Of congress who may be skeptical or frankly unwilling for the u.s. to continue to push a court court support in the american people were frustrated the amount of people, he said your money is not charity, it s an investment of democracy and global security. that line, i think, is one of the key lines for the entire speech. and i say, very quickly, i covered trump, it is so stunning to me to see president zelenskyy and the house of representatives speaking in the same place to impeach trump into does it a 19. and the circumstances he had tonight. we have artillery, yes. is it enough? no. earlier say we have one patriot missile, a yes, we will ask for more. he was very candid about what he wants and what he thinks he needs, helping accelerate what he thinks he needs for the ukrainian victory by giving them what they so desperately need. and he s very candid about what he wants what he thinks he needs. and hoping accelerate what he wants to be this ukrainian victory by giving them w
From ukrainian president zelenskyy. he invoked his three. he talked about speaks intimately, directly to americans in their home, the compared ukrainian soldiers directly to ukrainians through in the winter in the donbas the use of selfies and whatever video he might be making. so, in a sense, i think he region, fighting russians to really has captured americans imaginations as this kind of american soldiers in 1944, seminal anti-putin man of the during the battle of the bulge, moment. he was very, very savvy about fighting the, nazis quoted franklin delano roosevelt, and really pressing the right he even invoked the turning buttons in order to elicit an emotional response, and also to point of the revolutionary war saratoga shore up the support ahead of what is promised to be a very difficult year for ukraine. and then what was the bill taylor the last thing he he urged that time is of the said in ukraine. he said [speaking non-english] which means glory to ukraine and the r
And ukraine, it is coming from him. but it s also coming from the people themselves, as he referred to in his speech. let me bring in jim sciutto and ask a question. ambassador yovanovitch, i certainly don t have to remind, you i might have some remind some people watching that you are a central figure in the first impeachment because you are talkative the former president, because you did not go along with a very different approach to ukraine, a dismissive approach, one might say. i wonder if you could describe the shift between then and now in terms of u.s. support. and could ukraine be putting up the fight that it is today without that change, without that shift, without u.s. support? i think you are support is absolutely critical to the fight in ukraine right now. and every ukrainian, starting with president zelenskyy on throughout the population, recognizes that. and is very grateful every american that they meet, how grateful they really are. our support is crucial.
Missiles, bombs, human rights violations that last five months or a month i should say you are watching spell of the special edition of ac360. let s go to anderson cooper this flag was flown over the now. yeah, jake, thanks very much. you are watching three 60. capital today in honor of the we are talking more about president zelenskyy speech in presidents visit. the team here in new york i want to first go to clarissa [applause] ward standing by in paris who has of course been covering the war in ukraine from before it began. clarissa, i m wondering what you made of president zelenskyy s address. one of the things he talked about, he talked about iran and in honor of the presidents the alliance between the two and telling the members of visit. congress it is a matter of time before they strike at other of your allies yeah, i think, anderson, that volodymyr zelenskyy [applause] understood that he had to meet the moment. and i think he certainly was successful in achie