the lead starts right now. president biden s surprise trip to ukraine, how did the white house pull it off? plus the new promise the president is making while some republicans chastise him for growing. russian families on the run from the brutal war and ending up at the u.s. southern border. what one family went through to escape. and the murder of a bishop found dead in his california home. new details just coming in in this case. welcome to the lead. i am john berman in for jake tapper. moments ago president biden arrived back in poland after his unannounced trip to ukraine and stood side by side with president zelenskyy where biden declared putin is failing as the war nears its one year mark. biden said his trip was important to reaffirm unwavering u.s. support. one year ago, the world was bracing for the fall of kyiv. america stands with you, and the world stands with you. as part of the trip, biden announced another half million-dollars in assistance for ukrain
property, sovereign country like what putin has done does not continue. democracy thrives and lives. i think that speaker mccarthy needs to get his extremists in order. the american people, by and large, our allies around the world, we are altogether. it s the extreme republicans that seem to be out of step with where the rest of the world is. yesterday, secretary of state antony blinken said the united states is concerned china is considering providing lethal support to russia. if china did that, how do you think the biden administration should respond? there will be severe consequences. there s no question about that. those plans have been talked about. clearly we are not going to talk about what those plans are so china knows what they are, but i will tell you they are significant and important, again, in the way the president has led here because we also
joe biden and zelenskyy, but inside russia china s top diplomat met with russian o officials, and u.s. officials are concerned that china will provide military aid to russia. how much of a concern should that be and what would that do to u.s. and china relations? well, u.s./china relations are at a 40-year low already. i think now the effort from both sides coming out of bali was to put guardrails on and keep the wheels from falling off the bus. i think that that would be just devastating. you know, this is really another bold move by the biden administration to use intelligence, not just keep it hidden but to use it in order to constrain the actions of our adversaries. they did it effectively against
worked closely with our allies in that region. it would seem to me that what we would do is make sure, and the way you continue to punish china is to make sure the rest of the world is together so china has no other place nowhere else to go. so you know, there s another trip that i made along with former speaker pelosi to that region where we met with the south koreans and the japanese and malaysians and those in singapore, all of who are next door to china. if we are all working together in the same way we are doing in europe, then i think that china and their economy will have extreme consequences. that is the way that and the appropriate way for us to operate. a multi-lateral scenarios, working and leading a real delegation of nations together so that those oppressive nations, those authoritarian countries will not prevail, but
russia, and i think this will be affective against china. what russia is trying to do is have its cake and eat it too, and they are trying to square the circle of all these things they are trying to accomplish, but this weighs on their efforts. thank you both very much. ahead more than two weeks since the train derailment in ohio and the controlled burns that followed, is the water too dangerous? the test results are in. big pharma has been unfairly charging people hundreds of dollars, making record profits. not anymore. we capped e cost of insulin at $35 a month for seniors on medicare. you know, there s a thousand billionaires in america, itâ– s up from about 600 at the beginning of my term.