times since the war began. and our own christiane amanpour is look at to meet the polish president. president duda. on what he s pushing president biden to do. a lot going on we ll have a full full special report coming up tomorrow night 9 pm eastern. 12 are viewers, thanks very much for watching. i m wolf blitzer, in the situation room. cnn tonight with alison camerota starts right now. good evening everyone. welcome to special holiday dish on cnn tonight on this presidents day. one man who seems to want that job, governor ron desantis, taking his war on woke show on the road today. he s going to blue states and offering police officers money to move to florida. one person who really does not like what desantis is selling, donald trump. and, congressman george santos
okay everyone, our mission is complete balanced nutrition. together we support immune function. supply fuel for immune cells and sustain tissue health. ensure with twenty-five vitamins and minerals, and ensure complete with thirty grams of protein. president biden is in warsaw following his surprise visit to kyiv. in just a few hours he will meet privately with poland s president duda and later he will deliver a speech. jake sullivan says the
brian: fox news alert now. president biden currently meeting with poland s president duda in the presidential palace in warsaw. meanwhile vladimir putin announcing hours ago russia will be pulling out of the nuclear treaty signed with the u.s. back in 2010 that they were cheating on. how will this impact president biden s remarks later this morning? he was late this morning, maybe rewriting that speech. former ambassador kurt volker served as u.s. envoy to ukraine joins us now. ambassador, so far we watched vladimir putin speak for over an hour. one of the things he said he is getting out of the nuclear treaty. he had a veiled threat of using nuclear weapons he said this war was started by ukraine and the western allies. your thoughts? yeah. first off, it s important that the president went because he is now staked america s credibility on ukraine winning this war.
challenges we will have to face. i m absolutely confident in that. so it is a delight to be back, and i am anxious to get our discussion going, although the president and i solved all the problems in the other room. is nothing left to solve. [laughs] president biden: all kidding aside, this is a critical, critical, critical relationship for the united states, and we thank you for all the cooperation and h help. reporter: president biden, any reaction? thank you. steal them so they you ve got the president receiving a warm welcome from the president of poland. mr. duda spoke for about 10 minutes, and then joe biden, in a wide-ranging response, touching on all sorts of things, as is very joe biden. he thanked him and talked a
poland does he want american troops there to fend off putin? or does he want nato troops? yes, he wants american troops. that s what they re good to be talking president biden about. basically, because president biden is hesitating to put troops, does not want to put u.s. troops in ukraine to directly fight russians, they already have some u.s. forces here in poland. they been doing a lot of training of ukrainian forces but he wants more of a permanent footprint just out of fear that, if ukraine falls, poland could be next. ainsley: thank you so much, peter. we re looking at video of our president with the president of poland, president duda. they are meeting this morning and our president s schedule to talk at 11:30 but he s running behind, so are not sure. brian: in terms of the actual war itself, vladimir putin stocking up troops again. they ve been through about six weeks of training. he had a big draft and told everyone to report. a lot decided to leave the