celebrated here in russia, the 7th of january. you have a big chunk of time out of the government calendar. perhaps having this from president putin s perspective now so far ahead of january 10th talks has a lot to do with, you know, the kremlin essentially being on vacation until january 10th. an attempt to set the table, so to speak. natasha, with all of this happening, we do understand the u.s. has been in touch with ukrainian president zelensky. ukraine hangs in the balance in all of these conversations. reporter: yeah. the white house has been very insistent that ukraine will not be left out of any of these information cans. though they won t be at the able at these talks in early january, they will be consulted every step of the way. that was demonstrated yesterday when secretary of state antony blinken spoke with vladimir zelensky to preview what they
nothing wrong. it just shouldn t have been allowed. when she first came in she tried to set up rules for transparencies and limits on contributions, but she knew even as she became secretary that this was a problem area and i think that s why she can t get out of it. this is something you wanted for talk about, only seven questions from the media responded to. and some of those not even answered. is it because if you can t answer those questions now it s not like it will be any easier in a month or two or three when even more information cans out. how does she start the her campaign in earnest? well, look, the one thing i was impressed with this week she did eat up a news cycle with immigration. and it was a jarring it was a surprising rollout of her immigration policy sort of the first time that she had rolled out any policy. so i think that was their one hope that they could at least step on, hoping to slow town the