top of the hour. good morning. we are glad you are with us. i am o i am / poppy harlow. don will be back tomorrow. kaitlin is live anchoring in poland. good morning. kaitlin. hi. we have a lot of pierogis the last few days. we are here in warsaw. president biden has finally arrived. he made that surprise trip to kyiv. they are in the room. we will see if president biden and president duda make any comments. this is the second meeting between these two leaders in 11 months. president biden was here right after russia invaded ukraine. he gave a very forceful speech. he is expected to do so again today. president duda turning into a surprising ally for president biden. they are meeting inside the presi
from east europe now, it is the west that is the strongest, that has the most power, that is still in charge of this transatlantic security architecture. yeah, and to see how poland boosted its defense spends also alone and what they are buying from south korea. we are getting live images also this morning just moments from now president biden, president duda meeting inside the presidential palace there. you can see the two delegations, this is an expanded bilateral meeting between the two of them. that means poboth of their top advisor will be accompanying them in this meeting. as the white house has talked about what this relationship has looked like. we ll listen in. translator: on behalf of myself and the polish society and all those present in our country, all the guests, all of our friends and neighbors from ukraine, i would like to thank
fighting that fight. watching these pictures, you see another thing, which is, president biden is the head of a western alliance that s moved east. the center of gravity for nato is now warsaw, poland. it s not berlin. it s certainly not france. it s moved east. that s what this trip will be about, is president biden talking to president duda in poland, but then talking to the so-called front line states. the bucharest 9, i think they call themselves, which is these nato nations in the east. i think we need to begin to rethink nato. nato is now an alliance with this different shift of gravity, also shifting north. going north. to sweden and finland, the new members. it is vladimir diplomaticall you look how the center of gravity has shifted to poland. gene robinson, what s
directly to the russian people at one point and saying this is a war of choice, that it is not of ness tu, it is a tragedy that putin has chosen here and saying putin could really make it all go away with just one simple word and noting, obviously, he has not done that. giving a shout-out to poland talking about what they have done since russia invaded crane, not only serving as a logistics hub, but also taking in over a million refugees and praising president duda and the polish first lady there. his message was saying that autocrats and people like putin only understand no. they are not going to take away people s freedoms or redraw borders like they are trying to do with ukraine. that s really the overarching message, is saying everything that putin was saying in his speech about who is responsible for this is wrong and that u.s. support for it, nato support for ukraine, is not going to change or go away. yeah.
beginning of a massive set piece to show that the leader of the free world is here to support for as long as it takes as they say, but also to show the european leaders that the leader of the free world, the leader of the nato alliance is here to support this joint endeavor. i think it is really important that we did hear earlier today president duda and president biden exchange the remarks before they went into the closed door talks. but duda has presented this drawing a straight line from reagan and the fall of the berlin wall alongside two distinguished pols, oleg walenska and all of the way to two decades later to president biden as duda has said and many