stand-alone vote on ukraine aid. he doesn t want it tied to any other big government funding bills. but these are a lot of competing demands and ultimately mccarthy is gonna have to decide, is he willing to pass ukraine aid with a majority of democratic s if he can t get the support of a majority of simone. you know, the end, this is why we have to read your newsletter every morning. i talked about some of the criticism that we saw on social media from some of these far-right members of congress. i want you to listen to colorado congressman jason crow. he s a member of the house intelligence committee and he was speaking to my colleague andrea mitchell about the republican backlash to president biden s trip. it s really not even worth my brain space to spend time responding to fools. these people know nothing about national security informed policy, they don t understand
about a dialogue following up from the chinese surveillance balloon, simone. but the secretary of state laid the details on the table, i think we ll see in the coming days sensitive, perhaps until reporting showing exactly with the chinese were doing, providing russians to the caught the chinese off-guard. the chinese were robbed back on their heels. so they re gonna have to backpedal and explain how they got caught, potentially trying to aid russia in this horrible war effort. more questions, we will get some additional answers. peter baker, clint watts, and jeremy bash, thank you very very much. all right, you. all coming up, some republicans are not happy about the presidents wartime visit to ukraine. what we are hearing from the far-right and how it s at odds with but most republicans want. and later, with an eye on 2024, ron desantis visited staten island too tall crime. a political panelists here on that. and more, the 11th hour is just getting underway on monday
with nato allies. his remarks will come as russian leader, vladimir putin, it s set to give his statement at the nation address tomorrow in moscow. meanwhile, u.s. officials are closely watching the relationship between china and russia. there is growing concern from u.s. officials that china is considering giving russia lethal aid that could be used in ukraine. let s get right to msnbc chief correspondent, ali velshi. he s live in ukraine s capital of kyiv. ali, how have people in the capitol responded to president biden s visit? very warmly, simone. this was sort of a little extra push that they needed. there s certainly no doubt in ukraine, as i spoke to people a year ago and now, there is no doubt amongst ukrainian people that this war is being prosecuted with ukrainian determination, but with remarkable resolve and assistant weaponry, and training from the west, from america, from nato. but nobody takes that for granted, and the idea that in a
is that, jeremy? and frankly, how hard will it be to hold russia accountable? simone, i was there. you could hear a pin drop when the vice president deliver that morally powerful and legally relevant statement. it was also important because she did it not only in front of all of the nato allies there in the heart of europe, but she did so in germany. we were just there a couple of miles south of nuremberg, where, of course, the united states and other international community members had to try the perpetrators of genocide, after world war ii. and so, for the vice president to make that statement, pointing the finger directly at vladimir putin, pointing the finger directly at the russian federation saying, you will be held accountable for these atrocities, that really resonates not just in that room, but around the world. you know, clint, i have to wonder though, how? because they think that there is a lot of conversation, and i vehemently remember when president biden, they said he
west point graduate, army veteran, former fbi special agent, and a distinguish research fellow at the foreign policy reaches the research institute. jeremy bash is also here, chief of staff at the cia, former cia, jimmy, you had the special privilege of being on set, so i will start with you. you have said that one of your takeaways from munich this weekend is that president biden is laser focused, for lack of a better term, of keeping the international pressure on putin. it seems to me that the physical manifestation of that was this trip that he took. yeah, this was a momentous weekend for diplomacy. the president, vice president, secretary of state, all in europe. the president, taking a very risky and during trip over the border into ukraine, to stand shoulder to shoulder with zelenskyy. this was an unmistakable message, simone, that the president said by his physical presence, that the west is unified. and the united states is going to stand squarely behind ukraine. if anybody