when. they re working hard to make this happen. president xi will sit down with vladimir putin as well. so what does this mean? where are we headed in all of this? serious times. serious questions ahead as putin and the u.s. dig in on both sides of ukraine. mike gallagher, chair of the house committee on china and dan hoffman, former cia station chief in moscow standing by. first, to chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin with the latest from the pentagon. hi, jennifer. hi, martha. senior u.s. defense officials believe putin s threat to pull out of the new start treaty is another example of nuclear saber rattling designed to spook the u.s. from supporting ukraine. any reaction to putin pulling out of new start? new start is the last remaining post cold war u.s.-russia arm control treaty. it s been on life support for some time giving u.s. inspectors limited visibility to russia s arsenal. both sides have accused each other of violating the treaty, which
now. president biden was wrong back in december when he predicted that inflation was at its peak and said this. i think you ll see it change sooner than quicker, more rapidly than it will take than most people think. leader mcconnell is standing by. first, gene sperling. good to have you with used too. the question that comes up again and again is that the messages that we received from all left fields of the white house and treasury have been wrong. so how did you get this so wrong? well, martha, the white house and the treasury department were saying last year and i can t stress this enough, reflected the overwhelming economic consensus in the private sector, in the u.s. and other places around the world. it wasn t so much it wasn t the people were wrong with the facts that they had. it s that things happened after that that affected the outcome. so we had not just delta, but omicron. we had gas prices at $3.31 january 17 when putin first started doing military ex
if he was going to hold onto the white house. that was the big issue. we are covering it going into election night. it was a huge deal when biden won arizona. arizona. are you 100% sure of that call and when you made it and why did you make it? absolutely. we made it after basically a half hour of debating it. we finally called it right now. nbc news is projecting that when every last vote is counted in the state of arizona, joe biden will be awarded 11 electoral votes. joe biden your projected winner in the state of arizona. trump and his allies were enraged over exactly that call, especially the fox news call to arizona. it was seen as kind of the nail in the coffin as a state that the trump folks would need to win or somehow continue to cast as too close to call, which might offend these plots you re hearing about. fox later fired the staffer who accurately called arizona for biden. it was close. they were separated by 10,000 votes. biden won with 1.6 million votes
Martha thanks very much. Good afternoon. Im Martha Maccallum live in washington today for our special coverage tonight of president Bidens Oval Office address on americas role in two wars. Now in israel and also in ukraine. Were going live to the pentagon. A very important briefing about to get underway. Well take you there live as soon as that gets started. In israel, john roberts stays with us this hour in jerusalem. Mike tobin in southern israel and israeli Prime Minister netanyahus spokesman joins us live. First, the pentagon about to update on the situation as americans have four warships now in the region. Our u. S. Forces are in the region as well or headed to the region. A huge u. S. Commitment is underway and we expect that were going hear more about that from the pentagon in just moments. A u. S. Cargo plane delivered armored vehicles. Heres video of that as they rolled off of this c17 in israel. The Israeli Defense minister gives his troops the green light for entering gaza.