after they happen. that did not happen last week when president zelenskyy announced that the secretary of state and secretary of defense were coming before they arrived. clearly they are working out how to have the visits and announcing it later. and nancy pelosi has tweeted a video and also says that they want to continue the visit in poland, obviously talking to that nato ally about what comes next and what more that they can do. and i know you ve been on the ground for some weeks now and following the situation in pec mariupol closely. every day we think there is hope for an evacuation. 20 people when there are thousands in desperate need. are we hearing anything on the ground that that perhaps was some kind of a test run to being have a e evacuate more civilians? reporter: we are certainly seeing it as such. it is difficult to get information out of mariupol