politicsnation. tonight s lead profiles in courage. on this presidents day weekend, two of our commanders in chief one current and one former are facing perhaps their greatest challenges in politics and in life. tomorrow, president biden will travel to poland where he will mark the one year anniversary of mush russia s invasion and war in ukraine. calls for ukraine s allies to stay the course. as the u.s. accuses russia of crimes against humanity in ukraine and the republican majority in the u.s. house threatens to curtail the billions of dollars in aid that has gone to ukraine. now going into a second here in here at home the earliest electoral challenge in our materializing. on the republican side, former republican south carolina governor nikki haley has joined donald trump in pursuit of the gop nomination in 2024. and 2020 democratic contender marianne williamson is expected to make her own announcement that she is running for the white house again. she would be the first
ukraine. this makes sense, right? americans rightly don t like prolonged wars. this is going to be a challenge to the president to continue to make this case why this is so important to keep defending ukraine, especially now in the face of what could be just an awesome and terrible russian onslaught. ukraine needs help more now than they did even seven or eight months ago. president biden, who has done really well up to this point, rev., he s got to kick it into overdrive and make the case to the american people as to why this is so important to keep continuing. craig, the united states is concerned that china could soon provide russia with lethal aid in its war against ukraine. earlier today, secretary of state anthony blinken stressed to nbc news how important it is to maintain a good relationship with china. this comes as frustrations
if it comes down to who has the best or worst nickname, i don t think that s going to vote 12 republicans in 2024, rub. tomorrow, president biden will be heading to poland as he prepares to mark the one year anniversary of russia invading ukraine. the u.s. has formally determined that russia is guilty of crimes against humanity. a recent poll shows that support for sending weapons to ukraine is waning in the u.s.. down from 60% in may to 48% to date. joe, what challenge will biden have on the world stage and here at home to motivate people to continue the efforts in ukraine s fight against russia. rev, it needs to be said right at the outset that the president has done a masterful job up to this point of rallying the world and rallying this country in defense of
president. i was just a young activist when president carter took office. i ve always appreciated his grace and our actions over the years. my thoughts and prayers are with his family. we start this evening with senator ben cardin, democrat of maryland. senator, first of all, thank you for joining us this evening. it s perfect time to have a member of the senate foreign relations committee with us. so, this is right ahead of president biden s trip to poland tomorrow. he will speak to the world and ukraine s nato allies from the same location he did last year when he told the world that russian president vladimir putin could not remain in power. as the war enters the second tier, he must now contend with the republican majority in the house that has threatened to end unequivocal aid to ukraine as this war drags on.
your thoughts on that and the upcoming anniversary of this war, senator. reverend sharpton, it s good to be with you. president biden has shown tremendous leadership globally and helping the ukrainians defend themselves. i don t think anyone thought that we would have this type of unity that is continuing now as we enter the second tier of this unprovoked attack by russia on ukraine. we saw president biden provide the necessary help to the ukrainians to defend itself. i must tell you, at the munich security conference this week, we saw unity among both the and republicans that were there saying that we do need to continue to support ukraine in these efforts. i would acknowledge we have challenges in the house of representatives on the republican side. this is not a time for us to weekend in our defense of ukraine. there are frontline of democratic states. let me ask you another