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Fly them. also less risk of them potentially posing a greater security risk if they fall into russian hands. but the united states has a limited supply of those. most of our mi-17s come from just having been leftover from the afghanistan war, basically. it is not clear exactly what was going to be drawn from or what the stores were they were going to use. to use c-drones and other sorts of drones, we also reported the ukrainian ambassador to the united states had direct conversations with the head of a firm that produces predator and repo drones. drones have been critical for helping ukraine g...

Around this $750 million package. it seemed the centerpieces of it were really going to be the mi-17 helicopters, attack helicopters, that can let you take out certain russian targets. c-drones. overnight, a pentagon official came out and said, actually, no, there's not going to be mi-17s as part of the package. we had to update our reporting. so if you look at the stuff being shared in government circles, it gives you a sense of what they think the threats are likely going to be. they'll have to face it. also, a sense of, you know, the skiddishness about exactly what we're going to send and p...

>> bret: president biden is announcing another $800 million in military assistance to ukraine. this comes following a remote meeting with ukraine's president today. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich joins us from the north lawn with details. good evening, jacqui. >> good evening to you, bret there was some back and forth this morning about whether the u.s. was, in fact, going to include mi-17 helicopters as part of his new aid package. yesterday u.s. officials told congress they would be sending them to ukraine. this morning pentagon officials said they were not part of the package. th...

How many more mariupol maternity wards do we want to see blown up or the bucha atrocities that occurred there. so, the administration is not going all in on providing assistance ukraine needs. they saw they retracted the plans for the mi-17 helicopters. >> john: you are saying if you talk the talk, walk the walk as well. here is the helicopter, mostly a transport helicopter, it can be outfitted as air attack, and initially the pentagon said we will get them there and now no. l>> we don't know why. i've been transported in those helicopters, especially in a war zone. is it a supply issue? the r...

Have been begging for. >> just in the last few minutes we are getting new details from the pentagon about just what is in that $800 million worth of aid. it will include 11 mi-17 helicopters. those are able to be armed with weapons to take out russian tanks. the u.s. will provide 500 javelin anti-tank missiles, 40,000 rounds of artillery, 300 switchblades which are kamikaze drones, unmanned vessels like drone ships to attack russian assets as well as 200 m-113 armored personnel carrier, so this is heavy stuff we are providing to the ukrainians. president biden saying in a statement today that ...