kay bailey hutchison, former us _ that. kay bailey hutchison, former us representative l that. news coming up at the top of the hour right here on bbc news. hello. we had a sunny start to the week, but tuesday is going to be very different for many of us. extensive cloud, outbreaks of rain and drizzle, but it is going to be relatively mild, and indeed this is the outlook for the next few days. now, let's have a look at the big picture across our neck of the woods. weather systems gently streaming in from the southwest and the jet stream is generally just to the south of us. so the air hasn't been all that mild over the uk. but in the next few days we will see these warmer air masses streaming in almost from the subtropics. so temperatures are expected to rise, of course, not to subtropical values, but it will be milder. anyway, here's the early morning forecast, then. some wintry showers in scotland, pretty chilly as well, with a touch of frost in the highlands. and then the further south you are, the less cold it'll be in the morning. so around, say five or six degrees celsius

for more on this, i spoke with former us permanent representative to nato, kay bailey hutchison.s by former president donald trump essentially suggesting he would let russia do whatever they want to nato members who do not meet the spending guidelines. what do you make of what he said and how seriously do you think nato members should take the comments? well, i'm troubled by that kind of language, of course, and i think most people here are. first, let me say that congress is very much pro—nato and pro—ukraine help. congress understands that while there are a lot of political factors that are in the cross hairs but i do believe our european allies should know that we understand the commitments of nato and america as being the leader of nato, and we will continue to do that. there will be a lot of rhetoric and a lot of talk, but you have to look at what it's actually done and what it has done is increase the support for nato and increase the support for ukraine. ambassador, i have to ask you, because i recently saw that you met with jens stoltenberg, the head of the nato alliance

[applause] >> latest engineman, please welcome senators bill nelson and kay bailey hutchinson. [applause] ms. hutchisone. i want to add a couple of things for our texas audience and i am so happy all of you are here, to just do the amendment to what bill said about the kennedy speech at rice university, because what he said in full was why do we want to send men into space? why play texas? [laughter] not because it is easy, because it is hard. [laughter] that's the quote that we all know. [laughter] i want to say before we start that bill and i are soul brothers. when he was the senator from florida and i was the senator from texas, we bonded over nasa. there were a lot of people that said it is time for us to stop the shuttles, and -- end the shuttles, we should go full private and end nasa. that's where we were. bill and i felt it was important to have the private sector for the investment and creativity, but we knew the bases had to be nasa. it had to be the people who had built the first space stations and the people who knew that background to work with the private sector and that would be the bes

in 2003 -- i don't know where i've got it at -- i had an amendment with senator collins, kay bailey hutchison and a couple of others to make the reconstruction of iraq, in 2003, a loan, not a grant. pass back when you can, get back on your feet. get your oil industry up and running and try to pass back within reason as much as you can. that was defeated by a single vote. here's where i think the american people are at. very much supportive of israel. very much understanding, i think of the consequences of failure in ukraine. there is an element in my caucus that wants to pull the plug on ukraine. these are pretty much many of the same people who wanted to pull the plug on afghanistan. my friend rand paul, i don't know where his statement is. he's been consistent, you've got to give him that. wanted to pull out of everywhere, still does. you may be tired of fighting islam, they're not tired of fighting you. our border is our last line of defense. when you pull out of afghanistan after the passage of time and expect it all to turn out well, you missed what happened in 2011 in iraq. and the reas