and failed to get german signoff on the allies of ukraine s tanks something that poland says they would do on their own. and president biden was asked about it today. polands call to send tanks and money. u.s. tanks to ukraine? president biden: ukraine s going to get all the help they need. anchor: that s ukraine s president, he says he needs more than western gratitude to hold off the russians. hundreds of thanks, are not hundreds of tanks. also, today, the white house told reporters, that the mercenary fighters made up in part of russian convicts, this all come as day after we learned that cie director briefed president zelensksyy on how the spring russian may play off. fred starts us off from kyiv. reporter: hugely important week in ukraine. one that could be pivotal for the war and the future of their country. they want it take the fight to the russians, they understand that they need more modern, western weapons to do that. at the same time they re bracing
repeatedly messaged one of the victims on instagram in late october just a couple of weeks before those murders took place. that s according to people magazine siting a source close to the investigation. but, it is unclear if she saw the messages because she did not respond. anderson it is important to remember that kohberger has not entered a plea in the case, he has a hearing in june where a judge will decide it there s enough evidence to go forward with a trial. anderson? what about the reporting that the suspect visited restaurants where two of the victims worked? people magazine saying that apparently he visited the mad greek where two of the victims worked. we had previously reported thaxana wor there. people siting a former employee who apparently said they saw kohberger come in twice, there was nothing
from reuters siting a shipping website saying that it is seeing super yachts from the oligarchs turning up in the maldives and they don t have an extradition treaty with the u.s. so are russia s super rich trying to put clear blue water between themselves and the president of russia, possibly, certainly i suspect they are deeply worried about getting another question being can they even influence the president if they ask here in russia and if they do have access to him because the truth is, that the people who are really close to president putin is body guards, the people in the fsb as it s called, used to be called the kgb and we re told they re deeply loyal and would die for him, frankly. i apologize for the traffic jam. you wanted to answer the question about peace talks
it s a little hard to believe at this stage of the big sprawling that resulted in a guilty plea and two felony indictments but we have news of what we think is a first, not only is a first for me in the russia investigation, this is a first, first, never heard anything like this before, special counsel robert mueller was appointed by the second in command at the justice department by the deputy attorney general. he reports to the deputy attorney general. he could be fired by the deputy attorney general and that arrangement between muller and the justice department makes this a potentially awkward piece of news. siting a source who has not seen the request but told about it, abc news now reports the special counsel robert mueller just demanded that the justice department itself should hand over a bunch of documents that pertain to muller s investigation.
but in a section not redacted by defense and intelligence agencies, prince does not pull any punches. siting a lack of innovation and vision at the department of defense and he said, the example, the black water grizzly. it was designed to protect them from ied and he tried to market it to the department of defense. but no such luck. we built, i think the best vehicle going. spent all of our money doing it and it was more lesson that the d.o.d. is incapable of making a merit based decision. he said that extends to the clandestined services. he said, little ops little problems, no ops - big ops, g problems and no ops, no problems. he is confined to to the