It was a really busy week. So lets get right to it, some of the conversations you might have missed. Billionaire mark cuban, a Kamala Harris supporter, appeared on a Cnbc Squad Box and shared his thoughts on the Vice President s vision for the economy. Lets take a listen. How much more do you think the public knows now, and how much more do you think the public should know . Obviously, she is talking more, giving speeches, she was very clear about tariffs right there and shes got 40 days to communicate about other things. Think of this as a business and she is the ceo. She went from lack of favorability, lack of awareness, and way behind Donald Trump, to here we are, 50 days later from where she started, she is oh worst tide, people on her economic policy, she was by trump 20 , now she is behind 11 . She is making progress. If she just continues along the trend, the trend is her friend, that means, she is doing the right thing. She will keep communicating new ideas, new elements. She w
doubts today. about whether they could accomplish that invasion. as china, russia, united states reached a critical point in the ukraine war. the cia says beijing s having second thoughts about potentially invading taiwan. and a significant from the head of fox move. rupert murdoch acknowledging the hosts on his network promoted election lies. what this means for the billion dollar lawsuit against fox news. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the. world i m wolf blitzer and this is a special edition of the situation room. tonight, major new questions right at the center of a deadly coronavirus pandemic. that may change so many lives. where did covid-19 come from? the white house weighing in the same thing on the u.s. energy departments assessment. that the lethal virus most likely came from a lab leak in china. emphasis on the caveat here. cnn sources tell us that the assessment comes with quote, low confidence. tonight they say withi
. look, i have no intention of meeting with him, but if he came to me at the g20 and said i want to talk about the release of griner, i would meet with him, probably. it depends. he s acted brutally, he s committed war crimes. i don t see any rational to meet with him. good morning to viewers in the u.s. and around the world. i m brianna keilar here with john berman. president biden is also sending the russian leader a chilling warning. follow through with your threat to use a tactical nuclear weapon against ukraine and it could end in armageddon. biden said that putin totally miscalculated by invading ukraine but he believes the russian president is a rational actor. jake tapper asked president biden what a u.s. response might look like if putin deploys a nuclear arsenal. there have been discussions on that, but i m not going to get into that. it would be irresponsible for me to talk about what we would or wouldn t do. have you asked the pentagon to game it out just
You are in the, cnn newsroom. Hi, everyone. I am jessica dean in washington and we begin this hour at the white house President Biden unexpectedly on his way back to the white house right now, were turning from delaware to meet with his National Security council over rising tensions in the middle east. Us officials including biden himself warned and iranian attack on israeli territory could be coming within the next few days leaving both the us and Israeli Forces on high alert. And weve already seen some aggression this morning as ronnie and forces seized a Container Ship with ties to an israeli businessman. It was intercepted in the strait of hormuz. The only Shipping Routes that connects the persian gulf to the open ocean and joining us now senior White House House reporter kevin liptak and Senior International correspondent been wedeman. Lets talk to kevin first. We know the president is on the way back to the white house. How is it responding to this moment . As israel awaits of Po
specifically henry weapons that seem to change the course of this war? in a different times, early on was the javelins, you remember the soldier firing missiles, more recently himars long rabatits, and drones. let s talk about the javelins for a. moment these were key early in the war when russia was making its mad dash for kyiv. highly mobile shoulder fire really neutralized. mystery hundreds of russian tanks. himars more recently longer highly accurate it has been able to make a difference in the eastern battlefield today. which is a rocket in artillery war, particularly high accuracy and they re using u.s. intelligence to hit those russian targets. we go back to drones, also long-range one that s really made a difference there is the empty, arctic-ish may drown, i should make the point though, these weapons can go in both directions, russia has done it numerous amount of damage or drones, particularly with those supplied by iran.