joining us now is the mayor of warsaw who is what a moment you ve been living through. you are the mayor of warsaw, you ve now had a presidential visit from the u.s. twice in less than a year. he didn t go to berlin, didn t go to london, didn t go to paris. what does it mean that he s here in warsaw to give this speech? it s incredible, of course, the times are very difficult but it s important that the president of the united states is in poland again because it means that we are safe because with him he brings those guarantees of security. and, of course, it is immensely important for us that he was in kyiv, that he showed so much courage and that the united states of america is ready to help. and we heard from president putin this morning giving that lengthy speech. overall it seemed to signal that he doesn t believe this war in ukraine is anywhere close to being over. what was your take away? well, unfortunately it seems that putin wants to escalate, that he doesn t have
respect by the united states chts we try to give the support to our neighbors and we are trying to be not only the ones who are who have the security guaranteed by the united states and nato but try to be the ones who are providing the security to other states, the baltic states, where we are part of our mission, providing the securities to allies from romania, where polish soldiers are deployed as part of american contingent and latvia as well and our tanks are guarding the security of latvia. we are trying to demonstrate allied solidarity. i am morgreat. mr. president, thank you for paying a visit here in poland because i believe that polish people see it as an appreciation of the contribution that we have made in the construction of the security in our part of europe. and we are delighted to be able to host you here today, mr. president. this also is a powerful signal
role which is being played through you, sir, by the united states, shows in a clear way that transatlantic bond is of key importance to europe. we are here together with the polish prime minister attending this meeting. the polish prime minister, the head of the government, and by this sanction he has in his hands the responsibility for the parliamentary today in 2025 poland will take over the presidents in the european union. so we want and we will pass a special resolution in may this year. we like this resolution marks the anniversary of our presence in the european. we would like our presidency to be conducted under the moto of tightening transatlantic bond, what more america and europe a stronger bond in the european union and the united states more cooperation between the european union and the united states and in economic matters, security related matters, all which is so important to us. this difficult time which we are experiencing in europe right now
country from bombs, murders, rapes, from murders, from horrible brutal and beastial treatment from russian soldiers unfortunately. so having said that, thank you once again for your visit yesterday, mr. president, because that was a significant sign for all those people, the sign that a free world has not forgotten them, a free world and the biggest leader, the president of the united states stands by them. i know that perfectly well, mr. president. i know how much courage it requires. thank you very much for that. i imagine it was not easy, especially for those who are responsible for your security, sir. so please pass my gratitude to them from me. they are standing somewhere in the background. still that was hard work. thank you, mr. president for that decision. we are delighted to host you in poland. this is also a crucially important sign of us, sign of security. tomorrow we will meet with our
and this extraordinary role played by the united states is an absolute demonstration of the fact that this of key importance to the security and to the future development of our continent. we in poland have made a lot of experiences over the last centuries in our history and especially over the last 100 years history have no doubt about that. so, mr. president, once again, we are delighted and warm welcome to you, sir. welcome. and any excuse to come back to poland i take advantage of. the welcome has always been extremely generous and i appreciate it. so thank you for inviting me back to warsaw at this critical moment. you know, you mentioned john palm. i think i told you the story when i was a young senator i wrote a report and i had a very senior staff member on the foreign relations committee who was and that was a committee that next youngest person on