On the Front Lines (w/ AMB Mark Brzezinski)
Skullduggery
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti
4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Face the Nation last Sunday gave the green light to a Polish proposal to send MiG fighter jets to Ukraine to help that country fight a relentless Russian invasion. But by the end of the week, the deal was off. President Biden vetoed the idea after US intelligence and Pentagon officials raised concerns that, among other factors, the introduction of the planes would provoke the Russians even further and lead to an escalation to the conflict. It was to be sure a bitter disappointment to the Ukrainian government who's president Volodymyr Zelensky has been literally pleading with the west for more firepower to save his country. We are joined by a man in the middle of the controversy and much else involving the Ukraine crisis, the new UN Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski.
GUEST:
- Amb. Mark Brzezinski (@AmbassadogTeddy), UN Ambassador to Poland
HOSTS:
- Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff), Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News
- Daniel Klaidman (@dklaidman), Editor in Chief, Yahoo News
RESOURCES:
- Photos of Ukrainian Refugees fleeing their home - Here.
- Yahoo News' Dylan Stableford's latest piece on President Zelensky - Here.
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| 0:00.0 | What more can the United States do here if, for instance, the Polish government, a NATO |
| 0:06.5 | member wants to send fighter jets? |
| 0:09.3 | Does that get a green light from the U.S.? |
| 0:11.4 | Or are you afraid that that will escalate tension? |
| 0:14.0 | No, that gets a green light. |
| 0:16.5 | In fact, we're talking with our Polish friends right now about what we might be able to do |
| 0:21.5 | to backfill their needs. |
| 0:23.4 | In fact, they choose to provide these fighter jets to the Ukrainians. |
| 0:28.1 | Like we do, how can we help to make sure that they get something to backfill the planes |
| 0:32.4 | that they're handing over to the Ukrainians? |
| 0:35.5 | That was Secretary of State Antony Blinken on face the nation last Sunday, giving the |
| 0:40.1 | green light to a Polish proposal to send mig fighter jets to Ukraine to help that country |
| 0:46.5 | fight a relentless Russian invasion. |
| 0:49.5 | But by the end of the week, the deal was dead. |
| 0:51.9 | President Biden vetoed the idea. |
| 0:54.0 | The U.S. intelligence and Pentagon officials raised concerns that, among other factors, |
| 0:58.7 | the introduction of the planes would provoke the Russians even further and lead to an escalation |
| 1:04.0 | of the conflict. |
| 1:05.4 | It was to be sure a bitter disappointment to the Ukrainian government, whose president, |
| 1:10.1 | Olemyr Zelensky, has been literally pleading with the West for more firepower to save his |
| 1:15.7 | country. |
| 1:16.7 | We'll talk to a man in the middle of that controversy, and much else involving the Ukrainian crisis, |
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