News for you . Premieres tonight at nine On Cnn . Youre, in the cnn newsroom. Im Jessica Dean in New York and we begin with President Biden on the verge of a major decisions in that could dramatically reshape the war in ukraine. The president is considering whether to allow ukraine to use a western longrange missiles that could strike at targets deep in russian territory. Uks prime minister keir starmer, refusing to answer whether that came up in his meeting with President Biden, but russian president Vladimir Putin is warning that if biden does give The Green light, russia will quote, be at war with nato. Cnns Kevin Liptack is following this for us. Kevin, what are you hearing about the president s thinking around this . Will President Biden certainly seems more open to this idea. Then he had in the past. And i think that tells you enormous amount of pressure that President Biden is feeling not only from the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy, but also members of congress, includ
it is everywhere right now. it has such policies allowing retirement plan managers to consider things like climate change in their investment decisions even if that s not your priority. senator manchin of west virginia unloaded on the president. here is a quote. this administration continues to prioritize their radical policy agenda over the economic energy and national security needs of our country. biden is putting his administration s progressive agenda above the well-being of the american people. a democrat is saying this. republicans say this shows exactly the president does not care about everyday americans. instead of telling an investors that you need to invest only for the best financial return for the person working at home or in a truck instead you tell them to prioritize the president s agenda. the president, his agenda is more important than their better retirement. harris: senator marsha blackburn republican from tennessee, member of the senate is in person
again. sandra: wow, just some of what we saw today. china and russia s friendship on full display, to knock the world s number one superpower out of the top spot. president s xi three-day visit a boost to putin. john: looks like a world far less friendly to the west. sandra: headlines, putin sees anti-u.s. world order taking shape. lots to unpack in hour two of america reports. sandra smith in new york. hi, john. john: here we go again for another hour. the two dictators are still in a closed door meeting that s been going on for five hours and counting now. even before going into their private talks, they were not shy about blasting the united states and the west. but back here at home, president biden is coming under fire for not responding with tough talk of his own. joe biden has put a kick me sign on uncle sam s back. when america recedes from the world, creates avoid of leadership. sandra: the white house says there is no call planned between president bid
xi jinping and the suspected war criminal and president of russia, vladimir putin. the pressure is building for president biden now to do something as these two are buddying up having the ultimate gangster hangout. president xi putting it out there for a world saying china is ready to stand guard over world order. they are ready to take us all over. very napoleon-like. reporters pressing white house national security spokesman john kirby on president biden s handling of this high-profile meeting or the fact he is not even there. it seems like these two super powers are teaming up now against the u.s. why did president biden let this happen? this is not something that these two countries just cooked up since president biden got elected. it is something they have been trying he has talked tough and tried to pressure putin and xi to back
australia get their own nuclear powered submarines. that s just one example. that s what we are focused on. it s not about it s not about countering them, it s about advancing our goals. thanks, john. russia and china, it seems like these two super powers are teaming up now against the u.s. why did president biden let this happen? peter, these are two countries that have long chaffed, as i said to jeff, long chaffed at u.s. leadership around the world and the network of alliances and partnerships that we have. this is not this is not something that these two countries just cooked up since president biden got elected he has talked tough, tried to pressure putin and xi to act right or risk their standing on the world stage. does he see now that they don t