yesterday s anniversary. translator: if we all do our homework, which will be inevitable, i am certain there will be victory. i don t think, i want it this year. in parts of ukraine today, there has been no let-up in the fighting. a russian military spokesman said up to 60 ukrainian soldiers were killed fighting on the eastern front. cnn s melissa bill is in kyiv, priscilla alvarez at the white house. are there any signs of the major russian offensive that ukraine has been warning about? reporter: there has been this intensification, fredricka, but very much confined to the east of the country. all along that line and at several lines along it, and according both to ukrainian sources and to russian state media, what we have been seeing is an increase in the violence along that front line, and specifically along areas around bakhmut. what we ve been hearing this evening, now that all the ceremonies for the first year anniversary have passed, is that the result of the
on privacy and content concerns, as well as the company s connection to the chinese government. we ll have the highlights for you just ahead. plus, what we re learning about a drone strike overnight in syria that killed at least one american and injured a handful of u.s. service members. a lot going on. good morning. welcome to morning joe. can you believe it s friday? it s friday, march 24th. you know, it is friday. you know, willie, it is interesting. you have trump raising $1.5 million off of this. puck noted last night that people around donald trump see this as a bad sign. his fundraising prowess is dried up. he s worn out all of these lists. he sent spam out for six years, seven years. the small money donations just aren t coming in. you know, right after access hollywood, he raised $11.5 million off of small donors. after the fbi raid last summer at mar-a-lago, as he called it, he raised $2 million in two days. he s raised $1.5 million over the week. what we
that is incredibly notable because as brianna was saying, it s been this long-standing practice of strategic ambiguity. basically, that means that the white house will say, china, don t do this. we don t want to see you do this, but they wouldn t exactly spell out what would happen if china were to do that. and the president, of course, did that today, saying the u.s. military would be involved in this. so, yes, afterward, you did see some of the president s aides try to walk this back saying he wasn t articulating any kind of change in his policy, but it is a policy difference for him to come out and say explicitly they would do that. not just that they would provide arms to ukraine or arms to taiwan and weapons to taiwan like they are doing with ukraine, but saying they would go one step further, john. of course, it s a statement the president has come close to saying before. he articulated it very bluntly with no clarifications, no caveats. you can have aides walk it bac
of basketball. are you kidding? reporter: nowell dazzling madison square garden. nowell turning his ankle and then turning heads with a record-breaking 19 assists. kansas state k.o. d michigan state. the wildcats are headed for the elite eight. reporter: the other spot snatched by uconn in a blowout. gonzaga held off a late charge in a seesaw battle. the miami hurricanes men s team is looking to return to the elite eight. and the women s team hushed the crowd before knocking off indiana. they re playing in his first sweet 16 since 1992, boosted by the transfer of the social media sensation twins. getting to the sweet 16 is something we used to pray about. reporter: the pair have been pioneers in the new age of name, image and likeness, amassing
struggling to maintain it. but if you re going to provide f-16s, you ve got to have a training program for it. you can t snap your fingers and say you re going to get some f-16s, we ll fly them over tomorrow, take over. it s about a nine-month training program for a ukrainian pilot to go into an f-16. so i would like to see the training programs begin now. they should have begun a long time ago. then you can make the decision when they need it. but here s the thing, fredricka. we re in a seesaw battle in ukraine right now. and as your correspondents reported, there s really heavy pressure on the east. we don t know what ukraine has in its pocket to do the counteroffensive. they re keeping that very closely held. but if ukraine can t pressure, what putin wants most, which is crimea, then he s unlikely to come to the negotiating table this year. it s going to be another year, another year after that. so it would be really smart to