Washington, DC…President Biden Hosts a Bilateral Meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine

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well Mr President welcome back thank you
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so much welcome back to the White House
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thank you so much and the Oval Office
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and uh it’s great to be at your side
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once again we’re going to stay at your
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side you know we stand at a real
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inflection point in history I know you
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and I have talked about this where the
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decisions we make now are going to
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determine the future for decades to come
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particularly in Europe this is one of
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those moments Congress needs to pass a
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supplemental funding Ukraine before they
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break the holiday recess before they
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give Putin the greatest Christmas gift
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they could possibly give him and uh so
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because we’ve seen what happens when
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dictators don’t pay the price for the
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damage and the debt and destruction they
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cause and they keep going when no price
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is paid the threats to America to Europe
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and the world will only keep Rising if
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we don’t act and I intend that we act
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American people Democrats and
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Republicans uh iike I think understand
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this and they understand the very real
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fight that’s going on right now in the
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winter this winter Putin plans once
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again to bombard Ukraine’s electric grid
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intends to with rockets and plunging
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families in the darkness in the coldest
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part of the year and doing great damage
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we can’t and won’t let him succeed we
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mustn’t let him succeed that Mr
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President I’ve called on Congress to do
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the right thing to stand with Ukraine
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and stand up for freedom and I want to
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thank you for being here you’re going to
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help the cause and I don’t want you
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giveing up hope thank you so much Mr
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President dear journalists um are really
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glad to be here at the White House today
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and share some very important messages
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thank you for invitation and I like to
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thank American our partners for the
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support and today the special day a
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special day for Ukraine Ukrainian people
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it’s a day of Our Land forces almost
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600,000 incredibly Brave Ukrainian sons
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and daughters are on the battlefield and
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they were powerful this is their day and
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and really they prove everything day
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that Ukraine can win and our forces are
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advancing and we’ve successfully
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defeated Russia in the Black Sea and
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Russia is hiding the Rems of its Neville
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Fleet in remote base and meanwhile
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Ukraine has set up an expert Corridor in
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the Black Sea that that’s really
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boosting our economy and Global Food
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security yesterday I met with the IMF
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and World bank and they impressed with
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the Ukraine’s economic growth almost 5%
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and that’s significant Ukraine is
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gradually becoming less depend on Aid
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and we are moving to the right I think
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right direction and I want to discuss
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with the president how how to strengthen
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it especially enhancing our air defense
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and ability to destroy Russia’s
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Logistics our goals for 24 are clear
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take away Russia’s superiority and
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disrup their offensive operations and I
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think it’s real and also some other
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important things I met with the heads of
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American defense companies yesterday
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thank you very much Mr President really
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powerful companies I thank them and
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thanks all the workers Engineers
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managers who buil and build the strength
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of American weapons helping Ukraine
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boost the development of arsenals of
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democracy President Biden agreed and we
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spoke about it in September to join
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weapon Co production is very important
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for us and we’ll discuss how to speed up
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this and all we also need to work faster
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with the Frozen Russian assets over 300
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billion
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pren uh assets from terrorists and we
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should should use it to protect against
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Russian Terror and I want to talk about
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some details regarding our reforms and
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EU integration Ukraine continues to
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reform its institutions even during the
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war is very important for us and we are
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successful I think that’s very important
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and people need to be confident that
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freedom is secure and strong enough to
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win thank you very much Mr thank you
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before the
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Press before the Press whoa
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whoa hush up a second okay I got one
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more thing to say I just signed another2
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million draw down from the Department of
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Defense for Ukraine that’ll be coming
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thank you thank you