two big names jumping into the republican field. south carolina senator tim scott is launching his campaign in just about an hour while florida governor ron desantis is expected to make it official within days. can either break through the noise that is donald trump? intensifying negotiations. president biden and speaker kevin mccarthy meeting this afternoon for the latest round of debt talks with just days left to avoid a catastrophic default. where our differences are and how could we solve those, and i felt that part was productive. look, there s no agreement. we re still apart. also today, the man charged with murdering four university of idaho students will appear in court for his arraignment. bryan kohberger faces a judge as new details emerge about the possible murder weapon. later, the new space race. a crew of private astronauts just docked at the international space station. we ll have a live report from cape canaveral, florida, with a look at that and how n
we politically waited too long. that platform specifically will help ukraine protect their forces in ukraine. it will give close air support to the maneuvers. it will help destroy the russians in ukraine with longer-range air assets. it would be significant once it gets there, which it needs to get there quickly. russia warned that the west sending these fighter jets, quote, carries enormous risks. do you worry about russia using it as justification to take even more drastic action, whether it s using nuclear weapons or expanding the battlefield beyond ukraine s borders? i absolutely do not. i think that thinking that has led us to incrementbly arm ukraine not to win, to achieve victory in ukraine, it has held us back. i strongly agree with what the president said to that question which is russia should be scared but we re no longer scared of their escalation. what they re doing in ukraine, the genocide is wrong.
behalf. do you see signs of that? polarization has different roots in different countries. in the united states we have a a dangerous level of polarization. we have different sources of polarization in american politics today. recent gallup poll from 2017 said significant portion of republicans, actually more favorable view of vladimir putin than hillary clinton. so this is a remarkable level of polarization. unprecedented in the 20th sentry and into the 21st century. democrats and republicans really despise one another to a degree that we ve not seen in any of our life times. so what keeps you up at night? having studied this for decades, what are you looking for? what worries you? i think one major worry is the prospect of a crisis. often electoral authoritarians incrementbly chip away at a democracy in a moment of crisis and can use that crisis to take control of the system.
this pros he united in our belief the nation s fiscal crisis must be addressed and that we cannot leave it for the next generation to solve. that statement, issued in congress. the super committee must not end. the president said if congress tries to get around the automatic cuts, called for in the law that created the super committee, he will veto it. my message to them is simple. no. i will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. there will be no easy off ramps on this one. we need to keep the pressure up to compromise. not turn off the pressure. the super committee s failure has important consequences. stocks fell sharply as investors added washington s gridlock over america s debt to an already long list of worries about economic growth at home and europe s financial crisis. plus, there are worries of a possible additional downgrade for the u.s. and the legislation that created that super committee calls for across