right after he left the white house schultz agreed to sit down for an exclusive interview with me. chancellor schultz, pleasure to have you on, sir. thank you for having me. so the leader of the german opposition says today why is olaf schultz in washington? what is he doing there? i thought i d give you a chance to respond to him. i already told the parliament what i am doing here. i am talking to the president and this is not the first talk. i was here one year ago and we met quite often and we have a lot of phone calls and we have conferences when we speak together and this is part of a permanent dialogue of the two nations of the president and me and it is also a sign of a very good friendship and cooperation of the two countries. how does joe biden strike you as a leader. you met many leaders all over the world. what strikes you about biden?
any moment now we expect to see president biden welcome one of america s strongest nato allies to the white house. the meeting is russia s invasion of ukraine is just beyond the one-year mark. the pentagon has announced another $400 million aid package for kyiv. phil mattingly is live. we ll start with you and what you know about the president s meeting with chancellor schultz. it s a critical meeting and sounds like something with of meeting when it pertains to this war with the allies and alliance that s been together. it stead very fast. there is probably no more critical leader at this point than chancellor schultz. this is a relationship. the two leaders get along quite
russia. earlier, chancellor schultz confirmed that germany is sending 14 leopard two tanks to ukraine. he hesitated making the decision for fear it could drag germany closer to conflict with russia. it also clears the way for other european countries to send some of their own german-made leopard tanks. experts believe russia needs roughly 100. president zelenskyy thanked his allies for their pledges and called the decision an important step on the path to victory. joining me now is retired admiral, former nato supreme allied commander. always great to have you, admiral. can you just give us a sense of the importance of this? i m going to put up on the screen the leopard two tanks that european and nato countries are sending. these are the countries sending them. austria, 56, canada, 82. czech republic. turkey s sending 316.
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today. and the news therefore coming to us in the last hour or so that poland is going to request that permission from germany to send its leopard 2 tanks to ukraine. is that a formality, do you think, in terms of germany saying, yes, that is fine, export the tanks?- of germany saying, yes, that is fine, export the tanks? well, first of all, fine, export the tanks? well, first of all. good fine, export the tanks? well, first of all, good morning. fine, export the tanks? well, first of all, good morning. no, - fine, export the tanks? well, first of all, good morning. no, i- fine, export the tanks? well, first of all, good morning. no, i don tl of all, good morning. no, i don t think it is a formality. it is my understanding that the polish government, as well as other european governance, have informally approached german authorities in past months, weeks, inquiring about green lighting the delivery of leopard 2 tanks. they have not received a positive response. so, there is a princ