a u.s. diplomat testified on capitol hill this past week that although military aid was finally delivered to ukraine after being held up for months, ukrainian president zelensky still has not received a much sought after white house meeting although he and trump did meet at the u.n. with me now is the former u.s. ambassador so ukraine, steven piper, who served as ambassador during the clinton administration and also served as an official in the george w. bush administration. ambassador, i really appreciate you being here. you have extensive experience on this region. how important is the u.s. support of ukraine there both monetarily and diplomatically, and what impact has president trump s apparent hesitancy to deliver support had there? well, the ukrainians consider it very important. ukraine would like to become a normal european state but in terms of the current conflict that russia has inflicted on ukraine, ukraine sees the united states as the geopolitical counter weight to russ
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for him. joining us is steven piper a former ambassador the ukraine and served in embassies in warsaw and other place, and j n joining uses is the ambassador at large to the soviet union. and thank you both for joining us. i would like to start with you ambassador stastonovich and you were the ambassador the president clinton and what is your advice going into the meeting tomorrow with putin? well, know what you want. the biggest problem that i think that president trump is radiating in everything that he is saying about the meeting is that it is not clear what he wants to come out of it. and the second problem is make sure that you is got the government and the country behind you. the president s biggest problem coming can out of this meeting is likely to be that most people even in his own administration are going to be regarding it somewhere between unwise and
translator when this discussion took place, leaving the united states with really no one with an official transcript of this conference. the president tweeted this in his defense. the fake news is becoming more and more dishonest, even a dinner arranged for the top 20 leaders in germany is made to look sinister. it s the fact that the united states president meet with the russian president for nearly an hour, which is raising eyebrows of folks. that is how that is being reported. joining me now to discuss, former ambassador to the ukraine, steven piper, he was also a foreign service officer at the embassy in moscow, he knows this area, very, very well. great to see both of you. ambassador first to you, on this