and to do that, this has been -- this is from the harry s. trumanibrary and museum, a series of interviews that they put together and conducted with harry truman talking about his library and his work there. and on their website, you can find all of these audio interviews. but he was asked about the people who come to the harry s. truman library and museum. this is part of the conversation. [video clip] >> what kinds of people come to the library? >> all kinds, all kinds. mostly youngsters, who are interested in the history of the country. i usually have a room full of them down here once a week. and after they have been through, i talk to them and they can ask me questions. and the questions they ask, i always tell them, they are much more intelligent than the press conference questions and newspapermen ask me, because the youngsters ask for information and the newspapermen are after headlines, and that is all. -- that is all right. >> are there other kinds of people who visit the library and who come see you? if so, would you tell us about some of

the "uss harry s. trumann europe refining cooperation with nato allies to make sure the alliance can operate more coherently, says naval flight officer jeanette lazaro. >> we integrate two different nato partners. we work to kind of smooth the communication processes. >> reporter: as russia continues to amass troops near the border with ukraine, the u.s. says it will help further strengthen the nato alliance. this is first time since the cold war that a full carrier strike group has been placed under nato command. with ships from various nato countries flanking the "truman." u.s. troops in the area longer than planned to reassure u.s. allies the u.s. is fully committed to defense. russia has pulled together nearly 100,000 troops near ukraine, moscow believes, and moscow could order an attack at any time. while president biden has said he will not send forces to ukraine, is "harry s. truman" can effectively fortify nato's eastern flank. the carrier's f-18 jets can quickly reach the area close to ukraine. the "

harry s. truman" is in europe refining cooperation for nato allies to ensure we can operate clearly and in2e7 great different nadeau partners. zpl as russia continues to amass troops near the border with ukraine, the u.s. will help further strengthen the nato alliance. this is the first time that a null carrier strike group. "u.s.s. harry s. truman" is here longer than expected. the u.s. is fully committed. russia has pulled together more than 100,000 troops near ukraine the u.s. believes. moscow could put that in there. "the hear ri7 s. truman" can deflect the flank. the carrier's f-18 jets can reach ukraine. the troop's commanders said years of integration with allies are now paid off. >> we're committed to our alliances, partnerships. we're able to operate plug and play anywhere in the world and from an adversary point of view, if we're agnostic, if we have the strong partner shap then that's stronger. they will apply use use troops. >> president biden has been clear the united states will respond

to paraphrase eric -- harry s truman, the buck stops with me on this. we are working our way through what would be the appropriate level of media access to what our troops are doing. i do not have anything to announce to you today or speak specifically. i have heard loud and clear, the interest. i understand that. i respect that. when i have something more, then i can be more definitive, i certainly will. tony? reporter: i had a question about polish tanks, and once. secretary austin and secretary blinken asking to -- and am one tank --m1 tank request from poland. what is the status of the dod review, why is it taking so long? mr. kirby: as for how long it takes, this is not a small decision. we want to make sure we get it right. i don't have a updates for you today. i will check to see if there is a process answer we can provide you. these are not decisions we take lightly. we understand and respect the oversight role of congress. we understand and respect our polish allies and the defense relationship we have with them. i do not have any announcements

so to paraphrase the famous harry s. truman, the buck stops with me on this. we're working our way through what would be the appropriate level of media access here to what our troops are doing. i just don't have anything to announce to you today or to speak specifically. i certainly have heard loud and clear the interest. i understand that and i respect that, but when i have something more that i could be more definitive, i certainly will. tony. >> i had a question on polish tanks. a number of senators wrote secretary austin february 3rd asking them to expedite approval of a formal m1 tank request poland made in july. i understand the defense security cooperation agency has either not yet or recently finished its analysis for the state department. what's the status of that d.o.d. review and why is it taking so long? >> as for how long it takes, you can imagine this is not a small decision and we want to make sure we get it right. i don't have any updates for you today, but i'll check to see if there's a process answer that we can provide you. but again, these

to do that, this has been the harry s truman library and museum, a series of interviews that they puther and conducted with harry truman talking about his library and his work there. on their website, you can find all of these audio interviews. he was asked about the people who come to the harry s truman library and museum. this is part of the conversation. [video clip] >> what kinds of people come to the library? >> all kinds, all kinds, mostly youngsters who are interested in the history of the country. i usually have a room full of them down here once a week. and after they have been through, i talked to them and they can ask me questions. and the questions they ask, i always tell them they are much more intelligent then the press conference questions and newspapermen ask me, because the youngsters ask for information and the newspapermen are after headlines, and that is all. >> are there other kinds of people who visit the library and who come see you? if so, would you tell us about some of them? >> oh, all kinds of people come here. and very often officials of states, cities, and

this is from the harry s truman library. interviews that put together and conducted with harry truman talking about his library and his work. on the website you can find all these interviews. they are audio interviews but he was asked about the people who come to the harry s truman library. this part of that conversation. [video clip] >> what kinds of people come to the library? >> all kinds, all kinds. mostly youngsters interested in the history of the country. i usually have a room full of them down here, oh, once a week and after they have been through, talk to them, i let them ask me questions. and the questions they ask, i always tell them, are much more intelligent than a press conference questions the newspaperman asked me. because the youngsters have information and the newspaperman are after headlines. >> are there other kinds of people who visit the library to come see you and if so, would you tell us about some of them? >> oh, all kinds of people come here. very often officials of states, cities and counties come.

forces to ukraine, the harry s. trumandespite russia's massive naval presence in the black sea. the truman commander says years of integration with allies are now paying off. >> we're committed to our alliances, partnerships. we're able to operate, plug and play anywhere in the world and from add veversary point of viee have the strong partnership then that's stronger than any adversary could be. >> reporter: russia could pay a high price for any further invasion of ukraine and the pentagon announced it will deploy additional u.s. troops to germany, poland and romania. >> we reenforce the defense i have posture on nato's eastern flank. president biden has been clear that the yiet united states wil respond to the growing threat. >> reporter: the u.s. and its allies say they hope diplomacy will prevail. >> fred, it must have been amazing to see that and understand it. we find out that president biden is deploying 3,000 more troops to eastern europe. from what you have seen, how has the u.s. and nato actually increased readin

libraries overseen by the national archives are the herbert hoover library, franklin d roosevelt, harry s truman, dwight d. eisenhower, john f. kennedy, lbj, richard nixon, gerald ford, jimmy carter, ronald reagan, george bush, bill clinton, george w. bush, barack obama, and now the donald j. trump library. we will be talking a lot more about presidential libraries in about half an hour on this program. for now, a conversation about presidential rankings and which presidents you want to talk about. phone lines split by political party. this is mark out of florida, a democrat. caller: hello, good morning and happy day before washington's birthday to you. what generated my call, i was going to stick by and just listen to the information. your first caller showed how politicized this all is. the first thing he wanted was to fight about how the world has been against donald trump. i thought this would be a good opportunity, miss shlaes was so eloquent in supporting her organization's patron, which she knew was often not well-liked by the general public. so eloquent in supporting andrew jackson, who

he secretary of state for harry s. truman most famously, but was a brilliant legal mind and writer and had wit and and so his papers openings were a big deal. i arrived the day they opened the papers and there was only one other person in line and two of us started looking at them, so i had great material from my first book because then whatever i did. anything i was quoting was the first time somebody ever heard atchison on brandeis or atchison. i felix frankfurter atchison on archibald macleish. at the very least it was fresh material who carried at the time. that i was doing that not that you were doing it so much that that your people were gonna get to hear what atchison thought how hunter how much interest was he was getting there was interest because truman had already hit his renaissance. i mean people once truman did plain a man donovan wrote a two volume biography of truman truman was starting when i at that arab, let's say called the early 80s had gone through a full bore the america loved harry truman and atchison

positions, naval positions, harry s. truman is in the region.ladamir putin conduct those nuclear strategic exercises last weekend was to send a message to nato, don't get involved, this is our conflict, don't move forward. he's been signalling that, the pentagon is not surprised by that, hearing those stark words, for the rest of the united states, rest of the people of europe should understand how very expansionist and deadly serious putin is. the words, i thought it was notable, vladamir putin taped this message we saw at 6:00 a.m. local time moscow yesterday announcing the invasion, he taped that on monday, february 21st. we had been warning after the olympics between february 21 and 23rd this invasion could begin. all of the intelligence has been relatively accurate and been shockingly accurate in terms of putin's next move. what i think is important is it is going to be hard for tanks to move into kyiv with that massive traffic jam. that may be something that the ukrainian people may be hope nothing terms of preventing tanks from getting in