there s no way around it, that s just the best one. believe me, i ve tried it every which way, and it really doesn t get better than pete butt. but this would have never happened under my administration. people are saying i made the trains less safe. not true, okay? not true. i did a lot for trains. i made them bigger, faster, less safe perhaps, but yeah, perhaps you did. perhaps. saturday night live s take on donald trump s recent trip to east palestine, ohio. meanwhile, president joe biden says he doesn t have plans to visit the town devastated by the train disaster, and we ll have his comments on why. plus, the first lady seems to have given away the president s plans for 2024. we ll play for you what she said. also ahead, a weekend of deadly russian strikes in ukraine brings more attention to the debate over supplying ukrainian forces with fighter jets. and a new report from the department of energy on the origins of covid. good morning. welcome to morn
the global level. i don t see how you have it both ways. clearly, i think, you know, if the democrats are to proceed, in my opinion, in trying to politically expose the continue contradiction, they ought to keep raising it, what side are you on on the putin question? ukraine is a place they can go to. jen psaki, this is not complicated. republicans, not too many years ago before trump, would call him a traitor. call him a traitor. would call anybody that supported him a traitor. this is just straight out, straightforward, i mean, think about this. this is a guy that says he trusts vladimir putin, a man who called the collapse of the soviet union the worst tragedy of the 20th century. yeah. says he trusts him more than he trusts our own intelligence
we are all engaged. it s our independence. there is no one left doing nothing. i do believe that together we ll win. and next days in the eastern ukraine the bad things are happening now in southern ukraine. we spent all night in mykolaiv as well. but we are sure this is the last battle of putin. and if military assistance from the west will come on time, there s no chance for russian federation to win in ukraine. and for big issue how we deal with russia after. there s no putin question. it s a question of russian empire. and putin is only temporary guy who leads the same policy of kremlin.
putin. again though, you just we have talked about it so many times. you see president putin sitting that distance from everyone, from his ministers, from the oligarchs and you wonder really how they would get a message through to him. maybe some of them are thinking that just saying something in public is the only way they can really get a message to him, but, again, there is this very small circle around president putin. i actually asked in that interview, in those questions to sergei lavrov, i asked him whether how he responds to the claims in the west take president putin is isolated and erratic. i actually said to him, is he taking your advice and when is the last time you were able to give president putin advice and he didn t answer that part of the question. nbc s keir simmons in moscow. thank you very much for your reporting. we want to show you now some
russians get bogged down a little bit they just get more brutal and start using their force indiscriminately. they re bog itbogged down but s have the overwhelming advantage is the bottom line. what can you tell us about the supply line, getting armament and supplies into kyiv right down from poland or wherever? and once the equipment arrives, you mentioned the 40-mile-long convoy outside of kyiv, can we provide targeting information to the ukrainians? yes, there s a bunch contained in that question. we on the committee have drilled down a lot on the specifics of the supply line. we can t get into that for obvious reasons, but i mean the thing we need to accomplish right now is while that, you know, russian convoy is bogged down it is a crucial moment to get supplies in to the ukrainians, particularly into kyiv, to get humanitarian, food,