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, including some senior democrats too. Who ease some of these restrictions on longrange missiles that would be fired deep into russia, american missiles, but also british and french missiles that would require sign off from the united states President Biden still has some concerns and certainly officials within the administration have voiced those concerns over the last week or so. One of them is just a practical concern. They say that russia has already moved some of its highest value assets out of range of these missiles the other concern is just the general concern about escalation. And certainly President Biden has had that at the front of the mind every time a new capability comes along help ukraine win this war. In this case, you do hear russian president Vladimir Putin really ratcheting up the rhetoric saying that if the president allows this new capability, it would mean that russia is directly at war with nato. President biden responded to that yesterday. Hey, listen to what he said what do you say . What of law as the president i dont think much about perhaps vladimir now neither of these leaders came out of this meeting with any kind of announcement or decision. And certainly beforehand, american officials said that they werent expecting this to be a decisionmaking me eating, but we did hear from the british prime minister keir starmer, who suggested that a decision could be coming soon. He said that this discussion would continue at the united nations general general assembly talks later this month. And we do know that President Zelenskyy will be meeting President Biden on the margins of those talks. Now, one of the things thats in the backdrop of all of these discussions is the american election. And certainly we saw President Trump just this week at the debate, refuse multiple times to say that he would be committed that it to a ukrainian victory. And i think when you talk to the Western Alliance officials in europe and here in the united states, they really do want to do everything they can to help ukraine and when and Position Ukraine for victory before the uncertain outcome in november. All right. Kevin liptak at the White House for us. Thank you so much for that. Lets discuss more with former director for European Affairs at the national security council, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander vindman. Great to have you here with us. Thanks so much for making time this afternoon. Hey, just going to get to be on with you yeah. Lets talk first about the fact that the u. S. Has sometimes been slow to respond or acquiesce to some of these requests from ukraine. They ultimately do come around though, like f16s, the abrams tanks, for example do you think that ultimately biden and his administration will come around on this particular think it would be a big policy change. I think the fact is that the biden administration has been very, very careful to avoid any real risk of escalation in a direct confrontation with russia this would be a pretty significant departure. Once weve handed weapons over to ukraine in whatever kind of slow sometimes plotting process. Those become national weapons of ukraine and those are not american weapons anymore. America really has nothing to do with those weapons systems. And by international law, their sovereign weapons of ukraine so in this case, it would be us delivering weapons to ukraine those becoming several weapons. And ukraine making the decision to strike out at targets in its national defense against a aggressive, belligerent russia launched a provoked, unprovoked attack. This, this would though be a pretty significant departure in that the maybe the slightest Increment Change in that Russia Mainland Russia would be attacked by these weapons im a big supporter of it. I think that putin is a full of bluster on this one. There is no interest for russia to engage in a direct competition with the u. S. And nato. But he is trying to do the best they can. To try continue to warn off the u. S. And the west from providing the robust support that ukraine really needs for its national defense. Thats so interesting because it sounds like what youre saying is you dont Think Putin will really go, go that far, that because hes warned that. Itll be war with nato with these weapons are allowed to be used deeper in russia but you think that could potentially be bluster i could see with very high confidence that it is bluster because it is not in Russias Interest to go to war with nato. A war with nato would mean that conventional forces of russia that are severely depleted and really kind of in a lot of ways you know, not, not so relevant with regards to the competition with nato would be going up against the us. That would be folly. The height of folly. So thats unlikely because in that scenario, you could see a rapid escalation to use of nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons. Meaning mutually assured destruction not in Putins Interested least, especially in a scenario where his regime, his personal survival or not at stake, thats not whats going on here. Limited strikes on russian territory against military targets, against warrelated targets do not threaten putins regime. And therefore, again, do not warrant this kind of direct confrontation between russia, nato, but it is in Putins Interest to use every tool in his arsenal to get in the head of our administration of our national security community, of a President Biden to warn him off of providing this capability. And thats what hes been doing all along. What you see is a Ratchet Up and rhetoric. Will the russians respond they, they will. They may respond in the way they have been thus far theyre already conducting war against the u. S. And nato in a hybrid fashion theyre conducting sabotage operations. Theyre conducting information operations, propaganda, though are all part of a hybrid warfare that russia has been employing against us for a long time. I just think about the recent revelations about her indictments by the fbi. Thats the lower increment. The higher increment is this actual sabotage. Thats going on the russian intelligence services blow things up that they think are going to send a signal to the west thats the kinds of things hes going to probably Ratchet Up on. But a direct confrontation is not in his interest, it is not threaten his regime. Its bluster. The u. S. Should be doing more to support ukraine, to defend itself, and really frankly Pressure Putin to think about an Exit Strategy thats what this is about. Enabling. This is not going to be a Game Changer you scenario where we provide some additional missiles and some having to result in The End the war. But it does Ratchet Up the pressure on putin to then think through what does he want to continue this war . Is their a benefit to him to continue . Thats what were talking about, making it easier for ukraine to ultimately get to a negotiation of Fruitfulness Association i want to take a listen to what President Zelenskyy told cnns Fareed Zakaria about this. Lets listen to that Clip Everybody is looking the decision of the united states. Everyone is waiting for sides after that they make decisions. Its true. And so we wanted to earn much to use this weapon and just to attack these jets on the military in basis, not civilians infrastructure, military bales. We need more permissions but now you will tell me where maybe we will get give you 100 or 200, but for words, destroy what if they began to move. So we are again, like with a packages, again . Hello decisions. And again, we Cant Win in such circumstances. Do you have permission now to know till now known how, critical is disability to use these long range weapons deeper into russia too. And i know you were explaining what it could do, but how critically does ukraine need the ability to do this . They would have been far more critical a year ago. They would have been able to strike russian aircraft on bases. These aircraft are the ones that are launching these devastating Glide Bombs that destroy entire blocks destroyed points. The russians have adjusted their, their methodologies and pushed these aircraft back, but it still allows the ukrainians to go after highvalue targets as they find him on the battlefields in ukraine and in russia. Staging basis, Command And Control nodes critical infrastructure. Think about the Kerch Bridge that would be in play with some of the new capabilities that are being discussed. So it would make a Difference None of these things individually are Game Changer for all combined and frankly, with a more robust us support coming from the u. S. Over the course of the year, i think we have a new administration coming in. If its a harris administration, it could be an opportunity for policy review, review, and more aggressive well some support to ukraine in that regard. We could start seeing what shapes up to be a theory of victory. All lots of different pieces coming together to give ukraine an opportunity to conducted upon offensive operation. Of course, the converse is a Trump Administration which would be a us withdrawal and it wouldnt mean a collapse of the battlefield. Ukraine would fight on york will continue to support. But the risks of Escalation And Spillover magnify exponentially. There without the u. S. Backbone, russia would start to a potentially lash out against what it sees as a vulnerabilities fractures within Nato Alliance we could also see European Forces worst for european troops, polish troops, troops from the baltics arrived in ukraine on the theory that its better to fight on ukrainian territory than their own. Recognizing that poland and the baltics think that there next on russias list. So a lot of things in play. This is not an easy decision for the biden administration. I think the fact is as that they as theyve done, theyve reassessed the real risks of escalation. Its not going to materialize. Theyll probably make the decision to move forward with this longtime coming but hopefully it happens sooner rather than later i Lieutenant Colonel Alexander vindman. Thank you so much. Still ahead. Donald trump are turning up the antiimmigrant rhetoric while he defends a far right Activist Supporter how it could hurt him with swing voters. 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That completely baseless allegation has created major problems in springfield were Bomb Threats forced the closure of City Hall and the cancellation of school, Cnns Alayna Treene joining us now from Las Vegas and atlantic just a few moments ago, Donald Trump was asked about those threats he was jessica, he briefly made a stop at the Las Vegas Police Protective Association where he thanked local Law Enforcement and he made false claims about Kamala Harris having no support from Law Enforcement in this country, but was what i found interesting and what you just mentioned is that a reporter had asked him toward The End whether he did announces the Bomb Threats reported at schools in springfield, ohio that have led to two consecutive days of school closures. I want you to take a listen to his response. Bonds downs the bomb guys in springfield, ohio i dont know what happened with the Bomb Threats. I know that its been taken over by illegal migrants, and thats a terrible thing that happened. Springfield was this beautiful town and now theyre going through hell its a sad thing not going to happen with me. I can tell you youre right now now just a couple of things i want to break down there. One is that he claimed that the city has been taken over by illegal immigrants. But we know that the surge of haitian migrants in springfield, that most of them are actually here legally and they have temporary protective status. The other part of that though, is that he claimed he doesnt know so anything about these Bomb Threats, however, on friday, during a Press Conference in Los Angeles of reporter asked him specifically about these Bomb Threats he dismissed the claims and then what and on to say that actually the bigger problem is immigration. Now, i want to be very clear here about these claims about these migrants taking pets and eating them. We have now heard from the mayor of springfield, the Police Chief of the city, as well as the republican governor of ohio. All of them saying that there is no evidence to support these claims that both Donald Trump and his Running Mate continue to promote. We actually heard Donald Trump first bring it up publicly at the debate earlier this week, but they have continued to talk about this. Now when i talk to advisors close to Donald Trump and people, some of his allies, they argue that even if these rumors end up being untrue proven false, they say at least people are talking about so keep that in mind. It really is trying to play in to that rhetoric. We have become so accustomed to about Donald Trump trying to stoke fear about undocumented immigrants in this country. Jessica. All right. Alayna treene reporting on the trail in Las Vegas. Thank you so much for that.