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the president promises to send more weapons to Ukraine and threatens Russia with sanctions if no peace deal is made.

The former administrator of FEMA discusses the praise and criticism of the federal government's response to the deadly floods in Texas.

And how a provision in the Republicans' mega bill could accelerate the shift toward private education.

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Today in Washington, President Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Ruta announced they

would give Ukraine new American weapons bought by European allies.

And President Trump threatened massive new sanctions on Russia if there is no ceasefire established by early September. As Nick Schiffen reports,

it was a remarkable turnaround for a president who only months ago blamed Ukraine for the war

and ridiculed its president.

As eastern Ukraine burned after another Russian attack, President Trump embraced Ukraine's and

Europe's defense.

We are going to be sending them weapons and they're going to be paying for them.

Ukraine has relied on tens of billions of dollars of American weapons.

But until today, the Trump administration had not authorized any new shipments.

Now, Europe will send its own U.S. made weapons to Ukraine, including Patriot Air Defense, and then buy new U.S.

weapons to backfill their own stocks.

NATO Secretary General Mark Ruta.

It will mean that Ukraine can get his hands on really massive numbers of military

equipment, both for air defense, but also missiles, ammunition, etc., etc.

And the president who earlier this year publicly embarrassed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

You don't have the cars. You're buried there. You're people had died.

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