the white house communications director, inside the west wing, hoping to finalize president biden's statement, pending the approval of the president, who was we understand monitoring all of this, communicating his team from the residence. that statement hit our inboxes from the president about 10:26 p.m. and an hour later, a white house official told the president the president had been briefed by secretary of state blinken, defense secretary austin and president biden was talking to zelenskyy and he asked world leaders to speak out clearly against putin. we are waiting to hear at some point what we are expecting from the u.k. prime minister. and i know it is a long night and a long morning and a long day for the white house. talk to me about when you expect to see president biden next and what you're hearing from the sources you've been talking, to i know as this has developed. >> look, hallie, the base thing