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force one. he is traveling to dover air base today in delaware for dignified transfer of the three american soldiers who were killed in that terror attack in the middle east. it has now been five days. still no military action from biden s pentagon. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. when the president arrives at dover air base, he, the first lady and defense secretary lloyd austin will meet with the families of the fallen, sergeants rivers, sanders and moffet all from georgia. they were part of the same company of army engineers based in fort moore, georgia. biden spoke with the families by phone earlier this week and the white house and defense officials say they blame the attack on the islamic resistance in iraq. of course affiliated with our mortal enemy iran. it s being widely reported the pentagon is planning a series of retaliatory strikes against iranian-backed targets inside act and syria and could last for weeks. many critics say get started an
floating above the continental united states, and we don t know what data it s collecting. you can see it right there on your screen and it s visable to people on the ground in montana. at least it has been since wednesday. today beijing confirmed it is theirs, claiming it is a, quote, unquote, civilian research air ship that went off course, but minutes ago, the pentagon flatly rejected that claim, calling it a surveillance balloon. secretary of state antony blinken s upcoming trip to china has now been postponed. the pro vocative move is inflaming a u.s.-china relationship already on the brink with tensions over everything from taiwan to tiktok. cnn s natasha bertrand is here to break it all down for us. natasha, there is so much to talk about here. so let s start at the beginning. what do we know about this balloon? yeah. so here, just to get a sense for the scale of this thing, this is the balloon, and what we know about it is that it is the size of about three busses.
democracy stands. the president of the united states on an unprecedented and dangerous trip into ukraine as russia s invasion nears one year of barberism and bloodshed. this conversation brings us closer to victory. president biden s visit to kyiv, a rebuke of vladimir p putin. how far will the u.s. and allies go to defend a no, ma amsy on the brink? and what will puten do next? russia s aim was to wipe ukraine off the map. putin s war of conquest is failing. 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. president biden is back in ukraine tonight, preparing for a momentous day tomorrow when he and vladimir putin will be delivering dueling addresses nearly 800 miles apart. president biden traveled under a cloak of secrecy to the capitol this morning, a city russia thought it could capture at the start of the invasion, but kyiv still stands one year into this war. w
closer to victory. president biden s visit to kyiv, a defiant review of vladimir putin, as the world asks, when will this war and? how far will the u.s. and allies go to defend democracy on the brink, and what will putin do next in his unprovoked attack on a sovereign state? russia s aim was to wipe ukraine off the map. putin s war is failing. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i am wolf blitzer. and this is a special edition of the situation room. president biden is back in poland tonight, after a day that will go down in history, preparing for another momentous day tomorrow, when he and vladimir putin will be delivering dueling addresses, nearly 800 miles apart. president biden traveled under a cloak of secrecy to the capital of ukraine earlier this morning, the city that russia thought it would be able to capture right at the start of this invasion. but kyiv still stands almost one year into this war. what a dramatic