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nato will not be decided and we will not tire. ukraine will never be a victory for russia. one year after the bams began to fall, russian tanks rolled in to ukraine. ukraine is still independent and free. greg: oh, man. biden s foreign trip isn t sitting well with the mayor of east palestine. that was the biggest slap in the face. that tells you right now he doesn t care about us. he can send every agency he wants to. i found that out this morning one of the briefings that he was in the ukraine giving millions of dollars away to people over there, not to us. i m furious. greg: mayor pete says he will visit ohio s toxic train site but only when the time is right and boasts his experience as mayor has prepared him for this moment. i m planning to go. our folks were on the ground from the first hours. look, i was mayor of my hometown for eight years. we dealt be a lot of disasters, natural and human. one of the things i noticed very quickly is that there s two kinds of p
ruhle starts now. r with stephanie ruhle starts now tonight, president biden s surprise visit to ukraine, meeting with president zelenskyy while announcing more military aid. what this historic trip means for the future of the war. meanwhile, some far-right republicans criticize the presidents trip to ukraine. what we are hearing from a small but loud minority. then, ron desantis visits new york city to talk policing and crime. is this the unofficial start to a presidential run? as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. greetings, i m simone alexander s townsend, in for stephanie ruhle. president biden makes a historic top secret trip to ukraine, as russia s war there nears the one year mark. the presidents trip included a ten hour train ride from the polish border into kyiv. now, this is biden s first visit to ukraine since the war began, and it s the first from a modern-day president to an active war zone with no u.s. military presence on the ground or the ai
people should hear from including on our apps and services from those who want to lead them. is he a former president of this country vying to be a candidate for the next presidential election. we will have much more of my exclusive interview with nick clague in just a few minutes meanwhile the president is talking fang will supply 3 dozen m 1 abrams tanks to the ukrainians as they try to defend against the russians that move is opening the door to other countries following suit. white house correspondent peter doocy has the story behind the decision live from the north lawn tonight. good evening, peter. peter: good evening, bret. there s nothing delicate about a tank but something very delicate to say they won t be a threat to russia but russian troops inside ukraine. this is about freedom. freedom for ukraine. and help for president volodymyr zelenskyy zelenskyy. today is his birthday by the way. peter: the u.s. is sending 31 abrams tanks the equivalent of one ukr
the president meeting with ukrainian counterpart in what is being described as a defiant display of western solidarity. white house correspondent peter doocy is traveling with the president and reports tonight from warsaw, poland. good evening, peter. bret, if president biden stuck to his schedule he would still be in washington, d.c. right now. but, instead, he is here in warsaw after a daring dip into a war zone. and he is looking ahead to a big speech tomorrow where we do expect him to call out vladimir putin by name. putin s war of conquest is failing. but it s ongoing. so the president is committing 500 million more dollars in equipment for the fight against putin. thought he could outlast us. i don t think he is thinking that right now. the u.s. gave russia a heads up, president biden would be visiting ukraine but to keep the trip clandestine the president was driven in a white toyota suv instead of the customary black suburban and traveled with a much smaller