cluster bombs, as president biden heads overseas to shore up support for ukraine, he said the u.s. will send them a controversial weapon. it was a very difficult decision on my part. but sis the the right one? i ll ask michael mccaul and the only house member who votes against the afghanistan war, barbara lee, next. and party of one. republican set a date for the iowa caucuses where donald trump s rivals are trying to e he zeros in on his closest opponent. he s got no personality. does ron desantis has a plan to turn things around. my panel will discuss ahead. plus mercury rising. a record-breaking heat wave blankets the globe. and over seas janet yellen pushed china on climate. but is any country doing enough to stop the climate threat? hello, i m jake tapper in washington with the state of union is wondering about long-term consequences days after announcing his controversial decision to send cluster bombs to ukraine, a weapon his administration once refer
russia resorts to pictures of rubble to convince the public to get behind the war. the treasury department warning it has $39 billion left in cash as of tonight. yellen moves the dead ceiling deadline. an update to a story we told you about. $2 million and jail time after a chinese comedian made a comment about the communist party. wait until you see tonight. let s go out front. good evening. an aggressive strike. new video tshowing thick smoke what is believed to be a steel plant in mariupol. ukraine hit the city with two missiles. this is tactical but hugely symbolic in terms of a strike. this is where ukrainian troops were in the deadly standoff for russian forces for weeks last year. mariupol is even important staging ground for russian forces in southern ukraine. it s crucial. there s a flow of russian military convoys. a ukrainian strike changes the game. in russia, staid imte media is something new. i want to show you the drone video. this is from bakhmut. it is
i d be telling bibi finish the job once and for all with these butchers hamas. do you want dick cheney in 3 inch heels? you ve got two of them on stage tonight. and they are 5 inch heels. hamas, high heels and entiktok. republicans not named trump debate for more than an hour and a half before even mentioning the issue that sunk their party on tuesday. abortion. good morning to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m kasie hunt. it is thursday, november 9. the morning after. five republican presidential contenders duked it out on the big stage in miami. foreign policy took the spotlight at the third republican debate. the candidates all agreed on supporting israel and opposing hamas, iran and china. we have to stay as strong with our jewish americans. hamas should release every hostage and surrender. china is buying oil from iran, russia is getting drones and missiles from iran and there is an unholy alliance a. all critical issues of course.
you have to attack him substantively. you have to talk about january 6, you have to talk about character issues. you have to differentiate yourself. chris christie has done it very well. asa hutchinson and will herd? who? i think my point is that one of the candidates like a tim scott. like a ron desantis, if you re going to have credibility in a platform, you have to be willing to hit him. to your point, on issues that matter, you can t out-trump donald trump. and the word platform is here and we have a debate in six weeks and we ll have to see if donald trump shows up, a lot of this run online and tv through ads, these candidates have to stand next to each other and go after each other. this nomination doesn t go around donald trump, it goes through him. luke skywalker had to confront darth vader and these republicans candidates have to do the same. i ve talked to a number of the republican candidates and they re getting same advice which is you don t alienate him
trump and brand him as an amnesty guy? what he is doing is taking donald trump on on substance. donald trump was not policies propos proposals. that along with so much he did and said was an attitude. it wasn t a policy platform. the rnc didn t have a policy platform under donald trump. desantis will try to go to the right. we are seeing that with covid. if you want to get this nomination, it doesn t go around donald trump. you have to take him on directly. doug, you think go to the right, where is to the right? i think it starts with some of the things he has been laying out, especially on covid. we said donald trump was great for the first three years until fauci took over. fauci didn t take over. but that s rhetoric the republican party will like. donald trump is not a traditional conservative.