the fact that russia is saying now it will not go along anymore with any inspections on a full withdrawal, but the significance of that and the fact that antony blinken the secretary of state said it is deeply unfortunate in any event and irresponsible said the u.s. will talk to russia about this at any point regardless of what is happening on the world stage with russia and ukraine. that is how critical the u.s. believes this is. absolutely critical. look, the only way that the nuclear threat is going to cool down in any way is if you look at past history where the united states and formerly the soviet union agreed to have their salt talks, to have the start talks, and then to continue with the new start talks that we see right now. that competition has been in place for over four to five decades and it must be addressed. look, one nuclear weapon alone is sufficient to give us all concern, right? what we re talking about is russia has in excess of 5,000 nuclear weapons. th
from east europe now, it is the west that is the strongest, that has the most power, that is still in charge of this transatlantic security architecture. yeah, and to see how poland boosted its defense spends also alone and what they are buying from south korea. we are getting live images also this morning just moments from now president biden, president duda meeting inside the presidential palace there. you can see the two delegations, this is an expanded bilateral meeting between the two of them. that means poboth of their top advisor will be accompanying them in this meeting. as the white house has talked about what this relationship has looked like. we ll listen in. translator: on behalf of myself and the polish society and all those present in our country, all the guests, all of our friends and neighbors from ukraine, i would like to thank