good morning, everyone, inn bianna golodryga. happening right now, west coast swing. this hour president biden departs the white house kicking off a multistate blitz just 27 days from the midterms. in focus this morning the president s exclusive cnn interview with jake tapper where he sounded off on a number of critical global challenges facing the united states and his administration today, including of course the war in ukraine. president biden calling vladimir putin a rational actor, while saying the russian president totally miscalculated his invasion. warning putin s mistakes could end in nuclear armageddon. our reporters, correspondents and guests are standing by to bring you the very latest. let s begin in morning with cnn white house correspondent mj lee. the president s interview with jake covered topics from russia to the economy to even questions surrounding his son hunter. walk us through what he said last night. reporter: you re right that this was a very wide
christine romans, thank you. you re welcome. this morning russian president vladimir putin is speaking out at an energy forum. cnn correspondent salma abdelaziz is following all of this. putin did not respond to biden s comments last night to jake tapper but he is blaming the u.s. for rising energy costs and even suggesting that the west was to blame for the sabotaging of the nord stream pipelines recently. yes, bianna, this is a worrying aspect of the conflict. the weaponization of energy sources, if you will, by moscow, something that was on full display just a couple of hours ago when president putin was making this speech where he was essentially taunting european leaders saying it s up to you to turn the taps on, the ball is in your court. the eu before this conflict, bianna, was heavily dependent on gas imports from russia, over 40% of gas imports, over 40% came from russia into the eu, that s before the war started. of course, european leaders since the start of the invasi
case of one bad officer, not a problem with the systemic wide training in the police department. someone questioned our training and our policies and my response was that this was was a failure for one individual police officer, it had nothing to do with our policies. policies did not allow that, our training did not did not teach that. so this was a fail for one particular police officer and here we are as a result of that fail. officer james brennand had only been on the force about seven months, he was still on a probationary period. he had graduated from the police academy seven months ago and joined the force there. but what is interesting is that he was fired three days after the shooting, but initially it was 17-year-old erik cantu that faced several criminal charges. those charges, bianna, have since been dropped. erik cantu on life support
but, bianna, you know, president zelenskyy and i m a huge supporter of the man and great supporter of ukraine, as you know, but his use of the term shield, missile shield yesterday, was really unfortunate. there is no country in the world that can provide a missile shield against incoming rounds like that, and it s an understanding of how air defense works. they are static, they are stable, they are on a certain point of the battlefield and they protect specific systems. what you saw in the shot earlier, and you see this on your map, the missiles went everywhere throughout ukraine. a country that is the size of the state of texas. in order to defend against all of those incoming missiles which, by the way, are coming from various directions and various types of launch systems, air, sea and ground, it s very difficult to get in a position and have high technology systems provide a shield. you just can t do it. it s impossible to do, even
states to live and work legally for a temporary period, but this is all especially urgent because there are more than 6 million venezuelans who have fled the country because of deteriorating conditions there. they are moving about south america and many have come to the u.s./mexico border as conditions in south america have been deteriorated because of the pandemic. to give you a point of comparison, this past august 55,333 venezuelans, cubans and nick rag wans crossed the u.s./mexico border that s up 175% from august of 2021. it is a shift in demographics that the administration is dealing with here and the other part of this plan that we should note is that mexico seems willing to take venezuelans under title 42, an authority that allows officials to turn migrants away. again, we re waiting for details to be finalized. bianna. and you will be following those details for us. priscilla alvarez, thank you.