briefing on the aid that is happening from the usaid director and the team of experts who are looking at the real crisis of refugees who are pouring across the border. the president will have a chance to meet refugees tomorrow, not at the crossing point but further in to poland tomorrow, and he will have that chance to have a personal connection as he is gathering really human intelligence here, seeing the service members, talking to experts, and seeing the leaders of the world that he has been meeting with, and of course, here in poland meeting with president duda, and this is a key alliance that is so important at a time when poland is playing a pivotal role, part of the alliance and the geography of poland makes it critical and they have opened their doors so widely to the ukrainian refugees, and how can the u.s. help? and the president will make remarks tomorrow that will be the culmination of this trip, and expect that to be a way to
kyiv as they have in the past. another one, kathryn, if we ve got time. i know there is a rick but the president would have done well to have gone to ukraine. robert tripp, i thought, i m sure if humanly possible, he would have made that excursion. i thought when vice president kamala harris went to poland a few weeks ago, perhaps she would have tried to do so. then three foreign leaders got on a train and met with president zelenskyy. i m sure president biden wanted to do it. i thought that would have been the feather in the cap of this trip. i want to know what you think. go to the website at smerconish.com and answer the survey question pipe just brought it up with admiral stavridis, should nato respond, if russia uses chemical weapons in ukraine? you heard what the president had to say on that during the course of his trip. i ll bring results later. up ahead after meeting with president duda, president biden now heading to the national stadium to meet with some of the
of those little children actually told the president, please, please pray for my father who is still in ukraine fighting the war. yesterday biden and president due i da got a briefing from duda got a briefing from aid workers on the ground about what is happening, their needs. also small polish border towns are leaning a lot on these aid groups to give food, shelter and medical attention, and the u.n. refugee agency is reporting mayors of larger polish cities like raqqa caw and warsaw krakow, they are also struggling to accommodate new arrivals. on thursday the administration pledged a billion dollars in humanitarian aid and promised to accept up to 100,000 ukrainian refugees. but, arthel, as we know, the vast majority of ukrainians do not want to go far away from their homeland. they want to stay as close to the border as possible, believing that they are soon one day be able to be reunited with
WARSAW, Poland (AP) In a forceful speech in Warsaw denouncing Russia's Vladimir Putin and praising Ukrainians, President Joe Biden on Saturday also appeared to have a more subtle message for his Polish hosts.