two sources, already on his way here. john berman here for anderson. to say that volodymyr zelenskyy s journey could be risky is no overstatement. then again, so was his visit to bakhmut on the front line to award combat medals to the troops. and to say his expected visit to the white house and address to congress tomorrow would be moments of the highest significance and drama is no understatement. it certainly has echoes of winston churchill s christmastime visit to washington in 1941, just two weeks after japan s attack on pearl harbor and america s entry into the second world war. he made that crossing on the royal navy battleship duke of york. the crossing took ten days. president zelenskyy s journey will be a lot shorter, but the stakes could not be higher. cnn s phil mattingly at the white house starts us off tonight. phil, what do we know about this visit, which is already beginning? yeah, president zelenskyy already on his way to the united states, according to two sources. a
for the first time since russia invaded his country, tried to take the capital, and topple his government, and reportedly tried to take his life, ukraine s president is leaving his country, and according to two sources, already on his way here. john berman here in for anderson. to say volodymyr zelenskyy s journey could be risky is no overstatement. then again, so is his visit today to bakhmut on the line to award combat medals to the troops. to say he is expected to visit to the white house and address the congress tomorrow would be moments of the highest significance and drama is no understatement. it certainly has echoes of winston churchill s christmas time visit to washington in 1941, just two weeks after japan s attack on pearl harbor, and americas entry into the second world war. he made that crossing on the royal navy battleship, duke of
bologna. every other medal during that period a lot of them were downgraded. talking about combat medals, combat valor awards they were downgraded by the same administration that did not give one single living person the medal of honor. this is one of those cases. a navy cross for travis manion downgraded to vale investor star. we have new information that shows that he stayed in the front of his humvee even while running out of ammunition kept firing at the enemy so his marine and corps men would be safe i did not pull back when he could. he was running out of ammo and he knew it. he stayed there and died. that s new information. the navy demands new information if they want to reopen the cases. we got the navy the new information and hopefully they will take a look at this and realize they downgraded a lot of awards from pentagon bureaucrats and lawyers back here that were already approved on the battlefield it needs to stop and we need to revisit those awards. brian: travis manion.
speaker paul ryan. where is the speaker? where is he? he has been i ll tell you, he has been terrific. you know honestly, he s like a fine wine. every day goes by, i get to appreciate his genius more and more. now, the other goes against me, i m not going to say that, okay? he s a great guy. and we have some amazing things in store. and we re going to work on taxes. we re going to work on obamacare, and he s going to lead the way so thank you. reporter: even though it s been more than a month since elected president, trump could not resist taking one last shot at hillary clinton. asking the crowd here in wisconsin whether anybody remembers her name. george and christine. jim acosta, thank you. republican congressman ryan zinke of montana is donald trump s pick for interior secretary. zinke is a 55-year-old ex-navy s.e.a.l. who arrested two combat medals in iraq. hins is he joined the house in 2015, if confirmed he would
lawmakers who are outraged that this medal honoring work far from the battlefield would rank above combat medals for those who have served on the front lines, including the purple heart, and the bronze star. pete is the ceo of concerned veterans for america who has been awarded a bronze star for service in iraq and lt. colonel bill cowan, a fox news military analyst and retired marine officer has been awarded three purple hearts. thank you so much for being here. this is interesting because chuck hagel, the defense secretary stood behind this decision, he thought this was fine to rank this medal above the purple heart, above the bronze star, citing the chief the military chiefs who he said told him it was appropriate, but now there s been such a backlash, they are reconsidering. they haven t reversed it entirely, but reconsidering it. pete, your thoughts on it? well, there s a big difference. i think they ve figured out