john eastman s work on behalf of the former president in the days leading up to the insurrection. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with the threat of an imminent war in ukraine. president biden is sharing new information about u.s. moves to deter a russian invasion as 8500 american troops are now on a state of heightened alert. our chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins spoke with tpresident today. kaitlan, what is the white house saying tonight about predicting putin s next move? wolf, president biden spent the morning meeting with his national security team. and afterward he told us just how difficult he believes it is to predict what president biden is ultimately going to do. something that president biden says he doesn t even believe the russian leader s top aides fully understand what he is thinking on this. still, president biden did warn if president puti
the entire trump rein. yeah. and i have got the marks on my back to to prove it, don. um, yeah, you know, i i think we are in worse shape than we were to some extent during the early days, i guess, during most of the trump administration. in part, because of what we have been talking about for the last hour. you know, we we are facing a crisis in this country. if we have a situation, come november, where you have elections all over our country thrown into chaos because everybody wants to act like donald trump, and not accept the fact that they lost an election, i think, yes, we could have a serious breakdown in our democracy. to some extent, things are better. i mean, today we had the president of the united states refer to a reporter as an sob. you know, don, you and i got called a lot worse back in the day. uh, we never got an apology. i don t remember that from the commander in chief. no. so, maybe things are a little bit better, to some extent. not at all. i
jets to the region and they will reduce staff at the american embassy in kyiv, because of quote, continued threats of significant russian military action. so let s begin with kaitlan collins. so what is the plan for the video call next hour? well this is a call that has about nine leaders on there from europe. ukraine is not on this call. we just asked the white house about that. they poipnted to other conversations the biden administration has had with them, and including tony blinkent, but this is not on this call that will happen this afternoon from the situation room and a call scheduled as we know president biden is considering sending more u.s. troops in the sense of deterrence as they wait to see what the russian president is going to do and they don t know what move the russian leader wants to take next and they are watching. there was a report over the weekend after they believe russian was trying to install a pro-russian leader in ukraine. all of that is on agenda
dr. anthony fauci hinting the vaccines for america s youngest could be available sooner than expected. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper and we start today in our politics lead. the white house s aggressive attempts to clean up shall we say comment from president biden s nearly two-hour marathon news conference yesterday marking one year in office. president biden touted some legislative victories, acknowledged nationwide fatigue with covid. and he admitted more progress needs to be made with the pandemic and the economy. but two specific comment are getting the most attention including clarification from his communications team. on the midterm elections the white house now says president biden was not suggesting that the 2022 midterm elections could be illegitimate even though that s clearly what the president s words suggested. on russia president biden today said russian president vladimir putin, quote, will pay a heavy price if russia invades ukraine. this comes afte
find. and also, again, in murdoch-backed media, not just at the propaganda network. some of those people, don, they face death threats for reporting the truth. yeah. you mean some of the people over at fox, of course, or they have to leave the network. it s really sad. but it s also sad, the extremes on social media. social media is one of the biggest something has to be done about social media, i believe, because nothing has to be true on it. and immediately it is pushed out as if it s true and people start to believe it. it s also just such a mean place. have you noticed that? you said you stay off it because we were talking about having grace. it s really hard to have grace on twitter, you know? every once in a while i have to go on to make sure something is posted, but the person who does social media will say to me, can i post this or do you want me to wait for the firestorm to die down? and i ll say what firestorm. don lemon trending. i had no idea i was