president volodomyr zelensky has told cnn, quote, it s impossible to say with certainty what exactly is going on in the thoughts of the russian leadership. and he went on to say that essentially, the real focus should be on the most important part, in their opinion, of what president biden said was that we have heard them disagree with the u.s. on a number of occasions. obviously, that s, in part, to try to tamp down any sense of panic or any sense of looking weak to the ukrainian public. but on the other hand, john, you are seeing other ukrainian officials responding to what s been happening in the eastern part of the country, in these breakaway republics where they have been staging what ukrainian and u.s. officials are calling sort of false flags or staged provocations. they have been bussing people who have been allegedly coming under heavy fire to the border,
paula reid, a lot there. thank you so much. perspective now from cn political an list, maggie haberman, a washington correspondent for the new york times. also, cnn contributor john dean, who was the former-nixon white house counsel and, john, the presidential records act was enacted because of watergate, which you know more than a little about. the idea of a former president taking classified national security material to his private residence could he have legal exposure from this? should he, in your view? i it is a good question. a lot of the circumstances, we don t know, yet. exactly, what he was doing with them, how they got there. did he direct that they be taken? are they a lump of documents that he just put in a box and said let s look at these later? we don t have enough facts. uh, but he he has a lot of leeway in what he can classify and declassify himself. he could say, on the way out the door, i declassified all these
here among the leadership about president biden s comments. they don t dispute that his position is based on solid intelligence, but an aide to president volodomyr zelensky has told cnn, quote, it s impossible to say with certainty what exactly is going on in the thoughts of the russian leadership. and he went on to say that essentially, the real focus should be on the most important part, in their opinion, of what president biden said was that the door to diplomacy is still open until there is an actual invasion of sorts. it s not entirely surprising to hear them talk in these tones. we have heard them disagree with the u.s. on a number of occasions, obviously, that s in part to try to tamp down any sense of panic or any sense of looking weak to the ukrainian public, but on the other hand, john, you are seeing other ukrainian officials responding to what s been happening in the eastern part of the country, in
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so this is gray. we don t really know quite what s happening here with the facts, but it is very troublesome and indeed, the act is a result of nixon threatening to destroy his tapes and papers. maggie, do you have any reporting on the why here? why was this stuff all taken? and also, you know, paula s nuanced reporting also on this letter that does indicate in terms of destruction of stuff, the president, former president s propensity to tear stuff up, he had been warned not to. right, john, we know the president has been, was more the former president was warned several times by various staffers, we had heard this throughout the administration after my colleague andy carni reported that trump was in the habit of ripping up official records or official pieces of paper that should have been preserved but we don t know what the motive is, what the rationale is. all we know now is