40 minutes trying to walk back the president s ad-lib line in poland. we know still there and should they leave it, they should have probably left it then we have mark milley who going to sit in front of the armed services committee. the same mark milley engineered the afghanistan withdrawal the biggest disaster in american history. the millie told us ukraine would lose this war in 72 hours and lose 15,000 men and now tells us we are going to be in for a long war. why we should settle for a long war when we have the benefit of having ukrainian fighting force fully trained mostly by us destroying russia head to head. all they need is weapons. we had to train an afghanistan army ineffectively didn t work. afghanistan, iraq it took forever to stand up an army and train them even how to put a uniform on. ukrainians can fight like spartans. all they need is weapons. it is time to get them tanks. it s time to get them harpoons. it s time to get them the middle. migs.
announcing that we will join our allies in closing off american air space to all russian flights, further isolating russia and adding additional squeeze on their economy. he has no idea what s coming. all right, joining me now, author of the new book lincoln and the fight for peace more relevant today than ever. john avlon. john, we heard the president say last night he s got no idea what s coming. that appeared to be an ad-lib line, by the way, of vladimir putin. it seems to me he is walking this fine line between threatening more action to vladimir putin, but also making it clear there is a limit. more is coming, but only up to a point. right. and that point is no american troops on the ground and a kinetic war as long as it stays in ukraine. this was an energized biden embracing the mantle of leader of the free world. it is unprecedented in terms of
clearly seen enough from vladimir putin s waste war on the innocent people of ukraine. phil mattingly in warsaw for us. phil. pamela and don white house officials made clear that the president had a mental he wanted to deliver at the end of the european trip. it was a mental that would be delivered to the ukrainians, certainly that message to russian president vladimir putin. but more than anything else a message to western democracy sees about the importance of unity and the inflection point he sees the world in. message he absolutely delivered in a forceful manner including an ad-lib line that went a little further than most white house officials wanted. for god s sake, this man cannot remain in power. tonight president biden delivering a forcefulful and dramatic condemnation of vladimir putin. a dictator bent on rebuilding an empire will never erase the people s love for liberty. the white house later clarifying biden was not call for regime complaining.
spokesman, stated that it should not be decided by biden, by inference the u.s. and the west. it should only be putin s rue mufl a removal of the russian people. two have a streenlgic ic stra fights. one the fight in and for ukraine. and then to project and push through into the russian federation. and that gets at the core of what the regime fears most, its own people decide to fremove let s talk about the white house reaction to the president s ad lib line. just a week or so ago gee, they