the russian leader. democrat saying we have not face the prospect of armageddon since kennedy and the missile crisis. i don t think there s an ability to use a nuclear weapon and not end up with armageddon. look what you just heard from the president, this is stark language. you do not normally hear this from u.s. presidents. not now. and it comes as the u.s. considers how to response to a range of potential scenarios. for more let s bring in jeremy diamond. has there been any escalation from russia that prompted these remarks? reporter: there s no question there is an elevated risk of nuclear war based on the language we ve heard from the russian president but u.s. officials say there is nothing that has changed that nothing that they have seen that has changed in russia s nuclear posture. last week we heard the russian president talking about any and all means necessary to defend russian territory as he talked about the use of nuclear weapons but what we haven t hea
everything he can to bring prices down. white house correspondent peter doocy joins us from the north lawn. good evening, peter. good evening, bret. when the president gave the rousing speech about the economy today he never mentioned the federal reserve is expected to raise interest rates tomorrow. instead, he was looking backwards and talking about all the times that there were long lines of cars waiting to get boxes of food during covid lockdowns as he tried to make the point it could be worse. under my plan for the economy we made extraordinary progress. so dismal economic trends aren t the problem. the president thinks messaging is the problem. i don t want to hear anymore of these lies about reckless spending. three members of biden s inner circle head to the hill tomorrow. kate bedingfield, john o malley dillon and will talk messaging on the economy. inflation. it s sapping the strength of a lot of families. inflation is not isolated to the u.s. worldwide
China on Monday said cooperation between countries should not undermine regional peace and stability and target any third party, as it reacted to a host of defence and commercial pacts recently signed between India and the US including joint production of jet engines in India to power military aircraft and a deal on armed drones.
u.s. s nuclear posture. so that is ultimately where things stand here. the u.s. is monitoring the situation closely. but they have no indication as of yet that vladimir putin has made the decision to use a nuclear weapon in this conflict. that is significant. jeremy, thank you. let s go to kyiv, bring in frederik pleitgen who s standing by watching the conflict on the ground. any reaction from the russians at this point, fred? reporter: it certainly is all over the news media in russia. i ve been checking the russian state run news media over the course of the morning and you do see president biden s comments all over the place. you haven t had any official reactions yet one of the things we re waiting for as we speak is a conference call with the kremlin where we expect the spokesman is going to talk about that as well. however, you do have the russians very constantly talking about the complex of possible use of nuclear weapons in the ukraine conflict. really almost constantly.
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