airline gate agents who don t have to try to play musical chairs. tom, thank you for that report. and we ve got a lot to cover in our second hour of chris jansing reports. let s get right to it. tough talk. president biden in poland says ukraine will never be a victory for russia ahead of the first anniversary of the war. watching wall street and your wallet. stocks are tumbling this hour on new worries about inflation that won t seem to go away. and at the supreme court, arguments in a case that could change the internet and social media as we know it. we re also in jimmy carter s georgia hometown where there s an overwhelming show of support for our 39th president and his family after his decision to start receiving home hospice care. our reporters are here to cover all of the latest developments. let s start with keir simmons in
from washington to do something like that. the diplomatic tectonic plates are shifting. beyond the rhetoric, it is worth paying attention to, what various countries are doing, in particular, beijing, but this week and as we look ahead. no comment from putin on president biden s visit. some senators, members of parliament calling this in russia, calling this a provocation. former president medvedev saying biden went to kyiv swearing allegiance to the neo-nazi regime. that s what they call zelenskyy s regime. international correspondent keir simmons in moscow for us. thanks so much. john, this has been a long time coming. president biden watched other world leaders walk the streets of kyiv. boris johnson, most notably, among others, with president zelenskyy. wanted to go for a long time. it was no small feat to get the leader of the free world into ukraine. there was consideration last june when he was in europe for nato meetings.
yesterday. nbc s josh letterman is in warsaw, poland, for us and keir simmons in moscow. president biden has been meeting with poland s leader this morning. what are we expecting to hear from president biden and how might the message be different from what we heard in kyiv? well, yesterday in kyiv, lindsey, president biden s message was really one of reassurance, focused on the ukrainians. today, we re going to hear a broader message from president biden as he tries to make the case according to white house officials that a year ago there were real questions about the nato alliance, about its staying power, about whether it was going to be able to rise to the challenge posed by russia s war. the white house officials say that biden will argue that those questions about nato have now been answered, it stands stronger than it ever has before. and to lay the ground work for why these nations need to hold together as we enter year two. it was a similar message to one that we heard presid
president putin is needing to strike. that s one of the aspects you ll see when he gives this speak tomorrow. we re expecting him to speak in front of russian lawmakers and even appear at a rally here in moscow. i think you will hear him doubling down, not compromising, insisting that he s right, and that is the truth is there are many russians who do agree with that. and, in fact, in some ways, the challenges and defeats that russia has suffered on the battlefield in some months, for some russians they ve increased their determination to support the kremlin and support president putin that our thanks to keir simmons in moscow. as keir said, president putin of russia will mark the one-year anniversary of the war with a major speech tomorrow. we ll, of course, cover that
has those massive ties, not just to the u.s. but to europe, and how important parts of europe like germany, for example, will be viewing china s position, and how can china walk this line? it definitely wants to support russia but doesn t want to alienate particularly europe, and this news from the u.s. that it thinks that china is considering sending lethal weapons to russia won t be helpful there either, and frankly, i think that s why the u.s. has allowed that to be known. so very difficult diplomacy for china perhaps not feeling as bullish as they are trying to appear on the world stage. keir simmons in moscow, thank you. and coming up, he left the white house, not for corporate boards or cushy consulting gigs, he didn t even get a new house. what has made president jimmy carter stand apart all of these years and what is his warning? what s he worried about for the