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Would you be okay with them having Tomahawk missiles and the threat that that would pose,

and the possible escalation it would pose? Because there was a time when you were very

much in favor of, you know, backing away from this situation in terms of our support of Ukraine.

Well, one of the things I've always said, Martha, is I wanted the Europeans to step up in a big way.

I wanted us, the United States, to stop shoveling money and weaponry to a conflict that was so far

away, when I felt like the Europeans, with all due respect for them, were not actually taking

their fair share of the burden. Because of the President's leadership, you now have the Europeans

buying weaponry from the United States as opposed to us giving it. And you asked this question

about Tomahawks. It's something the President's going to make the final determination on.

What the President is going to do is what's in the best interest of the United States of America.

That's the driving light between his foreign policy decisions, between his

defense policy decisions, and that will be the same heuristic that we apply to how we answer

this question about Tomahawks. I'll let the President speak to it, but I know that we're

having conversations this very minute about that issue.