politicsnation. tonight s lead, multi tasking. last week, the biden administration reminded its republican detractors and the nation white voters overwhelmingly shows president biden and democrats. president biden as diplomatic chief wrapped up his successful east your pm trip marking the first anniversary of russia s invasion of ukraine with a surprise visit to kyiv. a renewed pledge of solidarity as the war drags into its second year. here at home, top biden officials were underground and east palestine, ohio responding to that trans trained around the disaster. the epa and fema worked hand in hand with local officials to clean up the mass and hold no for southern accountable for their accident. whether it was ukraine or ohio republican politicians could only offer photo ops and bad faith criticism threatening u.s. support for ukraine as another aid packages unveiled. run to the cameras in east palestine ohio to lay blame directly at president biden s feet. even as local of
situation in ohio. let me go here. i thank you for joining us tonight. this weekend, china released a proposal for a cease-fire and for peace talks between ukraine and russia. claiming to have a neutral stance on the war. however, it is also accused the rest of provoking the conflict by providing the ukraine with defensive arms. meanwhile, in a news conference, ukrainian president zelenskyy downplayed the possibility of midterm peace talks saying that russian president putin, quote, is no longer the same person, and quote, he once was. this comes after president biden called on putin to stop the war during his speech in poland on monday. and his administration wanting china against sending lethal assistance to russia. does this war have and and
do you think youngkin is easing toward playing the culture war card to try to set himself up nationally as a more popular figure in the national gop circles? he ran for governor of virginia using that bar throughout the governorship so far. all right, representative-elect jennifer mcclelland, thank you for being with us tonight. we later on politicsnation, the popular comic strip gilbert is done. after recent racist comments from the creator. this has apparently been a long time coming. i will explain. after the break, we are rising above the political gain to see who s doing the real cleanup following the toxic train wreck in rural ohio.
insight from where you see? i think it has a path towards that. look, we all want peace in ukraine. i think we should be abundantly aware that in one sense, peace could easily be achieved. putin could stop attacking and withdraw. he started this war. and russia invaded unprovoked. has been continuing to prosecute the war in brutal and roofs looks fashion. violating the most basic rules of humanity. if we want to win this, more if china wants to end this war, they could tell putin there sometimes ally to stop. in, fact if china wanted to stop this, where they could stop it very quickly by imposing the same sort of sanctions on russia that we have imposed upon them. if china did that, russia would have nowhere to turn. they would have no choice but to bring about peace. we need to keep in mind what started this and what is continuing it. the path to a peaceful resolution starts with stopping
support for ukraine. i understand it s a concern that you share with republican chair of house armed services alabama congressman mike rogers. why the bipartisan concern over this congressman, briefly, we are out of time. sure, manufacturing weapons is really really difficult and takes time. we were not from an industrial base standpoint ready to wage a war like this. now, look, i m in favor of giving ukraine anything that they need that now. we need to figure out how to manufacture more, in the short term ukrainians are. help and that s what we ve been doing. we do have a need, not just in the u.s.. but with our allies to manufacture the weapons we need to meet our national security objection. we re beginning to turn that around. there is a lot more work that needs to be done. i said we re at a time. congressman, before you, go i know that you let this week with members from the black home initiative about the important work to combat historic housing discrimination