where is this go when it comes to getting out the >> i think that even zielinski seems cognizant of the fact that on the surface a question of accounting especially in a country that does have a history of endemic corruption he knows that he's gotta and he has said we we're down with that yes yes we will that's a reasonable request. so and i think i've wondered if you pulled that i expect most americans would say that's reasonable requests it's our tax dollars. i don't understand and haven't delved into the complications of does that how does that go with the next payments and we'll install things and does that become a cudgel and does this reasonable sounding and indeed seeming seems to me a reasonable request as taxpayers i think everyone would want to see that does that get used in a different way that that hinders american support for ukraine and if history is a guy that very well could happen and then we'll be having a different conversation about that request. i think it's politically smart way to approach it and i think it's something that america would welcome and and zelinski h

or that the president zielinski's or that the president zielinski's administration would be concerned that administration would be concerned that administration would be concerned that if they did this without some sort of if they did this without some sort of if they did this without some sort of endorsement from the united states that endorsement from the united states that endorsement from the united states that other support might be cut off i don't other support might be cut off i don't other support might be cut off i don't think that will happen i do hope that my think that will happen i do hope that my think that will happen i do hope that my my president's administration has given my president's administration has given my president's administration has given a strong endorsement to to kiev to say a strong endorsement to to kiev to say a strong endorsement to to kiev to say do what you need to do and we will do what you need to do and we will do what you need to do and we will continue to try to find capabilities to continue to try to find capabilities to continue to try to f

i want you to know president zielinski, i want you to know all the people in ukraine you know that the american people are with you every step of the way. we will stay with you. we will stay with you for as long as it takes. what you are doing, what you have achieved it matters not just ukraine but the entire world. together i have no doubt we will keep the flame of liberty burning bright in the light were main and prevail over the darkness. thank you for being here mr. president. we will stand with you. >> thank you. >> dear mr. president. please switch on equipment. once again president biden, audience, journalist, ladies and gentlemen. i came to the united states to to give thanks to the people of america who do so much for ukraine. this visit to the united states became a historic one for our relations with the united states and the american leadership. in the last 30 days of this work, we started a new face of our interrelations with united states. we became a real partner and ally, and i felt today with all my meetings during our talks -- once again i support of the international

last month predicted that it zielinski last month predicted that it zielinski last month predicted that it is in fact a women's rebellion in russia is in fact a women's rebellion in russia is in fact a women's rebellion in russia that scares putin the most with more on that scares putin the most with more on that scares putin the most with more on the power of of a woman's movement in the power of of a woman's movement in the power of of a woman's movement in russia we now turn to russian russia we now turn to russian russia we now turn to russian journalists and curator ana narenska journalists and curator ana narenska journalists and curator ana narenska anna good to see you on tv rain and i anna good to see you on tv rain and i anna good to see you on tv rain and i need to tell my viewers right now that need to tell my viewers right now that need to tell my viewers right now that we are friends so we know each other for we are friends so we know each other for we are friends so we know each other for a long time the first thing that i was a long time the first thing that i was a long

doe5 already under way 5uck because if mr zielinski does come to washington that would be his firste the war 5tarted that would be his first outside of ukraine since the war started and that would be a sensitive issue. highly sensitive as he points out and not confirmed yet going by what us media reports are sent. in terms of the background to this and what you might do or say or ask for. is there any sense of that?- you might do or say or ask for. is there any sense of that? well, we do know that the ukrainians _ there any sense of that? well, we do know that the ukrainians have - there any sense of that? well, we do know that the ukrainians have been i know that the ukrainians have been asking for better air defence weapons. because of asking for better air defence weapon5. because of the decamping by the russians to strike there is a subject mi55ile5 the russians to strike there is a subject missiles and drones. we do know if there have been reports here that the americans are considering upgrading the air defence they are a 5upplying to supply patriot battery mi55ile5. so that i

thursday morning we are taking your calls and comments discussing the latest on ukrainian president zielinski's visit to the u.s.. legal affairs of reporter talks about the final committee report. watch washington journal live at seven eastern, thursday morning on c-span or c-span now a free mobile video app. join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, texts and tweets. c-span is your unfiltered view of government funded by these companies and more, including comcast. >> watch afterwards every friday a.m., eastern on c-span. -- friday 8 p.m. on c-span. president zelenskyy and biting spoke about the u.s.

perhaps their most creative player, peterzielinski and perhaps their most creative player, peter zielinskiplays a different position for his club napoli, doing great things in syria in italy, he is tucking in a little bit more centrally behind lewandowski and it was zelensky who had the chance before the pinball in the box and he should have scored for the polls but it's a zero who has the french ahead and you just think didier deschamps will be calming down those french nerves. the world champions. their captain hugo lloris making a save in that passage of play. just as we have had a record from 0livier giroud, 52 goals, and in a2 caps for hugo lloris and that equals the record from the great french defender lilian thuram. lots of french records. they would like a few more goals. it’s french records. they would like a few more goals.— french records. they would like a few more goals. it's going to be an interesting — few more goals. it's going to be an interesting second _ few more goals. it's going to be an interesting second half. _ few more goals. it's going to be an interesting second

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judy: back at the white house, zielinski thanked the u.s.upport and presented president biden with a metal warned by a ukrainian officer, given that the officer's request. later, standing side-by-side, president biden said the new aid package would send a powerful message to putin. pres. biden: he was wrong, wrong, and wrong. he makes it clear that he cannot possibly win this war. that is the time we have to put this president in a position to be able to decide how he wants to react. judy: they spoke about weapons, energy sanctions, and support for peace talks. zelenskyy urge the a's -- the u.s. to stay engaged in the war and it its support for ukraine. >> we will win, and i really want to win together. thanks so much. not want, sorry, i am sure. judy: his last stop is his first in person address to congress, where he will ask lawmakers not to forget about ukraine. now, for some perspective from kyiv, as a cold, dark winter continues, with intermittent power and water. i'm joined by special correspondent volodymyr solohub. hello again, i kno

and the white house hopes this visit with zielinski sends a message to putin that the u. s is in for the long haul when it comes to its support for ukraine, andrew thank you. house democrats have voted to release former president trump's tax returns. trump fought for years to keep his financial records under wraps. but a house committee will soon make public six years of his returns. democrats say the move is needed so they can draft new rules around presidential ethics. they say there was no audit of trump's tax returns as required by the irs during his presidency. republicans say releasing the tax returns could jeopardize the privacy of all americans. now to the clean up after a deadly earthquake in northern california residents say the shaking lasted for nearly 20 terrifying seconds. a state of emergency declared in california overnight as officials assess the damage from tuesday's 6.4 magnitude earthquake in humboldt county. felt like i was in a horse, uh, tornado, my house is on post and peers and it completely moved in circles. um it was it was pretty terrifying to

some of those requests are already going through ahead of a meeting with mr zielinski at the white house, the biden administration announced another military aid package worth more than $1.8 billion american people are prepared to have us stand up to bullies stand up for freedom. lansky's address comes as congress votes on a massive spending bill that includes $45 billion in aid for ukraine. a new state law aimed at creating transparency what california employers will start having to do come january. 1st also there might be one fallout from lower gas prices, the latest from triple a coming up after the break. now, it's official. xfinity has the fastest internet and the fastest mobile service. that's right, xfinity just increased internet speeds... again! and xfinity mobile gives you can't-catch-me speeds. plus, save hundreds on internet for your first two years when you add mobile. the fastest internet, the fastest mobile service, and major savings? can't argue with the facts. get gig speed internet for $50 a month for 2 full years when you add xfinity mobile with unlimited data. plus, g

decisions for 2023 and it's sort of talking points now because morally speaking, strategically speaking, zielinskisident biden is right, we need to support this course. but if it bugs down next year, if we get to a point where there is the stalemate and we're trying to figure out how to create a stable peace, is complete ukrainian victory the only acceptable outcome with every inch of territory being recovered?— inch of territory being recovered? �* ., recovered? i'm not so sure. there was _ recovered? i'm not so sure. there was a — recovered? i'm not so sure. there was a lot _ recovered? i'm not so sure. there was a lot of _ recovered? i'm not so sure. there was a lot of focus - recovered? i'm not so sure. there was a lot of focus on | recovered? i'm not so sure. i there was a lot of focus on the patriot, the air defence system which the usa they will provide ukraine. why is that, do you think, such a priority for president zelensky? yesterday's debate. it president zelensky? yesterday's debate- it is _ president zelensky? yesterday's debate. it is important _ president zelensky? yesterday's deba

decisions for 2023 and it's sort of talking points now because morally speaking, strategically speaking, zielinskit, president biden is right, we need to support this course. but if it bogs down next year, if we get to a point where there is the stalemate and we're trying to figure out how to create a stable peace, is complete ukrainian victory the only acceptable outcome with every inch of territory being recovered 7 i'm not so sure. there was a lot of focus on the patriot, the air defence system which the usa they will provide to ukraine. why is that, do you think, such a priority for president zelensky? it's today's debate. it is important because it cities are being attacked ruthlessly and readily by russian drones and cruise missiles and other systems. the more we can do to help ukrainians live a semi normal life or at least keeping their resilience going is for the better. i agree with the us decision to provide these weapons and i'm glad president zelensky reinforced his gratitude but he also noted, as your news report pointed out, he does not have quite the artillary force he wants. he doe

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zielinski address -- zelenskyy address meets divided address.oreshadowing a bumpier road that his country will face securing usaid once the gop takes control of the house in a few weeks -- u.s. aid once the gop takes control of the house in a few weeks. brian fitzpatrick of pennsylvania said that zelenskyy had "overwhelming support in the chamber and will continue to have that." michael mccaul of texas, who was set to board the chair committee next year, says it will push more aggressive focus from the u.s. on military assistance, but critics of ukraine aid showed little openness to changing their minds because of the speech, walking into the address, warren davidson of ohio said he did not think zelenskyy should be speaking from the house floor. "we should be focused on trying to contain the work, not expand the war. this kind of sends the message we are kind of ok with expanding the war." a group of republicans in november called for auditing are spending in ukraine. here are some of that news conference with republican members. [video clip] >

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>> next, a discussion about president moore -- president baltimore zielinski's president to the united states. essential russian attacks through the leroux's. -- from belarus. this is just under an hour. >> good morning in washington. good afternoon in europe. we're going to talk about the visit of president zelenskyy to washington. within a 34-hour period, he went from the height of the war in ukraine, the city of bakhmut, which moscow still failed to take, to washington to meet with the president and congress we have with us an extraordinary panel. we have former deputy secretary of state steve egan with us. we have general breva with us. and former national security adviser steve hadley. we'll go a couple of rounds of questions and then take questions from the audience. why do you think president zelenskyy came to washington and what did he achieve in coming? >> hello, thank you for having me. i'm so happy to be here. as ukrainian i'm bursting with pride and as a politician i do understand that it was critical for us to finish the year with such an important event. we see that no ma

huge ovation by congress that war now in its 3/100 day, as the congress continue to clap for mr zielinski, a lot of security to get him into the united states as well, um and he is there to think congress and as you mentioned $44 billion in this new bill. is all going to go to aids in ukraine, and, of course he liked to have that seen through. so let's listen in, shall we do you? his excellency adama zelinsky, president of the ukraine. thank you so much. thank you so much. no. thank you. it's too much for me. all these. for our great people. thank you so much. ddr americans. in all states. serious and communities. all those who value freedom and justice. cheers. it is strongly as we ukrainians. you know our cities in each and every family . i hope my wars of respect. and gratitude or is an eight in each american heart. madam. vice president. i thank you for your efforts in helping ukraine. madam speaker. you're bravely visited ukraine during the full fledged war. thank you very much. great toilet. thank you. right privilege to be here. dear members of the congress, representatives of both

c were made within the past couple of weeks after mr zielinski indicated to president biden that thehe first country he wanted to visit when the time was right to travel. fox news nate boy has more now from kiev. athena on his way home from the united states. ukraine president vladimir zelensky met with polish president andre duda to discuss additional aid to ukraine. it comes one day after zelensky secured $1.8 billion in fresh us aid, including the patriot missile defense system. russia calls the new package and escalation that could prompt a military response. the russians have been brandishing threats of escalation since the war began, and particularly since the united states and the europeans help has been so decisive today , the us is imposing additional sanctions on russia aimed at preventing moscow from replenishing its military. the impact of those sanctions in the east is not clear. heavy fighting continues in bach moot as both sides claim progress. the situation on the front line has stabilized with the main efforts of the russian troops concentrated on completing the libe

as ukraine defends itself against russia president zielinski said russian attacks have led to the destructionf 50% of ukraine's energy infrastructure. on saturday, a russian drone strike targeted the ports city of odessa in southern ukraine. wouldn't you? more than 1.5 million people in the odessa region are without electricity. only critical infrastructure is connected and as much as it is possible to supply electricity. officials in odessa could take 2 to 3 months to repair the damage. electrical infrastructure right now they're focused on restoring power to hospitals and work crews in rural kansas are clearing up or cleaning up thousands of barrels of oil that spilled from the keystone pipeline. at least 14,000 barrels of oil leaked crews are working in near freezing temperatures to clean up the biggest oil spill in the history of the keystone pipeline. the pipeline operator shut down the system last week after a breach in the pipeline that caused nearly 600,000 gallons of oil to leak in northern kansas that is nearly enough to fill an olympic size swimming pool. digging a closer look at t

we have just had a tweet from president zielinski confirming that he is travelling to the us.e capabilities of ukraine. we have had statements from the white house and the ukrainian presidency confirming that this trip is going ahead. president zielinski is expected to meet president biden at the white house, and then he will be addressing the us congress. but i think we should expect some major announcements especially unexpected announcement about the patriot missiles. this is the kind of weapon that president zielinski has been saying that ukrainians need to protect cities across the country from those russian air strikes. 0bviously across the country from those russian air strikes. obviously a very significant visit, very important for the ukrainians. 0bviously important for the ukrainians. obviously this visit happens as millions of ukrainians across the country have been left without electricity, heating, power, water, as those russian air strikes have targeted essential infrastructure. last night we had a warning from the country's prime minister saying that russia want

the kremlin criticize the outcome of low to mere zielinski's visit to washington.n said moscow followed the meeting with president joe biden in speech to the u.s. congress and saw no sign of a willingness to listen to russia's concerns. vladimir putin says russia has no limitations on military spending for the war in ukraine. fallen crypto titan bankman-fried defrauded investors stealing billions of dollars for his own benefit. now bankman-fried associates, the former ceo of alameda research and gary wang the co-founder are accused of helping him. they pleaded guilty to criminal fraud charges and are cooperating with prosecutors, the sec. bloomberg has learned china plans to cut quarantine requirements for overseas travelers in january. under the rules, the requirement to spend time in a quarantine hotel would be scrapped and arrivals subject to three days of monitoring. overseas arrivals currently isolate for as many as eight days. global news 24 hours a day, on air and on bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 cou

i do want to show you the zielinski speech. we would do that the later in the program.espite the evidence assembled by the january 6 committee, any accountability for donald trump's attempt at an electoral coup d'État in 2020 will evaporate when the new congress convenes. happy holidays to all. and here is russ. $1.7 trillion spending spree extravaganza. most politicians sitting in session board, never read the 4000 pages, eager to go home and tired of the criticism they deservedly are getting. how disgraceful. let's go back to the phones now. bill, alexandria, virginia, democrat line. caller: good morning. i am talking about the january 6 committee. the democrats took something that was very serious and made it into a tv show like the republicans said. starting with things like marching in. they march in in a single file. that's the most ridiculous thing i've ever seen at every hearing. like they were so important, the democrats took august off. how can an attempt to that you are investigating, you take august off? there was a hurricane in florida on a wednesday. they

i do want to show you the zielinski speech. we would do that the later in the program. despite the evidence assembled by the january 6 committee, any accountability for donald trump's attempt at an electoral coup d'État in 2020 will evaporate when the new congress convenes. happy holidays to all. and here is russ. $1.7 trillion spending spree extravaganza. most politicians sitting in session board, never read the 4000 pages, eager to go home and tired of the criticism they deservedly are getting. how disgraceful. let's go back to the phones now. bill, alexandria, virginia, democrat line. caller: good morning. i am talking about the january 6 committee. the democrats took something that was very serious and made it into a tv show like the republicans said. starting with things like marching in. they march in in a single file. that's the most ridiculous thing i've ever seen at every hearing. like they were so important, the democrats took august off. how can an attempt to that you are investigating, you take august off? there was a hurricane in florida on a wednesday. the

part of what we have seen over the last year to really create a narrative and symbols in the way zielinskiwar _ doing that. and we have seen him since the war began _ doing that. and we have seen him since the war began doing - doing that. and we have seen him i since the war began doing numerous video calls. what difference will it make to be there in person? we still saw some republican members of congress sitting down while others were on their feet giving him a standing ovation. i were on their feet giving him a standing ovation.— were on their feet giving him a standing ovation. i think presents, we have seen _ standing ovation. i think presents, we have seen it _ standing ovation. i think presents, we have seen it through _ standing ovation. i think presents, we have seen it through how i standing ovation. i think presents, we have seen it through how we i standing ovation. i think presents, i we have seen it through how we took, but there is something that adds to that to be present and increase by that to be present and increase by that the effect that you have. in this case also,

very long blackouts, and they believe the russians, civilians have become the target and president zielinskin the manchester arena bombing in 2017, and will require venues and local authorities to draw up preventative action plans against terror attacks. it follows a long campaign by martyn's mum, figen murray. he will bejoining us he will be joining us a little he will bejoining us a little bit later on here. == he will be joining us a little bit later on here.— later on here. -- she will be 'oinin: later on here. -- she will be joining us- _ later on here. -- she will be joining us- it _ later on here. -- she will be joining us. it was _ later on here. -- she will be joining us. it was freezing i later on here. -- she will be i joining us. it was freezing last week. this morning, we haven't been outside, it is much milder but much wetter. it's incredible how quickly it has changed. indeed, take out the rain and it is almost like stepping out on holiday. let's have a look at the temperatures compared to last friday. on the outskirts of oxford we are at 20 degrees warmer than we were. there

to agree to peace on russia's zielinsky to agree to peace on russia's zielinsky to agree to peace on russia's conditions ukrainians are now hostages conditions ukrainians are now hostages conditions ukrainians are now hostages the kremlin makes it very clear the kremlin makes it very clear the kremlin makes it very clear ukraine's leadership has every ukraine's leadership has every ukraine's leadership has every opportunity to resolve the situation in opportunity to resolve the situation in opportunity to resolve the situation in such a way as to fulfill the such a way as to fulfill the such a way as to fulfill the requirements of the russian side and requirements of the russian side and requirements of the russian side and accordingly stop all kinds of suffering accordingly stop all kinds of suffering accordingly stop all kinds of suffering for the local population for the local population for the local population previously the kremlin hid the fact that previously the kremlin hid the fact that previously the kremlin hid the fact that its goal was to cause ukrainians harm its goal w