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tea teammates, support, congratulate from his teammates. they were thrilled that he was comfortable enough to make this announcement to the world. >> good for him. thank you. brand-new hour now on "cnn newsroom." i'm victor blackwell. >> i'm bianna golodryga. president biden stunning the world with a top-secret surprise visit to ukraine. he was warmly welcomed by president zelenskyy and the first lady. the two leaders walked side by side as air-raid sirens blared. >> the visit is remarkable and here's why, this is the first time in modern times by a u.s. president to active war zone

where the military has no presence, no control, the white house gave russia a head's-up before the president arrived. with the one-year anniversary, the period said he wants to underscore america's unwavering support of ukraine. >> russia's aim was to wipe ukraine off the map. putin's war of conquest is failing. one year later, kyiv stands. and ukraine stands. democracy stands. the americans stand with you and the world stands with you. >> president biden is now on his way to poland, he'll give a speech there tomorrow. cnn chief white house correspondent phil mattingly is in warsaw, joins us now. president biden, took a message of solidarity to ukraine and also promised more security aid, tell us more. >> reporter: victor the message,

the symbolism was very int intentional. 361 days after rush sa's invasion, there's a tangible element probably most critical of all, that was nearly half billion dollars in new security assistance and economic aid that the president announced while he was in kyiv, that assistance tracks with past u.s. defense assistance whether it's javelins, vehicles, radar systems as well, so nothing new, nothing dramatically different in terms of the weapons system given up to this point. it was still a discussion. president zelenskyy underscoring that was something he brought up in the meeting with president biden, something he'll continue to push for. the president biden making clear the u.s. will be there no matter what the decisions are. take a listen. >> the ukrainian people have stepped up in a way that few

people ever have in their defense, for all the disagreement we have in our congress on some issues, there's significant agreement on support for ukraine. this is so much larger than just ukraine. it's about freedom and democracy in europe. it's about freedom and democracy at large. >> reporter: guys, while that last point before this conflict, the support by congress is a critical one here, certainly elements particularly the new house republican majority has raised questions and concerns, proposed ending u.s. assistance to ukraine. the point of administration officials that's not reflective of the broad er. certainly, they are cognizant of

that fact and the need to ensure that doesn't spread. they're all supportive of continuing this assistance. that should be considered more so than a few members who have active social media feeds. >> that unity will be put to the test. asking for a larger package for ukraine, phil mattingly, thank you. during a joint news conference, ukraine president zelenskyy said america's support for ukraine will be remembered eternally and he made this prediction >> translator: closer to the victory and we hope that this year, the 2023 will become a year of victory. >> cnn's alex marquardt is in ukraine. >> reporter: well, there was

some speculation that president biden might do something like this around the anniversary over the past year, we've seen a steady stream of world leaders of other american officials come here through kyiv, to pay their respects and to speak with president zelenskyy. president biden was an outlier in that respect. when he travels anywhere it comes with a massive security imposition on wherever he is. it speaks to the status of this city that he's able to come here, after a full year of fighting, a year ago it appeared that the russians might take this city. might be able to topple the zelenskyy government. there's very little threat these days to this city, except of course we should note the occasional attack by missile or by drone, but because of the

security concerns and the secrecy in which this trip was carried out, this was a complete surprise to everybody. we literally only learned about it when we saw biden in person walking across saint michael's square right behind me, at that church. the first reaction from ukrainians here and across the country was surprise. and then thanks. thanks for reiterating the u.s. support for ukraine over the past year. and in the future. thanks for coming at this moment. thanks for reminding the world that ukraine is still fighting this fight, but victor and bianna, they really see this as a means to an end. what they really want is the military aid that ukraine says they need, believes they need, to fight russia. here's little bit of what we heard in the streets today. take a listen. >> translator: it's for the

best, what would i tell the american president, give us more weapons. >> translator: there will be burying my son-in-law tomorrow. they'll bring in a coffin. >> another man told me that this is all about victory and getting the weapons that they need for that victory today. the american president promising another $500 million in aid. the administration believes that ukraine needs in this immediate fight. victor and bianna. >> continued message from the ukrainians, thank you, more please. alex marquardt for us in kyiv, thank you. we're live in moscow, the u.s. said it informed russia of president biden's trip before he departed, what has the reaction been? >> reporter: yeah, that certainly was a big issue here

in russia, on russia state tv, the fact that the u.s. had informed the russians beforehand. just to make sure there's no miscalculations on the part of the russians as this day unfolded. there some commentators on state-run tv who are saying, look, this shows essentially president biden went to kyiv at the mercy of vladimir putin, that putin allowed him to go there if you will, also some other reactions as well. some pretty hard-line military bloggers, that doesn't sound like much, they have come extremely prominent here in russia, they say they believe it's a sign of weakness on the part of president putin that president biden was able to go to kyiv without any sort of issues. but in general, the fact that this visit took place massive

n news. one thing they keep talking about, they believe, they say this shows that the u.s. is very much party to this conflict as they put it, they have been trying to frame this not as a war between russia and ukraine but a war between russia and the west, something that vladimir putin has been talking about and other commentators have been talking about as well, since things have been going badly for them on the battle fooel, we're fighting not only ukraine but all these western countries. we believe we're going to hear more of that tomorrow, tomorrow big speech by vladimir putin. they do believe that this is going to be landmark, a very important speech, federal assembly, both houses of parliament and give some indication as to how russia

intends to progress with their special military operation. so far vladimir putin shows absolutely no sign of backing down in all of this, in fact the russians seem to indicate they're in it for the long haul with the mobilizations going and the reinforcements they've been sending to the battlefields, guys. >> more mobilization to come in the months ahead. fred, thank you. steve halt, national security analyst. also with us, steve anderson. >> we're expecting this speech, the state of the nation speech tomorrow from vladimir putin, it seems from what we heard from fred's reporting is that the kremlin is allowing thus far some of these bloggers and commentators saying vladimir putin isn't doing enough, obviously they ban anyone that this war is illegal and shouldn't happen. what will you be listening for

in putin's speech tomorrow? i'm curious whether he'll call this a war at this point. >> we don't know what he's going to call this thing. finally admit that it's a war to everybody. i think i'll be looking for any indications as to how putin's going to move forward on this. that's extremely difficult to tell for someone like vladimir putin. he sometimes does leave markers out there in his speeches. pretty much what fred was talking from moscow, more of the same, because he doesn't have that many options left for him. he might lean toward this is stalemate, we fought the ukrainians to a stand still, we're going to go with the annexed parts of the country. very interesting speech. look guard to talking about it

afterward. >> general, this spring offensive which some people believe has already begun, indication that the russians will be able to execute better than the initial invasion a year ago or the last surge that hit that wall of the ukrainian counteroffensive. >> well, thank you, victor. no indication any better than they've been thus far. they have a bad army. poorly led. poorly trained. poorly equipped. they don't know how to conduct nuclear warfare. combine direct fire and indirect fire. that's not going to change any time soon. ukrainians have put up an incredible fight. that will continue and the russians essentially are just throwing meat to the grinder, so to speak, by putting all these fresh troops in there.

it's so imperative that we serve our support to the ukrainians this summer so we can end this war and give them the opportunity and the capability they need to drive the russians all the way out. otherwise, we'll be talking about this for years to come. >> steve hall, despite losing hundreds of thousands of troops, logistically, strategically, i'm struck by something i heard from a military expert who i tend to agree with, vladimir putin is at his most vulnerable not now but when the war is over, that having been said why would he have any initiative now to try to push for an end? >> you know, i don't think that he's going to try to push for an end, because he can't at this point. as we were just discussing, the military failures keep coming hard and fast for russia. that's not good for putin. he has to be wondering, at what

point is the balance going to change in his favor i think what we're seeing now is what we saw with the soviet union during world war ii, where the kremlin and stalin was prepared to throw as many russians at this to die horrible deaths. he didn't care. vladimir putin is in a similar situation. my question is, when is there going to be pushback? we'll have to see. >> the president went with the announcement of a half billion dollars of additional lethal military aid. didn't include the f-16s, which the ukrainians are asking for. bipartisan group of lawmakers who sent a letter to the president, start the process now. they need them, we support it. what do you think?

>> i think they need the f-16s, i also think they need the a a-10s, an incredible air support aircraft. the question is this, do we want them to simply not lose or do we want the ukrainians to win? 15 years ago, we were spending $300 million a day on the war in iraq a and afghanistan, and this is a far more important -- this essentially the geopolitical event of our lifetime and we have to enable the ukrainians to win this fight. >> thank you. while biden pledges more support for ukraine the u.s. is concerned that china may supply moscow with lethal support. in ohio, norfolk southern ceo says he stands by the

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anxiety and health concerns are growing among residents of east palestine of ohio. it's been more than two weeks since a train derailed there carrying hazardous materials. >> tomorrow, the state is opening a health clinic to address the families' medical concerns across that community. jason carroll is outside a cwhee a clinic will be open. >> reporter: when it comes to health, you speak to people down here on the ground and you say how are you feeling, some say they don't know anyone personally who's experiencing

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that. we're telling you the air and the water are safe. people here just don't buy it. >> senator sherrod brown shared those concerns yesterday. joining us is a resident of east palestine for 16 years. ben, thank you for your time. how are you feeling, how is your health? >> i'm doing pretty well all things considered. i did go a little too close to the area on thursday. we were taking pictures of the cleanup and doing video work, we did get nauseous and firsthand experience here, i was sick, i had a headache for about eight hours and got sick after that, definitely a little more -- trying to exercise more caution not go near the area again right now. >> you felt some symptoms when you were closer to the area, the

state, the federal health officials, they say that the water is safe, once tested, they say the air is safe to breathe. do you believe them? >> i feel like the water for the city at the time being is safe. i feel like the air is somewhat safe, there was an article done with a johns hopkins professor, they said directly in the article, instead of air monitoring they have to do air sampling so they can tell the way these chemicals are dissipating. there's also several thousands gallons of oil that was spilled. lube oil are unaccounted for, that oil could be reaching into the soils and that's where the professor was saying, without those being removed soon enough

that's going to get into our city water. >> at this moment you think it's safe? are you drinking it, bathing in it? >> so the city hall we're trying to just not mitigate our contact with it, we're not bathing and shower. we're washing fruit with bottled water. several hundred people have wells around here that could have been contaminated. t the railroad company controlled the narrative early on. and they put their plan in action before the superfund letter came out from the ohio epa. they were already running trains before that letter came out. it's kind of hard to understand

how it was cleaned up properly. >> this health clinic that's going to be opening tomorrow, do you plan to visit it? i know you have a wife and four kids. are you taking the family? >> yeah, i think it's a good idea to go there especially early on to get things checked out. and also go to your private doctor. and also take a pcr test for covid to make the symptoms aren't from covid. we're getting the federal government involved. the state is still not declaring it a disaster. all those steps, they're not taking it sere russly enough still. it's a good step to have the health clinic. >> 2 1/2 e weeks it's now

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incident and the last 75% of the movie is kind of its own story that doesn't have to do we vac wags but really early on it's very surprisingly the exact same, i think it kind of goes to show that kind of the human condition. we're always fighting against the powers. trying to juggle the idea of how serious this situation is and what level do i need to kind of react to it and you can kind of feel that from the film. >> i don't know i would have watched it on the 4th after the crash in my town in ohio. >> no. i tried but couldn't. >> you gave it some time. >> yeah, yeah. >> i didn't finish it, no.

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president biden has just arrived in poland after a surprise visit to ukraine. >> phil mattingly joins us from warsaw with more. he just arrived earlier this morning from ukraine. >> reporter: this was part of a train trip that the president took back from kyiv, into poland, he took the train and we were just notified by the white house press pool, two reporters with the president throughout this trip, very close hold on details, while we knew the details of the president getting to kyiv, but we didn't know the details of the mode of transport he decided to take out of kyiv and back into poland. we did report earlier in the day that we did know the president when he took off from andrews air force base on sunday

morning, he first flew to germany, from germany into poland and boarded a train to take the trip into kyiv, that's about a ten-hour trip in total roughly, and the president obviously arrived this morning just after 8:00 a.m. and we saw on camera as everything played out live, the president then more or less went straight back to train station in kyiv, started the journey back toward poland. he's crossed the border into poland. and more details are coming out in terms of how it was actually engaged in. the president where board ed th train was where he was in last march. the united states has troops in poland, the 82nd airborne has been there. the president when he arrives

there will get off the train, board his plane and likely head to warsaw is our understanding, where the trip was supposed to begin and supposed to last two days. for the moment the president is out of ukraine and into poland and will be making his way to warsaw. >> the president now in nato territory. phil mattingly, thank you. this just in, prosecutors have dropped the firearm enhancement charges against alec baldwin. >> the 64-year-old actor still faces manslaughter charges. so how this could impact his case overall? >> alec baldwin and the armorer went to facing upward of five years to 18 months, they face two counts of involuntary

manslaughter, to remove this firearm enhabsment charge is a very big deal. what the district attorney's office is saying out of new mexico, in order to avoid forward distractions, the district attorney and the special prosecutor has removed the firearm enhancement charge on the "rust" film set. they're coming out swinging with that statement. removing that firearm enh enhancement charge, we had experts on our air that perhaps this was overcharged. and this comes after alec baldwin's attorneys filed their own, you know, legal petitions last week trying to remove certain charges and to remove the special prosecutor which made her very unhappy when that

petition was filed. we haven't heard back from alec baldwin, his legal team yet. this is a big deal, because this is potentially going to go to trial and we all know that alec baldwin is going to put up a fight. >> it's clear that this is not happening because they're worried about how much the defense attorneys are being paid. we'll look for more. >> side note, it was really entertaining watching you and josh work together during the commercial break. >> he's so smart, i was calling him to try to figure things out. i'm the baldwin beat. it takes a village here. >> thank you. china issues a harsh critique on the united states. we'll have more on that just ahead.

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as the u.s. reaffirms its support for ukraine, officials are watching another alliance that will likely impact the ongoing war and that's the one between russia and china. >> blinken said the u.s. has concerns that china may provide russia with lethal support. joining us now, a staff writer at the new yorker, and a biden biographer as well, and he wrote the book "chasing fortune and faith." you are the perfect person to have on in the segment, because as the president landed in kyiv, we had the top diplomat meeting in moscow and president xi will

be traveling to moscow as well. why do you think now, one year into the war clearly where you have seen russia fail to accomplish its official mission, would china consider to step in and help russia? >> i think as you say, it's an extraordinary moment of a split screen between having the u.s. president doubling down in effect on u.s. support for ukraine and clearly the u.s. is growing concern -- this is a measure of the fact that the u.s. is concerned that china is preparing to do something that would dramatically change not only the u.s./china relationship, but the decision to send arms and ammunition in the war would have the affect of carving up the world, and hasten the feeling that we have two strategic blocks skp, and part the message that you hear the u.s. sending to the chinese is, if you do this, you will isolate yourselves because you will put

yourselves in the league not only with russia but also with countries like iran and north korea. it's a clear sign that the u.s. is concerned. >> in the context of the spy balloon that traversed the u.s., i wonder if the u.s. is willing now to impose some of those consequences publicly, at least? >> well, in a way i think the u.s. wants to avoid that step. part of what you saw was the u.s. sending a very clear message that there can be no more balloon incidents, and it's a warning to china to take a step back on its approach to surveillance. either the posture of being aggressive as it has been, or the management. one of the ideas was it was a mistake at the highest level or was it designed to push the

relationship into riskier territory. this was a stress test of the u.s. and china relationship. the u.s. is trying to prevent the vulnerability from getting worse. >> and the u.s. has been getting western allies onboard with their previous dependance with russia, and that doesn't appear to be the case with china, and there's a division with how the u.s. is approaching its relationship and its trade with china and european countries. is that going to be making it difficult for the u.s. to reinforce their strong words they are sending? >> china and russia are almost incomparable in their roles in the economy, if you are france or germany, the decisions you make on how you deal with china, if you join in a deal of

isolation. i hear this from european diplomats up until the last few days, there's a generally assessment going on among european allies, the idea of the old china relationship, it's simply no longer possible, we entered into a new phase and they are vigilant, and it's not the same as it was a year or two ago. if china does join russia's effort by sending lethal aid to russia, that would undermine fundamentally china might have with maintaining a relationship with the european allies. >> president biden said today when he was with president zelenskyy, the u.s. will support ukraine for as long as it takes. over the last eight months, support has dropped 12 points, opposition is up 10%. if this trend continues, the

president may have to work harder to convince the americans of the investment as he's running for re-election in 2020, he was running against these forever wars. this could become a domestic -- a greater domestic challenge for this president. >> i think it's true. we are seeing clearly softening of america's overwhelming support for this war and for america's ability to play a meaningful role. but i think it's important also to point out, victor, as we have seen, there's still substantial support in the united states for seeing this through, for doing what the united states can to protect democracy. i think part of the whole goal of this visit was to remind people what we are talking about. you know, kyiv is a city, a beautiful european city in so many ways that americans have had a long standing relationship with the idea of turning our backs on it now is harder to

swallow, as the americans are reminded of the depth of ukrainians commitment to protecting themselves. now it's about how do you achieve victory rather than how do you walk away the u.s. has committed so much to. >> thank you so much. >> thanks, evan. thank you for watching. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right after this break. proven quality s sleep. only from sleep number. ♪ what will you do? will you make something better? create something new? our de technologies advisors can provide you with the tools and expertise you need to bring out the innovator in y. all across the country, to bring out the innovator people are working hard to build a better future. so we're hard at work helping them achieve financial freedom. we're proud to serve people everywhere, in investing for the retirement they envision.

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