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.
soon. putin s speech comes with new reporting this morning on china s growing concerns about russia s weakened status on the world stage. meanwhile, we will hear from president joe biden later this morning as he is in poland now to meet with allies following that historic trip to ukraine. also ahead, the maga members of congress staying on brand, criticizing the president for visiting ukraine. we ll go through some of their comments. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, february 21st. with me here in new york, way too early host and the white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. at the table with joe in washington, pulitzer prize-winning columnist at the washington post, eugene robinson. former white house press secretary now msnbc host jen psaki. editor for the washington post, david ignatius. also with us, founder of the bulwark, charlie sykes. joe, incredible, staggering, historic scenes yesterday of president biden walking th
minute to finish this conversation while they ready. ari is having a little bit of technical difficulty, but will be here at any moment. claire, on the security piece, do you think capitol police retain any veto power if it does what you said it does and jeopardizes the lives of the current members of congress of both parties? i don t think they probably have veto power since they serve at the pleasure of the architect of the capitol and you know, i don t think anybody is going to tell the speaker of the house that he can t release video. i think needs to happen is the american people need to tell kevin mccarthy that you can t just shovel video to a favored outlet and allow them to pick among 40,000 hours and find pieces that will be misleading or tell an untrue picture of what actually happened that day. so the most important thing that has to happen now is first, he has to be spurned for what he did because it s ridiculously bad and stupid, but secondly, people need to
and the other main headlines this lunchtime. the family of nicola bulley says they re in agony, as they wait for police to identify a body found in the river, close to where she disappeared. the true cost of a cup of tea sexual exploitation on the tea farms that supply some of britain s most popular brands. scotland s finance secretary, kate forbes enters the race to replace nicola sturgeon as snp leader and first minister. and after a tour of the uk, dippy the dinosaur, finds a new home in coventry. and coming up on the bbc news channel. we ll tell you how ireland are getting on in theirfinal women s t20 world cup group game against india, still searching for theirfirst win. good afternoon from kyiv, where an american president, has made an extraordinary visit, to an active war zone. it s joe biden s first trip to ukraine, since russia invaded almost a year ago. rumours had been swirling for 2h hours that a high level visitor would be here today, but the trip was shroude
hello. it was a very mild start to the working week. temperatures quite widely got into the low teens, 61 fahrenheit, which is well above the february average. it was well above average in most places and it will again be well above average during the day on tuesday because we are on tuesday because we re bathed in the atlantic air. weather fronts towards the north and strong winds, high pressure keeping the winds a little lighter further south and the weather fronts at bay. so, not as windy as we go into tuesday across the northern isles as we had monday, but wetter, and some rain approaches towards the west. elsewhere, misty low cloud shrouding the hills and coasts in fog, and some drizzle in the west. central and eastern areas have the better chance of the sunshine, perhaps the north coast of wales, the moray firth, and that s when we ll see temperatures responding sunshine, again 14 15. but then a change as we go through towards wednesday. behind thi