time announcing he is running for a second term and mark his first formal news conference in more than a month. this one to be two questions per side. sandra: all comes amid reports biden s advisers tend to shield him for his re-election campaign, to avoid unscripted comments that they have had to walk back. nikki haley is joining us exclusively on america reports. john: marc thiessen is standing by and peter, no surprise, the president once again running behind schedule. only about an hour, as far as these things go with the visiting head of state and dignitaries and press that travel with them, it s not so bad, but targeting 1:30 or so start for the rose garden press conference and the white house defense of the lack of press conferences from president biden has been well, he often entertains shouted questions. the reason this event this afternoon is significant is because people are not going to have to shout, somebody from the white house will bring a microphone u
for the democratic nomination for president and a new poll has him at 19%. i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. here s my conversation with robert f. kennedy jr. robert, president biden has a bust of your father in the oval office. when you see that, what do you think? i m honored by it. you know, i have a lot of admiration for president biden for the service that he s given to our country. i ve known him. he s been my friend, my close family friend for 40 years. you know, there s nothing personal about this campaign. i am not going to run a mean spirited campaign against president biden. he and i just differ really dramatically on the issues like the war, like censorship, like the control of wall street and the big corporations, of our federal government and the pharmaceutical companies and also the use of fear as a governing tool. i think our country is headed in a bad direction. that s why i m running, but not because i lack personal affection for president biden. i
robert f. kennedy jr. robert, thank you so much for being here. president biden has a bust of your father in the oval office. when you see that, what do you think? i m honored by it. you know, i have a lot of admiration for president biden for the service that he s given to our country. i ve known him. he s been my friend, my close family friend for 40 years. you know, there s nothing personal about this campaign. i am not going to run a mean spirited campaign or a personal campaign against president biden. he and i just differ really dramatically on the issues like the war, like censorship, like the control of wall street and the big corporations of our federal government and the pharmaceutical companies, and also the use of fear as a governing tool. i think our country is headed in a bad direction. that s why i m running, but not because i have a lack of personal affection for president biden. is he too old to have a second term? you know, i don t think age should be
tomorrow night, joe biden goes to poland to deliver that message himself. this comes on the heels of the munich security conference where the u.s. state will have hard nosed positions on several fronts, warning china not to provide lethal aid to russian troops to ukraine. let s go to the white house. priscilla, tell us about the new emergency funds for earthquake relief before we get to what s been happening on the foreign policy front. reporter: secretary of state blinken announced that they are going to provide $100 million in disaster relief aid to turkey and syria, which have been devastated by the earthquake. that money is going to be split between emergency response, as well as humanitarian assistance. now, secretary blinken was able to survey the damage himself, and he said the efforts to recovery are very, very challenging. but, again, the u.s. is bringing more aid into this country. it would bring it to a total of $185 million that the u.s. has provided so far. jim
ukraine, at least 19 people killed, several apartment buildings hit and reduced to rubble. cnn is on the scene in ukraine with the very latest. incredible video out of florida, destruction from a tornado that wiped out a dozen homes and damaged even more. now some 55 million people across the southeast are bracing for more severe weather as two major storms target the region. we have the forecast. a major win for abortion rights in two republican dominated states the latest attempts to ban abortions, ban most abortions failed and conservative lawmakers helped stand in the way. we are following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. this is what is left of an apartment block in central ukraine after a russian rocket attack. it was part of a wave of strikes across ukraine. in the hardest hit, two rockets hit apartment buildings and a warehouse, killing at least 17 people. in dnipro the attack killed a mother and her 2