ground is very wet, and that s what ukrainian officials are saying that the conditions aren t there yet. nic robertson on the scene for us, stay safe. joining us now cnn military analyst to former nato supreme court allied commander jeffrey clark and ambassador william taylor. what s your reaction to the latest comments from president zelenskyy in the washington post ? did the biden administration misstep in not giving ukraine at least a heads up about these sensitive leaks? well, wolf, it sounds like secretary of state blinken did call his counterpart that is foreign minister kaleba right away and sounds like deputy secretary of state wendy sherman made a couple of phone calls as well. so the effort was there. whether it got to president zelenskyy is not clear, but he s
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and that s why i think in the end and you know this, and i ve been talking to democrats today. you know, they re considering a break the glass option, which would be to invoke the 14th amendment and say that it s the president s job to ensure the full faith and credit in the united states. and therefore by some kind of executive action he can extend the debt limit. i don t know that they re going to do it. there are constitutional scholars who disagree about whether you can do it or should do it. but if it comes to this kind of an impasse, in the end it s up to the president of the united states to figure out what he can and cannot do and whether he should negotiate. the stakes really are enormous right now. very quickly, final thought. there s something much simpler than debating the constitution you can simply have five republicans join 213 democrats in what s called the discharge petition. which adam kissinger was togging
completely separate process by which to accomplish much of what he s asking for in these debt ceiling negotiations. an be the more appropriate vehicle to do that. economists are predicting if we default on our debt we will see the stock market crash, that we may be sent into a global recession. and that certainly our credit rating as a country will be downgraded and that the value of the dollar may plummet. this is really serious stuff, and the gamesmanship we re seeing from republicans i think is not going to serve them well. i was referring to senator manchin of west virginia. he s suggesting maybe the president should start to negotiate on these issues with mccarthy and other republicans. but take a look at this, how little time is left to reach an agreement on raising the nation s debt limit. there were only eight upcoming days where both the house and senate are in session. are democrats moving right now do you believe with enough
to repair all of this? you know, i do think it is a matter of strengthening the relationship between the presidents. i think it is as president zelenskyy said the white house didn t tell him anything. i think a couple of phone calls will help. but, wolf, you have to understand there s always tension in relations between allies, and that s true in every war. it s certainly true here. the ukrainians want more than what the united states is willing to give. and to me the latest damage of the leak is the fact it leaked, that it shows there s something in the u.s. system that s not trustworthy. so if you re the ukrainians and you re really determined on keeping the counter offensive that ambassador taylor is talking about secret, the last thing you want is a leaky intelligence system in the united states. a 21-year-old airman who has nothing to do with it gets the j wicks and concealed information, that s a real indictment of us.