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soon. putin's speech comes with new reporting this morning on china's growing concerns about russia's weakened status on the world stage. meanwhile, we will hear from president joe biden later this morning as he is in poland now to meet with allies following that historic trip to ukraine. also ahead, the maga members of congress staying on brand, criticizing the president for visiting ukraine. we'll go through some of their comments. good morning and welcome to "morning joe." it is tuesday, february 21st. with me here in new york, "way too early" host and the white house bureau...

Vladimir putin is never going to negotiate, look at the speech today, but if that is what zelenskyy really needs to do to get past this current, very tough ground offensive that's already under way, which does resemble, as richard engel has been saying, world war i, and if they get to the point where they can really push, not just regain everything that was taken from them so horrendously back a year ago, but go back to 2014 and take more of that, you know, not just the land but get more of crimea, part of crimea, and try to force putin to the table. >> right. >> but there is a real concern in...

Answer for his military critics in russia. the head of the wagner group, which we americans now know is a kind of mercenary group that empties prisons and tries to supplement the army effort, the head, former convict himself, so close to putin, yesterday gave an interview saying, "we are sinking, sinking" -- meaning the russian war effort -- "and we have terrible problems with ammunition and many other aspects of this war effort." you are starting to see enormous frustration even among putin's very, very strong supporters. at the same time, the idea that the american president would show up by...

That play into. this the big take away from russia gate is what i have been saying for five years. i have been covering that story since we first started it to understand what was happening. as i said from the beginning this is not simply a political scandal. no matter what you think about donald trump, we are watching a national security disaster unfold and that's what we have right now. look at what has happened. we have the national security adviser to the president of the united states who was on the hillary clinton campaign and was pushing russia gate about vladimir putin we have russia a...

Talking about putin. democrats with that in mind want to know what the plans are given destroying notes with a private meeting with putin, do democrats have the power to do this effectively? >> you know i think this is one area where the democratic effort is weakest. i mean, the president's ability independent of oversight of the interactions he has with areas would force the disclose the notes of foreign leaders. however, it's important to remember the white house has greeted all congressional oversights since the democrats retook the house with a complete stonewall, even if areas where