ukraine stands and democracy stands. a vital message delivered by president joe biden today. made more significant when he delivered the words from kyiv itself. he walks side-by-side with president zelenskyy and the ukrainian capital. it s a moment filled with symbolism with an american president ineffectively a war zone with daily bombardment from russia s forces. two presidents who visit war zones like iraq or afghanistan. president biden delivered a message not just to president zelenskyy and the ukrainian people but to western allies as well as the russians. the message is that america the financial a military backer of ukraine is in it for the long haul. for you and all ukrainians, your mind the world every single day with the meaning of the word courage is. all sectors of your economy and all walks of life and it is astounding. astounding. it is priceless and worth fighting for for as long as it takes and that is how long we will be with you mr. president, for as long
Standing by for a vote on House Speaker after all the chaos. New developments over just the last few hours indicate that this vote really, finally, genuinely might be the one. We have brandnew reporting just in. And the new u. S. Warning for israel to avoid a fullscale Ground Invasion in gaza, to avoid mistakes as the past u. S. Battles and there are new air strikes in gaza this morning. Donald trumps former Chief Of Staff mark meadows granted immunity and new details on what he reportedly said. Im john berman with kate bolduan, sara sidner is in israel. This is cnn news central. A speaker of the house, it might be imminent. This could be happening for real this time, maybe. Possibly. We are standing by for a full House Floor Vote on the Louisiana Republican mike johnson after the Republican House conference said he was their man overnight. Now, if youre following this at home, this last three weeks, they booted Kevin Mccarthy from the speakers chair. They then picked steve scalise, bu
Next stage. Israel now escalating its gaza air strikes ahead of a likely invasion as fears grow, the region could be drawn into the conflict. What is israels lplan. I caution israel not to be blinded by rage. Chairman mike turner joins me and lifeline, more humanitarian trucks poised to enter gaza carrying desperately needed food, water and medical supplies. These trucks are not just trucks. They are a lifeline. But as israel preps for the ground war, are conditions about to get much worse . Plus, at odds. With future u. S. Aid to israel on the line, House Republicans are back to square one in their speaker search fiasco. We are in a bad place as a party. Can anyone unite the conference in former Republican Congresswoman liz cheney is here for her first media interview in more than a year. Hello. Im jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is breathing so much pain and loss of life. This morning the Israeli Military says it is stepping up its air strikes against hamas in
obviously been i m sure on the part as claire said, everybody is glad to see joe biden now in poland, let s put it that way. and there s a lot of warmth between the ambassadorial staff here and joe biden. he s become very close to mark brzezinski over time. mark brzezinski of course i was thinking about this today because of jimmy carter. mark s dad, zbigniew brzezinski, was instrumental in getting jimmy carter to arm to have americans arm the mujahadin in afghanistan when the soviets invaded afghanistan. so now we see all these years later a clear echo of that in how the u.s. has been among many but the leading force in helping to arm the ukrainians. and mark is here i know acutely aware of his dad s legacy and i m sure thinking about it in the context of president carter, who as we know went into hospice and obviously all of our
that war against guerillas and the mujahadin as well. the u.s. is sending these special operations forces to train and assist the ukraine military, and so what message do you think vladimir putin takes from that? well, he ll take the message that the united states is committed to upholding the independence and the sovereignty of ukraine. this idea that somehow a few special forces or even limited supplies of weapons are provoking russia to act, it s russia that has over 100,000 troops at ukraine s border. none of this would be happening but for the fact that russia is posed for a military invasion, a further military invasion of a country that it already has invaded and occupied in part. without that, we wouldn t be in this position, so the idea that somehow western actions can provoke the russians when it is, in fact, the russians who, over the past eight years, have been