also tonight the pentagon approveathize deployment of some 1,500 u.s. troops to the southern border with mexico as the u.s. braces for a new surge of thousands of migrants. the pentagon press secretary joins us live to discuss the timing and the scope of this new military mission. and senators clash over a proposed code of ethics for the u.s. supreme court justices at a hearing prompted by scrutiny of justice clarence thomas. i ll speak with chairman dick durbin who s accusing the high court of being in his word oblivious to these ethics issues. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. we begin with two very consequential deadlines for the biden administration and the country, for that matter. the u.s. facing the dire possibility of defaulting on its debt next month, and a major migrant surge across the southern border is expected next week when a key trump era immigration policy expires. our
concerning the debt limit for you know, for example, it has come up time and time again and when donald trump was president, republicans voted to extend it, and when joe biden was a senator, and when he was vice president he engaged in the kind of negotiations on the debt limit that he is now shunning. so he s saying, no, no, no, we re not going to do this. but you know what, we did it in the past. so the questions is what are his options now? and there aren t many. you re a former democratic congressman. how does he do this? how does he keep his own party in line which is obviously so critically important for him right now? as it concerns the debt limit democrats are in line. they are consistent in their support for a clean bill. you know, this is such a weird tactic that speaker mccarthy has undertaken. he has the budgetary prusz, a
example, last week the ukraine defense contact group, the united states, the department of defense, we remain committed to working very closely with ukraine and our international allies and partners to ensure that they have the security assistance they need to be able to defend their country and take back their sovereign territory. brigadier general patrick rider thank you very, very much. we ll have much more on all of this coming up later this hour. right now i want to get some more from our political experts joining us and gloria borger. president biden is staring down these two potential crises. he s already facing a lot of criticism including from some democratic senators like manchin and menendez, for example. how does the president navigate these issues politically while keeping all of his party in line? look, he does it with great difficulty, and i m not sure he s going to be able to keep his party in line. he s got a problem here, and that is there is kind of rampant hypoc
ukraine s president zelenskyy telling the newspaper that he learned about the pentagon leaks in the news. he says and i m quoting him now, i did not receive information from the white house or the pentagon beforehand. is that true? well, i can t speak to whether that s true or not. i will tell you that secretary austin has conducted a large number of phone calls, conducted a large amount of outreach to our allies and partners around the world to discuss the matter with them, to highlight how seriously we are taking this issue to include several conversations with his ukrainian counterpart. president zelenskyy also says in this new report that this was not beneficial, his words to the white house reputation or to the reputation of the united states. it doesn t sound like this relationship at least for now has been repaired completely. well, again, i don t want to speak for president zelenskyy. i will say as evidenced by, for
deal with this issue. watch this. this is not about making the court better. this is about destroying a conservative court. the goal of these efforts is to cast doubts on certain judges and justices all because the left is opposed to recent court rulings. did today s hearing, senator, put you any closer to passing a code of ethics for the u.s. supreme court? that remains to be seen, but let me address specifically my friends. i sechbt to the supreme court a code of ethics and ethical standards for the court on february 14, 2012. 11 years ago barack obama was president, so to argue we re just doing this to jump on this court is not true. and as i said there s concern. i have a record of it. secondly, when it gets down to the bottom line here what we re talking about is bringing this