and we need to hear a clear demand from the united states to our european allies, particularly germany, they start delivering on their promises. i can tell you what they are actually delivering is a fraction in terms of military aid of what they promised. europeans have to do more. dana: very interesting. we asked john kirby about putin s belief that he is at war with us. here is what he said. he is at war inside ukraine. despite the rhetoric we heard from putin last night trying once again to make it about the west versus russia or the united states versus russia ornate owe versus russia, nothing can be farther from the truth. ukraine was invaded illegally and fighting to defend their country. dana: so you just said that the europeans haven t delivered all that they are supposed to deliver in terms of weaponry. so would this outcome right now be different if the ukrainians had what they were promised? i think it would be
with russia? no we are not. not at all. russia is at war inside ukraine. despite the rhetoric we heard from putin last night trying to make it about the west versus russia or united states versus russia or nato versus russia, nothing could be further from the truth. this week with the united nations gathered together in new york don t expect to hear president biden for russia to be removed from the u.n. security council. we re told it won t be in his script. harris: those are good notes to get started with the ambassador now. thank you, peter, very much. ambassador nikki haley former u.s. ambassador to the united nations and former south carolina governor, good to see you today. the president has a lot on his plate. i feel like every time you and i get together maybe somebody has ratcheted something up or stepped in something. where are we with the situation
0 we ll stay in touch with you. good information to have. bill: the u.n. will be on the plate for harris when she takes over in a moment here. this is the leader and joe biden follows him. dana: he will be here and harris faulkner is next. the faulkner focus is next. harris: we begin with breaking news this hour. president biden is expected to speak at the general assembly of the united nations at any moment. he is next on the list there and they have been ticking along pretty expeditiously. we ll go to it live the moment that happens. we can tell you that we expect him to say something about russia because of what has just happened. we can t imagine that he won t address the nuclear threat from russian dictator vladimir putin today. putin mobileizing 300,000 additional troops. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus . the president will speak to the u.n. s general assembly for the first time he has addressed that world body since putin s unprovoked invasion of u
said it would not strike a deal on to get those in ukraine. big picture here, the u.s. has given more military aid along with nato than any other country. but at the same time, ukraine is still asking for more, as you just heard in all of our reporting, it s not enough. i think the pressure is going to stay very tight on this white house to continue to ramp up as ukraine continues to defend itself. michael, the kremlin is not necessarily overreacting here. they are saying, the united states is adding fuel to the fire. what that means in the week, two weeks or three weeks from now is obviously completely different. vladimir putin seems to act erratically when it comes to this war inside ukraine. what are you expecting when it comes to response from vladimir putin on this? it s a good point. i would say one of the great surprises of this conflict has been how little vladimir putin has done to strike back against the west.
military says he is overwhelmed by shame and guilt for the unprovoked invasion of a peaceful country and risked it all by resigning the commission and walking away. cnn s suzanne malveaux is in ukraine with the story. suzanne? reporter: good evening, pam. exclusive to cnn, a russian junior officer who speaks that he is anonymous to protect the safety and the identity speaking to cnn saying he was a part of the unit february 22nd the troop build-up along the border with ukraine and that evening that they were order ds to give over the cell phones and lost communication with the world and ordered to paint the zs on the vehicles to symbolize the invasion and no idea that that was in fact the mission. the following day in crimea.