President Joe Biden joked with Spanish King Felipe VI at a lavish dinner at the royal palace in Madrid on Tuesday night as Jill Biden admitted she was worried she and Queen Letizia would clash in their outfits.
so talk to us, you started to go there now, talk to us a little bit more about you need to keep, make sure that money and that intention goes to the right people and there remains a focus on what they so desperately need. sometimes a lot of these bigger international charity organizations, they become unwieldy and have trouble operating in war zones and the great thing about blue check, most of these organizations are on the ground in ukraine or ukrainians and the great thing as the news cycle evolves in different ways, these people are uniquely equipped to identify and fast track support where it needs to be and so that s why we were really trying really specifically to work with ukrainian organizations and organizations like jose s, like world center kitchen that are actually on the ground in ukraine. we keep showing images of an orchestra, and liev was able to spend time with the orchestra in
The Bistro 163 fundraising effort to benefit World Central Kitchen in the Ukraine has had a grand start. As of April 12th, the donation page on the Bistro 163
brave ukrainians. the diplomats have enormous courage. that was political calculation. we had to worry about hostages, et cetera. i don t get they re going to happen but we have to get back in and be on the ground. we need diplomats on the ground with the military liaisons. general mccaffrey, helene cooper, and of course ambassador taylor, and we re going to have john kirby from the pentagon just a bit later in the program. and up next, food fighters after a russian missile strike hit the world center kitchen s operation in kharkiv. chef jose andres gives an update on his mission next. this is andrea mitchell reports on msnbc. this is andrl reports on msnbc.
right now humanitarian groups are working 24/7 to help ukrainians fleeing their homes for their lives, as well as those staying behind. one of the groups serving hot meals in border crossings and cities in this conflict, including odesa and kyiv, is a group you may have heard of before. world center kitchen. thank you for the work you re doing here. i know it s making a tremendous impact. first let s look at the big picture here. more than 2 million people have already fled the country. many more are and as there is more negativity in the east, more will come this way. are you and other groups able to feed them all? we re going to do our best. it really is a complicated situation, because you have ukrainians that are displaced internally that are coming to cities like kyiv where we are in the west, and also hundreds of