prime minister as part of his close coordination with allies following the events in russia. for more, cnn's jeff zeleny is live at the white house. do they have a plan going forward for what to do about this and to answer the unanswered questions about what's going on in russia? >> reporter: jim, first and foremost, the plan clearly over the weekend was this above all torks avoid any implication of western interference in the extraordinary events in russia. that was a theme, we are told, of conversations that president biden had with all of his western allies from the united kingdom to france to germany to canada and, indeed, in that conversation with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy where president biden offered unwavering support of ukraine and its people. but it was the trying to avoid any sense of western interference with what's going on in russia which really was the focus of this administration over the weekend. now, jim, there's no doubt that vladimir putin has been in power