hello, everyone, and good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday, february 26. i m amara walker. good morning. i m boris sanchez. we are so grateful that you are spending your morning us with, starting your week with us. i am pumped to be alongside amara. how are you doing? same here. good to be with you. it s our friday. i am doing great. plenty to get to this morning. here is what we are watching. one thing that has been made clear to me is that everyone wants this contamination gone from the community. the epa stopping the removal of all contaminated material from that toxic train derailment in ohio as a battle now looms over how and where it should be moved. there is an outcry from neighboring states and the white house is responding, too. the war in ukraine is now in its second year and marked by fierce fighting in the east. our alex marquardt is there with troops from around the world who joined the front lines to fight russia s invasion. see
but right now fox polling finding biden is doing the best job of handling ukraine policy in americans eyes than over the entire course of this conflict. these are the political parameters in which he is operating and divisions among the gop may help biden in 2024 but they complicate his policy right now and that s part of why he has to tread carefully. margaret talev, thanks so much. thanks, boris. of course. a programming note to share with you. an in-depth look at ukraine one year after the war began. watch the cnn special report the will to win: ukraine at war tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. all right, still ahead. winter weather hammers the west. kind of afraid we are going to have to evacuate if it gets any worse.
companies did after russia s invasion of ukraine and withdrawal of, you know, mcdonald s, of every corporation that had a footprint in russia, and to say he doesn t believe that china is actually going to pursue this course. but everybody knows there is a difference between america withdrawing american companies withdrawing from russia and the calculus on withdrawals or cessation of business or sanctions with china. it s much more complicated. u.s. manufacturing is tied so much more strongly to china and there could be major implications economically for the u.s. so i think biden and xi are doing this kind of test of one another and this comes among the controversy over the spy balloon, it comes as americans are increasingly saying they are much more worried about china than they are about russia. that would have enormous r
but biden s declaration of no f-16s now i think doesn t mean no f-16s ever. it means no f-16s right now. there is also division among lawmakers about foreign aid to ukraine generally, right? you had some republicans led by mike mccall, the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee visiting ukraine last week while marjorie taylor greene among others was tweeting critically about biden s visit saying he should be focused on east palestine, ohio. what s your sense of where the opposition to sending more aid to ukraine stands right now? this really is kind of a wedge issue inside the republican party and it is in the early 2024 machinations on the gop primary side also. i will leave you with two numbers. pew research, the share of americans saying the u.s. is giving too much aid to ukraine. one in four americans overall. it s 40% of republicans. that s been a huge spike. it s a quadrupling over the course of the last year.