it was the american president surprise in the war zone in kyiv, the first u.s. president in a war zone abroad where there wasab not a u.s. military presee there to support miz presence and protect him. and now tomorrow looking ahead it s going l to be a split scre as president putin in russia will give his equivalent of the state of the union address with the kremlinen and on the same day president biden will give a speech on war saw, a speech open to the public, a speech about democracies to stand together and do so for as long as it takes. joining usit now is presidentia historian, pulitzer prizewinning author of many books. including one that looks at the
0 it was actually 108 people in the heavenly hundred. the youngest of them was just 16 years old. it all happened as the combination of protests that had started the previous november. people are protesting in ukraine. because the government of that country had had the chance to sign on to a big trade deal with europe, a deal that was expected to have big economic benefits for ukraine, just episode bring ukraine closer to europe, and closer to the west. people in ukraine bought weird forward to it. this is a popular thing that they re very much wanted. but the president of ukraine at the time he decided he wasn t going to do it and he basically decided that because russia didn t want him to do it in 2014 the president of ukraine and i know this sounds rude to say but he was basically a a puppet of russia, of vladimi russia had paid for his political rise and for his political party. they had worked to install him in power. they totally controlled him. he was theirol guy. that was how