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Ukraine yet? >> as i pointed out in response to an earlier question, we're continuing to deliver assistance to ukraine. we have done so just in the past few days. >> the kremlin read-out says president putin proposes that president biden lift all restrictions on diplomatic missions is. that something that the president is open to? >> president biden is open to creating functioning diplomatic missions in both countries. he didn't make any specific commitments with respect to the best pathway to do that. president biden and president putin should direct their teams to figure out how we ensure th...

Expansion east and there's no offensive strike systems deployed near russia. getting more context in to the conversation. the call lasted over two hours. according to the white house read-out, president biden voiced deep concern over recent russian troop movement near ukraine. the statement adds that president biden made clear russia would be dealt economic and other responses if military escalation takes place. minutes in to the call, the russians were trying to spin in their direction. you'll hear more about it now. >> martha: here's jake sullivan taking the podium. let's listen in. >> good ...

But they're going to talk about a range of issues. you mentioned ukraine and some other things that affect the region. so again, i'm not going to get ahead of the president. but certainly he's looking forward to talking. >> and we should expect a read-out of that conversation after -- >> as you know, we'll put out a read-out so all can see. >> which will be a change from the previous administration because whenever those two leaders talked, we always found out by the russians. >> which administration are you talking about? >> never mind. >> let's talk about the omicron variant and the new rest...

And will continue to do everything to get him back. you and i have talked in other sessions, i've engaged chief of the pakistani army on multiple occasions to solicit his help. engaged other senior leadership to use their influence to -- to see if they can help us there. we will remain focused on this. i hope to see movement in the future. i don't have anything to offer in terms of specific read-out from the interagency process and i defer to mr. sullivan to provide commentary there.

Careful about when journalists you talk to, what you say. i can't imagine that general milley didn't know that. i have to think he has a lot of regrets right now. >> martha: one of the lines in the woodward book, quoting from milley, if we atalk, i'll call you ahead of time. he claims that conversation was above board and the kind of conversation he he's a all the time. >> i think he tried to explain what that was. i have the bigger concern is the process. normally if i had a conversation and the chinese came to me and said we're concerned about this, is this going to happen, i would have that...