to fly out of washington, d.c. until the 6:00 p.m. tonight. instead, they very quietly gathered a press pool and left yesterday about 4:15. the president appeared in kyiv, not on his original itinerary. we were told he was just coming to poland to commemorate the one year anniversary of the russian invasion instead he droons into an active war zone. the new york times is reporting that he took an hour s long train ride from poland into the ukrainian capital that is besieged by the russians right now and while there he announced an extra half a billion dollars in new u.s. security assistance. listen. that announcement includes artillery ammunition for himars and howitzers, nor javelins, raiders, they will protect the people from aerial bombardments. he rattled off a lot of different kinds of assistance. it is all equipment that the u.s. has given ukraine so far. ukrainians van v. been asking for f-16s that s not on the list of things the president gave as half a billion do
beforehand. a lot of journalists were shut in their hotels, windows closed and snipers up on roofs. it had to be somebody very important. with biden heading to poland many thought this would president biden. there was a lot of excitement just to see the two leaders walk out math monastery behind me on a sunny day about 35 days. air raid sirens actually went off while biden was inside that monastery so certainly the risk is real. lisa: what kind of news coverage in ukraine? iptiond media or is it pretty controlled? i think it s an independent media but it is a country at war. there is certainly a lot of patriotism, not a lot of criticism. last months some apension paid to corruption. some attention to rooting out corruption of western aid. people trying to steal and publicizing that. this is negative press as well as opposed to russia where it is out and out mind control.