and failed to get german signoff on the allies of ukraine s tanks something that poland says they would do on their own. and president biden was asked about it today. polands call to send tanks and money. u.s. tanks to ukraine? president biden: ukraine s going to get all the help they need. anchor: that s ukraine s president, he says he needs more than western gratitude to hold off the russians. hundreds of thanks, are not hundreds of tanks. also, today, the white house told reporters, that the mercenary fighters made up in part of russian convicts, this all come as day after we learned that cie director briefed president zelensksyy on how the spring russian may play off. fred starts us off from kyiv. reporter: hugely important week in ukraine. one that could be pivotal for the war and the future of their country. they want it take the fight to the russians, they understand that they need more modern, western weapons to do that. at the same time they re bracing
and, a song of mine called, lighthouse . and, um, you know, that was also a real education. you know, it s sort of like david was always in the center, it was like the glue that held things together, sort of the secret sauce. you notice, of course, graham s voice and neal s voice is like, you know, it s unmistakable. and the same thing with stephens voice, that mellow, lower baritone that stephen had, but, david s voice is the thing that makes that sound. they, also, famously had a difficult, relationship, david said he was all about ego, was
long, is that, david in particular was, was sort of at the center of the movement. at the center of the sort of, cultural peak that was the early 1970s. um, he was, you know, to have been a member of the byrds, to have joined crosby, stills & nash, and to have stepped up to the plate with neal young s beautiful song ohio . and basically, sort of, really quite a courageous thing to do. they responded so immediately to it. and, um, we needed it. i read that back in the 70s david also worked as a session singer and sang backup for you and also, i think for jackson brown. i hasn t realized that. he certainly did. david and graham sang on my song mexico .
another sort of common world. that is that something that you guys talked about? because, david was open with that and ended up writing about that in the book long time gone , how do you think going through that impacted him and how he wrote music? you know, i think surviving that and, um, man, it was really touch and go for a number of years there. i think it sort of left him with the sense that everyday was a gift. that, it was miraclous to be here and you felt that intense growth in him towards the later years. that, he did, i think, find a certain amount of peace you know, in his love for his family and his children. and, he, you know, i think people do tend to mellow as they ideally, as they move
through. it is one of the things about growing older which i, i m finding now at the age that i m at, and certainly that david talked about as he got older that in the end, for him, you know, he chose to spend his days with the two things which were most important to him, one, his family, and the other, music. you said it. you know. it s really, that s really right on. it s as though he realized what was important to him and he just focused on it and he was very prolific in the past two decades. beautiful work, thankfully. if you could only listen to one crosby, stills & nash song, what would it be? well, um, that s hard. i don t know. i loved david s song wooden ships . we shared that too.