for analysis on the address. director of the office on u.s. politics at the university college of london. very good morning to you. as we ve just heard there from the small clip, the president s focus was clearly framed around his biggest foreign policy crisis, that is of course ukraine. he addressed key concerns in kyiv. do you think he hit the right notes? the right balance? great to be with you, isa. biden s main challenge was twofold. he needed to tout the white house s chiefments and he had to talk about the problems. overall i think he was successful. in the economy biden emphasized strong gdp and growth. he understood inflation reaching 40 year peak. on covid he highlighted the pandemic relief bill and progress on immunization.
up obama for example, for the russian annexation of crimea. is this something that reverberates with voters? is it going to come down to whether it ultimately affects them in their pocketbooks? i wonder what you think the political on the ground, people going to vote in the midterms ramifications could be? you know, we re really in a moment we ve never had before. in a foreign policy crisis, or 70% of the republican party doesn t think joe biden is a legal president. and that person, how do you react to that? how do you deal with that? we ve never had a propaganda wing, like we have in fox news, just reading off the russian talking points. this never happens. i mean, walter cronkite didn t do this. and i think it is terribly weakens the americans image in the world, of a unified strength and foreign policy
that the threat, while severe, is no worse than the spin over the past eight years. and of course this would be a big moment for him to go meet with vice president harris. and a big moment for her. because this is the first time she has been dropped into a live current active foreign policy crisis. and we haven t seen how she operates in that case. secretary blinken is also here and will be speaking at the conference in just a few hours. yeah. it will be a big test, and you will be all over it. david sanger, thank you for being with us this morning. as you just heard from david there, secretary of state blinken laying out several steps the u.s. says it expects russia to take in the coming days to justify starting a war in ukraine. . it could be a fabricated so-called terrorist bombing inside russia. the invented discovery of a mass grave, a staged drone strike against civilians or a fake,
well, i would say that the united states has supported ukraine s security over the years. sending military support. in this specific instance, americans are looking at the president of the united states and listening to him say that they re going to have to pay a price. the white house briefing today, the press secretary said that meant american values have to be put first and, therefore, americans are going to see their energy prices go up. well, there is two things wrong with that first that s a choice by the biden administration to allow for a foreign potential war, invasion to effect domestic energy here at home based on president president biden s domestic energy policy colliding now this climate change agenda with this foreign policy crisis. the other thing, the 3w50u9 of domestic energy production in an independent production as a country is that americans don t have to worry about a foreign war far away where they do not feel like they have an interest and where they do not w
standing up to putin versus trump, praising on him in helsinki, right? like show people exactly what they re up for, because biden is proving that this is a redemption moment for him on foreign policy, and i think that s gonna continue to play out as it continues to proactively communicate to the public step-by-step, what s happening in this crisis. and weather what s going on is real or imagined in the minds of some of the folks on the right, we know they re gonna attack, right? donald trump repeatedly brought up obama for example, for the russian annexation of crimea. is this something that reverberates with voters? is it going to come down to whether it ultimately affects them in their pocketbooks? i wonder what you think the political on the ground, people going to vote in the midterms ramifications could be? you know, we re really in a moment we ve never had before. in a foreign policy crisis, or 70% of the republican party doesn t think joe biden is a legal president. and tha