bill: terrified women have been begging u.s. soldiers for help there. dana: desperate parents are hoisting children over checkpoint barriers pleading with american and british troops to put them on the next flight out. bill: if you leave 2500, do you keep the peace there. do you need to increase it is what this administration is arguing? if we say we ll have to surge forces and we don t want to do that. more from the interview on abc now. top military advisors warned against it and wanted you to keep 2500 troops. , no they didn t. it was split. that is not true. we should keep 2500 troops. we can do and continue to do that. no one said that to me that i can recall. you don t think this could have been handled better in any way, no mistakes? president biden: no, i don t think it could have been handled in a way back in hindsight and look. bill: listen to this carefully. a clip they released last night. much more this morning on abc. he is hell bent on get
we ll discuss the pushback we re seeing on covid restrictions. as we count down to the beijing olympic games, we ll look back on the two years since the chinese authorities locked down the city of wuhan . thanks for joining us. we are following developments in ukraine this hour as fears mount over a possible russian invasion. the u.s. state department says it will be reducing staff levels at the embassy in kyiv starting with nonessential staff and family members out of an abundance of caution. ukraine says russia has now deployed more than 127,000 troops in the region. amid the heightens restrictions, antony blinken is set to meet with eu foreign ministers virtually today and brief him on his meetings with russia s foreign minister. ahead of that, u.s. s top diplomat issued this warning. if a single additional russian force goes into ukraine in an aggressive way, as i said, that would trigger a swift, aer is vee and a united response from us and from europe. and, again,
has been pretty predictable. there was this joint statement in which they say the russian people were denied any real choice in the vote that took place over the past three days. we heard from the veteran spanish diplomat saying that the russian election was characterised by repression and intimidation. one thing the eu has not done which the widow of alexei navalny wanted to happen, she wanted european leaders to come out and say president putin does not have any legitimacy and he wanted brussels not to recognise this victory. that hasn t happened today but as you have been saying they are looking at more sanctions and we understand that the sanctions being talked about today and potentially agreed would affect people within the prison system in russia, specifically those who work at the penal colony in the arctic where alexei navalny was being held and where he died last month. there have been talks and where he died last month. there have been talks about and where he
87.8% of the vote in the presidential election which was tightly controlled by the kremlin, with no credible opposition candidate allowed to run. the electoral commission says turnout was 77% which would be a post soviet record. mr putin said the result demonstrated people s trust in russia s current path, and when russians were united, no one could intimidate or suppress them. as our russia editor steve rosenberg reports, in a rare move mr putin also mentioned his late critic, alexei navalny, by name. for vladimir putin, six more years in the kremlin. russia s president is sounding more confident than ever. translation: whoever might want to intimidate us, - whoever might want to suppress us, our will and our conscience, they have never been able to do it, and never will. then, mr putin s first public comments on the death ofjailed opposition leader alexei navalny. translation: you may be surprised, but a few days before mr navalny - died, some colleagues of mine told me
of california, the site of at least three deadly mass shootings in as many days. monterey park and on monday in oak land the coastal city of half moon bay. police in san man county say the suspected half moon bay attacked two different locations one of which is a mushroom farm. the farm s owners say the event has left them shaken and they don t know the suspected shooter. police took 67-year-old can chow am i custody and found a handgun in his vehicle nearby, here with the san mon tao out sheriff speaking on monday at 4:40 p.m. z hou was located in his vehicle in the parking lot of the sheriff s substation in half moon bay by a sheriff s deputy, shou was taken into custody without incident and a semi automatic was located in his vehicle, he s believed to have acted alone and there s no further threat to this community. joining me now is august howell a writer at the half moon bay review, thank you so much for talking with us. sue three mass shootings in as many days in