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Reporting. thank you. now the ukraine, and tonight the pentagon confirming american-made cluster mu mission in additions are now being used on the battlefield there. james longman in ukraine. >> reporter: tonight, the pentagon confirming ukraine is using u.s. cluster munitions for the first time on the battlefield against entrenched russian forces. the controversial weapons rain -- and more weaponry is available for deployment. this is the u.s. made bradley. it's a piece of equipment that ukraine values really, really highly in this counter-offensive, because it keeps its men safe whilst bei...

Going live. so not too many people knew about it. and it's something, of course, that was ksh came down from the highest levels. >> did you get a sense of how they personally feel about it, given that this has been their mission for 12 years now? >> well, it's hard to get to them about how they personally feel, because they're in the military. so what they'll tell you is, the president of the united states wants to close guantanamo bay, they want to do what the president wants to do, but until that is possible, day will do their job, which is keeping these men safe, keeping them protected, and...

Hours now. is it getting more and more dangerous for the firefighters every minute this is not resolved? >> normally the longer it goes, the safer it is based in this period of time. it means the situation is stable and whatever was going on in the mind of the hostagetaker. the gives the authorities time to assess and try to establish and enhance the communications with them and find out what's behind this. what are the motivations and continue to try to keep these men safe. >> david mattingly, what is your understanding? i know this may be very unclear at this point. but as to this man, what ...

It kept my men safe. they took it to an investigative hearing. i continue to fight for men and women in uniform. >> how concerned are you that the super committee that has 10 days to come up with some type of agreement cutting over $1 trillion from the budget as well as other reforms, that they're not going to reach that budget and it's going to be some automatic massive cuts to defense? >> well, i'm very concerned. what we saw last week was members on the house and the senate g.o.p. side were able to show them that you can get revenues, not by raising taxes but just by simply lowering rates a...