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Good to be with you. Thank you, Shannon.

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Absolutely. We were in Vienna. There was meetings of the OSCE, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's parliamentary assembly. We met with many delegations including the Ukrainians who were there in the city, not in the venue hall because of the Russian presence.

But we had an opportunity to show unity in support of Ukraine, to make clear that Russia -- this is Russia's war of aggression.

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I'm with the 68 percent. I do think China is a major threat against the United States.

Look, they're encouraging this war by working with Russia, now perhaps providing additional weapons for Russia to be able to pursue this war of aggression. This is an attack on the sovereignty of the democratic state. There's no question that Ukraine is the front line, but Russia will not stop there.

And China is assisting that, so China is a major threat against the United States.

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Well, China needs to know there will be consequences. So, we've isolated Russia economically. We can do the same thing in regards to sanctions against China.

China needs to understand they need to be on the right side of history here. And an attack on the sovereignty of an independent state, what Russia has done as a war of aggression and China should be with us in the overwhelming majority of the world to speak out.

The vote in the United States Security Council -- General Assembly indicated the wide understanding of who is responsible for this war. China sat on the sidelines on that vote. That was wrong. But clearly, they should be on the right side of history.

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You can't sit on the sidelines. You got to pick a side here and the one side is right, one side as wrong. Russia is wrong.

So, if you're assisting Russia, you are assisting an aggressor who is trying to invade the sovereignty of an independent state and your country could be next. So join us in standing up against this attack on sovereignty.

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I think President Biden has shown not only global leadership for the United States. I saw that at this meeting where the U.S. and President Biden were so respected, his visit to Kyiv, his address in Warsaw. It really reunited the free world.

And domestically, I think the ability to pass up a major agenda during the first two years shows that he knows how to handle our domestic agenda, rebuild our infrastructure, deal with the CHIPS and Science bill, to take on China as international competitor, to deal with climate change.

I think his leadership has been very valuable for our country and I think he will be shown historically to have been a very effective president.

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I think the challenges of typical American families has high -- there's high prices. We have to deal with that. The reality that it's difficult to make ends meet.

I think President Biden understands. He's clearly addressed inflation. We've reduced inflation in this country, but I think it's difficult today for a family and that's reflected in some of the popular polls.

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Let me tell you, Russia is depleting its supplies. It's having a challenge supplying their troops with the necessary equipment to pursue this war of aggression.

We clearly have been extremely helpful to Ukraine. They have acknowledged that. It's not just the United States. It's really been our coalition.

Yes, we need to replenish the equipment and make more sophisticated equipment available. We need to bring this war to an end with Ukraine's victory and that means supplying them with the equipment they need to successfully defend their sovereignty.

It's going to be a challenge, make no mistake about it, but we've had coordination on the supply chains and we've been very effective in supplying it. There's a limit as to what Ukrainians can use, but we have to make sure they have everything they need.

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We have what we need to defend ourselves. We are continuing to replenish what we need. We're not going to go below a critical level in order to defend our national security.

But make no mistake about it: our national security is on the front line in Ukraine today. It's in the United States' interest to make sure that Ukraine wins this war. So our investments here are to help us defend our own country.

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Well, we do believe that every NATO should spend at least 2 percent on defense and we have a game plan to make that a reality and we've seen tremendous progress on our NATO allies. What we need to do, of course, we have Sweden and Finland. We need to expand NATO to include those two countries. We're in the process of doing that.

We want our European allies to do their fair share and they are moving in the right direction.

But make no mistake about it: Ukraine needs our help now. We have to supply the help now because it's a critical moment in the battle.

We don't want this to be a long campaign. We want to win is quickly as possible. We want to help Ukraine achieve those objects.

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Shannon, it's a great question. We have to deal with the budget realities and we have to come together, Democrats and Republicans. We have, as you know, the House is controlled by Republicans. The Senate, us (ph) Democrats.

We've got come together for the budget plan for our country. National security has to be a priority. The amount of resources were putting into Ukraine will come back to benefit us in the long run.

So we really need to make sure they have everything they need to win this campaign. That's the immediate issue is to make sure Ukraine wins this war. But we also have to make sure that we stay strong in our national defense and our domestic priorities are also funded and do it in a responsible way that does not add to the deficits of this country, recognizing it's not fair for our children and grandchildren.

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Thank you.

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