Friction, all are welcome at the maddow home whenever you need to be. Thank you my friend. Thank you. Ill kick off my shoes and watch your interview. Have a great show. Thank you so much. I am a little nervous tonight, too. This is a big night. Let me start right in. This is who is going to be our guest. On the evening of December 18th Mark Meadows my boss chief of stf returned from a meeting in the oval office and abruptly asked if i could tell his detail he wanted to go home as if there was an emergency there. His detail quickly prepared his limo and he left campus without further explanation. Shortly after marks departure i walked down to visit with molly andet a sense of the president s evening plans. Usually if mark went home before the president went to the residence i would stay at my desk in case the president needed anything from mark or me. But since mark had left early with such confidence, i thought perhaps the president was wrapping up the evening and i would get to go hom
hearing the ukrainians seven weeks in saying they need more ammunition, they need more ammunition and weaponry from the west but now that a new chapter of the war has opened there in the east, do you get the sense there s even more anxiety among ukrainians when they say we need these weapons as of yesterday? reporter: yes, a lot of anxiety and part of that is because of supplying these areas is going to be so much tougher. a lot of this stuff comes in from nato countries. it s being funneled from the polish border, for instance, easier to get to, say, kyiv, hutc much more difficult to get to donetsk. more coverage in moving things in that direction and worried about potentially being encircled. they want to have lots of supplies of weapons and i think anxiety is a very good way to put it. across the entire country from poland to get to those new battle lines there in the east. yeah, brianna, thank you. let s bring in cnn s clarissa ward live in kyiv.