Home serve. Com im evan perez and washington. And this is cnn the skis, cnn Breaking News l right,veryon thanks for joining me. I ll mk jimez inor fredric wtfield. Wre goingo begin with President Biden were turning to the white house to meeth s naal Security Team about the innsifying theres a meeting that will include Secretarof Sta Antony Blinken, defense secretary d austin, and the chai othe joint chiefs of staff. Nrces say the u ctirancarry out a direct Aack Srael Iran has vowed retaation for the military officials in syria last week, a l to get to hear cnns kevin lipt is athe white house and Jeremy Diamond is in jerusale so vin, what do we know about this meeting . And that now includes defense secretary lloyd austin and etary of state Antony Blinken well, this meeting will come after american officials ve bn speaking with their israeli counterparts, including the defense secretary lloyd austin, who talked to the Defense Minister and israel to discuss what the pentagon called urgen
russia will pay a heavy price. yesterday, president biden had suggested that something like a quote, unquote, minor incursion might not result in the same kinds of severe costs. listen, this is not the first attempt to clean this up. we saw statements from the national security council spokeswoman, the white house press secretary jen saek and ultimately the president of the united states. his words necessary to make very clear to u.s. allies like ukraine as well as adversaries like russia that any kind of movement of russian troops across the boardlerrder will ren severe costs. what the president was referring to is the fact that russia has tended to use other tactics, the green men seen in the disputed region in eastern ukraine or cyber attacks, for example, as well, and the president said that he believes the u.s. and its allies need to be prepared to craft some kind of other response to those types of russian activities. the president though did not take questions. i tried to get
you watch the diplomat, secretary of state, plug clean why an tomorrow he s the he s meeting with the foreign minister of lavrov. with me to share their reporting is cnn s jeff zeleny and julieishfield davis of the new york times and the president trying to make up a mess of his own making yesterday in the face of this remarkable tweet from president selenski of the ukraine. we want to remind the great powers that there are no minor incursions and small nations, just there is a are no minor casualties and little grief from the loss of loved ones. i say this as president of a great power. the ukranian president essentially saying, mr. biden, take us seriously. there are no minor incursions. don t count here. right. i mean, you can see how the remarks that the president made yesterday really set off alarm bells both in ukraine and around and around ukraine because the whole situation here
which was the point i think that nancy pelosi was making yesterday. exactly. so guys, let s turn to daca, this is very important, this is going to be a big part of the meeting today in just a few hours with the president and bipartisan legislatures. patti, your stance on this is fascinating as a democrat. you say why not just go ahead and spend $18 billion on the wall and give them that, to protect these 800,000 d.r.e.a.m.ers. that puts you in direct contrast with so many of your fellow democrats. explain? it does. let me be clear, i think the wall is stupid and useless. it s not going to do anything to secure the border. i think donald trump is one who ended daca and put us in this situation. and also, donald trump promised in the campaign that if he was going to build a wall mexico will pay for it, and he s asking the taxpayers to pay for it. i have to tell you, i travel the country, privileged to travel the country, and talk on college campuses and i cannot tell you the number o
driving hours. the president is also handling some incoming of his own making yesterday. nicole tweeted this mattis and tillerson go rogue. corker questions trump s stability and competence, mccain, ryan rebuke pardon. mueller working away. tick, tick. speaking of that, there are more signs says special counsel bob muler is particularly interested in michael flynn and paul manafort, as he investigates russian meddling in the 2016 according to the washington post the legal team issued subpoenas to several prominent washington lobbying firms about their interactions with the two men. manafort served as trump s campaign manager and flynn was briefly national security adviser. he also was side by side with president trump during the campaign. they re both facing scrutiny for allegedly failing to disclose work for foreign governments or parties. and the washington post published a piece late yesterday with the headline trump s