i m pamela brown in washington. and you re in the cnn newsroom. historic, timely, brave, those words from ukraine s president zelenskyy about president biden s surprise trip to kyiv just hours ago. biden walking the embattled capital streets, promising america s unwavering support as air raid sirens blared. and as russia s brutal assault nears the one-year mark. a consequential trip at a consequential moment on this president s day. biden laying a wreath inside ukraine, which is an active war zone, where the u.s. military has no control. the white house giving russia a heads up only a few hours before president biden arrived and delivered this message. russia s aim was to wipe ukraine off the map. putin s war of conquest is failing. one year later kyiv stands. and ukraine stands. democracy stands. the americans stand with you, and the world stands with you. and we have teams standing by in kyiv and in moscow, but we begin in warsaw, poland, president bide listen give a
once he does here is what will happen. there will immediate i will be an extension of unemployment benefits through september. billions for state and local governments, billions for schools, billions for vaccine distribution, and expansion of the child tax credit and those $1400 direct stimulus checks. but that right there is only part of the big news that has come out today. a year after the w.h.o. declared a global pandemic we got some of the best news yet. a new study shows the pfizer vaccine prevents near all asymptomatic infections. a huge step towards ending this pandemic and getting us back to normal. on top of that the pfizer vaccine shows it is 97% effective at stopping hospitalizations and deaths including against the uk variant which doctors say is more contagious. it is incredible news delivered at an incredible speed. tonight president bide listen deliver his first prime time address to the nation and he is expected to recognize the immense lost that we have suff
and ukraine stands. democracy stands. the americans stand with you, and the world stands with you. and we have teams standing by in kyiv and in moscow, but we begin in warsaw, poland, president bide listen give a major speech there tomorrow. cnn s phil mattingly leads us off with that. phil? reporter: you know, pamela, that speech was supposed to be the corner stone of this entire trip, at least what was publicly known about this trip. that has obviously shifted dramatically, almost as dramatically as the president s visit to kyiv. dramatic in the sense that it was so secretive in nature leading up to it. remarkable because of some of the elements in the lead-in, this is a u.s. president traveling to a war-torn country, in a city that had been under fairly regular bombardment, where the u.s. had no military assets on the ground, no control of the air space above them. it s never happened before. and yet those were the stakes, that was the rational behind
chilling effect on investment, it will be harder to get american energy to market? that s the kind of action that will do that. a piece in the washington post, it s not a putin tax, it s a biden weakness tax. bide listen have to tell the radicals that the war on oil will have to wait. he s deflecting pain at home and abroad. that s a disgrace. we know those troops have the president s ear. any chance he take this is moment in history and pivots? i hope so. here s the ironic and somewhat dramatic point about this, clean u.s. natural gas, dirty russian national gas, not only has the positive geopolitical benefit in giving our allies an alternative
still the world in 2021 is different than it was in march 2020. officials say they are better prepared for the surge, they point to vaccines and boosters as the best way to control the virus and prevent serious illness. all true. and yet this fourth wave is exposing real weaknesses in how the u.s. has dealt with the virus especially when it comes to testing. on tuesday, we re told president bide listen give a speech on the omicron variant, not where he thought we would be a year ago when biden predicted christmas 2021 might feel close to normal. i believe we ll be awfully close to that if not there. it s not going to be quick, but i think by next christmas close to normal. joining me the chief medical adviser to president biden, dr. anthony fauci. dr. fauci, thanks for joining us. if you could go back in time to president-elect biden in that clip, would you tell him that we need a bigger multinational effort to vaccinate the world so as to stop mutations?