before the holidays. let s hope so. lauren fox, thank you. and now this mr. president, did you speak to president zelenskyy today? yes. that s president biden confirming that he did speak with ukrainian president zelenskyy yesterday the white house saying yesterday the president emphasized the u.s. would prioritize strengthening their air defense system after strikes yesterday killing two, injuring ten. frederik pleitgen is live in berlin. i know there s been a lot of conversations that zelenskyy has been having with world leaders yesterday, spoke with president biden, and the leaders of turkey and france as well. now he s getting ready to virtually take part in the g 7 meeting today. what s the context of this? as it seems to be coming on a focus of what the aid is looking like but peace talks still appear far-off.
emphasizing delivering for constituents. these are historic things we re doing in the rescue plan, the build back better plan, infrastructure plan and we re getting them done. that s what we ll run on and california suggests voters will prefer it. democrats have a three-seat majority right now. it wouldn t take much to flip control of the house. trace. trace: mike emmanuel live in d.c. dana: the border crisis and other factors driving down the president s poll numbers. what it could mean for the mid-terms and a tale of two world leaders yesterday. one talking to reporters, the other staying silent. if joe biden doesn t take questions from journalists and therefore isn t accountable, we have the question is he actually fit and proper and competent to be doing the job?
there remains one more argument in the can and should be brought forth, that is the national interests. there s a reason that the republicans in congress have held back from defending the president s kusconduct in this particular matter. boss no republican wn will say it s okay to deny military help to an ally in the face of territorial aggression? can you walk into a town meeting and go on fox and say he s proud or she s proud to support donald trump s holding up of arms aid to ukraine with russian tanks threatening his country s survival? is there one of them willing to defend this selfless reckless dereliction of duty. that s why it s here that the democrats need to make their final case because it s not just about donald trump being an embarrassment, being laughed at by world leaders yesterday. it s not him wanting to throw a handful of political dirt on joe biden but throwing out his