as is evidenced by the president s call this afternoon with our european partners, as we work to ensure we re in lockstep as we approach the next stage and anticipate what president putin may or may not do. so, that s where we are right now. we re at the next stage where we re trying to anticipate what the president of russia, vladimir putin, might do. will he mount an invasion of ukraine? if he does that, what happens after that? today, the biden administration sought to show a unified stance against vladimir putin. the white house s on state department held briefings addressing the escalating situation ukraine. presidential biden held an 80 minute video call with allies this afternoon, briefly telling reporters a short time ago, there was unanimity on the call
as is evidence by the presidents call this afternoon, with our european partners as we work to ensure we re in lockstep as we approach the next stage and anticipate where president putin may or may not do. so, that s where we are right. now we re at the next stage where we re trying to anticipate what the president of russia, vladimir putin, might do. will he mountain invasion of ukraine? if that if he does that, what happens after that? today, the biden administration sought to show a unified against vladimir putin. the white house panic on state department held briefings as addressing the escalating situation ukraine. presidential biden held an 80 minute video call with allies this afternoon, briefly telling reporters a torrent time ago, there was unanimity on the call but not getting into details. there were over the weekend, there were weekends biden s considering sending troops to eastern your. those reports were confirmed today. the picketing pentagon announced as many ar
so that has got to be a concern all the way along. there was a lot packed in there so i want to tease it apart. the meeting with the israeli prime minister, prime minister bennett, what could ve been accomplished in that meeting? what could ve been accomplished was would be that the ukrainian president minister would ve said mr. putin, president putin, you have big troubles. you have big troubles. the military campaign is not going very well. it is not entirely clear that president putin knows how badly it is going. they thought they would be in keeping in kyiv in two days, three days in a. have and it s been ten days and they haven t been able to get to the capital. so, prime minister bennett might have been able to give some indication of the problems that president putin may or may not know about. and, the recognition that this serious sanction is having an effect. that has to be getting through to president putin. so that kind of conversation, leader to leader, might be abl
israeli prime minister could have said, mr. putin, president putin, you have big troubles. you have big troubles. the military campaign is not going very well. and it s not entirely clear that president putin knows how badly it s going. i mean, they thought they would be in kyiv in three days two, days, a day and a half. and here it s ten days that they ve not been able to get to the capital. so, prime minister bennet may have been able to give some indication of the problems that president putin may or may not know about. and the recognition that these serious sanctions are having an effect. and that has to be getting through to president putin. that kind of a conversation leader to leader might be able to might have been able to make some progress. when you talk about the possibility of zelenskyy and putin and potentially president biden sitting down, is that a one in a million shot? is that a real possibility? and what then become the