Is President Biden simply helpless in trying to lay down the law to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu? A look back at the January 2018 video shows that former Vice President Biden proudly explained to the Council of Foreign Relations event how he muscled Ukraine’s President Poroshenko. He described how he issued his ultimatum: They have 6 hours to either fire their country’s Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin or else lose the access to $1 billion; and they folded.