i m alex marquardt. president zelenskyy is speaking exclusively to erin burnett in ukraine. take a listen. mr. president, you said it s a completely different set of traits and different periods. now he s faced a rebellion and attempted coup from evgeni prigozhin. have you seen any changes in how you think he s acting, in his behavior since the attempted coup? translator: yes, we see the reaction after certain wagner steps. we see putin s reaction. it s week. firstly, we see he doesn t control everything. wagner is going deep into russia shows how easy it is to do. putin doesn t control the situation in the regions, he doesn t control the security situation. all of us understand his whole army is in ukraine. almost entire army is there. that s why it s so easy for the wagner troops to march through russia. who could have stopped him? putin doesn t understand the regional policy and doesn t control all those people in the regions. so all that vertical of power he used to
25th to dee stabilize the situation in russia. these plans failed primarily because the forces showed loyalty to their oath, their military duty and courageously continued to do the task as given to them. we saw a similar line and labrov said on friday there was no need to worry. this ignores the fact that in russia, a state that martyrs everything and is a police state with tremendous internal controls, not only did this happen but wagner forces pretty much marched uncontested all the way from ukraine to a couple hundred miles or kilometers with moscow with nothing to stop this many except for evgeni orders.
minister labrov. i also have to say and ben rhodes is here with me, he has written a lot of statements for press conferences, i actually thought it was a very strong statement to spell out to the american people about what is at stake here. i think they need to continue do that. if we are going to witness the largest war in europe since 1939, we have to make sure the american people understand what is going on here. i think blinken did a great job of that today. talk to me about the day from the white house point of view, michael mcfaul was all over the area yesterday saying this is an invasion, this is an invasion. the white house kind of balked
they ve talked to leaders in australia and the united kingdom and other places. to explain away the russian interference because the president can t handle the fact that people think he was elected illegitimately. it s not just that looking backwards. it s looking forwards. he is saying that he can do it next time around. he d be open for the help in 2020. and i think there are a lot of people in the washington establishment who are very unnerved by this. the question is what can they do about it. and, david jolly, there was a report late friday night in the washington post that in that now infamous meeting between donald trump and the two russian diplomats, labrov, he said to them that he wasn t bothered by election meddling. and he wasn t because he saw himself as the beneficiary of it. and 15 intel agencies or 16 of the united states have concluded that russia interfered and the purpose was to benefit donald
office with two russian diplomats who had not been welcomed in the oval office i think for many years before the they show up there with donald trump and he puts his arm around lab rov and kislyak and said i got all of the pressure off me now that i let that nut job comey go. and we have lester holt on nbc news saying he let colty go becau comey go because of the russia thing, it s a hoax. so this isn t andy mccabe in a walled-off skiff poring over things he was analyzing, this is donald trump fully distancing himself from jim comey and american law enforcement agencies and embracing literally and figuratively vladimir putin. that s right, nicolle. it strikes me whatever people say about the steps that mccabe