breaking news on this monday. just moments ago nbc news learned that the white house is talking about a trip for president biden to visit europe, according to three u.s. officials and two people familiar with the discussions. let s get to mike memoli with more. what more can you tell us? this is more reporting from carol lee, josh letterman and myself. we ve been watching president biden largely handle this ukraine crisis from the capitol and now we re learning the white house is in discussions to have president biden make a trip potentially in the next few weeks to europe, to show solidarity with our nato allies at this critical moment. it s been the vice president, kamala harris, who has been
relationships, and if china wants to be a global player, then it needs to play its part in helping to make this world a safer place, and not signing up for russian aggression and not supporting what putin is currently doing in ukraine, with the enormous russian aggression and invasion has to stop and there is a situation, there is rarely a situation where there is a right and wrong and this is wrong and this is my message to china. why should they listen to us? because china wants to be a global partner. it wants to be working with other country, it wants to be respected on the world stage and they are doing a good job at the moment, the world has done a good job speaking with one voice at the moment, we haven t seen that over the last few year, and you see the aggressive confrontational relationships that are between, for example u.k. and the rest of europe, that has fallen away in the last
trying to show that upity in the face of russia. but also there might be other stops as well. the president has made two trips to europe already, including to brussels last summer when he had a meeting with nato allies, as well as the g7 meeting in england and the g20 meeting in rome. the president hasn t traveled yet. there are other summits on the calendar but not for several months. this shows the urgency of the moment, the white house having him get there even sooner. mike, thank you. time is running out. that s part of a dire new warning from the red cross about the hundreds of thousands of civilians that are trapped in mariupol. we re going to take a look at what s happening there. i also talked to a former member of ukraine as parliament about the conditions on the ground next. ever wonder what everyone s doing on their phones? they re banking, with bank of america. his girlfriend just caught the bouquet, so he s checking in on that ring fund.
passion of people who want to save their homeland. they have stopped the russians. the washington post this morning has a piece by my colleague which just explains how hour-by-hour, day-by-day they ve kept the russians out of kyiv by fighting tough and hard. so we re in a phase, as you wrote it in the post this morning where it is a different phase of the war, whether it is about stopping the russians, from obtaining the goals they sought when they first invaded. you don t want to be too hopeful when you see the terrible assaults on buildings and the human suffering, but the ukrainians are doing well. they re getting visited by european leaders today. the talk that president biden himself might go to europe to be in effect a war leader of this coalition of nato that s working together, supporting ukraine. i think increasingly powerfully in the struggle. so it is a day when you can see
many things that we in the west believe have come to symbolize. absolutely right. the figure of volodymyr zelenskyy in his tee shirt, he may not look like winston churchill in his bowler hat and neat tie, but he is a symbol of the moment. i think he arouses deep passion within ukraine and across europe. as he speaks to congress tomorrow in the united states and the commitment that people feel to these brave ukrainians, led by president zelenskyy, is profound. i talked to the president of the world bank, david malpass yesterday, about how to rebuild ukraine after the horror of this world. he talked about billions, tens of billions of dollars that the world bank leading the world community is going to pour in. it is almost, joe, a second birth of the ideals of the post world war, the things that people fought for in 1945 are back and they re as animated and