>> steve: i think that was remarkable speech by the president here or full of passion and a sense of the level of desperation. the president is coming on tv and saying we're going to give you a gun, a weapon. we want more explosions off to my right, that is the southwest. we will give you weapons civilians, and we want tou help, we need your help to defend towns, villages and squares in what could become house-to-house fighting. they are trying to prepareats the last minute, arming who they can. people are fleeing, hide nothing their basements, subways or civilians gearing up to fight the russian army. >> todd: when we started coverage with you, we asked what the sense was from the ukrainian people on the ground and how it had changed over the last 48 hours or so.