how this issue could reverberate potentially in the 2024 presidential race. senator coons was saying that biden s response here low key confirmed and allies, conferring with aides, is a sharp contrast to what we might see from donald trump, for example. president biden is not tweeting, he s not speaking out he s not taking a sensitive and delicate situation and turning himself into it which is what we saw donald trump do on a number of occasions during his administration. so we can expect that the presidents campaign and allies may try to showcase how biden is reacting to this crisis and draw some contrast between how trump handled situations like this. trying to project himself as a stable hand in a very unstable situation, that is something that president biden has parted himself on after years of serving as well in the senate. nbc s peter nichols and live for us at the white house. peter, thank you. after the, break reaction here at home. i m gonna be joined by democratic congress
situational reporting and affirmed their support for ukraine. biden then left for camp david and was joined by national security adviser jake sullivan who canceled a pre-planned diplomatic trip to copenhagen in light of the situation in russia. senior white house reporter for msnbc peter nichols joins us now. peter, what are you hearing from the white house on all of these developments? the white house has kept deliberately low key strategy. they don t get vladimir putin any kind of opening to say the white house is orchestrating events here, manipulating the situation. there is a vladimir putin s problem. these problems of of his own making. and they don t want to necessarily feed any impression or a false narrative from putin that the white house is coordinating this. so as to embarrass him. i also understand that you spoke earlier with senator chris coons who said it s on the foreign relations committee and also a closed biden ally. what was his reaction? he made a point tha