our people thought that ukraine would collapse quickly. but when it didn t, they adapted. they were able to send more humanitarian and military aid. they have shifted their story from one in which there is going to be a partisan resistance, all the way now to one in which there is going to be a ukrainian victory by the ukrainian state and civil society. and the third thing, which president biden has done which is extraordinary extraordinarily unprecedented, is physically go to a war zone, to assert the united states s support for ukraine. the physical courage involved here is a very important thing. it is very important that he bodily was in ukraine. it is very important to zelenskyy and ukrainians. but i think it s also very important to all of us to remember that there is in a little bit of risk around democracy. it s not something that happens automatically. i think president biden understands that, understood the symbolic and indeed the ethical importance of being at the place
well as the last three days did. i say that because there was never a certainty the president would be able to pull off the trip to kyiv. he was standing shoulder to shoulder with volodymyr zelenskyy, one year after most people think he wasn t going to be in office anymore. a day later he was able to drawn to that moment and staid on him as he delivered those remarks about the states making it clear this was not just about one conflict inside europe. this was much bugger than that. today was also really critical moment. sitting down, meeting behind closed doors for more than an hour with these countries for nato. so much of what these three days have been have been dramatic symbolic, trying to lay down the marker for what s next. but this was a meeting and several others over course of the 72 hours behind the scenes about substantive issues about what will be needed going forward scha that is real and complex and that is very difficult. administration officials acknowledge those challe
support nearly a year after russians full scale invasion of ukraine. tennis top diplomat is expected in moscow, over fears that baiting might send lethal aid to support russia s war. then a massive 6.2 magnitude aftershock hits turkey, just two weeks after the devastating quake that left tens of thousands dead. so, it is just after eight in the morning, and in warsaw poland, where u.s. president, joe, biden is set to begin a two-day visit following a symbolic and highly secretive trip to ukraine. in the hours ahead, mr. biden will be meeting with the polish president in warsaw castle, as he marks nearly one year since russia s invasion of ukraine. and that falls a surprise trip to kyiv, on monday.
robert, so good to see you. i m sorry we need to be talking about the utter insanity here. but what is the careful act that democrats do, on the one hand they need to show they re serious about governing, they need to stay above the fray, but on the other hand republicans are gonna try to beat them into the symbolic. votes for, example condemn the horrors of socialism for real. and 109 democrats voted for, it but this is messaging at its empty, but it s still massive jay. so, what s the right call here from a strategy perspective? wow, look, i think we saw the beginnings of this, at the very beginning of the congress getting organized. we realized there is a norma s personality is now in the republican caucus. the speaker not really in control of those personalities. and a lot of different people s agendas are gonna get pushed through, you re gonna see a lot of hearings like this, we know from the last election to that republicans felt outside the
responsibility. the s idea that we can just do it, willy-nilly, with no restriction, with no permit, with no check. that is craziness. no responsible firearms owner believed that that is a way to go. and yet, here we are. let s talk about congress, because on what planet do we think we are going to get federal gun reform when republicans actually happen a ban on gathering guns and a committee room. excuse, me yesterday. so they want to have the right that they can carry a gun and a committee. if you really want to be in a room with owen boebert. with matt gates carrying guns. excuse me, but i think we ve got some problems, right? i don t know where we re headed. i love the sort of symbolic, we have the reality that american flags lapels have been replaced with ar-15 the piles. by some of the people in congress. i don t quite know how to enumerate how crazy this is. but this is not where decent, responsible, freedom loving, patriotic americans are. this may be where the far fringe o