EXCERPT:
BIDEN: “Two things, Fareed. I know it’s a very difficult decision on my part. And by the way, I discussed this with our allies and discussed this with our friends up on the Hill, and we are in a situation where Ukraine continues to be brutally attacked across the board by munitions, by these cluster munitions that are — have dud rates that are very low — I mean, very high, that are a danger to civilians. Number one. Number two, the Ukrainians are running out of ammunitions. The ammunition, they call them, 155 millimeter weapons. This is a war relating to munitions. And they are running out of that ammunition, and we are low on it. And so what I finally did and we took the recommendation of the Defense Department to not permanently, but to allow for this transition period where we have more 155 weapons that emit these shells for Ukrainians to provide them with something that has a very low dud rate. It’s — I think it is 150, which is the least likely to be blown. And it’s not used in civilian areas.”