he said our fathers and grandfathers remember this all too well. talking about the 1940s, what happened there. and president biden talking about, when poland joins nato in 1989. that is what brought that into play there. so important indeed. we ll is so much of president biden s visit throughout the day on cnn including what the white house is calling a major speech on the humanitarian refugee crisis. our coverage will continue. right now, smerconish is coming up. with the conflict raging in ukraine now in its second month, the president on a high-stakes trip in europe. i m michael smerconish in san francisco. after meeting with ukrainian officials this morning, president biden held a crucial bilateral sitdown with the polish president duda to discuss the allied response in ukraine and the refugee crisis as more
ali? kelly, our schedules don t allow us to talk as much as we used to, but i now know my viewers understand why i would never do this with anybody, but you. your depth of experience in covering these things provides some important context so i appreciate that. you and i will talk again through the course of the next couple of hours. kelly o donnell is here in warsaw, poland. you are watching a special edition of velshi. it is just after 2:00 p.m. in poland and 9:00 a.m. in the united states. joining me is the president of the german marshall fund and former assistant secretary of state for europe and eurasian affairs where she co-led the interagency to enlarge nato. it is good to see you. thank you for being with us. you ve been tracking this closely for the last few days and when i say this, the meeting that is going on or it has just concluded between president duda and president biden and the nato meeting on thursday and all of the meetings in between.
making them feel appreciated and the president eats pizza with them. he will next go to a briefing on the humanitarian situation and crisis before he then meets with poland s president, president duda but what a moment this is to see after the emergency meetings yesterday in brussels. a real unification of the nato alliance, of european leaders, western leaders across europe and president biden. it s wonderful to see this moment and i m sure very meaningful for all who serve, especially right now. so we have a lot ahead as i said, including our chief international anchor, christiane amanpour will join us live. what she s learned in an interview with the nato secretary general again after those emergency meetings yesterday. stay right here with cnn. italia on the new supreme meats and mozza meat. just like my nonna makes whenhe cooks!
reassuring president duda and the polish people that the united states will defend poland, a nato member, of course. defend poland from russia no matter what putin does. we take as a sacred obligation, article 5, a sacred obligation of article 5, and you can count on that. i ll end where i began for your freedom is ours. and in a surprise appearance earlier today, the president had a joint meeting along with secretary of state antony blinken and defense secretary lloyd austin with their ukrainian counter parts, the defense minister and foreign minister. after more criticism from president zelenskyy today addressing the doha forum, that he needs more weapons from nato and the united states. in just a few hours as kelly o donnell was saying, the president expected to cap his
you had ambassador smith on this morning answering for it. i m actually glad he called out putin. the white house had to take it back, it makes the president look like he s out of touch and and not under control, and that s bad. john: former national security council employee? he also told american troops the day before that they were going to be sent to ukraine and a few hours later told president duda that the u.s. would accept an additional 100,000 ukrainian refugees, to me, those were bigger problems. john: also said he would respond to a chemical weapons attack in kind. no. thank you, panel. [laughter] we will see you again next sunday. up next, a final word on the week ahead and how you can help the people of ukraine. (customer) [reading] save yourself?! money with farmers? (burke) that s not wrong. when you switch your home and auto policies to farmers, you could save yourself an average of seven hundred and thirty dollars. (customer) that s something. (burke) get a whol