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pool arrived we ve done that part. let s see. okay your pool was driven to an air force c 32 used to fly and to smaller airports during domestic travel. prior to its surreptitious departure, the plane sat in the dark next to a hanger with the shades drawn and away from the tarmac where is typically park for presidential travel. overhead announcement at four a.m. stated that biden had arrived. air force one departed from andrews at 4:15 am eastern standard time. any plane carrying the president s designated as air force one, as long as the president is on board. that smaller plane became air force one. back to the pool report. air force one touched down at ramstein airbase in germany at 5:13 pm local time sunday to
we will go live to fred pleitgen. he is in moscow this hour. kaitlan collins is live in warsaw, where the president just arrived. clarissa ward is live in kyiv. sam kiley is joining us from kharkiv. first, let s go to jim sciutto for more on how this very, very secret trip came together. jim, what are you learning? wolf, it s a complicated journey from the u.s. capital to the ukrainian capital, which began on sunday morning at 4:15 a.m. here in washington, with stops at ramstein airbase in germany for refuelling, and another stop at a polish airbase. the rest of the journey to kyiv on a train from poland to the ukrainian capital. we should note the u.s. gave a heads up to russia in advance. this is not for russia s convenience, but in effect, a warning to not fire on the ukrainian capital, while the u.s. president is there. we should also note, u.s. air assets were deployed right up to the polish border, careful not to cross into ukrainian airspace. they do not want to come into conf