that he is going to support this -- the ukraine aid. that's critically important. we don't want to see our troops fighting on the ground in ukraine. unless ukraine is successful, unless russia learns its lesson that military aggression is not going to work, we will see a situation in which russia is emboldened and the chance of u.s. troops in ukraine becomes higher. we are going all in on this and making sure ukraine has what it needs. that's the first step. now we need to make sure ukraine has the resources to succeed over the course of the next year. >> alexander vindman, thank you very much for being with us. >> thank you. stuck in court. next we will go back to manhattan for new developments from inside the courtroom in the trump criminal trial. you are watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. this is terry's look of total relaxation.