welcome back to the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. across the globe, major landmarks are lighting up in the colors of ukraine as the war there enters its second year. it s a stunning milestone for a battle many thought would end with a quick defeat by russia s powerful military. as vladimir putin s tanks rolled across the border last february. there was little hope that kyiv would be able to stand up to moscow for very long, but ukraine has shocked the world and perhaps russia most of all with its strength and determination. that defiance has come at a heavy price for the country and its people. the u.n. estimates have come up and they say more than 8,000 ukrainian civilians have been killed since the war began, a number that is likely much higher. some 8 million ukrainians have fled the country, many not knowing if they ll ever return. yet despite the cruel challenges his country has faced, president volodymyr zelenskyy is optimistic about the future. we st
white supremacist when he was mouthing off about black people. i mean it was just it s just embarrassing, i think. right. and if you look at his twitter account, and i don t advise people that they do that, but he s been doubling down and tripling down. he s not apologizing for it. no. at least not as of this moment. and the crazy thing about this, mike, is that this dilbert comic strip, it s been around for decades in the united states. yeah. it s been very popular. what happened to scott adams? did he go down sort of the right wing twitter rabbit hole here and just never came back or what s going on? you know, i talked to scott before at cartoonist conventions. i don t know him well. he s always been kind of a weird dude. but, you know, many of us cartoonists are kind of weird anyways. but he s sort of you know, he became this huge trump supporter, which i think is weird.
and now he s and these comments. and like you said, he doubled down on these comments. instead of just saying i m sorry or whatever, he just he s just digging himself a deeper hole. i don t know. it s just it s stunning. i may even do a cartoon on it myself this week. i ve never done an editorial cartoon on a fellow cartoonist for something that they have done wrong. let me ask you that would make some history, but let me ask you this, mike, because you ve got your own take on something that s been in the news this past week. i know you drew up something on congresswoman marjorie taylor greene. i don t know if we have the comic ready. we can put it up on screen, and her call for a national divorce in the u.s. right. featuring none other than abraham lincoln. as we can see in the cartoon there, abraham lincoln says secession would destroy the only democracy in existence and prove for all time that a government of the people could not survive and then you see marjorie taylo
of $2 billion. jim. priscilla alvarez, thank you very much. joining me now democratic congressman mike quicgley of illinois. congressman, thank you for joining us. as you know, president zelenskyy is asking for more help from the u.s. in the war against russia. he s gotten it time and again. in particular he wants these f-16 fighter jets. you heard the president say there to abc that for now it s not happening. it doesn t sound like he s closing the door on this. you re the co-chair of the ukrainian caucus in congress. what do you make of this? do you think the president could be moved on this? it s a familiar pattern, isn t it? we were going to support a war of insurgency, with javelin, stingers and light weaponry. thathowitzers and
cartoons. and jimmy carter was someone that i did a number of positive cartoons about. and rightly so. he s so admired around the world. mike, we always look forward to seeing your work in the atlanta journal constitution and everybody shares your tweets and your artwork as memes and so on. it s great stuff. mike, thanks so much for your time. thank you. thank you, jim. you betcha. good talking to you. coming up, it was a big week for president biden on the world stage as he traveled to ukraine to pledge support. could his surprise trip boost his political prospects for 2024? we ll talk about that next. you re live in the cnn newsroom. o . so you can fororget about your underarms and focus on being unforgettablble. new dove men forgettable underarms, unforgettable you. not flossing well? then add the whoa! of listerine to your routine. new science shows itets in between teeth to destroy 5x more plaque above the gumline than floss.