the russian leader. democrat saying we have not face the prospect of armageddon since kennedy and the missile crisis. i don t think there s an ability to use a nuclear weapon and not end up with armageddon. look what you just heard from the president, this is stark language. you do not normally hear this from u.s. presidents. not now. and it comes as the u.s. considers how to response to a range of potential scenarios. for more let s bring in jeremy diamond. has there been any escalation from russia that prompted these remarks? reporter: there s no question there is an elevated risk of nuclear war based on the language we ve heard from the russian president but u.s. officials say there is nothing that has changed that nothing that they have seen that has changed in russia s nuclear posture. last week we heard the russian president talking about any and all means necessary to defend russian territory as he talked about the use of nuclear weapons but what we haven t hea
president talking about any and all means necessary to defend russian territory as he talked about the use of nuclear weapons but what we haven t heard from the u.s. side is the stark language we heard from president biden last night at this fund-raiser in new york where he talked about the prospect of arm g armage armageddon. here s a snippet of the president s comments, quote, we have a guy i know fairly well. he s not joking when he talks about the potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons because his military, you might say, is significantly underperforming. that s another element that we heard from the president last night is talking about the need for putin to have an off ramp, the concern the president of the united states has about the russian president being backed into a corner as his military suffers one defeat after the
deadline. many believe the u.s. will bump up against the debt ceiling sometime in august but have different views about what that means jshes the u.s. would revenuese enough tax reeve to cover some 56% of its bills. permit payments on the national debt interest, social security, medicare and most defense spending. beyond that there would be very little cash left. 23 republican senators wrote to president obama a month ago, urging him to develop contingency plans well ahead of hitting the debt ceiling saying it would not be pleasant operating under a debt ceiling budget and no one is recommending it but it would not be arm g are ma go armagedy would have to sort through bills and decide which to pay. there is no legal basis for saying i m paying you and not you. you can t cut 47% of spending without cutting things that are really important and very