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against top democrats for leading the trump impeachment by kicking them off the house intelligence committee while ignoring george santos' campaign financial possible violations and false resume? we will have the latest tit for tat from capitol hill. good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. president biden is about to announce a major shift in his policy for arming ukraine. he is sending advanced u.s. tanks that the pentagon has been insisting cannot be properly maintained on the battlefield. what's changed? we see the president walking into the roosevelt room. >> 11 months sin...

homes of top current and former leaders. some blame the official, some blame the entire system. we'll dig into what is broken and how it might be fixed. and our exclusive reporting this hour on congresswoman marjorie taylor greene. could the conservative fire brand find her way on to the presidential ticket? she certainly thinks so. more on that in a moment. but we do start this hour with the major escalation in the support for ukraine and what it could mean for the war with russia. in just the last hour, president biden said the united states will send 31 abrams tanks to the bat...

Civilian contractor support can maintain these abrams. they're not classified. we could send one to russia rapped in a red bow. they couldn't manufacture one in ten years. a lot of this -- one battalion is inconsequential on this battlefield. they need an armored division in short order before the spring. we could do that in short order. ukrainian experienced tank crew can get fully qualified in 30 days. this is not complex machinery from an operator's perspective. again, there's a lot of diplomatic strange things going on. europe, with its massive economy, with its massive amount of military ...

That would prompt an audit. >> reporter: i'm sure you are right. joining us now is a congresswoman born in ukraine. your reaction to president biden's decision to send those abrams tanks to ukraine that president zelenskyy is wanting. it will take a while. >> thank you for having me. as i said before, it's a good and positive move. as always, it takes a while. we had this discussion months ago. it will take some training. it will take some equipment. it will take a few months more. it's a very serious war. the only way we can stop this crazy situation and escalation of this war and be more a...

The offense. the fighting we are seeing and the fighting that we would expect to see come spring is really reliant on what we call combined arms maneuver. a fancy way of saying, being able to fight effectively in open terrain, as you heard the president talk about. tanks are a key part of that. we never took tank off the table. we did speak honestly about some of the challenges that would come with abrams tanks. they are the most sophisticated in the world, as you noted. they require a pretty hefty supply chain. they will require some unique maintenance and operational requirements on the ukra...