Do you believe what you said that Putin can't remain in power? Or do you now regret saying that

because your government has been trying to walk that back? Did your words complicate matters?

Number one, I'm not walking anything back. The fact of the matter is I was expressing the more

outrage I felt toward the way Putin is dealing in the actions of this man, just brutality of half the children

in Ukraine.

I just come from being with those families.

And so, but I want to make it clear.

I wasn't then, nor am I now articulating the policy change.

I make no apologies.

Those words from President Biden as he was pressed by reporters on his remarks that

Vladimir Putin cannot remain in power.

We'll hear more of what the president said he was thinking when he chose to end his speech

in Poland with that declaration.

Meanwhile, Ukraine says it's retaking more territory, even as Russia changes battle tactics.

We'll tell you where things stand ahead of another round of pizza talks in Turkey today.

And some of the other stories we're following this morning.

Will Smith apologizes

finally to Chris Rock. Not really, but whatever. He should have done it on stage, but whatever.

After slapping the comedian really hard for telling a joke, walking up on stage and just

smacking him, new action from the January 6th committee. And a federal judge says Donald Trump likely

broke the law while trying to overturn the 2020 election, by the way. Well, that matter. You know,

it's just not, in America, we believe Willie that no man is above the law. But we still believe

...