moscow where putin spent this morning trying to justify his war in ukraine to the russian people. you know, keir, for his part, president biden seemed to speak directly to the russian people, saying putin chose this war. the west was never planning to attack russia, but my understanding is russian tv didn t air biden s speech. so what did the russian people hear from their president? reporter: for president putin, it was an uncompromising and at times, hard to comprehend speech, chris. he used the word, war, a number of times and folks who pay close attention will know that s usual for putin. he calls the invasion of ukraine his special military operation and described this as a war with the west. a war for russia s survival. suppose you could say in that one respect, one word, there was agreement between president biden and putin. the word war. and i suppose you could also say some agreement that this is more now than a conflict over territory. it s a conflict over ideas.
Moscow where putin spent this morning trying to justify his war in ukraine to the russian people. you know, keir, for his part, president biden seemed to speak directly to the russian people, saying putin chose this war. the west was never planning to attack russia, but my understanding is russian tv didn t air biden s speech. so what did the russian people hear from their president? reporter: for president putin, it was an uncompromising and at times, hard to comprehend speech, chris. he used the word, war, a number of times and folks who pay close attention will know that s usual for putin. he calls the invasion of ukraine his special military operation and described this as a war with the west. a war for russia s survival. suppose you could say in that one respect, one word, there was agreement between president biden and putin.
Russia. nonresponding rates for polls there are sometimes as high as 80% so that means the only people that support putin are responding. the way i understand it, there s a hard core 20, 25% that supports putin no matter what. there s another hard core that s against this war, 15, 20%. but the vast majority of the people, the people keir was trying to talk to, they don t want to be involved. they want to keep their head down. they want the war to end as soon as possible, but publicly, they re not going to say as much. therefore, yes, they support their president this a time of war, but if putin said tomorrow, declared victory, declared victory over donbas, we want to end this war, the vast majority of russians would rally to his support. always great to hear your perspective. thank you so much. we can t forget that as this war drags on, soldiers are fighting
Ukraine s borders? is it bluster? is it tough talk? how do you view it? what s putin thinking? first, to underscore what you just pointed out in this speech, i think a lot of americans don t listen to putin as much i do so they don t hear this. putin is not in his view, he s not fighting ukrainians in ukraine. he s fighting us. he s fighting nato. that s the way he explains why his army is doing so poorly. they were just fighting against the ukrainians, that would be one thing, but he constantly frames this as a war to defend russia against alleged, you know, threatening forces from nato and the united states of america. that s the bad news. the good news is that i am deeply impressed with what president biden has done to lead the nato alliance to deter putin from attacking a nato nation. i think it s very, very unlikely that this war in ukraine leads to world war iii precisely
Airline gate agents who don t have to try to play musical chairs. tom, thank you for that report. and we ve got a lot to cover in our second hour of chris jansing reports. let s get right to it. tough talk. president biden in poland says ukraine will never be a victory for russia ahead of the first anniversary of the war. watching wall street and your wallet. stocks are tumbling this hour on new worries about inflation that won t seem to go away. and at the supreme court, arguments in a case that could change the internet and social media as we know it. we re also in jimmy carter s georgia hometown where there s an overwhelming show of support for our 39th president and his family after his decision to start receiving home hospice care. our reporters are here to cover all of the latest developments. let s start with keir simmons in