against that cheery backdrop, i'm joined by congresswoman pramila jayapal, chair of the congressional progressive caucus. thank you for joining me on the show this even. let's start with ukraine before we get to domestic policies. how do you believe the crisis in ukraine will shape the president's address this tuesday? >> well, mehdi, great to see you. obviously, the president is going to speak about this, and i think he's going to talk about all of the work that he and his administration did to really try to find a diplomatic solution, for weeks, and the continuing efforts to try to get to a cease-fire with the u.n., with other nato allies and partners. i think it's important to remember how different thing might have looked if we had had a different president in the white house. the previous president, who actually spent a lot of time cozying up to a dictator named vladimir putin. and actually refusing to send military aid that congress had approved to ukraine because he wanted president zelenskyy to do him a favor of investigating joe biden's son and burisma, so i haven't forgotten

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there is a statement that was put out by pramila jayapal, the head of the progressive caucus, and barbarat it was not signed by the whole progressive caucus, just the two of them. where the rest of the over 100 members of congress that call themselves progressives? we need to hear their voices and we need to hear them on the media, loud and clear, representing as saying "stop this escalation of war. we need the money not to be spent on more bombs, but that money to be spent here at home to improve people's lives." juan: i wanted to ask you, the u.s. government has not onlyad trouble rallying the government in ukraine behind its current posture toward russia, but also among its own nato allies. i am wondering if your talks with other peace groups around europe, what the hope is for whether any of the major european powers will put the brakes on the drumbeat for war that is going on now? >> certainly, the government of germany and france have been better than united states, but there's so much pressure from the u.s. on nato to come out in unity on this. and that is why it is so in orton to

minister of finland, alexander stubbs, joins me to talk about putin's threat to his country, plus, pramila jayapala preview of president biden's first ever state of the union speech. >> good evening. i'm mehdi hasan. as the capital city kyiv