0 ukraine. at least 130,000 troops and that number has gone up and they continue to conduct live fire exercises. according to the white house, president biden reaffirmed his support. zelensky said there s no need to panic and he knows the situation better than president biden. according to the kremlin, putin told his french counterpart that the u.s. and nato had not addressed his fundamental concerns about security in the region. joining me from kyiv is my partner matt bradley, courtney kube is in the briefing room and will ask questions on our behalf. matt, let me start with you on what we re hearing from president zelensky. how much of this is about not a message to his own domestic audience, don t panic and attention elites, don t flee the country. yeah, chuck. it was interesting because he had the foreign press assembled there. i was one of them. all of the foreign press seemed to be asking variations on kind of the same question, how are you so relaxed and not reacting to this m
0 of your second, third, and fourth years? ashley? when you gave thattors forceful speech about voting rights in atlanta you conveyed it as being on the right side of history. my question, does president biden believe those people who voted against the filibuster to open up debate on voting rates, are they racist? joe, quickly to you. american consumers are hurting so much. what additional measures are you prepared to take to curve inflation and bring it down. that does it for us. thanks to all of you for watching. deadline: white house picks up our special coverage here on msnbc now. se picks up our special coverage here on msnbc now. hi there, everyone. it is 4:00 in new york. we are less than two minutes away from president biden s news conference. just his second solo domestic news conference as president. this marks the official ends of his first year in office. the white house today setting the stage for what they are describing as a reset moment, an opportunity to
0 to talk about going. we re continuing to provide for defense capacities to the ukrainians. we re talking about what s going on in both the baltic and the black sea, et cetera. there s a whole range of things that i m sure he s trying to calculate how quickly he can do what he wants to do and what does he want to do. but i he s not he s an informed individual, and i m sure not sure. i believe he s calculating what the immediate short-term and the near-term and the long-term consequences of russia will be. and i don t think he s made up his mind yet. i want to ask you about your domestic agenda. you ve gotten a lot of questions about voting rights, mr. president, but i want to ask you about black voters. one of your most loyal constituencies. yep. i was in congressman clyburn s district yesterday in south carolina. you opened this news conference talking about him. i spoke to a number of black voters who fought to get you elected, and now they feel as though you re not figh