course? i think the president going to kyiv doesn t settle that problem once and for all. ideally, it would have been great had he shown up, you know, with senator mcconnell or somebody like that who is strongly in support of the war. again, it sends a reassuring message to ukraine about american staying power. which, jonathan, is critical for europe. europe has followed behind and with the united states for the most part. this is leading from ahead, and that is what is required in this instance. we are now past 6:00. welcome to morning joe at this morning. joe, mika and willie have the day off. i want to bring in katty kay, special u.s. correspondent for bbc news, into our live, rolling coverage of this presidents day and president biden s surprise trip to ukraine, one meant to show a real symbol of solidarity, katty, with kyiv, as it has weathered russia s invasion now for 12 months. yeah, jonathan, what a day for us to kick off presidents s day, to see these images.
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to those plaplaces? on their own, they were not important in the past. that is one of the challenges now. there is no question standing here in moscow, that the kremlin views this as an existential fight. it sees winning in whatever way it can portray winning as crucial to its future. even to president putin s survival. now, that s not to say that he doesn t have support here. he does. the polling that there is does suggest that the support for him has accelerated in russia in the past year. another thing just to point out, i m standing here, and you can see behind me the busy road in moscow. the economy in russia has not suffered the way that, perhaps, it had been predicted to when those unprecedented sanctions were imposed. when you walk around moscow, you
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