We are now past 6 o'clock. Welcome to Morning Joe at this moment. Joe Meek and Willie have the day off.

I want to bring in Caddy Kay, special U.S. correspondent for BBC News, into our coverage here, our live rolling coverage of this President's Day and President Biden's surprise trip to Ukraine.

One meant to show a real symbol of solidarity, Caddy, with Kiev,

as it has weathered Russia's invasion now for 12 months.

Yeah, Jonathan, what a day for us all to kick off President's Day to see these images.

We know that President Biden has wanted to go to Kiev for a while,

and he just had to wait on his security team to give him the okay. And it's

partly a vindication of the situation in Kiev that his security team felt it is okay, that it is

safe enough for him to visit on this Monday morning, this surprise visit. But there's also a lot

going on, of course, in Europe ahead of this anniversary. We've got the Munich Security Conference that's just wrapped up this weekend,

which was effectively the Americans and the Europeans rallying more support for the Ukrainians.

And Richard Haas, as you look at these images, yes, the symbolism, very powerful for the Ukrainians.

This is a message of support for Ukraine.

It's a message of defiance to Vladimir Putin and against Russia. What do you think it means

in practice for Vladimir Zelensky, that man just there who's shaking Joe Biden's hand?

What does it mean for him in practice?

Well, I think what it means in practice is he can expect American military and economic support to continue to flow. I think you

can also expect that from the Europeans, even though the delivery of economic help has fallen short

of the promises. I think the big question is what will be the impact of it.

So just say he gets all the tanks, just say he gets the airplanes. What then? To what extent

will it change the shape of the battlefield? Because ultimately, that's what counts the most. I'm sorry,

there's alarms going off here. Okay. Richard, we'll let you deal with those alarms because you've clearly got alarms.

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