States. Adding to the intrigue surrounding ukraine, an announcement from the state department this morning that secretary pompeo will travel to kiev on friday and meet with president zelensky. The first inperson high level meeting between a u. S. Official and zelensky since President Trumps bilateral discussion back in september. Joining me now, aaron lipton a reporter and one of the authors of todays front page story. Msnbc contributor and former republican congressman david jolly. And analyst phil rucker and from the Washington Post and also in studio john gans, former speech writer to ash carter. And welcome as we dive right into this. And beginning with you, eric, because were watching this now with a different lens when it comes to your reporting. So you have john bolton in the oval office trying to convince President Trump that the aid money was in americas interest only to put on the brakes a month before they release the aid. So what jumped out for all of us, looking at highlig