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I do want to point out key reaction coming off the house floor from kevin mccarthy, the house republican leader, calling annie caught up with them. he supports ukraine but doesn't support a blank check. that's similar to what he's saying? >> nobody is suggesting -- >> exactly. what does that mean going forward? that will be the big question for ukraine and for their future and the republican party. >> nobody has suggested that there be a plank check for ukraine. ambassador taylor, one of the things -- first let me say we heard people yelling something from the gallery over seeing the house and...

In. do you think that zelenskyy changed any minds from the discrepancy continues? >> i think what he did was remind people that democracy is not a sure thing, right? he's standing there in the house of representatives making this case to republicans and, you know, i felt mccarthy's comments were interesting that manu brought up. he didn't want to give them a plank check. it's a little open-ended. it doesn't mean he doesn't want to write them any check. we have to wait and see in a republican conference how he can manage the small faction of people who say, we will not stand for giving ukraine ...

Checkbook necessarily. ambassador volker, are we closer to a semblance of an end to this war? >> well, first off, let's dive in on the money for a second because the administration's request was $38 billion to congress for additional support for ukraine and it was congress on a bipartisan basis, republicans and democrats who increased that to 45 billion for ukraine because they saw the rate at which we are using those resources already. and i think it's appropriate that there not be a plank check for ukraine and, in fact, there is not. there is a lot of accountability and transparency so i thi...

Representatives republicans we will not write a plank check for $4 billion but it will be more targeted through the end of the fiscal year. also, on the policy side among the working group we are looking at changing the 2008 law and my border security bill that passed out of my committee and putting that as a provision so, finally, question get this done. >> how likely is it there will be action on this issue soon? >> we have to act soon the it is a crisis that demands action, a call for action, and it is a tragic human crisis at the border, not like i have seen before. we need to do that best...

The behest of the germans and france, want to keep this going. and most of the ones, the members don't want to keep it going? >>guest: well, that's right. but what has happened through the middle of all of this, chancellor merkel has now become the dominant figure and she is in a very difficult situation because the germans are very unhappy signing a plank check to depress and she now is rather taking charge of the whole of the european situation so we now have a german-dominated europe. the very thing we were told the european project would stop, the very thing that twice in the 20th century ...