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A white house official that he, president biden, was invited to ukraine. the white house isnt commenting on that, but you can imagine a trip like that would be highly unlikely, especially right now when the white house is drawing down its footprint of personnel and telling americans there that the time to leave is now. but i think one of the complicating factors here is that even as the u.s. and its european allies warn of retaliation in the face of aggressive russian act, there are still differ...

Well as to the justice department in any investigation it may be or will be undertaking with regard to the whole january 6th overturning of the elections. so i think that there is a strategic reason for him to cooperate, and i think he is well aware of it. >> and barbara, im just wondering, the fact that he was the personal attorney to the president at the time, is there a lot of attorney/client privilege situation that he could call on to try and not answer direct questions about this? >> yeah,...

This week. but as the white house navigates next steps, jose, the white house just said moments ago that president biden is expected to speak with uk prime minister, boris johnson, as this situation overall grows more dire and more tense. but to your point, the state of play is such that the u.s., european allies have been pressing putin for weeks to pull back his 130-plus thousand troops there at ukraines border, but this frenzy of diplomatic activity, to include a number of world leaders, who ...

Security and what they say, sphere of influence from soviet times. that doesnt change, but what they have, theres a different situation in geopolitics. in 2014, the u.s. and the european union had a strong sanctions against russia. they harmed the russian economy, but here we are, years later. russia is putting a lot of pressure on the border. the main actor here for me, in my opinion, is china. russia is seeing that world politics are changing, but maybe the u.s. look weaker right now, after af...

To the western portion of the country, widely seen as a safer place to be in the event of an invasion. i was speaking to one civic activist who said, for the time being, that she, her husband, their 11-year-old daughter, and their guinea pig are going to stay here in kyiv, but they have a plan to evacuate their daughter in the case that the situation deteriorates any further. and theyve had the conversation with their 11-year-old. take a listen to what she had to say. >> yesterday, we discussed,...

Investigation over his dealings in ukraine. could cooperating with the house 6th committee potentially help him when it comes to that probe? >> i think it can. and, you know, i think that rudy giuliani, do not underestimate him. i know in recent years, he came across as kind of a crackpot, but he spent many years working for the southern district of new york and he knows how this works. he prosecuted mafia families. he knows about exchanging information for cooperation for leniency. and so i thi...

Testifies. hes a lawyer, but is he acting as a lawyer? and if he is acting as a lawyer, does it matter because hes the presidents personal lawyer? hes not part of the executive branch. you several different kinds of privilege. you have attorney/client privilege which happens when an attorney and a client discuss legal services. and that privilege can disappear if its communicated to a third party. >> can these conversations that giuliani was having with ukraine be deemed as providing legal servi...