provide assistance but i would say that our assistance is increasing. there is discussion of the possibility of a u.s. presidential visit, of president biden coming and in fact congressman adam schiff mentioned that. is that under consideration right now? i don t have anything to announce on that at this time. understood. virtually every day there is increasing evidence of war crimes. we saw it in bucha but we see it in other cities. treatment of citizens and ukrainian prisoners of war. what is the u.s. embassy s role in terms of supporting the investigation? i know it s the u.s. position that ukrainian officials and organizations take the lead on this but is the u.s. able to help to ensure that those responsible for war crimes are
voting how they feel. it s not like the days it used to be. if you look back through history you might say a president needs an approval of 60% or greater. it might only be 50%. 41 to 50% is difficult. there are possibilities for democrats but at this point it looks pretty good for republicans. it s a similar range where trump was, like around the 40. yeah. we ll save time for questions they re doing very well. the economy is the top of mind issue for pretty much every american these days, inflation as we just discussed, rising traits and the uncertainty which comes with the war in ukraine all helping to fuel concerns about a possible recession. joining me now is katherine, washington post opinion common
consequences? that s certainly our intention is to help the ukrainians do the sorts of investigations that would hold them responsible and providing the expertise and the outside support through osce and other organizations to take on the whom breadth of those who committed war crimes, from the very top down to the generals who are making the calls on the ground. and the top includes the russian president perhaps? if that s where the evidence leads, yes. ambassador, acting ambassador to ukraine, welcome back, kristina kvien. thanks for joining us this morning. thank you so much. still to come here, we re going to take a look at the economy. how much could it impact voter turnout in the mid terms in november and is there anything president biden can do about
provocation. a consistent request, demand appeal from president zelenskyy and others is that thank you for the aid you have sent so far, washington, united states of america, burrt we need more ande need it quickly. i wonder do you get those same appeals? sure. i talk to ukrainians every day as do officials back in washington and we do take our direction in terms of what we can provide from them. so we listen to all their requests and we do our best to meet what we can. just to note that we are significantly increasing what we re providing right now. there have been we have given howitzers recently, which are quite powerful weapons. and over half what we have told ukraine we would give them are already in the country. and president biden now has asked for an additional $33 billion from congress to help support ukraine. so not only will we continue to
first group is eager to go back. if someone had reservations, we would not force anyone to go. russia is increasingly portraying this not as just a special military operation in ukraine but with a conflict with the west, with nato. it s come as u.s. officials have also discussed the need to weaken russia so it can t do the same to other countries as it s done to ukraine. what are the dangers of this conflict escalating because the borders of ukraine? well, president biden has made clear that if russia takes one step over the line into a nato country, that we will defend as we are obliged to do under the nateo treaty. we meantime are helping ukraine to fight this war with russia, that russia has caused out of its own choice and with no