russia. the lead starts right now. two world leaders two different messages a nato rallying cry for biden while putin blames the west for forcing him to invade, vowing to stay the course as russia s brutal invasion nears the one-year mark. i ll speak with a congressional democrat from minnesota assaulted in her d.c. apartment building. why she s blaming a segment on fox for threats to her that came afterwards. as the epa demands norfolk southern clean up its train wreck in ohio, democratic governors are blaming the company for corporate agreed. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with president biden s big speech in poland today marking nearly one-year since russia s unprovoked invasion of ukraine. biden reaffirmed the u.s. s commitment to ukraine reminding the world there s more at stake than one country s sovereignty. the freedom for all future generations he says. there s no sweeter word than freedom. no goal than freedom. all we do now must be done
heard bide ten talk about before, this idea of democracy versus autocracy. how did biden make his case? reporter: jake, if yesterday in kyiv, that surprise visit was a dramatic, deeply similar bottic moment about the war itself, today was to paint a broader picture, underscore the bigger stakes, a larger effort that the president detailed about why this isn t just about ukraine or just about the war, in but many stead about the fate of wercht western democracies, particularly pointing here in warsaw as the president detailed, is about freedom. there s no sweeter word than freedom. there s no nobler goal than freedom, no higher aspiration than freedom. americans know that, and you know it. and all that we do now must be done so our children and grandchildren will know it as well. jake, when you talk to white house advisers, they acknowledge that they understand this war that is on going shows no sign of ending any time soon. the western coalition painstakingly held toget
the list. and power is first. how we got there, i remember when trump was elected and i reached out to lizzie and i said, whatever are we going to do? and she said, don t let the bastards grind you down. there s no answer to this question, i m sorry, that will make sense. but margaret atwood and the story we re telling and the shape of our country and our world are hand in hand. and i don t believe the writers are trying to write about the world, they are following the characters in this story. the fact that they re lining up is terrifying. and it confirms margaret atwood s profound intelligence. it s a very upsetting one thing i think about all the time is the fact that it s so clear in our world, misogyny is at the rep till onbrain stem of all of these nationalist movements. you know, there s no so, there s no sense of making men s participation, in my experience, men seem to participate in pregnancies, but we re just going to punish the women. and it s something abou
now the only surviving son, buster murdaugh is testifying in his father s murder trial. lawmakers in idaho want to make it a felony to give specific care such as sex reassignment surgery or puberty blockers. we re talking to a family trying to stop the bill. a tale of two presidents and two speeches with two very different messages. russian president vladimir putin took the stage first early this morning in moscow, justified his year-long invasion of ukraine by blaming ukraine, the united states and other western allies for the war. hours later in poland, president joe biden delivered a rallying cry to the world declaring kyiv is standing strong, vowing the united states will keep supporting ukraine. biden accused putin of committing atrocities and said he would not succeed. phil mattingly is in poland with biden. one o of the main thems you
to russia before the invasion. i think he is a rational actor who has miscalculated significantly. reporter: but president biden accused putin of playing with fire on a level not seen since the cuban missile crisis 60 years ago this month. he, in fact, cannot continue with impunity to talk about the use of a tactical nuclear weapon, as if that s a rational thing to do. the mistakes get made. and the miscalculation could occur. no one can be sure what happened, and it could end in armageddon. reporter: russia is arguably at its weakest point in the war, low on troops, it has implemented a partial draft and is even offering pardons to convicted prisoners in exchange for combat tours. low on weapons, russia s increasingly reliant on iranian drones with russian arms productions squeezed by sanctions. in rare public statements, the