will start with paula reid. let me air the bite from kamala harris really quickly. the comments made by the prosecutor, gratuitous, inaccurate, and inappropriate. the way that the president s demeanor in that report was characterized could not be more wrong on the facts and clearly politically motivated. we will start with paula reid , how is the white house responding to the report today beyond what we heard from vice president harris? what do we know about the interview between president biden and special counsel hur s team. reporter: damage control, spokesperson answered question for the white house press corps. the one shepherding the press through the investigation and knows that well. he fielded questions including a lot of questions about the timing of this interview with the president. was he distracted ? the way the white house is spinning this, no, we did not want to delay it or put up roadblocks, we wanted to give special counsel everything they needed. there
highlights, and history. we are coming to you from times square in the heart of new york city, home to the famous ball drop which marks the beginning and end of every year. i m joe fryer. i m savannah sellers. for the next hour, we re looking back at the biggest stories of 2022. it started with the war in ukraine, a supreme court retirement, and that oscar slap that shook hollywood. it s ending with a tripledemic, looming recession fears, and the royal view uniting on the soccer field. along the way, there were celebrations, losses, and a lessons we can take into 2023. let s remember the year that was. the headlines that defined 2022 were seismic and historic. europe s largest armed conflict since world war ii free abortion not a manned. it supreme court station which overturned for decades of precedent. the death of a monarch who had reigned for 70 years. in its earliest days, 2022 seemed more like a copycat, limiting the worst qualities of the previous years
Annexed ukrainian territory, the crimean peninsula, in 2014 with a little international backlash. this time, condemnation came quickly. putin s choice to make a totally unjustifiable war on ukraine will leave russia weaker and the rest of the world stronger. wide ranging sanctions were rolled out, but they did little to deter. russia s military ten times the size of ukraine moved swiftly to surround kyiv. almost immediately, cracks into the mighty russian army began to appear. their advances stalled. the ukrainians organized and fought back. civilians banded together. many took up arms to defend their country. it seemed flattering putin had not accounted for the will of the ukrainian people. led by unlikely hero, president volodymyr zelenskyy, the nation
War anymore? if you continue pushing, then the ukrainians, well, they may push you back into russia. they may even go into crimea. isn t that didn t we learn from ronald reagan, didn t we learn from others, that is the best way to get people like vladimir putin to the negotiating table. joe, i would make it clear to him that he s not going to succeed in ukraine. and, you know, as he tries to advance, he s going to meet fierce resistance, ukraine, armed from the west. i think the difference between what reagan faced and what biden faces is this russian leadership is lots less institutionalized. and i just think we need to be mindful of it. i actually agree with most of what we re doing, don t get me wrong, i want to see russia weaker. by the way, russia will be weaker as a result of this war. that s not the issue. i think we need to go back to what president biden said the other day.
Of our policy all along and we believe it s a successful one. the language hasn t been as strong, i wonder is there something that gives our intelligence folks our leaders more comfort that makes it feel more comfortable about using such language? maybe it s because they did go to kyiv and did go to ukraine. i don t think so. i don t think the language it actually has been it wasn t stronger than it has been. we wanted to ensure this would be a failure and russia would be weakened. this has been the policy we have been driving to all along. and make it clear they would be significantly weaker and sent that message directly to the russians before they launched this war. we made clear if they launched this war, which is unprovoked, unjustified, unnecessary, we would impose consequences on russia and those would make russia weaker. nothing that happened since the