defense one's kevin baron will join us next.ater on, patricia stinchfield will answer questions about measles outbreak and vaccinations. that will be later in the program. on our "newsmakers" program that you can see tomorrow. our guest was represented adam smith. i democratic from washington. he joins us to talk about a variety of things, one of them on whether or not that united states should arm ukrainian forces. [video clip] >> it seems like there's new momentum to supply weapons to the government in ukraine. that is something that the obama administration and the european allies have resisted for a while. fearing it could add fuel to the fire. where do you stand on this and where do you think it will lead? >> i think we should do it. i think we should give them better equipment to defend themselves. the concern here is -- it is clear that strategy that russia has employed. they will try to militarily engage in countries underneath the surface. it does not appear that they are actually engaged. they will use third parties br

kevin baron, kevin explain how formidable the jordan military is. amount of tanks and aircraft and how will that translate in king abdullah's decision to retaliate? >> jordan is a country that military outsizes the size of the population. the aircraft are flying ahead. and they are claim to the iraqi media 55 isis killed earlier today. but what i pointed out not the traditional heavy artillery and mechanicized weapon that you would expect for the arab states to do a gulf desert war. it is counsellor terrorism forces that could be the xha extra catalyst that the pentagon is hoping for. this goes back to at this time strategy of building partner capacity and it is how the pentagon trained up the colombias to be an exporter of security and they train the countries all the way up in new mexico and it was expected from jordan and they have trainingabilities there. >> kevin, there appears to be revulsion and anger and outrage in the muslim and arab world. a leading sunni iman calling for the islamic terrorist to suffer the same fate as the victims. do you

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