standing ovations. he reminded us about the courage, the determination and the sacrifice of the american people. he thanked us, thanked the american people, thanked president biden. and as you know we are working tonight to pass the fy 23, the upcoming year spending bill that would provide an additional $45 billion in humanitarian, economic, and military support to the brave ukrainians who continue to fight to expel the russian occupiers from their nation. senator coons do you think it ll get them through next year? they re going to want more than that, who knows, six, seven, eight, or whatever they want they re going to want more. does it cover what they need or are the republicans going to need to pass more money? i m optimistic it ll meet what they need for the coming
so this is just more threats, more bluster by mr. putin. and i sure home his nuclear force is a lot better than his conventional force because his conventional force has not shown any capability whatsoever. thanks to both of you this evening. and next there was another major meeting between world powers in the past 24 hours. and this one was really important. it was between russia and china, and it was the same day that zelenskyy met biden. and breaking news. we now know who said what to the january 6th committee. dozens of transcripts just released here in this past hour as this breaking zelenskyy news has happened. we have some major developments on that, and we ll have that for you after this. ”. but seririously we need a reliable way to help keep everyone connectedd from w wherever we go. well at at&t we ll help you find the right wireless plan for you. so, you can stay connected to all your drivers and stores on america s most reliable 5g network. that sounds just paw-fect
you for this country s help. it s a historic night and of course cnn is going to continue to cover like no one else. erin burnett picks it up right now. good evening. i m erin burnett and welcome to this special edition of cnn tonight. ukraine will never surrender. those are the words of a defiant ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy preparing now to return to his war torn country, a country that until today he had not left for ten months. this is the only time, and he did it to meet with president biden and deliver that passionate speech before congress. we are standing by now for his departure from joint base andrews in maryland, a departure just to be clear here that comes with the highest security. i mean zelenskyy has a target on his back, and now of course they know where he s going. he s going home, but he got the most in his mere hours in the
last guests about the size of that force, that s a relatively small battery that s going to have probably six launchers around ukraine i m sorry, around kyiv. they re going to be heavily guarded, and he doesn t have the capability to attack them. what we ve seen mr. putin and his military do is attack more of the civilian population than he has ukraine s military. so, you know, the comment about continuing to polish his nuclear capability is something that he s been saying and threatening since the beginning of this war. and he has made a lot of bad mistakes both operationally, tactically and strategically. this would be a huge misstep on his part. and i think he knows the repercussions for the use of any kind of nuclear weapons would be catastrophic because that s what president biden and others within the administration has told him and his administration.
united states, meeting for roughly four hours with president biden at the white house, then side by side with the house speaker nancy pelosi as he headed to capitol hill. this is, by the way, the last time pelosi will preside as speaker over a joint meeting of congress. zelenskyy received a rousing standing ovation as he appeared in his olive green fatigues, his sweatshirt with his trident on the front and wartime uniform instead of a suit and a tie. the ukrainian leader thanking the american people for standing with ukraine, asking for their continued support. and your support is crucial not just to stand in such fight but to get to the turning point to win on the battlefield. we have artillery, yes. thank you. we have it. is it enough? honestly, not really. not really. and then he went onto talk about how ukraine has defeated russia in the battlefield for the minds