table. what does that look like? we pull out some of the fighting forces and train them in neighboring nato allies and send them back in with new and enhanced skills to shoot down russian planes? explain, jeremy. we have to increase our supply lines inside the country. there may be units and elements that we have to train outside the country. just depends on what we can gain access to and what nato allies and partners can gain access to. i think we have to sell realtime information and intelligence about the battle space. i think we should be feeding them information about where the russians are. where their convoys are, where their planes are. we should be helping in things like cyber capabilities, or use electronic capabilities. there s a lot of tools in our toolbox. okay, we have to sneak in a break, but helene, i want to
president obama, robert gibbs is here. eugene, what do you expect to hear tonight? we re going to hear the president first and foremost talk about ukraine. that is not just something on the minds of those of us at msnbc and working in politics. it s on the minds of the american people as they watch this invasion at home. i think more importantly, the cohesion, going against russia. the kind of support ukraine is getting. i think he s going to take credit for doing that. one of the things that the white house has you know, always talking about is how much does a president say about how they re going to take credit for a lot of these things, but a lot of this is because of president biden. yesterday, jen psaki, the beginning of her press briefing, she outlined these things. that s number one. you re also going to see him focus on the economy.
after centuries of neutrality are going up against the russian oligarchs. if he sees no out, if he feels painted into a corner, if there s no way for him to emerge in this disaster he has created with some semblance of a saving of face, it could get a lot worse. much, much uglier for civilians on the ground. for the world as a whole as he rattles his nuclear saber. so as painful as it is to think about this, we need to be thinking about what a way is for him to withdraw as soon as possible in a way that he can explain to himself and to his own people because that s what needs to happen. have you been surprised, i know there s been a lot of coverage of how right intelligence agencies in this country have been about putin. has zelenskyy s performance and ability to unite his country and turn them into citizen soldiers even ones that aren t in the
strong and to helene s point, we may not engage in direct war, but i think we have to be engaged in indirect war, and indirect war is like charlie wilson s war, the sequel. i mean, i think we have to continue to train and equip the ukrainians, maybe even do that outside the country. i think we have to be able to help them shoot down out of the sky, russian aircraft. we have to help them stop the advance of mechanized infantry, including tanks, and pop open those tanks like a can opener and kill the russians inside. we have to make this so painful for russia that putin has absolutely no choice but to back off. but this is a critical moment, nicole, because if we can do this, if we can actually win this war, we can settle a lot of scores, and we can actually put autocracies back on their heels, but if russia prevails, god help us. god help the west. god help democracy. well, jeremy, i m going to need you to say more and then helene, i m going to need you to tell me if any of this is on
and inflation seems to color all the other indicators. do you need does this sound plain spoken must have for the president to, one, look like he s on the thing that people are most angsty about and two, get credit for the good he has done? well, you know, he has to speak to, again, the anxiety and fears of folks, and a lot of that is around cost. and i think he s going to speak in plain english, as my grandfather used to tell me, jaime, i don t want to hear all that highfaluting talk. speak plain to me. i think that s what joe biden s going to do tonight. right now, when he lays out how we reduce costs for everyday americans, i mean, things like prescription drugs. prescription drugs are really expensive. i help take care of my grandma who s in a nursing home and i know the burden of prescription drugs on my of our citizens around here. how you reduce the cost of child care. as a father of two kids, i know that child care is not cheap.