panic. at the same time, one thing to underscore is the biden administration has really made a huge effort to clue the ukrainians throughout this process and make sure there is a real united front against russia. comments like those that matthew is reporting from a senior ukrainian official certainly don t help that effort. at the same time, president biden just yesterday, including yet another ally, meeting with the norwegian prime minister at the white house. that followed a call earlier in the week with france, uk, italy, poland, european union leaders. again, the effort here from the white house and the one i think you will continue to see, is to try to preserve that united front, try to prevent russia from sowing discord with u.s. allies and try to make sure going forward u.s. and ukraine are on the same page. brianna. all right. we ll see. jeremy diamond at the white house. matthew chance in kyiv. thank you so much. we re going to discuss all of this with pentagon press
starting out you will see it at the gas pump. and they have a lot of capabilities, russia does. errin, you know this, in 2016, rusia was laser focused on black voter, sowing discord. and russia did attack the dnc and rnc. so this will be an interesting as it develops, we ll see how it plays out. i want to ask you quickly about zelensky. this is a comedian turned president. i don t want to be pot kettle here. we survived four years of donald trump. but i wonder about his competency on the world stage facing something like this. your thoughts. listen, i think seeing the speech that he just delivered, he understands this is no laughing matter. he certainly is not making any jokes or making light of the situation in ukraine as we sit here this morning. the seriousness of this is not lost on him which i think is
so that we can show people that it actually matters to have a democratic country, a country that invests in everybody. that s how i see these two things going hand in hand together, and it s why we re not going to stop working on the domestic agenda. there are some through lines here. i look at what s happening in ukraine, and i see, you know, democracy can be a fragile thing, and it feels a bit fragile in america right now. we re seeing, you know, the republican party bleed it by a thousand cuts with rampant voter suppression, the florida republican controlled state legislature just advanced a bill that was pushed by the republican there. ron desantis, a florida man, who would create a police force dedicated to pursuing election crimes. it s not lost on me that we re in a midterm election year. russia has previously tried to attack our democracy by sowing discord in the united states. hacking into some of our democratic systems. what s concerning to me, which i want your opinion on,
in the 2020 election, is this indeed set the stage for future elections to be discredited? absolutely is. it s sowing discord and rallying up a base that we saw. we often talk about what happened on january 6th and the possibility for it to happen again, but we re not talking about what actually was happening around the election in 2020 when we had people going rogue and actually going out to polling places and election officials and spewing these falsehoods and conspiracies, and i am extremely worried about that when the voting rights, particularly for people of color and minorities in this country are under attack, and we also know who are typically poll workers. what is going to happen as thee conspiracy theories continue to go unchallenged by people who honestly benefit from them, and what are we going to see in 2022 along with 2024? that is the big question. these advocates are warning four years after the failed january 6th insurrection, trump and his
your speech writers came up with. in fact, is quite significant in the cia because by branding wikileaks as a hostile intelligence service, it opened the door for the cia to plan all sorts of aggressive measures to dismantle wikileaks about getting a presidential finding and without having to brief capitol hill. the intelligence committees and so what we report is that there were some extreme measures that the cia was cooking up in response to this designation which a snatch operation and from the ecuadorian embassy and there other plants contemplated like monitoring the communications of travel of wikileaks associates, sowing discord among its ranks, stealing its computers and even talk