preparations the president of the united states met with ukraine s president just four days short of year that russian forces invaded. with reminders that continuing threats quite literally sounding all around, the two leaders. many american presidents have made dramatic trips before, nixon to china, reagan to the berlin wall and president xi visited u.s. troops in war zones but never like this. this was the first trip ever by an american president into a worn zone without the protection of u.s. troops on the ground or american warplanes controlling the airspace overhead. american air assets were active on ukraine s border and moscow was told about it in advance. as for the presidents own message, here is some of what he had to say we know, it was one year ago this week. that we spoke on the telephone with the president. it was very late at night in washington, very early in the morning here in kyiv. russian planes were in the air and tanks were rolling across your border.
the victims and their families. it s not just littleton. we know that lots and lots of places. we been through this too many years, took decades now. as i said just a few months ago, and i said a few months before that, and i said each time we see one of these mass shootings are our thoughts and prayers are not enough. schools should be places of safety and sanctuary and learning. perhaps now america would wake up to the dimensions of this challenge. if can happen in a place like littleton. and we can prevent anything like this from happening again. and now, president biden once again joins his predecessors in what has become a sick ritual of addressing the nation after a horrific mass shooting inside an american school. this was the scene from the white house yesterday. after the latest massacre in texas. american flags were also lowered at federal buildings. military installations and at u.s. embassies around the world. we ll go live to texas in just a momen
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Stable genius. Reaction toet your what he had to say on twitter. 202 7488000 for democrats. 202 7488001 republicans. 202 7488002 independents. Send us a tweet. We will read them. Join us on facebook. Good sunday morning. We will read them. Was begin with the president s tweets yesterday lets begin with the present president s tweets yesterday. Wrote he wrote he the president yesterday on twitter. We want to get to your calls and comments on his description of being a very stable genius. Headline of the New York Times, trump declared himself mentally fit. President trump who sometimes whos a sometimes erratic vior whose sometimes erratic behavior that this morning from the New York Times. Much of this focusing on the new book fire and theory fire and fury by Michael Wolff. Yesterday the president addressing the book and also questions on his twitter comments. Talking about the policy issues. This morning you are tweeting about your mental state. Why did you feel the need to tweet about
Of this interfaith lecture series. I am especially pleased that diane winston, who holds the in media and religion at berkeleys Annenberg School is here with us. I do not know how many of you know about religion but to hold likeight chair, that is the noble prize in journalism education, so i am really glad that she is here. I will tell you more about diane in a moment, but first as i traditionally do, we will discuss the discussion. An underlying theme we have been having, the background for all of the discussions in the amphitheater, has been, how the news business, and the Civic Society can do its part. To give us the information and the values and the perspective that we need, as a Democratic Society to find our way. I was thinking of that this morning during nancy gibbss interesting conversation with david andreli. I will have a brief quiz based on this discussion. They were talking about the difficulty of having Accurate Information come across and holding its way against fake in