to richard haass, president of the council on foreign relations and the author of the world: a brief introduction. welcome back. i want to start with the expulsion of bart gorman, the deputy chief of mission there at the u.s. embassy in moscow. the decision by the administration to tell us three weeks after the expulsion and now they re considering a response. if they re trying to de-escalate tensions should there be some reciprocity? it s a fair question. i never thought that removing diplomats or cutting off diplomacy was a sanctions. i don t quite understand it. so to kick out russian diplomats out of the united states, i m not sure how it sends the message that we re interested in a diplomatic outcome. it s not that the people working in embassies are going to be that critical. it will have to take place at a higher level.
the deputy chief of mission, the second highest ranking diplomat in russia. state department says the decision to expel him was a sign of escalation and friction between washington and moscow. russia said the reason was because of something the u.s. did earlier in the year expelling some russian diplomats serving in this country. we look to see if the white house has any new read-out how things are going. in public events on the president s schedule today. bill: mark meredith with the tee-up from the white house. dana: go to ukraine. artillery fire has hit a kindergarten. things continue to ratchet up here. the biggest show of force yet by russia scheduled for tomorrow and carrying out a ballistic missile exercise not too far from ukraine. presiding over it will be the supreme commander of russian armed forces. they are capable of carrying nuclear war heads. in the east there is more
she had experience in ukraine, by the, way being the deputy chief of mission in kyiv. that s her on the right performing election monitoring in ukraine s 2002 parliamentary elections. when she returned to ukraine in 2016, in addition to showing american support for ukraine in its war with russia, the other major pillar of marie yovanovitch s job as ambassador was to promote anti-corruption efforts. just a couple of years earlier, ukrainians had kicked out there fantastically corrupt pro-russian president and what was called the revolution of dignity. it was ambassador yovanovitch s job, and the policy of the united states government, to push the new ukrainian government to fulfill its promises to end corruption and to practice good governance. of course, a lot of powerful people in ukraine were not interested in reform. marie ivanovich expected to make enemies in ukraine for carrying out her work. what she did not expect was for
zelenskyy and others to get an up-to-the-minute assessment of their needs. as we work on the assessment, we re seeing what we and allies and partners can deliver. we re looking actively now at the question of airplanes that poland may provide to ukraine and looking at how we might be able to backfill should poland decide to produce those to supply those planes. reporter: so as kevin had mentioned earlier, these planes are on the top of zelenskyy s wish list. of course, as the russian onslaught inside ukraine becoming more of a target, impacting civilians over the coming days. kaitlan and boris. big question on the timeline when that might happen. obviously ukraine would like to see it sooner rather than later. natasha, thank you so much for joining us. now for some analysis, we have the former deputy chief of mission in ukraine, john
she would visit the frontlines ten times as ambassador. she said it was to, quote, show the american flag and hear what was going on, sometimes literally as we heard the impact of artillery. when marie ivanovich arrived in ukraine in 2016, she was a veteran foreign services officer. in the previous decade she had been the ambassador to kyrgyzstan and armenia. she had experience in ukraine, by the, way being the deputy chief of mission in kyiv. that s her on the right performing election monitoring in ukraine s 2002 parliamentary elections. when she returned to ukraine in 2016, in addition to showing american support for ukraine in its war with russia, the other major pillar of marie yovanovitch s job as ambassador was to promote anti-corruption efforts. just a couple of years earlier, ukrainians had kicked out there fantastically corrupt pro-russian president and what was called the revolution of dignity.