zelenskyy which is just hours from now? just hours from now. the symbolism is quite strong. it is the first face to face meeting president biden and president zelenskyy have had since president biden surprised the world by showing up in kyiv. the deliverable side of thing, the u.s. is preparing roughly $300 million defense assistance package. it is really flowing the times of munitions ukraine needs. it has been a focal point for u.s. assistance. and this is a critical one. this is not just from the bilateral meeting with president biden. it is what president zelenskyy can do not just with g-7 leaders. the g-7 has been steadfast in its support with a degree of durability that i think even surprises some of its staunchest boosters. it is the other leaders that have been invited. invited.ountries that have bee as it pertains to ukraine and russia s vegas invasion of ukraine. to share his views and more importantly, to talk about a diplomatic pathway out. if not to people them
east coast that means you still have time. the kids are still asleep or maybe even your spouse. you still have time it is april 1. you have time to pull off a prank, it is april fools for they got me at 4:30 a.m. this morning, walked into my office and this is what i found, an office full of lipstick the the shots put into context, bloomsbury could not walk could not take a step could not sit down. our producer, ariel, was standing in the side of my office in the video tape me. [laughter] i worked out 20 seconds before he noticed her standing there. is a lot of hard work for interns yesterday. working hard blowing up balloons. there he is in the corner it s not really april fools but you were fools. he was a groggy reaction. a while, it was 4:30 a.m. i come in, come to the building a good floor beneath this for the coffee machine to get a coffee we do not have a coffee machine on her floor. put a coffee maker in your office. and then i come up i ve not even even had m
like this. we never had a system like this until a few decades ago. so i think that in public, and even in private with president biden, they ve been somewhat sim that a athleticic. they re clearly worried about it. they ve been through this so long that they wonder whether there is a big element of theater to what s going on right now. i don t think there s much of a sense of urgency that the u.s. is going to default and it would affect them. it would be a big surprise to them if in fact the president gets back hole and can t work this out. phil mattingly and david sanger, thank you. still ahead, my conversation with former trump attorney tim parlatore who played a key role in the mar-a-lago documents investigation. how he answered questions about what president trump knew, classified documents taken from the white house and a south carolina senator is getting in the presidential race. but florida s governor
i m just glad i have you that s what i m here for. the cgm, still getting used to it. let s take a look. when you need to talk diabetes, our pharmacists are here. tim parlatore, one of donald trump s key attorneys, announced this week he is league the trump legal team. besides working on the january 6th investigation, parlatore played a key role in the mar-a-lago documents probe. i spoke with tim earlier this evening, and during our conversation, i asked him about a letter his firm sent to congress discussing what then president trump knew about documents taken from the white house. let s take a listen. so the letter says that he wasn t really aware of the documents because it was
criminal investigation is going on, that s the only important thing in their life and they don t talk to anybody except me or their spouse. so it is nerve-racking when you know he will be asked questions about it. ultimately, i didn t think he said something too terrible. nothing that changes the tenor of the investigation. tim said that he left the trump legal team because of infighting among various advisers, specifically, signaling singling out boris epstein, saying he allegedly tried to prevent tim and others from doing some searches for additional documents. in a statement, the former president s spokesman says, mr. parlatore is no longer a member of the legal team. his statements regarding current members of the legal team are unfounded and categorically false. still ahead, call it the