this audience. you are looking at right there, obviously also there are dignitaries like poland s president duda. we want to go out to lviv, major strikes happening over an hour ago and we want to check with jeff paul. jeff, while we wait for the president, what can you tell us about the latest there? jeff: griff, after what has been a fairly quiet few days, sirens rang out and thick smoke billowing the air. the mayor here in lviv saying the russian army is responsible and there could be more strikes as we continue into into the night. the other thing we should underscore is the timing of this griff. as you mentioned the president is in poland, 48 miles away to the border of poland and for
he s back there fighting. and i remember what it was like when you have someone in a war zone. every morning you get up and you wonder, you just wonder. you pray you don t get that phone call and there are amazing group of people. peter: president biden is expected at the speech location about 6 or 7 minutes from right now. we expect to see him on camera shortly after that. i m told by a white house official here in warsaw that there are some people in the crowd for the president s speech who recently escaped ukraine themselves, back to you. gillian: peter there s a lot of concern here in washington about the messaging on this trip so far. he appeared to tell the president told american troops yesterday that they were going to go into ukraine and the white house walked that back and told president duda the u.s. would expect additional hundred thousand refugees and the white house walked that back. are you getting any clarity from
was not the case. you ve been told president andrzej duda he was going to accept an additional 100,000 refugees the white house then clarified this is not the case at the same announcement made the day before yesterday. what do you make of that? unfortunately it s a mixed messaging and perceived weakness. which was won as the incentives for vladimir putin. it pains me too say that part all the intel were getting on the house intelligence committee indicates that. they were watching closely what happened with afghanistan. there would look at the status of nato and looking at the strength of the person in the white house for the getting more mixed messages but nobody said today, i hope he gives messages of strength and clarity. those of the two most important thing any leader special leader of this country can give pretty s gotta stop telling vladimir putin in the world what he s not willing to do that s