president dimitri medvedev. they acknowledged they knew biden was on the ground. he went on to accuse nato of earning money and stealing weapons to sell to terrorists around the world. we have not heard directly from president putin since biden s visit. we re expected to hear much more from putin tomorrow. he s due to give a big speech not long before president biden does the same thing in warsaw. john. alex marquardt in kyiv. thank you for that report. with me cnn s kaitlan collins and phil mattingly in warsaw and cnn s nic robertson is with us from london. a top security council official told you this was a, quote, calculated risk. talk to us about the logistics and security that it took for president biden s team to get him in there safely to an active war zone. reporter: there was a lot. you have not seen a u.s. president go into an active war zone at any time in recent memory. there were a lot of
instructive to listen to republicans who are in positions of authority, chairman turner, chairman mccaul, senator mitch mcconnell, talking about on going support for this war effort. i think they have far more sway. my only concern with the extremes now is they seem to have disproportionate influence over the current speaker of the house. officials told cnn this weekend that the u.s. recently started seeing, quote, disturbing trends, and there are signs that china wants to creep up to the line that s a quote of providing lethal military aid to russia without getting caught. how serious would that be in your mind, and how should the u.s. respond? it s extraordinarily serious, and i don t think there s any creeping up to the line in modern warfare. there s a way to find out anything like this. it s disturbing and also
by diving into some of the most controversial culture war issues including his fight against so-called wokeness. there s growing concern from republican supporters of desantis that he s overstepped in some ways in this fight. cnn s steve paterno is live in st. petersburg, florida. what are you hearing from republicans about this? john, there are basically two camps of republicans we ve talked to. there s sort of the free market conservatives who are looking to turn the page from trump, and they re finding they are troubled with desantis having some of the same tendencies as trump and using his government power to push his ideology on public institutions, on higher education and even on businesses. that has given them some reason to pause about desantis being an alternative to trump. we ve heard from people in desantis corner, people who would be supporters of them, who
god bless you. you ve made us so happy. help can t come soon enough for those who lost everything, left with nothing in an instant. john, tonight we met so many families who have been made homeless by that massive earthquake. tonight they re still out on the streets, sleeping on the streets. makeshift shelters, in tents, in their cars. you can just imagine the kind of horror they re going through right now. so much need. jomana, stay safe. thank you so much. in our world lead, north korea launched two ballistic missiles earlier this morning. now dictator kim jong-un s sister is warning of more to come unless the u.s. and south korea stop holding joint military drills. cnn s will ripley joins me now live. is this the kind of threat that the u.s. would take seriously?
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