country. if ukrainian skies were closed. and we ve been requesting to close our skies for a long time now. and we re talking to our international partners about this almost on a daily basis. and actually, today there will be a lunchtime meeting of the ministers of defense of 50 countries. and we believe and we are almost confident that the air defense capabilities of ukraine will continue to be a top priority both for us and future our international partners. and for more, we go now to melissa bell, who joins us live from nato headquarters in brussels. good to see you, melissa. so the consequences of this missile landing in poland are immense, of course. and that is exactly why an investigation is so crate cal. what are you learning? it is because of all the potential consequences, the invoking of article 4, article 5 were at some point decided this has been a strike that poland considered a threat to itself.
the crux of the debate lies in the character of pope pius xii. who was he? and why did he make the decisions he did? there are those who see in his reluctance to identify the suffering of jews in particular. some see in that the strains of anti-semitism. eugenio pacelli s time in germany as a people diplomat is really crate cal to his formation, his thinking about germans and germany. and one could argue his thinking about jews. he describes meeting with jewish officials who he describes as dirty communists with slanted eyes. we can see his negative stereotypes about jews in his writings. and i m not convinced they ever really exited his thinking. the whole of pius xii s
leaders make statements that are crate cal to the president and denounce the racism in certain and clear terms but that s the only hope that we have to survive this in a way that we come out of a post trump era whenever that is. a trial for the republican party as well as the democratic party, the nation. i think back to ronald reagan who i think made some missteps, launching the first campaign in philadelphia, mississippi, i thought that was a mistake. but look at what bob dole had to say in a convention speech. the republican party is broad and inclusive. it represents many streams of opinion and many points of view. but if there is anyone who has mistaken or attached himself to our party in the belief that we re not open to citizens of every race and religion, then let me remind you, tonight this hall belongs to the party of
right, left, and center. how will this sit with rex tillerson this week? i have no idea. great answer. i mean, i can t figure out if you can figure out what rex tillerson is up to, you know, i can t believe the guy signed on to an administration where his initial budget is cut by 28% and he doesn t squawk about that to the president. but i will say this, kushner leaving the country is probably not a terrible idea in terms of the op tibs. the question is kushner s been at the center of doing aot of the personnel reorganization stuff including in thecom shop. i wonder if that doesn t mean a lot of the moves we ve been hearing about are yet again on hold. there you go. dwo gosh, so much to cover. glen, thanks for weighing in. appreciate it. next, president trump sets to meet today with ceos from major tech companies. again, jared set that up. he is so busy. among them amazon s jeff bezos and apple s tim cook. some of these ceos have been very crate cal of the
very crate cal of this group. what is striking to me this week is how the two groups came together, not so much behind comey but behind the fbi itself. i think that s what you were hearing in mccabe s voice. we are one organization, we believe in each other and our mission and we re not going to let ourselves be divided politically. michael schmidt, that s something we were talking about around the table, in making this impulsive decision t president of the united states hit a horn net easiness at the fbi. you see them privately in some of the sources in these pieces that we re seeing, people stepping up behind koemt me and the fbi more broadly. this is probably going to be counterproductive for trump to get rid of comey. it s not that comey was out there doing interviews and writing reports and working on the investigation. yes, he was overseeing it. the day-to-day work was being