obviously, tensions are already high between the two nations over involvement in ukraine. senior correspondent mike tobin is in kyiv tonight with the latest on this. good evening, mike. good evening, bret. a brazen violation of international law. that s the way the state department describes this contact between a u.s. drone and two russian fighter jets that ended with the u.s. drone being ditched in the black sea. the pentagon says for a half hour this morning two russian su-27 fighter jets harassed a u.s. mq 9 reaper drone in international fuel space. dumped fuel on it and pass sod close struck one of the propellers dropping it down into the southwest of crimea. this is the first contact of this sort since the height of the cold war. this incident demonstrates a lack of competence in addition to being unsafe and unprofessional. russian defense ministry denies that the jet impacted the u.s. drone and says the drone was headed in the direction of russia with its transpo
casual warning about a looming a nuclear holocaust. now, last night during a closed door fundraiserr top with other top democrats, biden claimed that this is the firstdi time we have, quote, faced since kennedy and the cuban missile crisis. and thenow, because, accordingo joe , vladimir putin is notvladm irjoking when he talks about the use of nuclear weapons orwen biological weapons or chemical weapons. now, apparently, there is nothing joe going to dot it about it, but he did do this. the administration, they are buying three hundred million dollars worth of anti radiatio$n and drugs. well, that s r not reassuring. that s joe s big plan in the event that putin usesr weap? nuclear weapons. that s it. no one in the white house has articulated a strategy to deter vladimir putin or work on any diplomatic solution. now, the war in ukraine has no end in sight. and now it appears that joe biden is only bracing fort e the worst. get ready. i guess it s line up. get your radiation
not so much. here was the botched afghanistan pullout caving toe china on every whim. and now, of course, war i the dangerous never ending war in ukraine. biden has turned our country into a doormat for china and into ukraine s bottomless piggy bank. and now it s all escalating. biden warning that under his watch we re heading towardsheadn a nuclear armageddon, saying at a fundraiser, we have not faced the prospect of armageddon since kennedy and the cubanon se missile crisis. and that s what we ve got.nedy a guy i know fairly well, he said of putin. he s not joking when he talksnua about potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons. orso what breaking new intel dd the administration receive thatl would lead us to believe armageddon was imminent? you have new intel that caused the president to ratchet up the level of concern? no, the president was speaking n about concerns about putin ss of threats to use nuclear weapons, just as he did at the u
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