narrowly leading ron desantis ahead of the 2024 primary showdown. the early race heating up right now, as trump escalates his attacks on desantis and other potential opponents. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get right to the very dramatic developments over the black sea today. a russian fighter jet forcing down a u.s. drone during an incident the u.s. air force is calling reckless and unprofessional. cnn pentagon correspondent oren lieberman is joining us. how did this up fold and how are u.s. officials responding tonight? reporter: this all plays out early tuesday morning over the black sea where a u.s. air force mq-9 drone, a surveillance drone, was operating, as we have seen it do since the beginning of this war and earlier than that. what s different is how this played out next. according to the pentagon, for 30 or 40 minutes over international waters, two russian su-22 fig
d etat. prime minister netanyahu s plans to curtail the judiciary. i will ask ehud barak and tzipi livni about what is happening on the ground and in the nasset. also, china s new foreign minister said this week there would surely be conflict and confro confrontation with the u.s. if the american government continues to speed down the wrong path. i ll dig in deep on the moods in both beijing and washington with kevin rudd, the former prieme minister of australia about to be sworn in as the new ambassador to the united states. also, should silicon valley s tech giants finally pay up for serving news content. they ve already squared off with australia over this and canada is next up. but it all may be too little, too late in the age of ai. i will explain. but first, here is my take. mexico could be entering a golden age. it is perfectly placed to benefit from the growing tensions between the united states and china. parts of the country are already seeing a boom as companie
other assets in, manned aircraft and so forth. so i would say it s important. look, we ve been able to manage the conflict, support the ukrainians, avoid escalation, and hopefully wear out putin s forces without direct confro confrontation. we ve done it because we have superior intelligence. so this drone is part of that intelligence superiority. as evalyn said, we don t want to be deterred from putting other drones and other assets into the region. it s really important. you know, this mq-9 reaper drone, it s not a small little aircraft. it s pretty large. almost as big as a regular warplane. so what is the pentagon s next move? through the national security council has made clear it will do what evalyn and general clark are suggesting, that is keep flying reaper jones and other intelligence gathering assets over the black sea and in international air space as the u.s. and russia have the right
d etat. prime minister netanyahu s plans to curtail the judiciary. i will ask ehud barak and tzipi livni about what is happening on the ground and in the nasset. also, china s new foreign minister said this week there would surely be conflict and confro confrontation with the u.s. if the american government continues to speed down the wrong path. i ll dig in deep on the moods in both beijing and washington with kevin rudd, the former prieme minister of australia about to be sworn in as the new ambassador to the united states. also, should silicon valley s tech giants finally pay up for serving news content. they ve already squared off with australia over this and canada is next up. but it all may be too little, too late in the age of ai.
russians are engaged in these exercises, these drills, there will be drills within you crane at 7 or 8 sites at the same time. kw what s your degree of concern that something could go wrong and they could get into some conflict that would violate the border there with ukraine? i m very troubled by the situation in ukraine and putin s clear and continuation of escalation of tensions in the region. russia has planned to stage a false attack coming out of ukraine by russian sympathizers. i wouldn t put it beyond russia to try to stage a false flag attack on their own forces to try to provoke some sorts of a confro confrontation. i do agree with the biden administration that diplomacy