yeltsin put out a joint statement with ukraine, president zelensky with some promises of more aid including some aid on energy including money that would be used to transition away from the need for russian energy. i m joined by doug lieu, former u.s. ambassador to nato, former leung in the army, now chair of international defense practices at bgr group. ambassador, i have to ask, so we have a nato leader meeting with putin today as we are in a standoff, between putin and nato. it s awkward. victor oorrbonne is a guy that s sort of generously straddling the west and russia here. how much does that hurt nato s unity? well, it depends a lot on the message that the president took to moscow. look, it s no surprise that
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bipartisan way, and that s important for a couple of reasons. first of all, he could perhaps get back to this messaging that he campaigned on as being the uniier and bringing republicans and democrats together, but he also wants this confirmation to perhaps be bipartisan and that s why it s important. secondly, we do not yet know how republicans are going to react and how they re going to responsibility to this potential nominee. senator grass lee and republican members just huddled in leader mcconnell s office before they went to the what s for this meeting. there is some strategy session in that. if mcconnell says we re not going to don t culture war this, there will be a couple people that will culture war this up, but you don t do it, grassley. it wouldn t shock me if that was
what this meeting is today, you know this is biden meeting with a couple of people he served with for over a decade, chuck grassley he was there before grassley got there. between the three of them i think they ve dealt with every like 20 supreme court nominations. what s the goal here to sort of defang the opposition? reporter: i think a couple things. there s symbolism, his first meeting with members of the senate are not only with the chair of the committee, dick durbin, but the top republican on the judiciary committee. that didn t happen during the trump administration. we know what happened during merrick garland, which that was a very political process. so the fact that president biden is holding these meetings publicly with a republican and a democrat shows that he is trying to do this process in a
so arms control measures, stabilization measures, limits or confidence-building measures having to do with military exercises. these are things that the alliance and the united states would be willing to talk about. but exactly what his game is and why he would start with public maximalist demands we would have to interview him. yeah. well, look, at the end of the day, it s all about how rational putin is, and i think we re all trying to figure that out. former nato ambassador, doug lieu, thanks for coming on. thank you. up next, the latest from the white house as the president meets with the senate judiciary committee s top democratic and republican, a sort of normal institutionalist meeting on filling the supreme court vacancy. you re watching meet the press daily. t vacancy. you re watching meet the press daily.
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