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These people are still in disbelief as to how they ve ended up here. one woman, i asked, what do you need most? and she said, i need the war to end so i can go home. chuck? kelly cobiella in poland for us. just a reminder, two weeks ago these people were living very first world lives. joining me now from muldova is secretary of state, antony blinken. second blinken, welcome to meet the press. i want to start with some of the acts that president zelenskyy made of congress, asks that president zelenskyy made of congress, and i m assuming he made some similar asks in his phone call with president biden. we have bullet points here. no fly zone. lethal aid, a ban on oil imports. i want to start with the no fly zone. let s start with the planes. it seems close, it seems, this idea of planes, u.s. fighter jets to poland. in exchange poland sends russian-made jets to ukraine. ....
The pressure at him on home, and what you started your show today with chuck, and the crackdown on reporting in russia. there s something going on in the russian army at some point we have to figure out, can we harness this? can we harness this how many movies have you seen about the plots against hitler in world war ii, and they don t work. i was not going there. surely there s discontent. they don t know what they are doing, they re lost. i don t think anytime soon we are likely to see a challenge whether it s by the people or the military that changes putin. i joked about bringing up the state of the union. it s like nobody else is talking about it. one thing that surprised me about the president s state of the union, it was the lack of connecting, the fight for ....
Stingers and javelins. that s really the critical next step. the next question is is the administration everything it can do? this goes back to the public opinion question. people will be favorable to the biden administration if there s the impression as we watch this play out on our screens, on our phones, that the biden administration is doing everything it can. i think there is a growing sense that they are not. if you look at what president biden said on february 24th when he announced this to the world, we are going to be doing something and be tough, and he said russia will be a pariah on the international stage. we are dealing with russia on the iran deal and on climate and the state department is giving guidance on the diplomats and what they will do with russia. they are not a pariah. we need to do more. it does seem, it s interesting, is this putin s war or russia s war, and there are some trying to create, hey, let s not punish the russian people but i don t know if you ....
We can talk about other things. you had a big circle around energy. does that come, you want to see an increase in energy production before you sit down with biden? let me say the most important thing that i m worried about every day is inflation right now. it s affecting every west virginian and every american i know of. the high prices they can t sustain and it s hurting people working the most, people trying to make a living. they need help, so inflation is the number one thing. basically supporting ukraine and saving freedom and democracy around the world, because it will permeate if we don t stop it. next of all, we can do all of this, but you have to get your financial house in order. my grandfather always said, joe, unmanaged debt will make cowardly decisions out of you. we have to get that under control. is this war in europe make it harder to do this deal with the president or easier? i think it makes it more realistic. this is the real world. we keep talking about aspir ....
Is that going to happen, and how quickly can it happen? first let me say this. president zelenskyy has been a remarkable leader. he s been the embodiment of the ukrainian people and everything they re doing to resist this russian aggression and president biden is in regular contact with him as he was just yesterday. on this question of planes, yes, we re talking very actively about this, looking at what we could do to backfill poland if it chooses to send the migs and the planes that it has to ukraine, how we can help by backfilling what they re giving to the ukrainians. that s so a very active discussion as we speak. you said if. that s a poland decision, not a nato decision? it s a sovereign decision by poland if they choose to do it. we want to make sure we can help them and, again, backfill what they are giving so they don t have any loss in their own ability to provide security. so if any of these nato ....