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early. it s 5:31 a.m. on the east coast 2:31 out west. on the heels of president biden s surprise trip to kyiv florida governorren desantis is down-playing the threat russia s military poses on europe and the rest of the world. here you go. i think it s important to point out i mean the fear of kind of russia going into nato countries and all that and steamrolling, you know, that has not even come close to happening. i think they ve shown themselves to be a third rate military power. i think they ve suffered tremendous, tremendous losses. i ve got to think the people in russia are probably disapproving of what s going on. i don t think they can speak up about it for obvious reasons. but i think russia has been really, really wounded here and i don t think they are the same threat to our country even though they re hostile i don t think they re on the same level as a china. the president s visit to kyiv
used and is using force only to try to bring the conflict to an end. none of this of course is true. he once again refer today government of ukraine as a, quote, neo-nazi regime and made one specific threat the longer long-range missiles are delivered to ukraine the farthe correspondent michael hughes. no bac the same propaganda and lies and no sign whatsoever this conflict is going to end anytime soon. do you anticipate that russia as it is prone to do will lash out and change things in the wake of president biden s visit to kyiv? well, it s interesting, jonathan. i mean for the last several weeks we ve been hearing casting report about a massive russian
ahead of remarks. it ll begin at 7:20 eastern followed by a meeting leading to biden s speech marking one-year of war in ukraine. he is set to return home following that meeting. today s events come after president biden delivered a message to his russian counterpart, vladimir putin, and to the rest of the world in historic fashion yesterday by making that surprise visit to ukraine. with air-raid sirens ringing in the background, biden stood alongside ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy in the capital city of kyiv. one year later kyiv stands and you crane stands, democracy