Ukraine President Zelensky addresses joint meeting of Congress

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🗓️ 22 December 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed members of Congress after meeting with President Biden at the White House. In his first visit outside of his country since Russia invaded in February, Zelensky called for continued financial support from the U.S., telling Congress: “You money is not charity. It is an investment in the global security and democracy that we handle in the most responsible way." Former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton joins AC360 to react to Zelensky’s message. Plus, Olena Gnes recently relocated to the United States from her home in Kyiv, Ukraine, where she had been sheltering in a basement for the majority of the war. She tells Anderson Cooper why she was “very proud” of her President’s speech. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, the Gavill has come down and the joint meeting is over.
0:07.8	A rousing and inspiring speech from Ukrainian President Zelensky.
0:12.2	He invoked history.
0:13.8	He talked about, he compared Ukrainian soldiers in the winter in the Domboss region fighting
0:19.8	Russians to American soldiers in 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge fighting the Nazis.
0:25.6	He quoted Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the president during much of World War II.
0:29.9	He even invoked the turning point of the Revolutionary War, the Battle of Saratoga.
0:35.0	And then what was the last thing we have with us, former US ambassador to Ukraine, Bill
0:39.0	Taylor?
0:40.0	What was the last thing he said in Ukrainian?
0:41.4	It's a Slava ukraine, which means glory to Ukraine and the response for all Ukrainians
0:47.9	come back with glory to the heroes.
0:50.2	Glory to the wrong Slava.
0:51.6	And that was something a message he delivered throughout his speech, giving credit to the
0:56.1	heroes on the front lines.
0:58.2	And I have to say one of the things, Jim Shooter, that I was thinking while watching this
1:01.8	was, man, this is Vladimir Putin's worst nightmare.
1:05.4	He thought that this war was going to be over in 24 hours.
1:08.8	He thought Zelensky by now would have been abandoned and killed.
1:12.9	And instead, Vladimir Zelensky is being, is time magazine's person of the year being
1:17.8	greeted as a hero by a bipartisan group of the House and Senate.
1:24.0	I mean, I don't have much sympathy for Vladimir Putin any day, but he's not having a good
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