we keep everyone in nato on the same page. that s what i m spending a lot of time doing, and there are differences. there are differences in nato as to what countries are willing to do depending on what happens, the degree to which they re able to go. joining me now is retired army lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, if former director for european affairs for the european national security council. also with us, dennis roeds. lieutenant colonel vindman, i want to remind our viewers, you were on that infamous phone call when president trump told ukraine s president, i would like you to do us a favor. so how is vladimir putin likely to react to what president biden said last night? does it give him a green light to do a so-called minor incursion?
able a to do those things and reach out to not only mitch mcconnell but even joe manchin and kyrsten sinema and find ways to come together, amy klobuchar of the world. i was pleased to see her this evening, then maybe can you get something done. but, short of that those numbers will remain where they re and the president will continue to swim up stream. bret: hugh? i m always impressed with the leader, bret. methodical, on message, mitch mcconnell. he wrote in his memoir five years ago the long game you can start too late but you can never start too early. and tonight you heard him start early on the fall election. inflation and the southern border. inflation and the open southern border and drilling down on, of course, minor incursion. he probably also knows about the new poll this morning, the nbc poll that when asked are you a supporter of the republican party or a supporter of donald trump? 56 percent said the g.o.p., 36 percent said donald trump. now, he avoided twice.
by 20-plus minutes. and he did take a lot of questions. but there were a lot of significant moments that news conference. it was. senator sasse said a train wreck. we will be talking about the domestic political fallout from this for a long time. i think dump below 30% as a result. gave the green light to vladimir putin to have incursion of some sort. so president biden thoroughly abandoned ukrainian allies as he did our afghanistan allies in august and september. it is on a par with a speech that not many people remember dean acheson in 1950 did not include korea in our world of security perimeter and the north koreans invaded the south koreans. it s legendary mistake. i think this press conference is going to go down in national security infamy for that wildly phrased invitation of vladimir putin to come on down and take part of ukraine. bret: leslie, there were about three different bites of the app. pell to go back at that
that, nato allies wouldn t do much about a so-called minor incursion. what do you think the reaction is going to be to this clarification, shall we call it, from the white house? reporter: i m sure they re very glad to hear that sort of nuanced and clarified i expect the secretary of state will be doing something similar tonight because he s in kiev and will undoubtedly i don t know this for sure but undo ittedly have his phone lit up by people he s been meeting with today, to give assurances that the united states stands foursquare behind ukraine when it comes to negotiations with russia. but there s always been that sneaking suspicion in this country, despite this mantra that the united states isn t going to talk about anything to do with ukraine without ukraine. all of the meetings with the russians have been without ukraine. and there is that suspicion that some sort of back deal, backdoor
for the longest times those songs were about the video and performance as well as entertaining. here is meat loaf s i ll do anything for love. rest in peace. i would do anything for love i would do anything for love, but i won t bill: rest in peace, meat loaf. in new york it s diplomatic damage control. the biden administration clarifying america s support for ukraine after the president suggested that a russian invasion could be nothing more than a minor incursion. good morning. i m bill hemmer. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. that comment about minor incursion certainly wasn t something that the white house planned for the president to say but it has basically become all consuming. bill: it has not aged well as we have seen.