passing urgently needed national security legislation that i have thought for months to secure. and then he goes on to say the senate needs to quickly send this to his desk. now, of course, to remind viewers, this was something the president asked for last october, and he actually addressed the nation, making the point that it wasn't just about providing help to an ally abroad but also that this was in the national security interests for the united states and important not to cede any ground to russia. and that has been the drumbeat from us officials, including as we saw, some losses on the battlefield in ukraine where us officials put that squarely at the feet of republicans and congress saying that not sending that aid to ukraine was resulted teeing in some of these losses. so clearly this has been urgent. it has been necessary. we also got that stark warning from the cia director burns this week where he said, ukraine could lose the war by the end of the year if they didn't get the funding, will now the president is a plotting that they can, of course, white house officials were in touch with members of congress and their staff over the course of the last few days, especially today on saturday we're