the regional administrator says it s about reading, writing, arigt me particular and a distraction from the war. dana: thank you for that report. trace: team coverage continues. let s go to david spunt at the white house this morning. good morning to you. good morning to you. the president s speech in poland hit many significant points but it was nine words at the end of the speech that are catching the most attention. listen. president biden: for god sake, this man cannot remain in power. not even a year ago the president and russian counterpart vladimir putin held a summit where ukraine was not even the most pressing issue. now the president made that statement and the white house quickly clarified after the speech putting out a statement in part the president s point was that putin could not be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region. he was not discussing putin s power in russia or regime change. french president macron, who condemned but is in touch wi
hello, everyone, i m alicia menendez. the president is back on u.s. soil, but his focus remains on ukraine. on the heels of his powerful speech, repute yading vladamir putin, and lamenting the fact that putin retains the power to sow terror in ukraine and elsewhere. among other things in a powerful, human moment, he went off script and said what the rest of the world seemed to be thinking. for god sake, he said, this man cannot remain in power. the white house and democrats making it clear the president was not signaling regime change. the president, i think, is a straight shooter. he s deeply empathetic. i m sure he s frustrated with these scenes of children being killed. but they have said we need a negotiated end to this war. that has to be with putin. the president s lament comes
comment at the end of the speech. he said for god sake, this man cannot remain in power , and as you say, we ve just had a statement from a white house official saying that president s point was that putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbours or the region. he was not discussing put in s power in russia or a regime change. i think, of course, the fear will be that vladimir putin, the kremlin would take from joe biden s comment that there would be absolutely no point in on trying to engage in any kind of diplomacy to try to, you know, move forward if the americans are calling for regime change. so possibly whatjoe biden is hinting at was that, you know, there should be an internal opposition to vladimir putin. he talked in his speech about the 200,000 russians who have left the country in the last month, a brain drain. we ve seen all this anti war protest in recent weeks that have been brutally suppressed. so, perhaps injoe biden s mind
sounded like a call for putin to be removed. for god s sake this man cannot remain in power. the white house clarified, he was not talking about regime change but that putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbours. president biden said the war in ukraine is the test of our generation. as he won the west that they must commit to the fight for the long haul saying it will not be easy and they will be a cost but he declared, ukraine will never be a victory for russia. sarah smith, bbc news, warsaw. 0ur correspondent mark lowen watched president biden s speech in warsaw. it was a very strident, comment at the end of the speech. he said for god sake, this man cannot remain in power , and as you say, we ve just had a statement from a white house official saying that president s point was that putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbours
new polls have his job approval at just 40%, the lowest it s been since he took office. . about seven in ten americans say the country is heading in the wrong track. the public s economic frustrations are growing and its confidence in biden s ability to address them is shrinking. a month into the conflict and 71% of americans say they have just some or very little confidence in president biden leading the u.s. through the crisis in ukraine, compared to 28% who say they have a great deal or quite a bit of confidence in biden s wartime leadership. and the president s highly choreographed effort continues to be overshadowed by that unscripted remark at the end of the speech in poland on said where the president said of vladimir putin, quote, for god