problem will be determined by what the president himself says later today. on the one hand, there s this strategic of keeping them guessing, but if you have the president and staff saying different things at different times, this could get messy. mike, when he gets back, it will still be tuesday. the wonders of modern time zone air travel. the white house has got a ton on their plate when they get back. i know they are busy with the foreign policy, but how is the white house looking ahead to all those domestic challenges that will still be on their plet when the president touches back down state side? up until about 2:00 local time here on monday, it was interesting the degree to which this trip had otherwise bye-bye defined it was largely about
extreme, it just becomes ridiculous. looks like you re elevating trauma on another scale. let s talk about what s taking place state side in the capitol. the white house correspondents dinner which is scheduled for tonight. dr. fauci isn t going. the vice president tested positive for covid, but we know the president of the united states will be there. he s the main event, right? we re told he will be there only about 90 minutes. he won t be there for the dinner. he will be wearing a mask when he s not speaking. does that formula seem cautious enough in your view? large events are challenging and the president of the united states has to make a determination. what i think it s important to notice there is that it s not all or none. i m not going to attend or just i m going to attend and let it all happen. i think some degree of compromise makes sense for the president. wearing a mask for part of the time is better than zero and limiting your exposure. in terms of just the overall
he actually wanted victory long prior to this, it did not happen. and so the significance of may 9 is indicative of what he viewed about ukraine in the beginning which is much of this country, this entire country, its people, are not sovereign, they don t even have their own country. and so there is always did this kind of nostalgia for ukraine as being a hope last of russia. so bringing forth in victory particularly in mariupol would be a way for putin to say that he has victory even though he s lost roughly 20,000 soldiers in the field. and good to see you back state side, so happy to see you back and safe. one more question, because you were on the ground for so long, i m curious, how do you think this all ends? first of all, as far as how
to explain this military build-up. russia calling it a p.r. stunl. okay. thank you so much for that. so back state side, new reaction to president biden s vow to replace supreme court justice steven breyer. so what are you hearing from lawmakers about the potential of biden support for the eventual nominee? reporter: well, alex, democrats have to decide where they want to play hard ball like republican does with amy coney barrett or if they want to get bipartisan support and do things to a timely but fish manner. when you look at this, it is important to look at the context surrounding it, right? under both president obama and president trump, their nominees faced bitter divisive fights when it came time for the nomination hearings. when you look at amy coney barrett, she made history not in the best of ways.
nato allies. some units are already on a heightened state of readiness. i don t know of specific orders that general walters gave to increase the readiness posture of other unit in europe. i go back to a core principle here. we take our nato commitments seriously. we are going to be consulting with allies as we have been in coming days. if there are ways to bolster their capabilities to help their defensive postures, we will take a serious look at that and not all of that has to come or necessarily will come from state side. three quick follow-ups. does walters have the ability to