This is the Tom Hartman Program.

Welcome back to our program on the line with us, our buddy Phil Hittner in Key of Ukraine.

He's the veteran war correspondent whose video blog

you can find over on YouTube just plug in his name Philip In't or pH I.

I. T. N E R. Itner Philip is his Twitter handle and Phil welcome back to the program

how's everything going in Ukraine right now? Well a couple of rays of hope and

good news most notably the European Union, has circumvented Victor Orbon, and his obstructionist attempts

at stopping funding and have approved $55 billion worth of aid to Ukraine.

This is a substantial amount of money.

So that is good news.

And it's also good news that they've sidelined Orbon.

I mean, they clearly, we've talked about this.

I mean, they took him to task and they said, you know, if you continue to obstruct,

we will take action, whether it's limiting Hungary's vote in the

European Parliament or whether or not we're going to you know take economic

action against you whatever it was

Victor Orbonne he he stood down and so we're getting a lot of money

and so last time he... I only hope America will do too. Yeah, go ahead. I agree.

Last time Orbán, the last vote, which was a couple of weeks ago, Orban just left the room

so that they could get on with a vote without Hungary saying no. What happened this time?

What are the details?

Well, again, whatever it was that they told him they would do.

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