soon. putin s speech comes with new reporting this morning on china s growing concerns about russia s weakened status on the world stage. meanwhile, we will hear from president joe biden later this morning as he is in poland now to meet with allies following that historic trip to ukraine. also ahead, the maga members of congress staying on brand, criticizing the president for visiting ukraine. we ll go through some of their comments. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, february 21st. with me here in new york, way too early host and the white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. at the table with joe in washington, pulitzer prize-winning columnist at the washington post, eugene robinson. former white house press secretary now msnbc host jen psaki. editor for the washington post, david ignatius. also with us, founder of the bulwark, charlie sykes. joe, incredible, staggering, historic scenes yesterday of president biden walking th
joe biden s presidency on the international level. if you ask what, perhaps, another highlight was, it had to be that speech in warsaw. i believe it was last march. an extraordinary speech that really laid out the parameters of america s involvement. he is going to be doing that yet again today. tell us about it. yeah, we re looking at live pictures right now. the arrival ceremony for president biden, who will give a speech later today. president duda hailing the significance of this visit by president biden, not just because of the visit to kyiv but the significance of his being inside the borders of poland, who had been so strong and a good ally to the united states in this effort to bolster ukraine against russia. let s go to warsaw. that s where we find nbc news foreign correspondent josh lederman. josh, what should we expect today as we await the president to arrive in just the next few minutes here? reporter: yeah, willie, we actually just watched that motorcade roll through
and in washington. he critically suggested that russian intelligence believes that the u.s. is considering testing doing some kind of a nuclear test. said if the west does that, then we will test we will conduct a nuclear test, too. he says he will stop cooperation on the strategic weapons agreement, then quickly said, we re not saying we re exiting that agreement. that is the last agreement between the u.s. and russia over nuclear weapons. so he justified that by saying, look, the west is helping ukraine with intelligence. why would we allow inspections and give ukraine more intelligence? it went on and on like that, willie. it really was just like we expected from president putin. no compromise. no apology. after a year of killing,
flying along the polish border but not being able to follow the train into ukraine. yeah. as biden goes in with a small staff, winding on an excruciating ten-hour train trip, where the russians, yeah, could have very easily taken the train out, taken biden out. he did the trip anyway. willie, it is really something. it s been a long, hard winter for the ukrainians. and for joe biden, for the american president, any american president to arrive at this time shows such an extraordinary vote of confidence. also, of course, with the message, kyiv stands. we re going to stand next to you as long as we need to. and it was clear that the ukrainian people felt that. there are extraordinary videos
soon. putin s speech comes with new reporting this morning on china s growing concerns about russia s weakened status on the world stage. meanwhile, we will hear from president joe biden later this morning as he is in poland now to meet with allies following that historic trip to ukraine. also ahead, the maga members of congress staying on brand, criticizing the president for visiting ukraine. we ll go through some of their comments. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, february 21st. with me here in new york, way too early host and the white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. at the table with joe in washington, pulitzer prize-winning columnist at the washington post, eugene robinson. former white house press secretary now msnbc host jen psaki. editor for the washington post, david ignatius. also with us, founder of the bulwark, charlie sykes. joe, incredible, staggering,