as the conflict nears the one-year mark, the russian president this morning is, again, falsely accusing the west of starting a war and claims russia wants to solve the conflict peacefully. meanwhile president joe biden is in poland as wool speak following his historic trip to ukraine s capitol. we ll have new details about the surprise visit including why the president chose kyiv. meanwhile the maga members of congress stay on brand criticizing the president for visiting the war torn country. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, february 21st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. this morning president joe biden is in warsaw, poland, where he ll visit president aduda ahead of remarks. it ll begin at 7:20 eastern followed by a meeting leading to biden s speech marking one-year of war in ukraine. he is set to return home following that meeting. today s events come after president biden delivered a message to his russian counte
stands. america stands with you and the world stands with you. kyiv has captured a part of my heart, i must say. putin thought ukraine was weak and the west was divided. as you know, mr. president, i said to you from the beginning he s counting on us not sticking together. he thought he could outlast us. i don t think he s thinking that right now. god knows what he s thinking but i don t think he s thinking that. but he s just been plain wrong, plain wrong. and one year later the evidence is right here in this room. with his visit biden became the first modern american president to step foot in an active war zone where u.s. troops were not on the ground. and now a day later we re beginning to learn how the secret trip came to be. according to a senior white house official the visit had
nuclear policy, ronald reagan did that on his own initiative. members of the cabinets were not informed until very shortly before. it would not be the last time he surprised them. my fellow americans, i am telling you today that i have signed legislation that will do this to russia. he cracked a joke into a might come he didn t know it was on. they could be bombing in 5 minutes. it was a joke of course, it s comic premise was focused on very dead serious cold war rhetoric. as we got closer to 1984, they noticed he was going to be the first modern american president to never have sat down with a russian leader. not that he was to blame.bl in the first term, they would say why aren t you negotiating with the soviet leadership? he would say, how can i they keep dying on me. very where a bunch of old me