he was pale. he was wearing the green military fatigues that have become so characteristic of his public appearances over the course of the past week or so, or even longer, since this conflict with russia has been raging. i spoke to him about a number of issues, but particularly about the refusal of the united states and other nato countries to impose a no-fly zone. take a listen to what he said about that and what i said about that and what his answer was. the united states has said that it will not enforce a no-fly zone over this country. and it won t put boots on the ground. do you think it is now time for president biden and other western countries to reconsider that and to help you not just with military aid, but with manpower? translator: i already turned to some foreign leaders with this request. i believe that leaders must support democratic states of the world, who are keen to defend
obligation, we can debate whether we have a moral obligation, we don t have a treaty obligation to do it. what you didn t hear last night from president biden is a george bush like this will not stand, which is what he said before we committed troops to kuwait. the president has a problem here. he is fighting this with one hand behind his back. in part because we don t have a strong strategic interest in ukraine, even if we have a very big strategic interest in keeping putin contained, pushing him back, and, of course, the fear you just heard in a word or two from president biden yesterday that ukraine may not be the end of this, that in putin s mind, moldova may be next. nato countries, other neutrals in the baltics we have been hearing about, sweden, finland, who are thinking about now whether they want to join nato. and so he s got to draw a very
cnn poll is a significant swing among independent voters. the reason biden had a hard time with polling is that you saw particularly around afghanistan, independent voters fall away dramatically. last night s speech, according to cnn s poll, around 30% of independents came in thinking biden would move the country in the right direction, that was almost up to 50% by the end of this speech. you see the new economic numbers and his focus on the economy, the middle class manufacturing, you see a broader architecture of what the democrats would like to run on and how biden sees himself. john, thank you very much. much more of our special live coverage after this.
all right, breaking moments ago, adp reports the u.s. added 475,000 jobs in february, that was nearly 90,000 more jobs than economists had expected. and it is a huge upward revision in january as well. so many more jobs added previously than thought too. this follows president biden s first state of the union address, the first 12 minutes of which were focused on ukraine. let s listen. the united states department of justice is assembling a dedicated task force to go after the crimes of the russian oligarchs. we re joining with european allies to find and seize their yachts, their luxury apartments, their private jets. we re coming for you ill begotten gains and tonight i m
was destroyed as well. and then just behind it yet another civilian building, that is an auto parts shop where the owners and staff are continuing to clean up. so destruction everywhere, clearly civilian buildings that were hit, civilians who were killed and i should note that this is an area called babyn yar, this is where 33,000 jews were killed during the holocaust in one of the most horrific massacres of world war ii. and so now you have a president, president putin, who is attacking ukraine, he s the guy who constantly invokes world war ii and what the nazis did back then and he is attacking this highly symbolic hallowed area and killing people as russia continues to claim that they are not targeting civilians. john? very clearly targeting civilians there, alex, thank you. all right, cnn just got word