we have david ignatius and jon meacham standing by.athan, start with you and your reporting how this entire trip came together. >> president biden is one of the few western leaders who has not made a trip yet to kyiv american officials citing security concerns but hopes to have a face-to-face meeting, a talk might have happened at the g20 in indonesia but president zelenskyy opted not to go to bali and not left his country since putin invaded. and president biden invited him to washington and it came together quickly. over a matter of days only finalized this past sunday did zelenskyy agree to come to washington today with a real element of risk. needs to safely get out of ukraine and then get back into his home country afterwards with, of course, the invasion still very much ongoing. a couple target audiences here when zelenskyy and president biden meet. first, their day, meet at the white house. have private meetings. meet with the national security team and then address reporters for a joint press conference late in the afternoon an

this report came out late last night, david ignatius. you look at donald trump the day after there is an attempt to overthrow america's government. and he has trouble con fronting the fact that it was his people that did it, first of all, and secondly that the election was over. and you know what, you can trace from that point forward his continued legal troubles that may, in the end, put him in jail. >> what i found in this report is the clarity that we want from investigations. so often committees come out with documents that are just a mishmash. this one is clear, well stated and makes evident that there is one person to blame for what happened on january 6th, the person who encouraged, in a sense, organized the activity on the capitol that became the insurrection. and that's president trump. the evidence of trump's knowledge that he had lost the election, going to go forward despite that that's in this report is devastating. and i found most emphatic the committee's insistence that this person, that this man, donald trump, who has do

it's david ignatius, there they go again. and they learned absolutely no lessons from what has happened to then in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2022, and instead they're making all of these decisions and mistakes, framing a small house majority that democrats will be able to use effectively against them over the next two years and into the '24 election. mccarthy, instead of trying to play to voters that they keep losing, by talking about taxes, by talking about balanced budgets. by talking about regulatory, for whatever republicans want to talk about to get the suburban voters back, they're doing extreme things, virtue signaling, talking about investigating the investigators. it was a disaster for durham, it will be even worse for these people. and defending, coming out and demanding justice for the january 6th rioters and insurrectionists. these are the very people who lost the suburbs for republicans, who lost the '22 election for republicans. who lost the 2020 election for republicans. who lost all of those other elections f

david ignatius, we crossed the ten-month mark of this war., it will be a year that ukraine has been under attack from russia. they continue to go after civilian targets. they continue to go after infrastructure, like the power grid, as the cold winter grips that country. president zelenskyy, of course, was here in the united states last week, pleading with the united states congress to hang in there with him. what does this look like now, as we turn the corner into a new year? how long do you expect this war to continue? >> so, willie, we're in a particularly brutal phase of this war. on the ground, it's a stalemate. it's a war of attrition, bitter artillery battles that remind people who visit the front of world war i and the slaughter there. if you stand back and look at this last year, i think there are some basic conclusions. for russia's vladimir putin, this has been a disaster. it turns out he has failed in his basic attempt to remake the face of europe rather than splinter europe, get more russian advantage. he's brought europe togethe

attacks in ukraine, we have associate editor of "the washington post" and msnbc political analyst david ignatiusto talk to you. russia continues to hit these critical infrastructure areas and they're doing it with the help of drones. how critical is the biden administration's efforts to stop iran from providing drones to russia? >> so, alex, the new reports of u.s. efforts to tackle that problem of the iranian drones, seemingly endless supply that russia's been getting from iran by finding ways to sanction iran, to cut off the supply, also the reports of conversations between the white house and israeli national security officials to see if we can -- if the u.s. can get israeli help to help ukraine defend itself. they know a lot about iranian drones obviously. would love to find ways to show that they're impotent in this conflict. i think there are efforts to target more precisely the efforts where these drones are being launched. they've extraordinary targeting capabilities behind the scenes. those tools will be used to try to identify, attack, take out these drones and missiles that are causin

washington post columnist david ignatius wonders.video message to the leaders of the british joint expeditionary force, which includes 10 northern european countries, is asked to provide a wide range of weapons, including new air defense systems, and complain that kiev simply has nothing to repel russian missiles. russian missiles yes iranian drones russian missiles iranian drones are constantly being used to strike at our energy and you know all the details about it only one recent massive strike on ukraine hooked more than 20 million of our people strike on ukraine for the chips of more than 20 million of our people later this million-plus cities and most of the ukrainian regions. remained absolutely without electricity were disconnected from the power supply of 22 million 48,000 ukrainians. more than 10 million people had interrupted water and heat supplies to the zelensky complex. on himself with the stinger howitzer manpads. caesar tanks leopards flu fighters, as reuters said with the president, the discussion of the entire list

you have yesterday this article from david ignatius in "the washington post" about the quote, unquotehe ukraine conflict and the role palantir is playing in that, something we discussed in that interview as well. >> it's funny. i had a source this morning that said they assured me, they told me about palantir and their spac investments over a year ago. i don't recall that. but in reading the journal this morning, i found it somewhat surprising they were taking investor money, making investments with the return being that these companies they were helping to fund would buy their software. as we know, of course, as our viewers know from reporting on spacs, many of these had higher redemptions and started without as much money as they thought for growth capitol and a number have gone bankrupt but the whole thing doesn't seem right because they were helping to fund their own organic revenue growth through these investments. and obviously it's come back to hurt them because, in fact, the equity investments themselves have ended up in some cases being a zero because these cases are bankrupt

washington post columnist david ignatius wonders.ders of the british joint expeditionary force, which includes 10 northern european countries, asking for a wide range of weapons, including new air defense systems and complaining that kiev simply has nothing to repel russian missiles. russian missiles yes iranian drones russian missiles iranian drones are constantly used to strike at our energy and all of you you know the details about this, only one recent massive strike on ukraine hooked more than 20 million of our people a strike on ukraine for chips of 20 million of our people subsequently this million-plus city and most of the ukrainian regions. remained absolutely without electricity were disconnected from the power supply of 22 million 48,000 ukrainians. more than ten million people were interrupted in the supply of heat water, including the zelensky complex on itself with manpads sting caesar tanks lapard fighters mushroom pan as the raid from the president of lithuania on there was simply not enough time to discuss the entire