Vladimir Putin

On Wednesday's Morning Joe, co-host Joe Scarborough called House Republicans who have called Biden "weak" in his handling of the Ukraine crisis, a "disgrace to America" who should "bow their heads in shame."  But just the day before on the show, his wife and co-host Mika Brzezinski had called Biden's handling of Ukraine "inadequate" and "not strong enough."

Now that Russia has officially invaded Ukraine, and even the White House is using that term, it’s time for responsible media outlets to ask serious questions whether Biden's “minor incursion” gaffe emboldened Russia and Vladimir Putin.

With Russia on the brink of a full-blown war, and the Biden administration’s newly imposed sanctions causing Republicans in Congress to claim they’re too little too late, ABC World News Tonight quickly sought to hype the Biden administration’s sanctions and completely ignore any Republicans who beg to differ.

Following his latest address on the Russia-Ukraine crisis, President Joe Biden chose yet again on Tuesday afternoon to turn his back and walk away after a major White House speech without taking questions from reporters. But instead of decrying the move, ABC’s David Muir offered a defense of Biden ducking the free press: Things are just too serious to be talking to reporters!

As Russia continued preparations to invade Ukraine on President Biden's watch, on Tuesday, MSNBC’s Morning Joe bizarrely tried to point a finger of blame at former President Trump instead. Hosts and pundits claimed the only reason Vladimir Putin didn’t further dismember the eastern European nation during Trump's presidency was because the Republican already gave Putin everything he…

In the morning after Russian President Vladimir Putin all but annexed two Ukrainian provinces, the major broadcast network newscasts largely chose Tuesday to absolve President Biden and his team for Putin feeling emboldened to take another step in what he views as reclaiming the old Russian empire.

On Tuesday's Morning Joe, even liberal co-host Mika Brzezinski sounded like a hawk on Ukraine. She approvingly cited foreign policy experts calling the Russian move into the eastern provinces an "invasion," and suggested the steps taken by Biden so far are "inadequate."

On Morning Joe, NBC international correspondent Keir Simmons, says that Putin is "not frightened" by Biden's threat of imposing "severe sanctions" should Russia invade Ukraine. 

On Monday, President Biden’s National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan appeared on all three network morning shows to discuss the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. However, while NBC and CBS actually pressed the White House official on whether the administration’s response to Russian aggression was strong enough, ABC’s Good Morning America took the opposite approach by lobbing softballs and…

Two days after Principal Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre ducked questions from Fox’s Jacqui Heinrich about the bombshell filing in the John Durham investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe, Heinrich posed the same questions to Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Wednesday and, not surprisingly, she received the same result.

On Morning Joe, Jeremy Bash, a former chief of staff to Leon Panetta in the Obama-Biden administration turned MSNBC security analyst, says Biden "deserves a lot of the credit," is doing a "phenomenal job" in dealing with the potential Russian invasion of Ukraine, and is handling things "absolutely perfectly."

PBS's Christiane Amanpour welcomed Republican Indiana Senator Todd Young onto her late Monday night program to discuss if Republicans can credibly condemn the Chinese Communist Party on democracy and human rights while also censuring Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. Young called out the absurdity and offensiveness of the comparison, forcing Amanpour to concede the two cannot be analogized…

Looks like Tiffany Cross has forgotten that Joe Biden is the president. And who can blame her? We'd like to forget, too! On her MSNBC show this morning, Cross claims Russia is currently threatening Ukraine because . . .  Trump!

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough summoned up  sympathy, if not for the devil, at least for Vladimir Putin. Scarborough's argued that we need to respect Russia's need for secure borders, and that "Ukraine is a knife that cuts right into the heart of Russia!" He suggested that we consider how the US would feel if Russia signed a mutual security pact with Mexico.