and our msnbc news correspondent joining me now. reporter: good to see you. we have an extraordinary press conference tonight from president volodymyr zelenskyy, as you laid out. they re anuancing that visit tomorrow by the secretary of state and secretary of defense. we cannot confirm the visit will happen. for security reasons, the u.s. government won t give it away ahead of time. we ll take the ukrainian president at his word. so much of this was about the weapons that $800 million aid package which will start arriving this weekend. answering our colleague s question about why this is important by saying, look, when the leaders come here, i don t want presence. i want action. i want weapons. that s what the u.s. government has been providing today. in the city of odesa and it seems in keeping with russia s plan to create the land bridge in the south. we saw strikes in odesa. our colleague was able to get to the scene of the apartment and confirm a residential building was hit ther