mr. president, do you want putin removed? mr. president, were you calling for regime change? no. just a one-word answer, but did have america s top diplomat come out to explain what the u.s. policy is. president putin cannot be empowered to wait for or engage in aggression against ukraine or anyone else. as you know, and as you have heard us say repeatedly, we do not have a strategy of regime change in russia. and that is the talking point circulating around the administration because the u.s. ambassador to nato used the same exact words. well, let me be clear and just state right off the bat that the u.s. does not have a policy of regime change towards russia, but i think what we all agree on is that president putin cannot be empowered to wage war. 40% approve of the
planning no. america s top diplomat had to quickly come out and explain u.s. policy. president putin cannot be empowered to wait for or engage in aggression against ukraine or anyone else. as you know, and as you have heard us say repeatedly, we don t have a strategy of regime change in russia. and that last part must be the talking point circulating around the administration as the u.s. ambassador to nato used almost the same exact words. well, let me be clear and just state right off the bat that the u.s. does not have a policy of regime change towards russia but i think what we all agree on is that president putin cannot be empowered to wage war. 40% approve of the president s overall job performance right now in a new nbc poll.
three days on this three-day europe trip. but it s not the first time the president has ad libbed a change in u.s. policy or at least said the quiet part out loud. remember back during the press conference when he was asked about what he would do if putin invaded ukraine, and he said it depends. if it s a minor incursion, that s one thing. people saw as giving putin the green light. so he comes out at the end of this speech and basically what was an aside, i think, you know, for goodness sake, he can t stay in power. what does the white house need to do to stop him from ad libbing new american policy? well, obviously a rule would be if you are giving this big foreign policy speak to stick to the script. but the president has been kind of unable to do that for a long time, and in his in prompt tu
obamacare. why should we expect anything different. sandra: byron york, chief political correspondent for the examiner and fox news contributor. you tell us the way you see things. has the blunder been appropriately walked back by the white house by this time now? well, the problem with the putin cannot remain in power line is it left a lot of people wondering is it a gaffe, or was it intentional, was it not a gaffe, and if it was a gaffe, it was bad. and if it was not a gaffe, probably worse. seemed to commit the united states to a policy of regime. the last time the united states did that in 2003, it led to a long-term disaster, so you had all the walk-back. i think a number of people, not just lawmakers in washington but certainly people in europe are perhaps suspicious that biden again did say the quiet part out loud. john: byron, earlier today
john: so president biden had a very tough speech in warsaw over the weekend in which he added at the end this, listen here. for god s sake, this man cannot remain in power. john: sounded when he said that the united states had adopted a policy of regime change but the white house walked it back, secretary of state said oh, no, no, no, we didn t mean that. what do you think of the controversy? i think when we see from ukraine, we see from ukraine that a person absolutely mad man with terrorist army is attacking our land, and killing civilians, ruining our homes, bombing, using prohibited weapons and is not agreeing with the fact that we exist as a nation state. does putin need to go? from my perspective, he does. but that s me, a ukrainian politician speaking and a lot in