about what the administration is doing. the thing that got the attention this afternoon though was an exchange, a q and a with peter doocy at an open press event in the white house asking questions after the president was finished up. take a listen. political liability ahead of the midterms. that s a great asset. more inflation. what a stupid son of a pitch. bitch. bret: there you go. guy benson political. leslie marshall, democratic strategist and trey gowdy former congressman from south carolina. trey, i distinctly remember media going bonkers when president trump, candidate trump said something similar to reporters. i don t know yet about the what s being covered out there, but i haven t seen a lot of response as of yet from the president. the administration, or any reporters covering him.
demand of nato shrinking to what it was decades ago, although there is more flexibility, the u.s. and nato members have said they re willing to talk about missile deployments and different kinds of technical aspects that could potentially fit into that third demand. but he s digging in. and what was interesting, when you listen to putin, and also if you watch the dynamics of the press event he held with viktor orban, prime minister of hungary, it s clear putin is still very worried about covid. the two podiums were miles apart. in other footage of their meeting, they were practically shouting at each other from the opposite sides of the room. but aside from that note, what was interesting in what he said about why he believes that ukraine must never be a part of nato, it goes back to crimea, it all goes back to crimea for
the russian army, but that the ukrainians have been holding out. that their numbers, although they have fewer numbers, that their numbers are increased by their will, the fact that they re fighting to defend their homeland and he made it clear that he wants to have more talks. he said the key to that is getting through to vladimir putin. here is a little bit of that exchange from that press event. richard engel from nbc news. you just mentioned that you want to talk to vladimir putin. vladimir putin has so far not been willing to meet with you. do you have a message for him now that ukrainian cities are under attack, this city is under attack, a convoy is on its way here. is there a way to prevent this war from escalating even further now? it s not about i want to talk with putin. i think i have to talk with putin. the world has to talk with putin
he told reporters that nato was supplying arms and humanitarian aid to ukraine. but he also said this. but nato is not going to be part of the conflict. so nato is not going to send troops into ukraine or move planes into ukrainian airspace. also, on a tour of nato border countries is the uk prime minister boris johnson. he s already been to poland where at a press event he was confronted by a ukrainian activist. britain guarantees our security under britain guarantees our security under the britain guarantees our security under the memorandum so you are coming under the memorandum so you are coming to under the memorandum so you are coming to poland, you not coming to kyiv. coming to poland, you not coming to kyiv. prime coming to poland, you not coming to kyiv, prime minister. because you are afraid kyiv, prime minister. because you are afraid for that because nato is not willing are afraid for that because nato is not willing to defend, because nato is afraid not wil
join nato. i appreciate and admire president zelenskyy s desire to join nato. she said that at a press event. we saw that we thought i was there the biden people must have this under control in some way we don t know about. they must have some secret back channel to putin. if they must ve been fully assured that saying something so unbelievably inflammatory is not going to push putin to invade ukraine. we assumed that. how can it be otherwise? it s the united states, it s a real country. the idea that ukraine might join nato obvious what caused this crisis in the first place, whatever you think of it. we know because we have watched for years the more western leaders pushed the idea of ukraine in nato, the closer russians came to invading ukraine. it s not a defense of that, it s an observation of it, that s true. so i ve easily no sane person would say something like that with russian troops massed on the ukrainian border. you would have to want an invasion of ukraine to say somethi