the a message to the ukrainian people that most of america stands with them. it was a message to russia and vladimir putin that the u.s. will continue to support ukraine militarily and otherwise. perhaps it was the a message for china. and other add adversary to not question america s willingness to defend democracy wherever it lives speaking of china. vladimir putin and xi jinping agreed to meet. joining us is dan hoffman. how do you assess the state of the war and the state of the region. we re tracking this horrific war of attrition with thousands of casualties on both sides. but really the story of the war is just the damage that russia has inflicted upon ukraine. deliberately targeting civilian neighborhoods and hospitals and maternity wards, that is why the ukraineanians are fighting on to force the russian out of their territory. but i think one story is that china is the big winner in this war right now, they are exploiting a weakened russia. which has been bloodied
hastely-arranged statement yesterday about objects the biden administration spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to shoot down. president biden: our intelligence community is assessing all three incidents and reporting to me daily and will continue the urgent efforts to do so and i will communicate that to the congress. we don t yet know exactly what these three objects were. but nothing right now suggests they were related to china s spy balloon program. make no mistake. if any object presents a threat to the safety and security of the american people i will take it down. harris: so they were a threat? i mean if you just pay attention to what he said. well, critics say this is familiar. better late than never. this administration has a tendency, in my judgment, to ignore problems. i mean, certainly ignore solutions. but if you won t talk about the problem it s hard to talk about a solution. harris: the president says he expects to speak with china s preside
can t give or on what timeline. and if one of our allies and partners wants to provide fighter aircraft to president zelenskyy, that s a sovereign decision they have ever right to make we would welcome that. $100 million in the appropriations bill in july to train ukrainian pilots on u.s. aircraft. what s the status no training underway right now, there s no commitment by the united states to provide fighter aircraft. you don t have to have fighter aircraft. no p training right now on fighter pilots. president biden s trip to poland, can we expect any deliverables, like a new military package for ukraine or new framework of support for ukraine and another one you just mentioned at the beginning of this press briefing that there are 10,000 u.s. troops in poland. why is there no meeting with the troops on president biden s schedule? the president routinely visits with the men and women of the military and their families, so does the first lady. you cannot look at
present. she ll answer tough questions on the biggest issues back home. what do you say to those people who say maybe he s too old to be president? while serving as an important voice for the biden administration abroad. you are the keepers of democracy. dr. biden speaks about her mission and the challenges facing the continent. everybody has to come together to make sure that these people aren t dying because of the drought. and her inspirational reunion with a woman she first met more than ten years ago. i said you could go anywhere, be anything, and you said no, i m staying in my community. plus, her family s decision on president biden s run in 2024. any chance at this point that he s not going to run? cnn prime time jill biden abroad starts now. good evening, i m sara si sidner. tonight on cnn prime time an in depth interview with the first lady of the united states, a one on one with jill biden who returned from a five-day trip to africa. cnn w
just ahead here on cnn newsroom. republican and nikki haley begins her run for for confidene the tests, politicians over 75 years old. could she be targeting president biden? or donald trump? our political analyst weighs in. plus, anger in eastern ohio as residents wonder if this small town is safe after a freight train carrying hazardous materials derailed. and, later, survivors still being found under the rubble more than a week after a powerful earthquake left parts of turkey and syria devastated. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. but first, we begin with new developments in the investigation into former president donald trump s role in seeking to overturn a 2020 election. cnn has now learned a special counsel has subpoenaed trump s former chief of staff mark meadows, who was witness to trump s actions during the insurrection at the u.s. capitol. cnn s evan perez has more details now from washington. donald trump s former chief of staff