will involve refugees and that he will speak to humanitarian assistance experts. he will also speak to troops there in poland. then on saturday before departing he has a meeting with poland s president duda. josh, ashley mentioned the focus on refugees there comes as the president is announcing formally that 100,000 ukrainian refugees will be allowed into the u.s. the reporting from nbc news here has been the reaction so far, optimism from some of these refugee advocacy groups but also some skepticism that they re actually going to hit that number. this is a complicated process. it is. and the pressure has been building really since this war started a month ago, hallie, for the white house to do something substantial to make sure it s going to take in a number of ukrainian refugees, that this burden is not falling solely on the countries like poland and romania and the others that are on the border with ukraine. now, we don t know whether the u.s. is going to be able to hit that
november, biden was talking about poland s drift towards totalitarianism. but then came russia s invasion of ukraine, and that has really bonded these two countries. and to have president biden here in warsaw, he was in eastern poland yesterday, but really standing shoulder to shoulder with president duda, a very visible manifestation of how poland s perception in the world has changed in the past month. remember, this is a country that until the ukraine war was seen as particularly anti migrant, quite right wing, and now it is a country that is taken in more than 2.2 ukrainians fleeing the war and has been widely praised right around the world for the hospitality that it has given. and that sense of gratitude is certainly a message that president biden has been passing on to his polish counterpart, and really, if vladimir putin was hoping to exploit divisions and differences between the western nations with this
reporter: good afternoon from warsaw, good morning in the us. the president is meeting with ukrainian refugees. earlier he met with polish president duda. we have a brief view of his remarks. he expressed the importance of unity in the war russia has inflicted on ukraine, the importance of a unified nato response to the russian aggression which the president has said is the strongest tool against flatterer putin, did not expect nato and its allies to be so aligned. the president speaking with duda said they pledged to take them as the polls jenner - a surge of 2 million. we understand that. thousands of people a day trying to get into the united
the refugee efforts here that are a range of services, medical care, food, clothing, new documents for those that don t have the proper paperwork, help to get them through the systems of government that now take hold. so that s part of what the president will see here. earlier today there was an unexpected moment where the president of poland from here in warsaw was going to meet the president. as you outlined, he was closer to the ukrainian border. there was a plane issue with the president of poland. that was resolved and president duda was able to land closer to where president biden is. they re rescheduling their personal time together. that unexpected emergency was resolved and the schedule was changed to accommodate that. so back on track. it s the nature of being in a place where things have been in an emergency mode now for the month of this conflict. poland being one of the countries that has absorbed so many ukrainians and is in itself
no-fly zone has been a nonstarter. it would draw the u.s. further into war, which is something they don t want to do right now. as you just said, we learned more about the president s trip after he attends that extraordinary nato summit in terms of europe pine security council summit in brussels. he will meet with polish president duda. one place he will not be going, at least as of right now, john, is to ukraine. u.s. officials have said that is off the table. he has no plans to go after he has heard pleas and pleas to visit the war-torn country. we will see the president as he holds a call with leaders from france, germany, france, italy as they chart a path forward here, try ig to come to this conclusion what about more