heard bide ten talk about before, this idea of democracy versus autocracy. how did biden make his case? reporter: jake, if yesterday in kyiv, that surprise visit was a dramatic, deeply similar bottic moment about the war itself, today was to paint a broader picture, underscore the bigger stakes, a larger effort that the president detailed about why this isn t just about ukraine or just about the war, in but many stead about the fate of wercht western democracies, particularly pointing here in warsaw as the president detailed, is about freedom. there s no sweeter word than freedom. there s no nobler goal than freedom, no higher aspiration than freedom. americans know that, and you know it. and all that we do now must be done so our children and grandchildren will know it as well. jake, when you talk to white house advisers, they acknowledge that they understand this war that is on going shows no sign of ending any time soon. the western coalition painstakingly held toget
november the 5th, i m alex velshi, there are only three days left of 2020 midterms, said to be one of the most important consequential elections in modern history. not only is control of both chambers of congress up for grabs, but the integrity of future elections will be decided by a number of key races this year. that is because the majority of republicans running for congress in statewide office, 291 of them according to the washington post, about the question or flat out lied about the legitimacy of the results of the 2020 elections. and many of them are likely to win. those candidates are largely sycophants of the twice impeached insurrectionist ex president donald trump. who have either been diluted by his big lie about a stolen election that never happened, or simply repeat the big lie for their own political benefit. it is a dangerous lie, that is already led to an insurrection at the seat of our government, and i have this year s midterm elections, election officials
it s strengthened in large part because of american leadership and because of the messages we re hearing on the world stage. just today, jake, you heard two vintage presentations. you heard vintage vladimir putin and vintage joe biden. from moscow you heard something that was dark, it was sinister, full of lies and misinformation and disinformation, precisely because the russian president has nothing affirmative to offer his people in the face of these battlefield setback and moscow s strategic failure. from joe biden you heard vintage joe biden. it was affirmative. it was crystallizing the stakes and what s at play here. this is about ukraine in the first instance. but what is happening in ukraine is about the rules-based order. countries around the world are watching very closely to what russia is trying to do, but more so, they re watching the way the rest of the world galvanized by hair khan leadership is standing up for ukraine, standing up against russia and doing so with
kyiv, kharkiv, and other key cities. ukrainian officials saying about a hundred missiles were fired at ukraine in the past 24 hours with more expected. the missile attacks targeting critical energy infrastructure, residential areas far from the front lines also hit by the barrage. the strikes just days after putin suffered a major battlefield setback after ukrainian troops recovered kherson. all of the context of what we re talking about in poland and nato tonight comes as where you are was under mass missile attack throughout the day. what are you seeing on the ground? reporter: well, we ve had periodically very loud sirens here. we ve heard detonations either of outgoing antiaircraft missiles or of incoming missiles. this is a very long ribbon-shaped city some 50 miles long, i understand. so, not all of the impacts are