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
saying president biden did not watch putin s speech and is not going to respond directly to anything that putin said today. certainly will, again, reaffirm the need for washington but also the alliance to stand together with kyiv, to set out in a quote, sullivan here, an affirmative statement of values, what the world we re both trying to build and defend should look like. and pledge, as we heard from him yet in kyiv, that he will stand with volodymyr zelenskyy. while you re talking here, president biden has arrived now. it is 1:15 in the afternoon in warsaw. a drizzly day there. greeting president duda of poland. yes, meeting with president duda, who has become a firm ally here. poland has done so much for this cause, taking in ukrainian refugees, supported the war effort. the two men will have meetings for a couple hours before we hear from president biden later this afternoon for his speech. david remnick, as we look to
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
president duda. they ll hold a bilateral meeting, then the speech from biden comes a few hours if now. david remnick, i d never ask you to get inside vladimir putin s head, but what must he be thinking as he watches what he didn t expect to happen the last 12 months? part of what you write about in your piece, this unification of the west, you know, the united states not alone in really hanging in, despite, you know, there are some voices who say, we need to stop, you know, flooding taxpayer money into ukraine. but by and large, americans still have flags outside their homes for ukraine in tiny towns across this country. does that affect vladimir putin s thinking? is there any way out of this war for him at this point? depends on how much information is reaching vladimir putin. we have seen more and more in the last few years an increasing, you know, isolation in putin and putin s circle. he doesn t let that much in the
policy distinction of joe biden is being established here on the streets of kyiv and warsaw, as well as in washington. you know, we can only hope that it continues to go well. we shouldn t get smug about this or overconfident. there s a great deal ahead, and there are going to be, as jon finer said earlier, some very, very bad days, as well. we cannot predict the day-to-day behavior of russia. president biden and president duda in warsaw. now listening to the national anthem.