activity in the kherson region and they note russia is having manpower problems with its military. and we begin our coverage in kyiv with melissa bell. what are ukrainian officials saying about this counteroffensive in the south? reporter: what we re hearing from regional officials is that day two of that counteroffensive is seeing more fighting in a number of towns along the front line. clearly this is a counteroffensive long anticipated and long prepared for. what we re seeing for the time being are warnings from senior ukrainian officials that while it is under way, people need to be patient. we ve been hearing from a senior aid to president zelenskyy saying this morning this is going to be a slow grind. urging patience on the part of ukrainians. we heard also from the ukrainian president himself in his nightly address speaking of his determination saying that russians needed now to go home since they would he said be chased back to their border. clearly this is a turnin
delay. but here is the thing, christine, you know, the former president asserted this executive privilege a couple of weeks after the search. i mean, if you ve got a real beef, don t you think that you get on that right away and say hey, there is executive privilege there, i want this stopped. but he waits. he delays on his own delay tactic and then the thing is, christine, executive privilege, that is a sign for the executive, who is in the office, who is having communications with people about things that he is doing, official actions are happening right there and then. it is not a former president saying something i did in the past was executive privilege because he doesn t have that anymore. he is not in that seat anymore. and president biden is. and president biden has said i m not exerting ing executive prive over any of this. i see why they threw the kitchen sink in, trump lawyers did, but
serious argument he violated the language of that law. now, that doesn t mean that you can t argue these other constitutional points. but the white house needs to be very careful. they have not played this thing very well. and they re heading into a buzz saw if they take an obstructionist position with congress. congress has an oversight duty. there s a law that s been violated. doesn t the president have executive privilege when he s talking to his lawyer? i use those terms kind of loosely. effectively, if he s talking to the d.o.j. and he s getting counsel from the office of legal counsel, isn t there an attorney/client privilege? you have to extinguish between executive privilege and attorney/executive prive. these are policy questions and a claim of the violation of federal law. if lawyers were involved in that, just as we saw in the torture controversy in the bush administration, those documents
things that are there. nevertheless, they need freedom of communication and executive prive would prevent that. is he is the right person fothis job? does she have credibility on capitol hill? i would answer no to both questions. she is great on loyalty, but he is a willing winning political dupe at one of this administration s lowest moments. now, they are promoting her. bret: think about tom donolan. we didn t see much of him until today s speech. he is leaving. there are questions about his role in all of that, as well? i think the big argument against him, a distinguishedity advise they are the past, henry kissinger, colin powell and others, he had no experience. he a political hand.