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you say when the ukrainians told you that? first, i want to make sure to protect the private conversations that president biden and president zelenskyy have had. because they have built a relationship of trust. and they did have deep conversations about precisely what kinds of capacities and training ukrainians to be successful in this effort to take back the territory that russia is currently occupying. but let me just say this, fareed. on this day alone, the day the president arrived, he brought with him an announcement of more artillery, more ammunition, more himars on the back of major announcements about american tanks and armored vehicles. and so much else of americas high technology capacity. and today, the united states announced a further two billion dollars in security assistance to ukraine all designed for a specific purpose, which is, with our military looking hard at the set of problems, what
thank you. now, let me bring in former fbi director andrew mci can, a senior law analyst. thank you so much for being here. you know how this works. an fbi crisis negotiator is the lead in talking to this suspect throughout the standoff. you can shed some light on what a conversation like that is like over what now has been a span of you know many hours? yeah, sure, poppy. it s so important to recognize this is exactly where the fbi wants to be. to be in contact with the hostage taker to have that negotiator, that trained negotiator on the line. this is the best terms you could be on at this point. so that conversation is taking place and the negotiator is initially trying to assess the hostage-taker s state of mind, their propensity or maybe plans to engage in violence. then they start building a relationship of trust.