been. i told president zelenskyy when we spoke in kyiv yesterday, i can proudly say that our support for ukraine remains unwavering. meanwhile, russian president vladimir putin is dialing up his rhetoric against the west, suspending participation in the last nuclear arms treaty with the u.s., even using the word war as he sends a clear message about what russia has long called a special military operation. translator: i would like to repeat, they started the war and we used the force in order to stop it. complicating questions about the future of this conflict, china s top diplomat is now in moscow this morning. live reports from russia, poland, and ukraine in moments. meanwhile, back here at home, a compounding crisis in ohio, the head of the epa is back in east palestine today as a clinic is set to open to address the community s health concerns following the derailment of the train with toxic chemicals on board. can they treat the mistrust building in the community
europe. so, the problem for china is for beijing, the president xi is, they will be determined to not to see an existential threat to russia, no one in the west thinks that s actually really what s on the cards, but they will be determining if russia can survive and president putin surviving and the problem is how do you ensure president putin survives and then at the same time maintain your economic relationship with the west? that s the that s why you re hearing the chinese and chinese s top diplomat in russia talking about trying to come up with a peace deal, a negotiation. problem, again, of course, the west doesn t trust china, certainly not in terms of coming up with some kind of an end to this conflict. all right, josh, keir, thank you. want to turn now to erin mclaughlin in kyiv. how are ukrainians processing putin s words this morning, especially following president biden s visit to the country and also with this one-year
who would ve thought at the beginning of this war get the victory day and moscow and moscow would have no victory to crow about. the biden administration does not think it s realistic to think about ousting putin as lindsey graham said to earlier in this show. they do think it s possible to we can put in that has already happened. bret: we just saw a picture of the first two ladies made a significant move? it does not get the president going in the present zelensky s call for him to come to ukraine today prime minister justin trudeau also on the ground in kyiv it. these are statements from the west not only in support of ukraine, but in defiance of russia. there is a risk. the risk is when these people get hurt or injured that would potentially go beyond escalation per think would then be in world war iii. the idea they feel confident and sufficiently comfortable making the step i think is a real strong statement given what
offramp or the ukrainians are not going to give the east to putin to stop the war they re going to fight for every inch of their territory if we push the ukrainians to give up half the country then approach and went safely back off product processing putin as a law criminal all the laws of the book become a joke of we don t get this right china will certainly invade taiwan. there is no offramp in this war but someone is going to win and someone is going to lose. i hope, pray, do everything to make sure ukraine wins and putin is in charge of a state sponsored terrorism that designation is to be given to russia he has earned that designation would need to pour it on when it comes helping ukraine. at what point do think putin is going to move on moldova, poland or some other way that draws the west into. do you think that s inevitable as he gets more desperate? moldova is not part of nato i do believe he could use chemical weapons because of people of variable are fighting like
terrorism need to pour on put more weapons in a theater that can strike the russian military offensively i want to triple down on beating putin. that putin would double down. he cannot lose in ukraine. i want to triple down because we cannot let him win in ukraine for. center at tom freedman with the new york times writes this today quote we need to stick as tightly as possible to our limited clearly defined aim to expel russian forces as much as possible negotiate for their withdrawal whenever ukraine s feel the time is right boasting about killing his generals and sinking his ships falling in love with ukraine in ways that will give us there forever is a height of folly, your thoughts. i could not disagree more. people like that said we could deter russia through the sanctions. return it dutch as a rhetoric talking we did not work.