has since ended because we are now told the polish president is speaking to the ukrainian president zelenskyy on the phone. what we did just learn from the polish president via statement, he is describing the missile incident as an article 4 situation, when a member state feels threatened by another country or terrorist organization, and a tweet issued saying duda finished talking we are in contact with allies, expect talks with the american side. we are unsure of the timeline of the mention of talks on the american side because as i mentioned, the president, president biden, was just speaking, we were told, with the polish president. whether or not the statement came out before the phone call started we do not know. here is the wall street journal editor at large, jerry baker. thank you very much for jumping on breaking news. what do you make of all this. it seems to be confirmed via the statement from the polish president that
alexander vindman, the former director for european affairs for the national security council. kelly, i understand that president biden has spoken to president duda of poland. tell us what you re hearing from your source this is hour? reporter: good to be with you. we re 13 hour as head here in bali, so it is 6:00 in the morning. and we know that president biden was on the phone with president duda of poland and that call concluded about 30 minutes ago. officials didn t give us a start time. but we know that we were told around 5:00 a.m. local time that that call was going to happen. sand prior to that, national security adviser jake sullivan made a call to his counter part in poland that lays groundwork for how these things go. so at this point this is a significant development, lead tore leader contact and that may import more information to
president biden about what does president duda know about what happened on the ground, what might his expectations or requests of president biden, what might those look like. and we know that president biden and president duda have been in communication. they have been in personal contact over the ukraine war throughout these many months. and president biden has offered additional support, things like adding us forces to fortify the eastern flank of nato in poland. also additional support for the flow of refugees into poland. really in the neighborhood of what has been happening in ukraine that maybe americans don t have as much of a sense of. if you re living in poland and you re near the border, a place that president biden has visited personally and in the earlier months of this year, it is a very heightened sense of awareness that this kind of incident could happen. well here we are. where president biden is meeting
in any investigation into the strikes. back to you. bret: greg palkot live in kyiv. thanks. we are getting reaction from president biden s team to this incident as he wraps up participation at the g-20 summit in indonesia. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich is traveling with the president wednesday morning in bali there, jacqui. hello, bret. we just got a readout from president biden s call polish president duda. expressing full u.s. support for poland s investigation and reaffirming the u.s. commitment to nato. the statement notably did not ascribe any blame. rioters is now reporting that nato allies or nato ambassadors, rather, are being summoned for a meeting with poland ringing the alarm on article 4 as greg mentioned when a member state feels threatened by another country or terrorist organization. we are awaiting details on what exactly that means for the u.s. the potential seriousness of a russian missile strike on
summit had with the polish president duda on the phone. it says that president duda described poland s on ongoing assessment of the explosions that took place near the border with ukraine, president biden offered full us support for and assistance with poland s investigation. the united states responded very cautiously, adopting a wait and see approach, wanting to corroborate reports that russian missiles landed in poland. a pentagon spokesman said earlier that officials will determine what happened and what the appropriate next steps will be in due course. a key part of this, and you reflected this already in the programme, is intent, of course. the state