you feel the wind i m going to surveil in paris and this is cnn cnn are welcome, everyone another hour in the cnn newsroom. i m omar jimenez in washington, big bucks and big bucks and big stars that president biden s campaign fundraiser tonight, the los angeles event has already broken a fundraising record for the democratic party, just two weeks before for the first debate between biden and trump, that debate will be right here on cnn. tickets for the hollywood fundraiser event went from $250 to half 1 $1 million so with the contest for small dollar donors to win tickets, which would let them meet president biden, former president obama julia roberts, george clooney, jimmy jimmy kimmel will also moderate a q&a with biden and obama tonight get then white house correspondent arlette saenz joins us now, or let big hall for the campaign even before the event starts, what else are we learning yeah, omar, the biden campaign says it says if this is the is the biggest democratic f
he s the guy in the hood or the guy in black face, maybe he ll tell us one day. errol louis, thank you. breaking news, moscow fire ing back. vladimir putin said russia is suspend the treaty and will start constructing a new medium-range supersonic nuclear missile. this treaty you remember was signed with the usrr with during the colder war with an intention of preventing an arms race. the u.s. said russia has been violating that agreement since 2017. oren liebermann is joining us from moscow. oren, are you surprised they re saying let s get back into the missile business? based on what the kremlin said and what russia has said over previous weeks and months it s clear that russia expected some u.s. suspension or withdrawal from the inf treaty and russia looks like they had their response lined up isn t
saying through his foreign minister this was a tit for tat. he did say about an arms race. this is the major concern of analysts here, there should not and will not be an arms race. that being said, he followed that up by saying that russia would further develop what is known as its caliber missile. in its current form it is a sea-based medium-range hypersonic civil. that does not violate the treaty. vladimir putin said they would create a ground-based, that is an outright violation of this treat treaty. putin did also say they wouldn t deploy any of these missiles unless the u.s. did so first when it comes to europe. for europe, that is, nato backing the u.s. saying nato violated the treaty in the past and this is the right move. they don t seem too optimistic about anyway forward. russia has said in the past it
what president vladimir putin called a tit for tat with the u.s. and russia firing back that accusation that in fact it was the u.s. that has been in violation of this treaty for decades. that came out of a meeting this morning, between putin, his defense minister and his foreign minister. so russia has made their intentions clear. if the u.s. isn t going to be in this treaty. russia sees no reason to be in this treaty. putin said there should not and will not be an arms race between the u.s. and russia. just after saying that, russia announced the development of a new missile called the caliber missile. in its current format it s a sea-baseded me yim range hyper sonic missile. russia said they would be grounding the missile. in other words developing the missile to make it a ground-based missile and that would be a clear violation of the treat tey. but that treaty doesn t hold any water nor the russians or the u.s. at this point.
time. let s bring back in orrin lieberman, orrin following the story for us in moscow. you are saying the latest readout came a short time ago report. correct. george, it was a readout from the meeting between president vladimir putin and his defense minister and foreign minister. they said first we are withdrawing from this as a tit for tat response from the u.s. yesterday and following it up saying there should be no arms race and there will be no arms race f. that same statement, russia announced it was further developing what is known as a caliber missile. a sea based hypersonic missile does not or would not have violated the terms of the inf treaty. he said he is further developing towards a ground based version of that same missile, which would be a blatant violation of that treaty. the treaty is in tatters. the u.s. has been looking to withdraw from this. even though the accusations are right saying show us the