zelenskyy last week. that meeting comes at a critical juncture for the war amid new questions about the quantity and quality of u.s. support. and exactly what specifically makes the new mexico da so sure about the charges against alec baldwin, that could land him in prison for years. it wasn t that we were trying to charge him with a felony. it s that what his actions did matched the case law for involuntary manslaughter. but let s start exactly two years out from inauguration day, seeing the early contours of the presidential strategy, that the white house hopes will get joe biden back to the oval office for a second term. the goal to spotlight pooud s legislative achievements of the past 18 months and contrast that with what a white house spokesman predicted would be republicans divorce from reality political stunts. to that end, politico reports
they re not sure if it s a week or a month from now. do you subscribe to that logic? no. i ve been pushing the administration for months that we needed pre-invasion sanctions. we should have done a lot to their financial sector before this happened. but i appreciate many of the steps the administration has taken in the last six days bringing along europe. let s be clear. zelenskyy is the hero in all this. the reason germans changed on sanctions is because of zelenskyy and the courage he demonstrated when he said i need ammo not a ride. i applaud parts of the ramping up of financial sanctions from the administration but saying things like give it time is not enough. right now we have an army that we can partner with and if the army falls as is certainly statistically the bet people would make you will have to help fund and arm an insurgency. you can t provide the same information then that we can be do. the administration needs to do
intelligence sharing. it is something we ve been communicating closely with them through the course of the last several weeks and we ll continue to. we have their backs and as i would note that when president zelenskyy last spoke with president biden he asked for more security assistance. president turned it around and delivered that. had his teamwork to deliver that immediately. we are expediting the delivery of that. i can assure you we re in close touch and trying to do everything we can to provide them assistance whether security, weapons, military assistance, humanitarian assistance they need at this challenging time on the ground. bill: bill hemmer, thank you for your time again and for coming back. we buy russia s oil and we don t need to. will the president make an appeal tonight to americans based on some sort of shared sacrifice that perhaps would lead people? the polls suggest american people will listen to you. they will consume less in order to help ukrainian people and
address. lucas tomlinson in the western part of ukraine joins our coverage and begins a new hour. lucas, what s happening now? bill, the u.n. says over 650,000 people have fled this country and this crisis is rapidly approaching the worst this century. majority of the people fleeing are going to poland 40 miles to the west of where i m standing. about a fifth of the people are going to russia. now after that speech the european union president zelenskyy addressed his own country. the country that commits war crimes against civilians cannot be a member of the u.n. security council. this country has to be banned from all the ports, channels, airports in the world. the convey with 15,000 russian soldiers and armored vehicles and fuel bears down on the capital. this is a siege. in southeast ukraine the russian defense ministry claims the land bridge they have been
they are hurting badly the russian economy but vladimir putin doesn t care if that has an effect. there is something we ve seen overnight. the effects of the bombs. you can see the explosions. it might be through we don t know exactly what weapon was used. a question we asked jen psaki the press secretary zelenskyy says that vladimir putin has committed war crimes and does the president of the united states agree on that? she wouldn t answer it directly and i understand if you say that, then there are other things that then you have to do. they are not willing to do that. by the time they get up to do the speech tonight we might have more information on that very point. we might. we need to know if our intelligence points in that direction. it was a great question and a very clear marker if those are weapons if those weapons have been used do violate and put him in a situation where he is accused of war crimes. i m looking at the market, too. i wonder about these russian oligarchs