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
word. there is a significant agreement on this important so much larger than just ukraine. it s about freedom and democracy president biden gets tonight s last word from kyiv. the 11th hour 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 sanders-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
Will prevail. For our sake, for your sake, for peace and security in our region and in the world. Mr. President , for the people of israel, theres only one thing better than having a true friend like you standing with us, and that is having you standing in this room. Your visit here is the first visit of an american president in israel at a time of war. It is deeply, deeply moving. It speaks to the depth of your personal commitment to israel. It speaks to the depth of your personal commitment to the future of the jewish people and jewish state. So i know i speak for all the people of israel when i say, thank you, mr. President. Thank you for standing with israel today, tomorrow, and always. That happened in the past hour and a lot has happened in the past 24 hours. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showing appreciation for President Bidens visit amid the countrys war with hamas. That meeting happening just moments ago kicking off an extremely busy day for the president in Israe
early, my friend. appreciate you. but that with that, let s bring in our lead off panel. peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the new york times. he spent years as the moscow bureau chief for the washington post. closely watching the rise of vladimir putin. clint watson is here, he s a west point graduate, army veteran, former fbi special agent, and a distinguish research fellow at the foreign policy reaches the research institute. jeremy bash is also here, chief of staff at the cia, former cia, jimmy, you had the special privilege of being on set, so i will start with you. you have said that one of your takeaways from munich this weekend is that president biden is laser focused, for lack of a better term, of keeping the international pressure on putin. it seems to me that the physical manifestation of that was this trip that he took. yeah, this was a momentous weekend for diplomacy.
escalation. of course, russians aren t so foolish that they would think that doing something to put president biden in harm s way would make sense for them. but they don t necessarily control everybody there who was operating on their behalf. and that s the thing that was made very dangerous. something like putting the train the president on the train for ten hours is unheard of. absolutely. as we have this conversation, and clint mentioned it, jeremy, this possibility that china could be supplying the lethal aid to russia seems as peter just noted, some lines between the united states and russia are open, hence how the u.s. notified rush of the trip. how concerned should we be about the potential legal aid to russia? what are the consequences on the table if in fact that is what is happening? very concerned, i think this was a very deft and savvy move by secretary of state tony blinken, his chinese counterpart in munich with the allegations. the meeting was extensively about a d