the president meeting with ukrainian counterpart in what is being described as a defiant display of western solidarity. white house correspondent peter doocy is traveling with the president and reports tonight from warsaw, poland. good evening, peter. bret, if president biden stuck to his schedule he would still be in washington, d.c. right now. but, instead, he is here in warsaw after a daring dip into a war zone. and he is looking ahead to a big speech tomorrow where we do expect him to call out vladimir putin by name. putin s war of conquest is failing. but it s ongoing. so the president is committing 500 million more dollars in equipment for the fight against putin. thought he could outlast us. i don t think he is thinking that right now. the u.s. gave russia a heads up, president biden would be visiting ukraine but to keep the trip clandestine the president was driven in a white toyota suv instead of the customary black suburban and traveled with a much smaller
in the crowded field trump could do what did he in 2016 when he won primary after primary with less than half vote. from trump s point of view the more candidates in the race the merrier. we are back with our panel. hugh, he said as much. he has put out statements on truth social sayings the more the merrier when nikki haley got. in you talked to the former president. where does his mind sit? i think he is looking forward to a large stage full of combative would be presidents about whom he is willing to compare and spar with. governor desantis does have that book you mentioned coming out, bret, the courage to be free. that follows memoirs by vice president pence and secretary pompeo and ambassador haily. i expect chris sununu to get. in it s going to be a very talented field but donald trump knows how to work a debate stage and how to work a republican primary. i think everyone else has got pretty gooded media chops, too. have you interviewed them all. you know that ron desantis goin
it sounds as though the united states has done the equivalent of what the russians did in the 2016 election and might sound to some viewers that your offering that statement as an excuse for what the russians did. no. what i would say is it s not morally equivalent but in their mind sit. it s important to know in your adversary s mind how they perceive things. some voices on capitol hill reacting to indictments on russian top operatives ahead of president trump s meeting with vladimir putin. we have a panel here co-anchoring from helsinki, host of andrea mitchell reports andrea mitchell, former u.s. ambassador to russia, michael mcfall. and in washington, d.c. department of defense, nbc news national security news analyst, jeremy bash.