it is wednesday, october 12th. i m christine romans. president biden says he believes russian president vladimir putin is rational. mr. biden said putin s objectives invading ukraine were irrational and a serious misjudgment. do you think putin is a rational actor? i think he is a rational actor who s miscalculated significantly. so if he s not rational no, i didn t say he s not rational. you said the speech. i think his speech, his objectives. i think he thought they would welcome him with open arms. this is home for mother russia and i think he totally miscalculated. cnn s jasmine wright is live in washington. what else did the president have to say about putin and ukraine? reporter: obviously the president warned of catastrophic mistakes and miscalculations. president putin continues to make these nuclear threats. as the u.s. grows more concerned while looking at the escalations happening in ukraine caused by russia. he warns of armageddon. take a look at
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to talk about what we would do. have you asked the pentagon to game it out? the pentagon didn t have to be asked. there we go. officials say there s been no change in the nuclear excuse me, nuclear posture. over the last few months this is important because president biden and top officials, remember, just before he had this conversation with jake tapper, he was having a g7 meeting with leaders including president zelenskyy. any possible outcomes. so this whole conversation factors into this. now one last thing i d note here is that president biden warned that there would be consequences for saudi arabia after they cut that oil deal with moscow of course leading to the u.s. saying that they now want to re-examine, re-evaluate just months after president biden traveled there in a sign of warming relations. consequences but he hasn t laid out what those will be