Rep. Dan Crenshaw calls for restoration of Ukraine's SpaceX satellite access
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[0:01] Welcome back to the takeout. Lawmakers
[0:02] on both sides of the aisle, even in this
[0:04] fraught political time, are calling for
[0:06] the full restoration of Ukraine's access
[0:09] to Starlink. That's satellite provided
[0:11] internet service. There's also something
[0:13] called Star Shield. We'll get into that
[0:14] in a second. Among those voicing that
[0:18] Texas Republican Dan Krenshaw, he writes
[0:21] in the Washington Post, quote, Elon Musk
[0:24] said last week that Starlink can be used
[0:26] only for defensive activities. That's a
[0:28] reasonable policy for a commercial
[0:30] company. But wouldn't targeting Russian
[0:32] ballistic missile sites that are killing
[0:34] Ukrainians qualify as defensive? That's
[0:37] a pretty good question. Dan Krenshaw is
[0:39] here. I believe you have an answer to
[0:41] that, Congressman. What is the answer?
[0:44] >> Uh, look, look, the answer is save lives
[0:46] and save energy infrastructure that I
[0:49] thought we wanted to save uh by allowing
[0:52] Ukrainians to use the drones that
[0:53] they've they've built the capacity to
[0:55] produce and manufacture. They've created
[0:57] technology. They have innovated their
[0:59] way um in amazing ways that we never
[1:02] expected uh to defend themselves from
[1:05] Russia's attacks. And they just need a
[1:08] navigation tool to get those drones t