they re trying to supply them with weigh they need, which jets are number one on the list, but so too are many other things. you have a drop of the visa requirements from anyone around the world who wants to come and fight in ukraine. that the words of president zelenskyy. foreigners are here to fight the russians. the message implicitly, fight the russians here so you are not fighting them anywhere else in the world. mika, there s a great example of what cal just said, in ukraine and actually across the world, the information, the battle for the hearts and minds of the world, the russians are just getting lapped. you were talking about disinformation campaign, russia. it is falling on deaf ears. everybody has a story about these soldiers. everybody has a story. i have heard it from random people that come up and start talking about the sun flower story where the grandmother confronts the soldiers and says basically, get the blank out of my neighborhood but here, put
anything do anything about the slow approaching humanitarian nightmare? the answer, joe, must be that their forces have been so far to the point they re not capable of taking the action on what, as you say, is an obvious sitting target if we can see it in these photographs we re looking at, so can the ukrainians. like you, i wake up every morning these days wondering if kyiv has fallen, waiting for the terrible humanitarian crisis that seems ahead. the russians are not backing off. as you say, without directly engaging the russians in a conflict that president biden i think sensibly says is not appropriate for the united states, there is very little we can do except stand with the people of ukraine, support them in whatever ways people can and report their story. i have never been prouder of my colleagues than the journalists i see on television in kyiv and
i worry he gets bogged down in build back better and other legislative initiatives and goals and this and that. i think he needs to step up into the global sense of what is going on and explain it to the american people. david ignatius, i ve heard from some insiders that he is being advised, go big or go home. so it is part of joe biden s story that people have underestimated him in every campaign, and he is going to have to find that gear that he has tonight where he becomes somebody powerful. as i have watched him over the years, there s something joe biden does better than almost any politician, which is to empathize with people who are suffering. yes. people who have suffered loss the way he did when he lost his first wife and his children, when he lost his son. and when he goes into that gear and reaches out and expresses the human emotion that we feel
he is appealing for us to do, which is to say we are all ukrainians now. and it is a gripping life-and-death story playing out before our eyes. willie geist, as we hit the top of the hour and we look at all of the things that we re dealing with coming in news wise here, the war in ukraine, the president s first state of the union tonight, it is interesting. you brought up the division here in america, but it is an interesting parallel. the division here in america over whether or not to have a plastic or a paper mask on versus the division in the world right now as to whether or not to allow ukraine to be a democracy and whether or not to stand up to the forces of putin. i really hope the president tonight shows america the example of ukraine. yeah, and just quote some of that speech we just watched if you want to show some of the
already in poland and could potentially take off from polish air fields and fly in to ukraine. but just update us on how close they are to getting that help because potentially this is a race against time now. reporter: yes, i think this was the big development we started hearing about yesterday. these reports that the pilots were headed to the planes rather than the planes headed to the pilots. you know, we are still waiting for the exact information on that but the conversation that we re having is not lost on the people of lviv. they understand the history of what the russians have done, not just in grozny but in syria where they were double tapping hospitals, and people are very aware of that. we were at a hospital yesterday and i was interviewing a doctor who is a surgeon who had a pistol and he was saying, i m a doctor, but i m also a soldier. we were talking to the hospital staff about how do we report on this story. they said, look we want the story out there but do not say t