and they re also discussions over how to source new funds to continue aiding ukraine s defense. now, on that front punch president biden will sit down on friday with ukrainian president volodomyr zelenskyy. he s expected to get the state of play on the ground and in the air as ukraine is now for the first time, using american made weapons to fire into russia to those russian positions that they ve been using to fire into ukraine, which national security adviser jake sullivan called common sense. but after that meeting, president binding it s going to be delivering a speech to remind americans why the fight against tyranny is so important. and advisers say he s going to seek to make a connection dropped parallel between what? what happened in world war ii on those beaches in normandy and what s happening in ukraine today and also on the headline i read from the wall street journal about behind closed doors, people are reporting that joe biden is slipping in meetings with lawmakers, repo
that first day of this trip. thank you. kayla there s so much going on joining me right now to talk about all of it. democratic congressman from florida, jared moskowitz, it s good to see you, congressman. thanks for coming in. let s start there with this new reporting from the wall street journal and biden showing signs of slowing and slipping behind closed doors kayla leads that lays out how the journal describes the reporting as quite extensive. 45 people interviewed over several months, republicans and democrats are other participated in meetings with biden over briefed on them contemporaneously. what is your reaction to this? according no, thanks, kate. thanks for having me breaking news. biden is old. that s a story we haven t heard before. he s 81. donald trump is 78. they could have been in high school together so i don t know why the wall street journal needed 3,000 words to regurgitate a story that the republicans have been trying to tell up here for the last couple
obviously the next six months that s going to be the entire campaign. biden is old. trump is crazy right? this is what we re going to hear for the next six months. so congratulations to the wall street journal. you re not first to the story. in fact, you re not even a hundreds. but wall? street journal, and i actually just heard it from bryan lanza, who is a trump ally earlier in the show. he is bryan lanza, put it in kind of what it s getting on this reporting is it s not the age it s the mental acuity. it s not the age, it s the slipping, i guess if i had to sum it up the mental acuity of both candidates has been an issue. does it concern you with biden? well, i mean, listen, there are people on their quoted saying, well, he s not the same as when he was vice president will look up, bite is not the same as he was in 2008 and by the way, breaking news, donald trump s not the same as he wasn t 2016. remember donald trump s the guy who literally sat in a deposition room and goes, oh
cold overnight, low temperature was 1999, 25 years ago, record heat much far outpaces record cold temperatures and vegas, you ve got a fever of about five degrees since 1970 for those summer months, june, july, and august, we add almost 40 days that are warm and above average in summer as we extend and elongate this extreme heat season, it just is continuing to start earlier all right. lisa, thank you for keeping a watch on all of it for us. appreciate it the pushback from the white house now to the new wall street journal reporting with the headline behind closed doors or as biden shows signs of slipping with the white house saying about that. and it s an age old question, coke or pepsi. but now there s a new player entering that attal and pepsi has been dethroned sometimes the best thing you can do with intelligence this share it with your adversary if his secret is betrayed itself, bullet to the back of the hand
they ve arrested a man who they say is a spy and spotter for russia, that he was taking video of that cafe before the missile strike. now, the kremlin spokesperson, dmitry peskov was asked about this on state tv. he said we don t target civilians. we only target the military, but president zelenskyy today saying this is a manifestation of terror on the russian side. seemed as if the kremlin wanting to show force amidst what s happening domestically in their country right now. ambassador, i want you to weigh in on this wall street journal reporting as well, right, this idea that prigozhin set out to capture shoigu and ga ros move, two big military leaders inside moscow. these are the two named in that initial video before his advance on moscow. what do you make of this? it seems plausible to me. i mean, mr. prigozhin, that s what he all of his ire, all of his criticism of the russian state was at them, never about