House Intel Chair: Arm Ukrainian Army

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., confers with a colleague after a closed-door meeting with fellow Republicans as the House of Representatives works into the night to pass a bill to fund the... House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., confers with a colleague after a closed-door meeting with fellow Republicans as the House of Representatives works into the night to pass a bill to fund the government, at the Capitol in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013. Locked in a deepening struggle with President Barack Obama, House Republicans on Saturday demanded a one-year delay in major parts of the nation's new health care law and permanent repeal of a tax on medical devices as the price for preventing a partial government shutdown threatened for early Tuesday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) MORE LESS
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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-MI) on Sunday said the U.S. should send small arms and radio equipment to the Ukrainian army in case Russian forces invade the eastern portion of the country.

“There are things that we can do that I think we’re not doing. I don’t think the rhetoric (from Obama administration officials) matches the reality on the ground,” he said on NBC’s “Meet The Press.”

Rogers said the arms would be intended for Ukrainians to “protect and defend themselves. And I think that sends a very clear message.”

Russian troops and armored vehicles were spotted massing along Ukraine’s eastern border earlier this month.

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