the midterms ahead. welcome to meet the press dally. for the first time since the war this ukraine began, two biden administration officials have set foot in kyiv. secretary of state antony blinken and defense secretary lloyd austin met with president zelenskyy over the weekend in ukraine s capital city pledging military aid and diplomatic support. that includes reopening the u.s. embassy in kyiv and the the nomination of a new u.s. ambassador. this morning from poland, secretaries blinken and austin spoke to reporters about their visit and their assessment of the conflict. we re seeing that when it comes to russia, russia is failing. ukraine is succeeding. russia has sought as its principle lane to totally sub jet indicate ukraine to take away its independence. that has failed. what those comments suggest about the u.s. s wartime policy a major question as defense secretary austin spoke about the administrative s objectives. honestly, ukraine remain a sovereign cou
the u.s. embassy will reopen in the next few weeks in the capital, a major show of confidence. after a meeting in kyiv, the secretaries announced more weapons and training to help ukraine win the fight. we don t know how the rest of this war will unfold but we do know that a sovereign, independent ukraine will be around a lot longer than vladimir putin s on the scene. much of the work we re doing is enabling them to strengthen their hand both on the battlefield but also eventually at a negotiation if there is one. we want to see russia weakened to the degree that it can t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading ukraine. so it has already lost a lot of military capability and a lot of its troops, quite frankly. as they cross ukraine by rail, russian troops continue their assault on towns through the eastern donetsk and regions. and president biden is congratulating france s president emanuel macron, a key ally on beating back a stiff challenge from far right
[national anthem] rachel: wow. good morning, everybody. it is 6:00 in new york city pete: out of cats. rachel: i just love all those patriotic kid photos. i actually think we should do one with just kids. good morning, will, good morning, pete. pete: good morning. good to have you back. rachel: thank you. keep sending those pictures in, everybody, especially kids. we love those kid pictures. will: that ll be in the coffee if table book. a kids section, a dog section, not a cat section [laughter] and a military section. rachel: cats aren t patriotic. they re just so into themselves will: they re not looking at the flag. [laughter] pete: anyway, we are so glad you re here. do, please, keep sending those photos in. i get e-mails and textses all the time who say itune in at 6:00 to catch the anthem. it s our favorite part of the eau show. rachel: yesterday i wasn t here because my if oldest daughter graduated from the university of chicago, and there she is. by the way, i
With what the united states has given him. we re starting to see all sorts of countries in the united states and europe increasing the ferociousness of the weapons. it s a very uncomfortable position for a lot of western continues to be in to be giving weapons to a government that is then going to be deploying them against the russian military. that means u.s. weapons are going to be killing russians. it s really close to being in the war itself and it has been a very dicey game diplomatically and it looks as though zelenskyy has finally said he s satisfied with the amount of weaponry he s receiving. just today we just something something like a blitzkrieg all across ukraine, bombings especially targeting railway facilities and tactical targets that could be significant when it comes to arming the ukrainian government or getting weapons from one side of the country to another. that is one of the really big bottlenecks here. it s one thing to offer the