historic trip to kyiv yesterday, members of the republican party had been struggling to stay on message. the trip allowed him to frame the narrative in a way that of that has made hard to react. to the migrant child called on the united states to halt additional aid to ukraine, that puts the less chaotic republicans who do believe that there is bipartisan consensus on funding ukraine, in a difficult position. facing pressure from democrats and fellow republicans. so today a group of the less chaotic republicans, including the congressman michael mccaul of texas, chair of the house foreign affairs committee, made the trip here to give themselves. they retrace president biden s steps. the even try to one of the president by calling on the u.s. to provide additional artillery and f-16 fighter jets to ukraine, something the biden ministration has so far been reluctant to do. the president recently
historic trip to kyiv yesterday, members of the republican party had been struggling to stay on message. the trip allowed him to frame the narrative in a way that of that has made hard to react. to the migrant child called on the united states to halt additional aid to ukraine, that puts the less chaotic republicans who do believe that there is bipartisan consensus on funding ukraine, in a difficult position. facing pressure from democrats and fellow republicans. so today a group of the less chaotic republicans, including the congressman michael mccaul of texas, chair of the house foreign affairs committee, made the trip here to kyiv themselves. they retrace president biden s steps. the even try to one of the president by calling on the u. s. to provide additional artillery and f-16 fighter jets to ukraine, something the biden administration has so far been reluctant to do. the president recently visited, and i commend him for coming here, and it s a very symbolic move on his part. w
wit in reality. yeah, and it was a lengthy speech from putin. president biden was likely not watching it, but he will be updated. let s bring in david sanger, correspondent for the new york times. so good to have you here in poland with us. you were listening to putin s speech as i was and you heard him saying that they are suspending participation in that nuclear arms treaty. what does that say to you? what a remarkable two days to have the president in kyiv yesterday, here today, and here vladimir putin a year into this with a narrative that still is living in sort of his own head here. as jake sullivan, national security adviser, put it to us earlier today, if the russians pulled out of the war today, the war would stop. if the ukrainians pulled out of the war today, ukraine would just be absorbed into russia. pushing back on what putin
political elite, were treating him serious for 20 years before this invasion. and the treating of him serious played a bad joke on us, it led to this war. today s speech again underlines the irrelevance of today s russia. reporter: and he was telling me that he is optimistic about the next six months of this war, especially if ukraine gets all of the weapons they have been asking for. he said they re currently talking to the united states about providing those f-16 fighter jets. he expressed confidence that ultimately the united states will provide those jets, also confidence in victory for this country and in his view victory means or includes all occupied territories of ukraine, including crimea. now, that confidence, again, boosted by the president s visit here to kyiv yesterday, but at the same time, ukrainians are
thank you, poland. thank you. thank you, thank you for what you re doing. god bless you. [ applause ] right now on andrea mitchell reports president biden s keynote speech in poland, reaffirming america s and nato s ironclad support for ukraine, pushing back against vladimir putin. framing the work as a life and death battle for freedom and autocracy and aggression. but there should be, no doubt, our support that ukraine will not waive are. nato will not be divided, and we will not tire. biden s address following on his widely celebrated wartime visit to kyiv yesterday, appointed u.s. rebuke to putin who delivered his annual address to his nation earlier today. putin announced he s suspending