of bucha, the site of that horrific massacre of innocent civilians. after seeing the devastation the european commission president provided an update on ukraine s application to join the alliance. in this envelope, dear volodymyr, there is an important step towards eu membership. the questionnaire that is in here is the basis for our discussion in the coming weeks. it is where your path towards europe and the european union begins. these are questions that then formulate the opinion of the european union as a recommendation to the counsel. it will be not as usual a matter of years to form this opinion, but i think a matter of weeks. you know that is, richard haass, again i actually got chills watching that clip again because i know how much the
alienated. that kind of anger did not does no longer find expression in these centrist parties, especially when you have a guy like macron who has been very agile and very adept at trying to occupy the whole center from the center right to the center left. he said during the campaign to move forward you have to walk, and to walk you need a right leg and a left leg. it is a clever phrase. it is the kind of clever, clever phrase that tends to annoy a lot of his opponents, but, anyway, he has been very adaptive. all of that created this implosion. jonathan lemire, what s the white house perspective? they must be watching this. watching with great concern. if le pen were to win, that would, first of all, change europe as we know it and the european union could collapse. it could be frexit at brexit. it could change the dynamics of
it. you didn t get what you want. you didn t get kyiv. in fact, we are walking the streets of kyiv because you failed. as you said, joe, the president and the vice president of the eu s executive branch met with president zelenskyy in the country s capital on friday. from there the group made the trip to the kyiv suburb of bucha, the site of the horrific massacre of innocent civilians. and after seeing the devastation, the european commission president provided an update on ukraine s application to join the group. in this envelope, dear flod volodymyr, there is an important step toward eu membership. the questionnaire that is in here is the basis for our discussion in the coming weeks. it is where your path toward europe and the european union begin goes. these are questions that then
so, clint, i just you know, i look at the maps and i have been watching you at the map since the war began. it is just fascinating to see the blue in kyiv and to the north. we saw what happened this weekend, in part because of what the map is looking like. let s talk about where the war is as we start the new week, what we expect from the russians and how the ukrainians are, i suspect, going to once again respond in a way that frustrates vladimir putin. yeah, joe. really three big updates but i think some interesting things to look at is even here in the north, i will start off on kyiv. this is where you saw the russian withdrawal. you now see european leaders showing up but you have pockets where the ukrainians actually cut off the russians from russia. it is pretty remarkable to think the degree to which the russians abandoned their own soldiers, even left their own dead behind. coming from the u.s. military, you never leave a fallen ranger. this is incredible to watch because it
viewers who may not understand the historical significance of this, the eu talking about fast membership. you know, in the cold war you had berlin. berlin was on the razor s edge of world war iii because of the divide through the center of berlin. here we ve had ukraine in this really second cold war. we didn t realize vladimir putin was fighting it but he was fighting it, and as richard said, his entire his attacks in 2014, his attacks this year had one purpose and that purpose was to stop ukraine from moving west, stop ukraine from becoming a european, modern, capitalistic, free, democratic country. the fact that the eu came in this past weekend and said, here is the application, it is not going to take years, it is going to take weeks, you will be a member of the eu, hard to overstate the significance of that. vladimir putin, as we have said