Reporter: Senator Schumer just said that Ukraine couldn't afford to wait a month or two more for additional funding, because it would, in all likelihood, lose the war. Is that the administration's assessment as well?

John Kirby [White house press conference]: The situation is dire. The Russians not only took Avdiivka, they've taken a couple of other towns and villages in just the last forty-eight, seventy-two hours.These Ukrainian soldiers on the front, they're making some real tough decisions about what they're gonna shoot at, and what they're gonna shoot at it with. They're running out of bullets…they are certainly beginning to lose territory, territory that they had clawed back from the Russians, and now they have to give it back to the Russians because they can't fight them off…if they continue to get no support from the United States, in a month or two, it is very likely that the Russians will achieve more territorial gains and have more success against the Ukrainian front lines, in terms of just territory gains, mostly in the east, potentially even in the south.

Reporter: Former President Trump suggested recently that his mugshot and his legal troubles are being embraced by black people, because they understand what it's like to be targeted and discriminated against…what was [Biden's] response to that comment from the former president?

Jean-Pierre: It's repugnant, and it's divisive, to traffic in racist stereotypes…you're tearing up all Americans by doing this…in any context, it is profane to compare the long, painful history, of abuse and discrimination suffered by black Americans, to something that is totally different than self-serving purposes.

Jean-Pierre: Access to voting has been compromised, in many ways it's been gutted.

Jean-Pierre: We've seen success in the economy; turning it around. It was in a tailspin when [Biden] walked in, after what we saw the last administration do to the economy.