does the president need to understand does president biden need to understand what president zelenskyy s bottom lines are and how to get putin to the table and what happens to crimea and the territory that putin has had since 2014? i think clearly today they will talk about an end to this war. they will talk about the just peace that president zelenskyy has articulated that he wants to pursue, we want to pursue. we think that diplomacy will be part and parcel of what s discussed today. this won t be about, however, forcing president zelenskyy to negotiate or describing or dictating to him what the terms of a negotiation might look like. he is the commander in chief. it s his country. he gets to determine if and when he goes to the negotiating table. he determines the conditions for that, what he is willing to put on the table with the russians. i think, sadly, we are just not
part and parcel of that effort by secretary austin to evolve the needs with what s going on on the battlefield. zelenskyy has long said the needs have evolved to require long range weapons. is the president concerned? is there a u.s. concern that if he hits targets across the border, russian targets, that that could enlarge the war and potentially involve nato? we are certainly not encouraging attacks inside russia. the president has been clear, we don t seek conflict with russia. we want to make sure that ukraine can defend itself and win back its territory inside ukraine. that s appropriate. that s what our focus is on. we are not encouraging attacks outside of ukraine. i think we have talked about this many times. we don t believe that an escalation beyond what has been an escalated conflict, in terms of what putin is doing against civilian targets, we don t think
how does it end? what is the process by which it will come to a conclusion. if you re ending a war, even if you re not responsible for starting it, probably involves making compromises. that s probably one of the things that we expect the president and president zelenskyy to be talking about in private. we talk about this because the united states is not publicly pressuring ukraine to make concessions, but that is the reality of trying to bring to a conclusion this conflict. susan, thank you so much. in 15 seconds, ryan, what are you looking for in that report? i think the apen dexs, the reports about the security failures and the foreign influence, that could be new relevant information in the january 6th report that we haven t seen yet. i m going to dive right there and sculpt over the first 800 pages and dpo there first. okay, that s good speed reading. thank you both so much. and coming up in our next hour,
to be taken to the hill to join the rioters. that s something on which there s mixed testimony. but we have the broad outline from the release the other day that what is really a stunning investigation against the odds. they didn t have the full participation of republicans. they had resisted with people from the trump administration. the fact that they have turned this around in 18 months is really quite extraordinary. inteed. and president zelenskyy s arrival at the white house in about ab hour ahead of his address to congress, he s going to have a news conference after the krut call meetings in the oval office with the president and his team.critical meetings oval office with the president and his team. getting some new weapons, not all he wants, and clearly the president wants to talk about diplomacy. yes, absolutely. because the united states knows, as does ukrainians that this war needs to end at some point.
wow, is he in trouble. this is a lawyer who is paid for by the trump team before she replaces him. he has to be faithful to her as a client. supposed by, she says, i remember this and he said, that s okay, you can say you don t recall. that is immediate disbarment and a potential crime under 1001, one of the crimes they are alleging trump committed. if this pans out he has been scrubbed from his firm s website is basically dead in the water as a lawyer. it s a very good example of how team of trump, in ways that weren t necessarily presented to us in the hearing, were skewing the account. garrett, frank, harry, we are waiting for the report. breaking news. ukraine president zelenskyy has landed in the u.s. this is his second visit here.