psaki said biden hasn t spoken to zelensky, but there have been high-level communications between the two countries and leaders and she has made clear, the president has made clear his point that crossing will get a full-scale retaliation. there have been a few acts of cleanup after that long press conference yesterday. zjeff zeleny, thank you. antony blinken will meet with the russian foreign ministry in geneva tomorrow. fred flight kin joins us now. fred, talk us through the break to the president s remarks yesterday. reporter: yeah. a lot of international confusion about those remarks. you could really see secretary of state blinken was doing diplomatic leg work meeting in berlin where he met with the foreign ministers of france and the united kingdom as well.
volodymyr zelensky was supposedn opportunity to reset. but it created confusion and international concern. the president and his team have spent much of today clarifying his remarks, predicting that vladimir putin will indeed send troops into ukraine and questioning what the west s response would be. cnn chief national affairs correspondent jeff zeleny joins us live. were there major missteps made here? admitting it not using those words, but it s obvious. since that press conference ended, two hours long or so, the white house has spent much of that time scrambling trying to clean up. the president was supposed to be starting the first day of his second year in office talking about infrastructure, trying to tout one of his accomplishments and really begin the
i watched the press conference after that meeting and there again the secretary of state was also asked about president biden s remarks and whether or not something like a limited incursion could have limited consequences. secretary of state blinken said, no, there would be severe consequences, and he said that the u.s. and its allies are absolutely on the same page about that. but of course it did cause discontent, especially in ukraine. jeff was just talking about president zelensky of ukraine seemingly taking offense to that. i want to read you a little bit more of what zelensky wrote in his twitter account. quote, we want to remind the great powers that there are no minor incursions in small nations, just like there s no minor cachsualties. the ukrainian president saying that as well. as far as the russians are concerned, they have come out and said they have no intent of invading ukraine. they have called a lot of the talk going on hysteria.