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what they have as the status quo will not be enough to achieve that objective. so for them, they really view this as kind of an existential moment. we need this more sophisticated weaponry if we're going to finish this off, or else this conflict really risks sort of devolving into a protracted stalemate, war of attrition with many more lives lost on both sides, and with vladimir putin ultimately trying to use that protracted conflict to create fissures in the west among those who support ukraine. >> and just to catch everyone up to speed, we are standing by here in warsaw, waiting for president biden to arrive at the presidential palace. he's going to be meeting with polish president duda who has played a fundamental role since russia invaded ukraine in the response, not only humanitarian response, but also when it comes
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to weapons and military. this place that you are looking at right now, the presidential palace, this is the same location where president biden gave a speech last year, one month into russia's invasion into ukraine. he gave a speech talking about what he believed the broader implications were, not just for ukraine or russia, or for eastern europe, but really for the entire wrorld, but there wa a moment at the end of the speech, a comment he made that got everyone's attention. this was the moment. >> ukraine will never be a victory for russia. people refuse to live in a world of hopelessness and darkness. we will have a different future, a brighter future rooted in democracy and principle, hope and light, of decency and dignity, with freedom of possibilities. for god's sake, this man cannot remain in power. >> it was a moment that captured headlines worldwide. ambassador taylor, you watched
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that moment as well. you know as well as i do, the ambassador had to come out and say they were not calling for regime change. the president said he did not have regrets about that comment. i wonder if you are going to be listening for president biden for these remarks in this speech. >> i imagine that he will be very clear about the u.s. goal, and the u.s. goal is to defeat the russians and for a ukrainian victory. he will also put this in a broader context. he will be able to say and describe how important this is for all of us. it's important for ukraine. it's important for europe. it's important for the united states that the ukrainians win. >> jill, one of the things we heard from president putin's remarks today also is the defense of the economy because that has been a real question mark. we've seen what has happened to the russian economy as a result, and he tried to make it appear otherwise, that the russian economy has not suffered the way we've actually seen it suffer on the world stage.
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obviously it's been propped up by some other players. it was mentioned, india and china, of course, but what's the reality when it comes to the russian economy and the impact on the russian people? >> well, it has been effective. now they have been able to overcome some of the dangers for the economy, but i think one really telling moment, and it went won at length about this, w was the effect of the war, and bodying that coming back from russia. president putin said, we're going to create a foundation, a national foundation that will help the families because as you said, we can almost feel their pain. he said, it's tangible, and we have to help them. so what this says to me is he's obviously under pressure from the russian people because of the people who have died, their family members, and so i would
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say also, you know, he talked really about class warfare. he mentioned people who were -- russians, who have put their money, invested their money in the west, and he said no ordinary russian would have any pity for anyone who lost their ya yachts due to the sanctions. again, what he was trying to say he was going to do was actually a reflection of the problems that he has right now, and you can see the personal problems of russians right now creeping through in this speech. >> really, really interesting, the things he says he's going to try to fix are actually the things that are hurting the country right now, but he doesn't want to put it in those terms. we are going to come back to this amazing panel, our brain trust, but first we're going to go to fred pleitgen who is in russia, and at this point, are we hearing any reaction from
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moscow? >> reporter: hi there, sara. well, there certainly has been a lot of reaction. first of all, president biden's visit to ukraine, we've heard some of that from peskov today, and there was a press release from the russian foreign ministry that they have summoned the ambassador to moscow in a protest note against the u.s.'s involvement in ukraine. i want to read some of it to you, really quickly because all of this obviously moving very quickly. we have vladimir putins a's spe. we have this now, they say is in connection of the growing hostiles on the side of the kyiv re regime. we heard in vladimir putin's address earlier today, him constantly calling the the government in kyiv, the kyiv regime, and he says the authorities are alien to the actual ukrainian people. that's something the russians have been spreading a lot, and they then go on to say, and this is quite important, they say this clearly proves the
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inconsistency, and falsity of the statements of the american side that the united states is not apart of the conflict. the russians are saying they believe the united states is indeed involved in this war, and that's certainly one thing that putin also made clear that he believed, that this was essentially russia against the west. i want to listen into some of what vladimir putin had to say. >> translator: the elite of the west does not conceal their ambitions, which is to strategically defeat russia. what does that mean? it means to finish us off once and for all. and to make local. they do that by making local conflicts into much wider and bigger ones. >> reporter: so obviously a very long speech, and there were a couple of things i picked up on which i thought was quite
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interesting. putin saying that russia will persevere and continue, and one of the things we didn't hear is how he thinks things are actually going for russians on the battlefield because that has been very difficult, and of course, as far as the new start treaty is concerned as well, i found it quite interesting that he said that russia is afraid that russian bases could be struck by the ukrainians. you recall many people believe the ukrainians managed to strike a base of the russians inside russia that had russian strategic nuclear-cable bombers on them last year, guys. >> yeah, i think the ukrainians could answer the question of how things are going for russia in two words, not well. thank you so much, fred. k katelyn? when i was listening to president putin's speech, he was talking about long range weapons. that is what zelenskyy has been seeking. it's the threat we have heard from putin, and we're seeing here, i should note, that the president's motor kat, president biden's motorcade is going down the street of warsaw. it's less than a ten-minute
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drive over here to where we are outside the presidential palace. that is where president biden is going to be meeting with polish president duda. it'll be a formal greeting as it was last year when they gathered the troops they will expect before going poindbehind closed doors. we'll get a brief look at what that looks like before they sit down to talk about the grave implications of what they -- of what they are seeing, how they are responding, what poland would like to see. obviously this is the country that has felt the weight of this invasion. they've taken in over 9 million refugees that crossed poland's borders. about 1.5 million are still here in poland. that has been a huge aspect of it in addition to what we're talking about here with weapons and what that looks like, and spider marks, when you heard president putin say, the longer range weapons systems if they come to ukraine, he says, quote, the further we will be forced to move the threat away from our border. what is he saying there?
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what did you take away from that? >> well, what i think he is saying is that if longer range weapons are being deployed by the ukrainians, in other words, if nato and the united states step up and then increase the capabilities, what i think putin is indicating is that he understands he's now at risk in sanctuary. that is to say across the border into russia, he now has capabilities that he is using to move forces in where he stages forces, refits forces, prepares forces in sanctuary. nobody is threatening him there. then he moves them into ukraine. what he's indicating he may have to push those forces further back which is exactly the type of effect you want to achieve in battle. you want to reach out as deep as you can, and affect what is happening before it engages in that close combat. >> that was such a good point, pointing back to that march, 2022 address where biden went off script and said he cannot remain in power, talking about
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putin giving that address at the same place he will speak today. he also said last year in october of 2022, biden did say that he believes that vladimir putin is a rational actor. one year into this war, do you believe his position has changed? >> poppy, is that a question for me? i'm sorry. >> it is. it's for bill taylor. ambassador taylor. >> sure. >> yes. i think president putin is rational. rational people can make mistakes. rational people can make bad decisions on bad information. i don't think president putin is crazy. i've not met this man, but a lot of people that i know have studied him for a long time. they don't think he is suicidal or crazy. he makes bad decisions, and it's increasingly clear that the original decision to invade ukraine was a blunder, and he's now -- he's now a year in from this blunder. he's trying to get himself out
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of this blunder. he's doubling down on this blunder, and it's not doing well for him as we've said. >> i just want know what we're seeing here, the motorcade has pulled up. we're watching it from our balcony here right by the presidential palace. we're watching reporters scramble in to capture this arrival. president duda is right there, waiting under the flags for president biden to walk up for this meeting. it's remarkable what has changed and what has not changed in the last 11 months since president biden was here, and i think it's notable that he is here. he's not in berlin. he is not in paris. he is not in london. he has come to warsaw because poland has played a pivotal role in this. that was not always a given. the relationship before this, there were concerns about poland being on this rightward side, and concerns about the state
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media here, their treatment when it comes to human rights. so much has changed of that in just the last 12 months alone since russia invaded ukraine, and the relationship of what poland has done. not only have they helped are the refugees. you know that very well. you covered it on the ground as those millions of refugees were coming through poland, but also they have served as the logistics hub for so many of the weapons that we've seen going into ukraine. i mean, they have helped get all of that when it was quite difficult at the beginning to get so many of those weapons across the border into ukraine, sara and poppy. >> yeah, i can tell you, just from the perspective of how the relationship has changed between the united states and poland because there were questions about human rights and certainly a slide to the far right there, although that's sort of happened in this country as well, and many countries in europe, but when it comes to the way in which poland responded to the refugees, there was a moment when i was standing on the border in a town, and we went to the border with ukraine, and as
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we watched people walk over, they were coming over with their children in tow, holding them with one suitcase, often, and the way in which they were received when they got to the other side was nothing short of beautiful. i mean, people were crying because they were -- they came into open arms. people just randomly set up shop and started cooking for the refugees on the border, right after they passed through, and you saw that not just from the polish government, but you saw that directly from the polish people in a way i don't think i've ever seen it before with such numbers coming over. so it was a moment that really set the stage for how poland was going to act towards ukrainians and towards ukraine. >> that's a great point. katelyn. >> it did, and what the mayor of warsaw, who we'll have on later has talked about, is they've take. them into their homes.
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what we saw earlier, those polish people who joined the territorial defense forces which is the polish version of the u.s. national guard, they were saying, you know, we have friends in ukraine. they came and stayed with us for weeks when the invasion happened either, you know, at the time they were afraid to return home. they weren't sure what was going to happen. some of them had gone back. some had gone to other places in europe, but these are their neighbors. they feel very close to them. they have very similar cultures, and a lot of them came here to -- they were taken to the schools. they began to work. i mean, it's really amazing, the way that the polish people welcomed so many of the refugees at a time of such crisis, and i think that's part of what you are going to see in this meeting today. i think it's part of the solidarity of president biden in his age wanting to underscore how fundamental that alliance is. you can see president duda there, getting prepared to greet president biden. a remarkable change in their relationship, even as well given
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what it was before biden came into office, when he was first in office, and the fact he has visited poland twice within the span of a year, given major speeches here as you see the beast roll into the presidential palace here in warsaw. >> and there you hear part of the pomp and circumstance. you can hear the welcome there, as the president of the united states is rolling in. it'll be really, really interesting here what happens between these two men, especially after his trip to ukraine. >> you can see the forces gathered there, and president biden is arriving, and stepping out of the beast. this is his first stop of the day after a very long day traveling in and out of ukraine yesterday, a ten-hour train ride both ways. duda greeted him near the border when he arrived.
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there's the handshake between the two leaders. >> very happy greeting. you see them both laughing with each other and just having a quick chat. >> and i think there was some skepticism in the biden administration when they first took office. president duda had formed such a close relationship with president trump when he was in office, and they joked putting up a trump base here in poland. now you see just how close the two of them have grown. that's president biden greeting some of the top advisers to president duda. one of them, you saw we had on the program yesterday talking about what they would like to see happen in the next seven months and what their predictions are for russia's continued invasion. after this, the two leaders will inspect the gathered troops who were there, as part of a formal welcome, president biden here in
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poland, and they will to inside behind closed doors and that's where they will talk about what is going on, what president biden heard from president zelenskyy when he spent about six hours on the ground with him yesterday. a lot of that has to do with weaponry, and what they would like to see and whether or not they are going to send those longer range missiles to them, the f-16 fighter jets as we noted as well. >> and i think we shouldn't diminish the fact that, look. the reason why this relationship, in part, has come stronger between biden and duda is because there is a war on their doorstep, and if you are an ally of the united states, with the most powerful military in the world, you don't want to mess with that relationship, right? >> yeah. i think a major concern has been poland's fear is if russia is successful in ukraine, poland could be next. that is something they've warned about. that's jake sullivan there, the national security adviser to president biden who is one of the very few people on hand with
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him who was in kyiv yesterday. his other aides, as he walks down the line. john kirby, obviously amanda sloan we had on yesterday from the national security council. but yeah, sara, to your point, i mean, that has been poland's fear, and moldova's fear, and all of eeastern europe's fear that they could see something similar. it's an imminent threat when they talk about what thkis coul look like, and why they are so invested in what the outcome of this is going to be. ♪ [ playing nat"star-spangled banner" ] ♪
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♪ >> ambassador taylor, let me bring you in here. we just heard the u.s. national anthem and we'll see them walk inside. president duda and president biden together. jake sullivan is on the ground, and according to our white house, jake sullivan set up what the president will hear in the few hours, not as a head to head with president putin this morning, but rather something larger than a rebuttal to what putin said, something that will be an affirmative statement of values. how important is that knowing that this plan was made far before they knew that president putin was speaking today? >> exactly. president biden needs to put a broader context, tell the world, tell europe, tell ukraine, tell the americans why it's so
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important, and so this is not a response to president putin. this is not a response to putin's -- president putin said that this is the united states and nato's fault. >> right. >> and so he, president biden, is going to make the case that this is a defense of ukraine. this is a defense of europe. it's a defense of democratic principles of international prin principles, of universal principles, of sovereignty, of territorial integrity. he's going to make the broader case of why it's so important for poland and europe and nato, and the united states to continue to support ukraine in this fight. so he'll put a broader context on this. >> you're seeing the two men now sort of walking by the troops, inspecting the troops as is the norm to do in a ceremony like this. a lot of pomp and circumstance, but there is some real heartfelt words that i think the europe -- poland in particular, and ukraine are expecting, and it'll
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be vinteresting to see how russa responds to what he says. >> yeah. >> we'll go now to jill dougherty who has been covering the russian regime for a very, very long time. certainly as long as putin has been in power in some capacity. jill, what do you make of -- you can see this relationship is one that is strong, and do you think that putin is -- the word fear, he doesn't like that to be part of his lexicon, but do you think that this gives him some sense of, like, i'm in trouble even though he will never say it? >> you know, if you put yourself in putin's place right now this morning, he snarls against what he calls the collective west, and the collective west now includes the countries that used to be friendly with russia, and that used to be part of the soviet union, and that were
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under the sway of the soviet union in central europe, and that's where president biden is right now, and so how the world has changed. who are russia's friends right now? today, we have the top foreign policy adviser for the chinese government in moscow. so russia is reaching out to china, knowing that china is economically much more powerful than russia. then they have, you know, they're getting weapons from north korea, and from iran. the phrase that comes to mind is how the mighty have fallen, at least diplomatically. if their friends are the, you know, countries like north korea and iran, they have problems. so what they are trying to do right now, russia looks at this, realizes this is the powerful west. so it's changing its message, and looking for friends in developing countries, and that's why you hear putin saying the
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elites of the west, the elites of the west, trying to say that russia doesn't have any elites, that russia is part of, you know, the developing world. it's all, again, very soviet, and it rings hollow. i mean, in the speech this morning when i was listening to putin, i mentioned he said, well, you know, average russians don't have any pity for rich russians who have put their money abroad. well, you know, the entire government of putin is made up of rich people who have invested their money abroad, and now we're essentially being forced to bring it back. so getting back to the situation here in poland, i think is -- it's ironic for putin to be standing there, and talking about, you know, the collective west which he has helped to mold and to call into a force that is opposed to what he is doing in ukraine right now. again, he brings many of these
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things upon himself by launching that war in ukraine. >> we can see the presidential palace. this is inside the presidential palace where president biden and president duda are about to go inside. there's quite a crowd as they are watching the military band play, watching the gathering of these troops, the inspection of them. we will see president biden and president duda once they sit down inside briefly. we'll see if they make any remarks there, and obviously pay close attention to what they could say. spider marks, i wonder one thing you can weigh in on, the fact that poland has played a role in convincing other nations to send bigger and other weapons to ukraine, including the tanks specifically which i think is the most recent insta instance which they have said, we will send them to you. >> the united states and poland have created a very, very strong relationship. i think it's important to note also that the u.s. army has
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pre-positioned and put a permanent presence, a three-star headquarters commanded forward by a one or a two-star in poland which means we are now moving our forces back into what used to be as jill pointed out, the former soviet union. which again, makes putin even increasing his being aggrieved, which he routinely is anyway, and so this -- this relationship with poland is incredibly important for the united states. it's a forward presence, and it's not a large headquarters, but it allows other forces to plug into that headquarters and to have that commanded control relationship necessary to do not necessarily fighting on the ground, but to do the training, the foreign internal defense, the type of -- those kinds of cooperative arrangements that are necessary for coalition forces. that is multiple nations joining together to train, to have
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commonality of purpose, and to also achieve increased readiness levels forward in this forward presence. absolutely important relationship that the u.s. and poland have right -- has right now. >> it's incredible the way that it's changed and what it looks like from biden as a candidate, warning about totalitarian regimes when he was talking about poland to now this close embrace president duda, two visits in less than a year. we'll keep an eye on president biden's meeting with polish president duda. they are behind closed doors now, so we'll keep an eye on what they say, when they are in front of the cameras. >> thank you so much. back here in the united states, we're watching a supreme court case. actually, a series of cases being heard over the next two days. it will really test the power of social media companies, and their responsibility. a preview next. introducing new dove men with 72h protection plus care for yoyour skin. soso you can forget about your underarms and focus on being unforgettable. new dove men forgettable ununderarms, unforgettable you.
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welcome back. in just a few hours, the supreme court will hear a case that could change how the internet is regulated, and the responsibility of social media giants. the justices will hear arguments over whether those tech
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companies can be sued civilly for promoting content posted by others. this is all about section 230. jessica schneider, i think it's confusing for a lot of people, but this case and this family, the petitioners really bring it home for folks. >> yeah, they do, and they are putting the human spin on this, poppy, but tech companies are really bracing for the showdown at the supreme court. this will be a first-of-its-kind case. the justices will be deciding if the family of this american student killed in the 2015 paris terror attacks can sue youtube's parent company google because of the algorithms it used that the family says promoted terrorist content online. >> we continue in this fight because we're seeking justice. >> reporter: the gonzalez family's long legal fight started when their 23-year-old daughter was killed in paris in 2015.
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noami gonzalez was killed when a terrorist unleashed gunfire. it's part of a city-wide attack of bombings and shootings, killing 21 people. she was the only american. >> it was the most terrible, horrible moment of my life that i cannot just cry. the pain. >> reporter: the gonzalez family now wants youtube and parent company google to be held liable for noemi's death, but they agreed to hear their appeal, and the lawyers will now try to convince the nine justices that youtube's algorithms promoted isis-affiliated videos to certain viewers, and that is how isis recruited and enlisted support. >> instead of terminating those videos, instead of eliminating them, instead of deleting them, they promoted them. >> reporter: but google says they aren't responsible given the broad protections of 230 of the communications decency act. congress passed the law in 1996 to shield internet platforms from being sued for harmful
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content being posted by third parties on their sites. they argue the content is what makes it possible to find the needles in the largest hay stack. section 230 does not apply to how content is sorted, and would lead to a litigation minefield. noemi's parents allege youtube aided and abetted isis and should not be able to hide you behind section 230. >> they should stop it. they have the power to do it. >> reporter: this will be the first time the supreme court has considered the scope of section 230 and the extent to which it protects social media companies. the push to reform section 230 is widespread. last month, president biden penned an op-ed in the "wall street journal" asking for modifications, and big tech has been blasted for conservative ideas. the gonzalez family though, just
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wants justice for the death of their daughter at the hands of isis-linked terrorists. >> it won't give me back my daughter, but at least something good is going to be accomplished. >> reporter: and you know this isn't the only big case before the court. there will be another challenge heard tomorrow. that will determine if social media companies can be held liable under an anti-terrorism law. that's separate, but poppy, it does have similarly potentially massive ramifications. really testing the limits of social media. >> and jess, i wonder how likely you think it is the court comes down in their opinion on a definitive decision. two years ago justice thomas said it behooves the court to decide on this 1996 law, but they could find an offramp and not fully decide. >> several of the justices have talked about the need to really determine the scope of section 230.
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this is just awful. more tragedy in turkey this morning, powerful aftershocks have left at least six people dead and hundreds more injured. that is on top of the tens of thousands of people killed and injured. rescue crews once again looking for survivors in the rubble two weeks after the deadliest earthquake in the region in turkey and syria's modern history. our joanna cartier is live at
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the epicenter at the aftershocks. i know you felt it. i think you're in adina with that beautiful mosque. tell us what you can about this major aftershock and how large it was. >> reporter: well, sara, 6.3, really powerful aftershock that struck in and around the city, and as you know very well, this is a city and an area in this earthquake zone that was the hardest hit by that massive earthquake a couple of weeks ago, and before that aftershock, it was really pretty impossible to find a building in that area that hadn't been impacted by the earthquake, so when you have that 6.3 aftershock after the collapse, six people were killed, and hundreds jinjured. some were in critical condition, and this has been shifted into search and recovery. last night we saw the search and rescue operations. we were at the site of one of
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those buildings where you had these exhausted rescue and medical crews working for hours and hours to try and save three people who had been trapped underneath the rubble of that building. unfortunately they did not make it out. sara, you can imagine the hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people across this earthquake zone who have lost their loved ones, lost their homes, lost everything in seconds, made homeless by that 7.8 earthquake a couple of weeks ago. they were just starting to try and comprehend what they had gone through, trying to deal with the trauma of that earthquake, and that loss that came with it, and then you have that massive 6.3 aftershock last night, and you can imagine what those families, many of them living right now in makeshift shelters and tents in the back of their cars, the kind of fear that they were living through
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last night we living that trauma, sara. >> such powerful reporting from you throughout this time. thank you so much for being there, and sharing their stories. it is absolutely horrific what has happened in turkey and syria because of these quakes and now this aftershock with more death. i can just barely take it. >> you were just there. >> i was. >> and thinking about all of the people that you were with, and what they're still going through. >> yeah. there were families just sitting outside of rubble waiting in the freezing cold for their loved ones to be pulled out, and they haven't found them yet. so -- >> our thanks to jomana for that reporting. the epa administrator michael regan is returning to east palestine, ohio after a train of toxic chemicals derailed this earlier this month. this comes as skepticism spread in that town of people. people reporting headaches, nausea, and burning eyes since that disaster. you're looking at live pictures
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as that is a new health clinic set to open today. they will have registered nurses, mental health specialists, also a toxicologist. many officials including the transportation secretary pete ist buttigieg have demanded accoun accountability, and buttigieg has come under criticism for his response. he said he's planning a visit. it's not clear when. listen to what he told reporters yesterday. >> i am very interested in getting to know the residents of east palestine, hearing from them about how they have been impacted, and communicating with them about the steps that we are taking. when the time is right, i do plan to visit east palestine. i don't have a date for you right now. and in florida this morning, this is kind of everybody's nightmare who lives there. wildlife officials say the 11-foot alligator removed from this neighborhood pond -- look at that sucker -- killed an elderly woman while she was doing what we dog lovers love to do, taking her dog for a walk.
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let's go the cnn's layla assail assasantiago in miami. what are authorities saying about what happened here? >> reporter: let's talk about what happened ear. this was an 85-year-old woman walking her dog in a community that was for 55 and up. a 911 call came in reporting that alligator bite, but when authorities got out there, it was too late for the woman. now the dog is said to have survived. we're still waiting to find out exactly what kind of condition that dog is in this morning, but you said it p. i mean, just take a look at those images. the sheriff telling our affiliate it's about 11 feet long. the worst nightmare for so many people that deal with -- or that live near alligators here in florida, a very common thing, but fish and wildlife will be quick to remind you that these type of digits are rare.
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>> it is terrifying looking at that video with those two people sitting on top of this 11-foot gator. >> reporter: yeah. yeah. >> and having been a floridian for -- in my childhood years. >> reporter: yes. >> we used to learn -- the first thing we learned when it comes to the water and to be safe, was to run in a zigzag pattern if the gator ever chased you. they still teaching that around there, leyla? >> reporter: i've heard that recently. i'll say that. but you know, i looked up the statistics on this. 1.3 million alligators across the 67 counties according to fish and wildlife. so yes, if you are a resident here in florida, chances are at some point, you are going to see an alligator which is why fish and wildlife are constantly putting out those reminders of the safety measures, right? don't feed the al gligators.
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make sure to keep your distance, and don't get those pets near the water where you often see those signs that have the alligator with the crossout, right? this is a pretty common thing in florida, and they don't relocate these alligators that are deemed a nuisance because oftentimes according to fish and wildlife, they will try to return to that capture site, sara and poppy. >> every time, it is terrifying though, the thought that a woman has lost her life just for walking her dog near a pond. leyla, thank you so much. we're here in warsaw tracking president biden as he is meeting behind closed doors with polish president duda. all of this is coming as secretary of state antony blinken is blasting putin for what he said, saying he will suspend russian cooperation with that nuclear arms treaty. we have much more live here from warsaw. that's next.
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top of the hour. good morning. we are glad you are with us. i am o i am /* poppy harlow. don will be back tomorrow. kaitlin is live anchoring in poland. good morning. kaitlin. >> hi. we have a lot of pierogis the last few days. we are here in warsaw. president biden has finally arrived. he made that surprise trip to kyiv. they are in the room. we will see if president biden and president duda make any comments. this is the second meeting between these two leaders in 11 months. president biden was here right after russia invaded ukraine. he gave a very forceful speech. he is expected to do so again today. president duda turning into a surprising ally for president biden. they are meeting inside the presi
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presidential palace in warsaw after meeting behind closed doors. no questions answered it appears there. we will track that to see what president biden is weighing in on. he has a lot of news to talk about. we saw president putin giving a speak saying russia is going to suspend their are cooperation. antony blinken says it is irresponsible decision he believes. it's not russia formally pulling out of the agreement but it remains to be seen what that looks like. and, obviously, big questions for what president biden is going to say when he has the world stage in a matter of hours from now. >> great point. let's bring in to talk about that and more clarissa ward, former u.s. ambassador to ukraine bill taylor and retired major general marks. general, on the agreement, right, between the united states, russia, et cetera, that was supposed t

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