president for russia and europe. so happy that you could be here tonight. we have a lot to talk about, ambassador. let s start with the senior administrator official telling nbc that russia has added as many as 7000 troops to ukraine s border. do you agree with david ignatius, that putin s moves are and having the effect he wants. that, in fact, the west is becoming more united against russian aggression? i do. i think david ignatius is exactly right. i imagine, president putin is surprised, dismayed, unsettled by the strong reaction that he s getting from a range of people on the other side of his border. that is, president zelensky, in the first instance, here s president zelensky, a fairly new politician that is never held office before. he is, what s, 43 years old. president putin, the, 20 years in the office. but he thought that he could
disgruntled senior administrator official. he says the circle is getting very small of trust. watch this. i think there are people in there that he can trust, it s just a much smaller group than i would like it to be. who do you trust? i will keep that to myself. and they are not family? outside of family, i think that goes without saying. martha: what do you make of that? it sad that it comes to this. we have a duly elected president of the united states you are free to disagree with or not. he can t even get advice from an elite bunch of people out there because they don t trust anyone and this op-ed was just a cowardly, really despicable act. martha, i don t speak with forked tongue on this, i don t look for anyone s applause line but i resigned my job as a secret service agent when i left under the barack obama administration. i had no personal dislike for barack obama, i just felt like the country wasn t headed in the direction. this person who brought this up, he sh