today s headline from the national review. president biden in kyiv, walking in a war zone amidair raid sirens and no real guarantee of security. the white house took all the steps it could, slipping out of d.c. in secret early sunday morning, swearing the reporters on board to silence, even taking their phones. air force one got him as far as poland, but after that, no marine 1. potentially no beast either. the president s legendary bombproof limo. the white house is being tight lipped about every detail so far. president biden relied on the ukrainian rail service, a ten-hour train journey from the border to kyiv. a source familiar tells nbc news the president could have gone to other easier to access locations inside of ukraine, but that he chose kyiv to highlight the capital is still standing. and he did, making a point of declaring it such, and promising that the u.s. will help as long as it takes. we have details on what went into this extraordinary trip along with what r
it s not rocket science. and adding you won t be too surprised. joining me now is nbc legal analyst, lisa ruben. not to guess at what she s talking about there, but it s not so veiled. it s not, katy. and she told the associated press this morning that she had been instructed as had the other grand jurors about what they could and could not say by the fulton county superior court judge. i wonder now and reading the new york times report, the judge believes they overstepped. she was careful with the associated press talking about sketches she made of various witnesses. who was funny, who was unhappy to be there. who might have invoked privilege, but telling the times the grand jury did invoke indictments and it wouldn t be rocket science who they were against. i wonder if she overstepped that line today. she also tells the times they started in the grand jury with that call that donald trump made to secretary of state brad raffensperger where he asked raffensperger to fi
speaking in poland a former eastern bloc country that s no stranger to russian aggression, biden started off by saying that the war has so far defied two big expectations. one, that kyiv would fall within days, and two, that the western alliance would splinter as the war dragged on. watch. one year ago the world was bracing for the fall of kyiv. well, i can report kyiv stands strong. kyiv stands proud. it stands tall. and most important it stands free. when russia invaded it wasn t just ukraine being tested, the whole world faced a test for the ages. europe was being tested. america was being tested. nato was being tested. all democracies are being tested. the questions we faced were simple as they were profound. would we be strong if we looked the other, would we be weak? all of our allies would be united or divided? one year later we know the answer. we did respond, we would be strong, we would be united, and the world would not look the other way. president biden also
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speaking in poland a former eastern bloc country that s no stranger to russian aggression, biden started off by saying that the war has so far defied two big expectations. one, that kyiv would fall within days, and two, that the western alliance would splinter as the war dragged on. watch. one year ago the world was bracing for the fall of kyiv. well, i can report kyiv stands strong. kyiv stands proud. it stands tall. and most important it stands free. when russia invaded it wasn t just ukraine being tested, the whole world faced a test for the ages. europe was being tested. america was being tested. nato was being tested. all democracies are being tested.