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Arsenal with lloyd austin getting two to three briefings a week. i have been told by u.s. military officials the u.s. has not assessed any new or unusual movements of russian nuclear forces. as the white house scrambles to get more weapons to ukraine as quickly as possible, the u.s. is set to announce another big weapons package. $800 million in weapons aid, following $800 million in weapons aid justify a few days ago. john voss is here with me in lviv. john, i want to start with the situation in mariupol. desperate pleas from inside that steel plant there. >> yeah. >> concerns we saw the ukra...

It could. it could also have unintended consequences for russia. the more they kill thousands of innocent people, the greater the incentive will be for the west, not just the united states, but for the west to take more aggressive action against the russians. we'll have to wait and see fp i don't think that will inhibit the united states from doing what it's doing. >> the first flight of this $800 million of this weapons aid should be there by tomorrow. so far, the u.s. has promised or pledged or provided $3 billion in military aid for 7 weeks of this war .

The international community, the united states, uk, they're sending us javelins, they're sending singers so we can fight in the air. we can fight with the tanks. but if we want to protect the civilian population and putin is targeting the civilian population now so we panic, so we run. >> i want to understand, helene. i imagine we have the ability to send helmets, bulletproof vests and guns. tell me what your understanding is from u.s. military about the challenges of getting things into the ukrainians. >> it's challenging but we're still getting stuff in. there's still weapons convoys that ar...

Really painful for russia if they proceed. not just when it comes to sanctions, but in terms of russian lives. so i think the message has to be repeated to somehow get through to vladimir putin, because nobody really knows who he listens to or how many people he really sees regularly. >> general, today the mayor of kyiv at the security conference in munich asked the u.s., asked germany for more assistance. in addition to the $650 million in weapons aid from the u.s. already, he said that we need, right now, defense weapons. should there be more deployment of resources to ukraine and what shoul...

Chinese may be conflicted. they want to cash in on this situation. anything that upsets the u.s. dominated war and order and the economic order, the chinese life, but this is hurting their economy. there's some signs that the chinese might be pushing the russians for the diplomatic settlement. i understand they're calling it a war which they weren't before. we need to press the chinese hard and threaten them with sanks if they are in cahoots with the russians on this invasion. >> "wall street journal" has some polling out. one of the questions they asked. which actions would you favor u.s. hel...