certainly taking the brunt of all of this exodus. john: certainly they are and you can sympathize with them wanting to go back home, but no place to be. 80,000 a day, goodness. ashley webster in poland. thank you. gillian. gillian: bring in south carolina republican congresswoman nancy mace, she recently returned from poland where she got a look at the crisis. thanks for taking time to debrief us today. tell us what you saw, what people on the ground there told you, what your lasting impression is. i can tell you from a firsthand watching and witnessing what was happening in poland with millions of refugees, an inspiring display of humanity and you don t see refugee camps all over poland but see after a few days after they are in processing, into the country, polish families are opening their homes and welcoming these refugees, mostly wep and kids because their husbands and fathers stayed back
more. but the security risks that would keep him from doing that. here s the president earlier today. i m here in poland to see firsthand the humanitarian crisis and quite frankly part of my disappointment is that i can t see it firsthand like i have in other places. they will not let me, understandably, i guess, cross the border and take a look at what s going on in ukraine. reporter: so tomorrow s speech, which will be the cap of the president s trip to europe for this visit, a month into this conflict, will in many ways be a chance for him to summarize what he s been able to do here and what other leaders have been able to do. the diplomatic piece. the attempt to try to learn more about what s really happening on the ground and to again give a voice to what is at stake in terms of democracy against
the reef? it s also the question, a questionable strategy if it is one in the sense that one day after they say they will focus attention on the east to then attack the western country, one of the largest cities close to the border of poland, only about 45 miles from the closest border and whether that took place coincidentally shifting strategy to move resources to the east or if it s likely due to president joe biden, about 240 miles from where we are about that is what the mayor said here, i direct message to the white house from russia sending attacks there, creating the shockwaves and fear for the refugees who fled their towns come here hoping this
explosions near lviv after russian missile strikes that appeared to target and oil depot there. the attack was 50 miles from ukraine s border with poland, one day after russia said it would shift strategies and focus on liberating the eastern donbas region. russian forces reportedly released the mayor of the northern ukrainian town who may be holding captive and reportedly agreed to leave the town at the chernobyl nuclear site. ukrainians continue protesting for the mayor s release. alex hogan is back with us lift from lviv ukraine. lviv had a bombardment for the most part of the work, taking place on the east and the south but the rocket attacks today brought it very close to home. it definitely changed the tune of what it means here in
clearly laid out in the last several weeks about a man he s never trusted. overall, look, i think the way he started it was so important and poignant given where we are. obviously, pope john paul ii, polish pope, was an outspoken critic of communism throughout his time, even when he was warned to stay away from poland. he made the first papal trip to poland, to his native country. and putting it through that frame. i think the administration has been very cautious about any ideas of a new cold war, particularly with china, a new cold war with russia. but that was very clearly the frame here, which lines up with the frame through which he s kind of operated his entire presidency to this point, the autocracy versus dmemocracy frame. i also think officials made it clear he wanted to underscore that this isn t easy, something that countries can just give lip service to or talk about. it s something that takes work on a daily bays is and something