we ll start our coverage at the white house with cnn s senior white house correspondent mj lee. mj, what w have we heard from the president tonight? well, abby, president biden making pretty clear in his statement that these attacks from the houthis simply will not be tolerated. he also said in his statement he will not hesitate to direct further measures to protect u.s. personnel and freedom of navigation in the red sea. and we re learning so much more, abby, just in the last hour or so about how exactly we got to this point. of course, as you know very well, u.s. officials have been warning for weeks against these houthi attacks in the red sea, basically telling them that they need to cut it out. and last week was when we got that warning from an official saying that was going to be their final warning. and now u.s. officials confirm that when these attacks took place on tuesday, that was just two days ago, that u.s. vessels had been targeted as a part of those houthi attacks.
forest fires are down. but the big question there for joe biden is why does he want to kill all these cows? if you go after agriculture, really what he is saying he doesn t want the from the cows used in the ag industry for dairy farmers and meat producers. you will kill those cows, is that how to prevent them from putting out methane? we can t believe a single thing you say, joe. you are empowered by joe biden and kamala harris and john kerry i should have said. i just he makes no sense. yet he is empowered by kamala harris and joe biden and nobody gets it. harris: he married the heinz ketchup heir. a lot of people use ketchup on their red meat. president biden making bold claims talking about his world leadership. president biden: i get credit for these days for sort of holding the international
identity politics. but could the message, and you rightly point out this is one of the most prestigious schools in our country, could the message of this woman being fired, law students who paid a ton of money to go to stanford law are now getting discriminated fairly, some would say, a they re being passed over for beings positions, could that send a message to other law schools? oh, absolutely, rachel. i think this is a bigtime message because i think the federal judges are telling stanford, which is a prestigious law school, basically, hey, look, if you want us to hire your brightest and best, you need to be fair. and what they need to do, rachel, is to invite you and i to speak at stanford university. rachel: yeah. well, definitely you, you are the voice of reason in california and an incredible attorney and a good guy all the way around. thanks, leo, we loved having you on. love you, rachel. rachel: love you too. take care. still ahead, president biden making quite the entra
at this interesting news conference. you know, feeling good about the future of the war in ukraine, although there s been some slowness to that counteroffensive. feeling good about the expansion of nato, not only finland, but now sweden on track and feeling good, you know, in the back of his mind about economic development in the united states with these new inflation numbers. we saw president biden making the case that he was making for his election in the last presidential election, that he could offer steady leadership and re-establish some of these foreign alliances that got frayed during the trump administration. rick, what do you think it means to have finland and soon sweden as members of the nato alliance. far different than when it was created in 1949. i think it s historic, jose. if we look at the big picture, putin came into office saying, you know, nato was crowding
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