in wilmington, delaware. despite the white house saying the search was complete last thursday. rapid developments here is what we are looking at so far. november 2nd, just days before the midterm election, six days, the president s aides find classified documents and a closet at the penn-biden center, a think tank in washington, d.c. but that discovery was not made public. on november 14th, attorney general merrick garland appoints a u.s. attorney to go over the case. fast-forward to december 20th, the president s attorneys find another batch of documents. these pages that were stored in his garage at his home coming in oh, next to the corvette like he told us. the story finally broke wide open on january 9th. an additional document was then found three days later. that same day the attorney general appointed a special counsel. two days after that more documents surfaced in wilmington. some democrats are staying silent on all of this while others are publicly speaking out inc
the last time i observed a russian exercise in moscow or outside of moscow, they have a tendency to always and their training events with a nuclear index. it is an end of exercise. it is something they practice and something that are very comfortable with. they have never used them for real other than interest. this is something and i think it is rightfully so in my view why the biden administration has have the concern since the beginning of the conflict. susan glasser, the president also said that he is trying to figure out what his offramp. where does he find himselfposit lose faith but no significant power within russia? that is the president s quote. he has backed himself into a corner so how does he get out of it? i think that is one of the words when i hear offramp and american officials talk about prudent. has shown over the last two decades that he is heedless largely of american efforts to guide him in any direction and off ramps are not appreciated. here we are
used to describe these comments that president biden made tonight. in a closed-door, democratic fund-raiser in new york. where he spoke pretty frankly about what he believes is the actual real threat that putin is posing right now when he talks about this threat of nuclear war, we have seen him kind of dangle out there and the speeches that he has given lately. president biden says he believes that is because of how terribly russia is doing on the battlefield. tonight, he used the word underperforming, talking about how he believes the setbacks which have been humiliating and, of course, the draft that putin is put in place has driven russian matter the country is all factoring into this. and it seems to be causing a real sense of concern for president biden tonight, don, who said he believes the world is the closest it has been to the potential nuclear catastrophe that it has been since the 1960s. since the cuban missile crisis, of course, we are coming up on the anniversary
kennedy and the cuban missile crisis, i don t think there s anything as the ability of using a nuclear tact cal weapon and not end up with armageddon. this is stark language and comes as the u.s. considers how to respond to a range of potential scenarios. let s bring in white house correspondent jeremy diamond for more. reporter: u.s. officials say there s been no change in russia s nuclear posture. one senior u.s. official telling cnn that the u.s. didn t detect anything yesterday that would indicate an escalation in russia s nuclear posture, that s why it s striking to hear the language that president biden used last night talking about the prospect of armageddon should putin use nuclear weapons and making clear he doesn t believe the russian leader is bluffing. here s a snippet of the president s comments from the fund-raiser in new york last night, off camera. saying, quote, we have a guy i know fairly well within he s not joking when he talks about potential use of t
we are together. they ve sat there, they have laughed and they have chuckled and pointed fingers at us. you know what? as my friend from florida just said, we re together. neil: well, not quite all together right now. the 20 that are resisting kevin mccarthy remain about that now. we re about the halfway point of a ninth vote to see who will lead the house of representatives. looks like for the ninth time in a row, kevin mccarthy is going to have to suit up for number 10. that is if we get to a number 10. under others there, you can see 11 votes for someone other than kevin mccarthy. keep in mind the republican leader can shed no more than four of his republican colleagues. in this vote, as in the prior eight, he has failed to do so. chad pergram has the latest from capitol hill. chad? neil, this is the longest speaker election since 1923. the house is now taking the ninth vote for speaker. it must go to a tenth. the goal was for kevin mccarthy to move the dial today. p