peat ear doocy, thank you. dana: politics is always a part of the bigger picture. president biden s visit to you a crane coming against the back drop of the 2024 election and his bid for a second term. good morning, jacque. president biden has said many times a key achievement of his time in office has been keeping nato aligned not just in the face of putin s threat and war on ukraine but also the threat to broader democratic norms. as opposed to his handling of the afghanistan withdrawal, that posture has won him respect on this issue from even some people on the other side of the aisle. the president needs to understand he is a wartime president. we are know a proxy war with russia if we like it or not. a i m an america first guy. defeating the adversaries of the united states is an america first interest. those are growing fatigued with endless support with a war with no end in sight while problems at home persist. one critic has been doling out a lot of that cr
circumstantial. the stolen is expected to be called to the stand. bret: backed the blue. welcome eric adams welcome toe nyc happy to speech you something about values. more americans fled new york city maybe it s you who can learn from ron desantis. brian: here we go straight to a fox news alert. moments ago, vladimir putin announcing amongst other things that russia is suspending its participation in a key nuclear weapons treaty with the u.s. steve: great. the move comes as president biden is set to meet poland s president about an hour from now, this morning, after a surprise visit to kyiv. ainsley: alexandria hoff is live in washington. he just spoke at 4:00 a.m. eastern time. tell us more about what putin said and more on this story. this is a very prolonged speech. vladimir putin has just said that russia is suspending its participation in the new start nuclear weapons treaty that reduces the number of missile lawrges. he said russia must stand to missile t
as the conflict nears the one-year mark, the russian president this morning is, again, falsely accusing the west of starting a war and claims russia wants to solve the conflict peacefully. meanwhile president joe biden is in poland as wool speak following his historic trip to ukraine s capitol. we ll have new details about the surprise visit including why the president chose kyiv. meanwhile the maga members of congress stay on brand criticizing the president for visiting the war torn country. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, february 21st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. this morning president joe biden is in warsaw, poland, where he ll visit president aduda ahead of remarks. it ll begin at 7:20 eastern followed by a meeting leading to biden s speech marking one-year of war in ukraine. he is set to return home following that meeting. today s events come after president biden delivered a message to his russian counte
hello and welcome to a special president s edition of inside politics. i m abby phillip in for john king in washington. president biden surprises the world with a trip to kyiv. russia s aim was to wipe ukraine off the map. putin s war of conquest is failing. plus, former president jimmy carter is now at home receiving hospice care in a small georgia town where he spent most of his life. and can ron desantis muzzle the media? the presumptive 2024 candidate makes his case to overturn a decades old supreme court decision and strip away protections for the free press. but up first, a truly unprecedented trip happening now in ukraine just hours ago the president visited an active war zone and today joe biden has put solidarity ahead of his own personal safety. [ air raid sirens ] he arrived in kyiv this morning, greeted by those air raid siren. the trek to ukraine s capital is timed nearly to the one-year mark of russia s invasion. the visit comes with a $500 million pr
addressing the series of crisis piling up for his administration. president shrugging off the chinese spy flight, low polls, investigations, classified document scandal. sandra: all of that as the nation waits to hear whether or not he will run for office again. how is all of this playing in new hampshire where a presidential challenger could soon emerge. we will be speaking to new hampshire governor about his possible 2024 white house run coming up. john: begin america reports waiting for a briefing from john kirby from the white house, and the pentagon, they have found the payload of the chinese spycraft shot down off the coast of south carolina. new department after state department officials revealed more about the scope and capabilities of the spycraft. i m john roberts in washington. let me say it again, sandra. happy friday. sandra: happy to make it to friday with you, john, details, the american public are going to want to hear. according to the state departme