a war zone as president. he and zelensky walking through the streets of kiev. you can hear the sirens ringing through the country as the two leaders were leaving a church a few hours ago. [sirens blaring] bill: quite a shot there biden and zelensky undeterred by those alarms above. unannounced visit comes after ukraine marks a year of fending off russia. the fighting only expected to intensify in the coming months with that spring thaw. according to the president s america s support will go nowhere. president biden: i m here to show our unwavering support for the nation s independence. we know there will be very difficult days, weeks and years ahead but russia s aim was to wipe ukraine off the map. putin s war of conquest is failing. russia s military has lost half its territory it once occupied. dana: president biden getting a look at the devastating toll of russia s invasion that s ravaged the country for the last year. the fighting has killed thousands of troops and
live. reporter: what we saw on the hill is of things to come. gop lawmakers appeared to eager to settle a few scores in the process, set the table for a major take down on the line. first up, it is twitter, former brain trust trying to explain away what gop lawmakers called election interference and partnering with intelligence agencies and lying and betraying the public trust. i think you guys got played by the fbi. twitter should have reinstated the post account immediately. what some called twitter s censorship regime which often labeled fact as disinformation, like you know the hunter biden s laptop story? i will be the first to admit that we didn t always get it right. we all know now. this was not russian disinformation. it was not disinformation. no, it was not. and as you can well imagine, gop lawmakers were slamming twitter today. marjorie taylor green saying to the executives, you discuss me. nancy macey saying, thank god for elon musk, who in the he
border crisis caused by the biden administration. never a good bet to bet against america, never. [chanting u.s.a.] newark can once again be the land of the free and the home of the brave. pete hegseth is live in carthage in north carolina where he s going to be talking to voters. who here watched the speech last night? who loved the speech last night? ainsley: last night was joe biden s second state of the union address. we all watched it. we watched sarah huckabee sanders rebuttal and listened to the pundits afterwards. we will get you up to date, up to speed if you happened to go to sleep last night. brian: then we watched some late night movies and went to the clubs and came right to work. how late were we up last night? 11:00? steve: listen, we made one correct prediction yesterday and that was that joe biden would be wearing a blue tie. ainsley: this is true. steve: and he did. from state of the union to safety the onion. let s go to having br
last night on the five. it is true. i did eat the salad with my fingers. i didn t have a fork and didn t use a comb. let s get back to the news. the second state of the unya than for president biden. his first before a divided congress. the president made lofty claims about his record. fact checkers are having a field day today. bill: headline, joe lieden. it had vocal pushback in the house chamber. president biden: some republicans want medicare and social security to sun set. we ll need oil for at least another decade. if china threatens our sovereignty we ll a act to protect our country and did president biden: fentanyl is killing more than 70,000 americans a year. let s also come together on immigration. we ve been sent to finish the job. let s finish the job this time. dana: among the issues the president made no mention of, cartels, chinese spy flight, afghanistan and didn t mention his classified document. bill: surprise. president spent 12 minutes about th
here at home, that midair scare onboard a cross-country united flight from san diego to newark. a lithium battery catching fire. passengers screaming, air traffic control radioing the pilots, saying they could not hear them. we have new reporting tonight, the u.s. navy off the east coast and what they ve now discovered. parts of that suspected chinese spy balloon and what it reveals. and the unmanned underwater vehicles examining the wreckage for explosives. a way for the chinese spy balloon to self-destruct. martha raddatz with new reporting. just moments ago, the first look tonight at what president biden will tell the american people later this evening. the address in prime time, the state of the union here on abc. the president before congress and the country, and mary bruce live at the white house. there is also breaking news from memphis at this hour in the tyre nichols case. we have new reporting tonight. what one of the officers allegedly did. pierre thomas is h