Doing so would be a serious escalation of the war, but Keir Starmer said moscow started the conflict and can end it by withdrawing its troops from ukraine. Our Political Editor Chris Mason was on the prime Ministers Plane, and sent this report shortly after landing. The Prime Minister arriving here in washington with the foreign secretary, David Lammy Sir Keir Starmer s second visit to the White House in two months. Ukraines allies remain rather guarded in their public remarks about a change in policy on the use of Western Missiles inside russia. But the diplomatic dashing to arrive at a decision is in plain sight and that has proved enough for President Putin to say this. Translation if this decision is made, it will mean nothing other than direct participation of nato countries, the United States, I European countries. In the war in ukraine. It is their direct participation and this, of course, significantly changes the very essence of the conflict. This will mean that nato countries
Donald trump agreeing to that or sticking to that, not to mention that promise will be a problem for current candidates who have already said they would never support trump if he gets the nomination. And then there are other republicans about to jump in, including chris christie, trumps number to bike and north dakota governor doug joining me now on the road, nbc news correspondent Vaughn Hillyard in des moines. , this is the first time we have seen a lot of these gop hopefuls on the same stage, why are these events crucial for these candidates . Hey, right. This really was the Summer Campaign kickoff here. But you just laid out why it is extra important. It is because the debate is just two and a half months away. And in order to spread the message for so many of these candidates to a broader part of the electorate, being on the debate stage is going to be key. You just laid out, they are not 45,000 unique donors. Some of these candidates, they are going to have to work to get to that