zachary cohen joins us now. what more do we know about what was said in these meetings? fred, the committee has been consistent. they want to know what was happening behind closed doors at the white house for those 187 minutes while the riot was happening and nobody heard from the former president. now, judd deer can give the committee that information. the committee says he helped form late the white house s response as the attack was going on. the committee also cites a january 5th meeting that he participated in and it wants to talk to him more about. during this meeting, the committee says that the former president allegedly told a group of allies and said, quote, what are your ideas for getting the rhinos, republicans in name only, to do the right thing tomorrow? how do we convince congress? obviously, the next day, january 6th, is when congress was supposed to certify and did certify the election results, but committee members think that the president was floating the
president had to say last night. translator: i m the president of ukraine. i m based here and i think that i know the details much deeper than any other president. it is important that the president should know what the situation is from me, not from intermediaries. reporter: we ve been hearing also earlier today from the deputy ukranian defense minister pushing back on media reports that russian troops were beginning to move medical supplies toward the border saying that this is again about a propaganda campaign that is just designed to sow chaos and confusion within ukraine. so a different way of looking at things, different way of messaging. the point of the white house s strategy and specifically the last few days has been really to bring often divided nato european allies together behind this very aggressive push in terms of rhetoric against vladimir putin.
but first, president biden says that he is ready to send troops to eastern europe marking a new phase in the u.s. response to russia s military buildup on ukraine s border. as many as 8500 u.s. troops have been placed on heightened alert to prepare to deploy to nato allies in the region and this is as a top u.s. general warned a russia invasion would be horrific and result in significant casualties. melissa bell is in ukraine for us. does ukraine s president share the same urgency as president biden right now? reporter: absolutely not. and even as we were hearing those words president biden talks about that they re term deployment, general milley talking about the threat that russia poses. but here in kiev, we were hearing from the ukranian president urging other world leaders not to be talking such a
tough game, not to be leading to the sort of panic as he described it as we ve been seeing here. of course ukranian authorities washi warning that it is not good for the economy and causing the citizens to be unnerved. president zelensky talking about a different assessment of what is happening across the bore did he in russia, saying that as far as he is concerned and ukranian intelligence is concerned, things are not changed much on the russian side from where they were nearly a year ago. and you have to put it into the context that here in ukraine, and it is not just the presidency, but ordinary people when we speak to people on the streets, people have been living with this often low level sometimes ratcheting it up conflict in the eat h. east of the country for eight years. so what is happening on the other side of the border is something that they have come to get used to. what is happening in the east is what they have come to get used to and they see it in a different way. have