everything possible to resolve this problem peacefully. new scenario has been unleashed and peace initiatives have been completely subverted by lies and hypocrisy. good morning, i m poppy ha harlow. sarah sniden n n ner is here wi. don will be back with us tomorrow. and here we re watching a speech that president putin just finished, a fiery response after president biden s surprise trip to kyiv. putin s warning to america and the west overall is russia s invasion of ukraine is nearing that one year grim milestone. president biden is preparing to deliver his own dueling speech here in poland in a matter of hours from now. plus families complaining of rashes, headaches and nausea, but are the symptoms actually linked to that toxic train wreck? east palestine, ohio? the head of the epa is returning to east palestine as the feds try to figure all this out. and an arrest in the death of a los angeles catholic bishop, who is the man in custody and what is his connection to
president, duda, here in warsaw. they re going to talk about support for ukraine, bolstering nato obviously. poland has greatly felt the impact of russia s invasion. their defense forces have grown in numbers as well since russia started invading its neighbor, and when we got here in warsaw, we spoke with some of the newest polish recruits about why they re signing up for poland s version of the national guard. some of them have never held a gun in their life. they are teachers, farmers, bankers, and even an aspiring opera singer, now volunteering for basic training in warsaw. they are days away from graduating and becoming infantry personnel, the polish version of the u.s. national guard. when russia invaded ukraine, and placed war on poland s doorstep,
poland and other soviet war saw act states to the ukrainians and, and sounds like the key question there is is there ability from the u.s. on reserve stocks to offer some f-16s that would back fill those planes. it s so interesting, you know, the u.s. has been there wasn t a lot of attention on it over the past couple of years, but the u.s. has been helping upgrade ukrainian military forces really since the since crimea. and that has turned out to be really critical in in what we re seeing on the ground right now. well, certainly the provision of the javelins and other anti-air weapons has been very useful to the ukrainians. in terms of giving small groups of infantry personnel the ability to take out russian tanks and armored personnel carriers. but there s also been a training exercise we had up until a couple weeks ago a group of u.s.
there are new reports that the pentagon is considering a plan to add up to 7,000 additional forces to the middle east to counter what it sees as an increasing threat from iran but the defense secretary according to our sources has not made any decisions to affect such a plan. i m also told by my sources that when talking about not american infantry personnel, we are talking about additional sailors and aircraft. for example, if you put just one aircraft carrier for context in the region, you re talking about 5,000 sailors and perhaps as many as 80 different aircraft. so we are talking about a lot of people. will it will keep an eye on what is obviously an increasing hot spot in the region. martha: kevin, thank you very much. kevin corke in washington. next, the incredible story of world war ii soldiers who brought the spirit of saint nick toward china europe exactly 75 years ago. i felt good that kids were
as expected, a host of gop presidential candidates are weighing in on the tests. among them, brett, is florida senator marco rubio who said in a statement that north korea is run by a lunatic who has been expanding his nuclear arsenal while president obama stood idly by. we ll likely hear more comments like that in the days to come. kevin corke live, thank you. a senior defense official tells fox news the special operations team that was trapped under fire by taliban terrorists yesterday in afghanistan has been extracted from the area. one special operator died and two others were wounded in the attack in marjah. which is in the dangerous helmand province. a quick reaction for dozens of infantry personnel remains on the ground to guard a damaged helicopter that remains at the compound. the closer we get to the first actual voting of the presidential campaign, the