steve schmidt, maya, we appreciatehm it, that does it f deadline: white house thank you for being with us, the beat with ali melber begins now. hello, friend, welcome to the beat, i am ari melber and we begin with breaking news. president biden saying just within the past hour, vladimir putin, according to the united states has decided to invade ukraine and this could. within days. as of this moment i m convinced he s made the decision. we have reason to believe that. we have reason to believe the russian forcesre intend to atta ukraine in the coming week. in the coming days.om reporter: to be clear, you are convinced that, you are convinced that president putin is going to invade ukraine, is that what you just said a few moments ago? yes, i did.
operations and all the options, they look at all of the contingencies, and one of those is the collateral damage assessment. that is the potential for how many civilians could be hurt or killed in this kind of an operation. what we don t know is exactly what happened at that meeting at the white house yesterday? did they sit him down and explain to him the collateral damage assessment or not? but the notion that it wouldn t be part of the original military planning is pretty difficult to understand, ali. and following on that, is it possible that the president would only have learned that approximately 150 people would die with minutes to spare? i would imagine when there s a submission of that sort of proposal general barry mccaffrey told me they have proposals for any contingency, about places you don t think we have aggressive relationships with. the idea of what we call collateral damage, the death of people, that would have to be very high up in that report.
if the court, which it likes to be a little affectionate to certain dates, today could be the day they seamlessly tie to lawrence and windsor. legal junkies have discussed the fact there s pride weekend and the anniversary of other decisions that have advanced marriage equality and gay rights in this country previously. having said that any statistician would tell you the reason why a lot of things come out at the end of june, that s the end of the term. it s only a few days in rotation for that. we could get a big decision any minute. we ll come back to you as quickly as possible. ari, thank you, sir. we are monitoring all the developments at the supreme court. we ll get them as fast as we can with ali melber justice correspondent pete williams. we ll be taking you down to south carolina where thousands are expected to pay their respects for the reverend