he could not give it to them with the risk it could fall into the taliban's hands eventually. or he could give it for them to defend their country. both of those options had risks. he had to choose. he made a choice. from that particular narrow example to a much wider range of examples th...

People this morning and bring them to ambulances that brings them then to hospitals. they need to be flying in the air to do that and this obviously will serving some challenges for their air capabilities. we spoke to the u.s. coast guard during their mission early this morning. listen. >> we've seen everything from crush injuries, debris falling on people, compound fractures, head trauma. we've seen the gamut trying to get to as many people as we can to get them to higher-level care. >> not only is the u.s. coast guard using choppers to bring in the wounded to port-au-prince and hospitals tha...