President biden will be addressing the nation from the oval office in prime time. The most powerful person in the world. Egypts president will allow 20 trucks through the crossing. Its in your own interest to allow this humanitarian aid. He has very little resources right now. I just worry for them. We might be the next people were going to be killed. The u. S. Government now assesses that israel was not responsible for the explosion. These are calm days. You have seen the protests in the region. After 9 11, we sought justice and got justice, but we also made mistakes. We have to make sure we destroy hamas so they cannot ever threaten us again. Phil mattingly with poppy harlow in new york. Erin burnett is in tel aviv, iz ale. Arkalette saenz is at the white house. And sam kiley is in london. This morning President Biden is back in washington and getting ready to give a prime time address to the nation after returning from the war zone in israel. Were expect ing it to make a major push
here is the thing, we can t tell, that s why we ask these questions and why we expect answers that are true. but that data point about how much damage was done by the missile strike last week, that is a lust that we re getting in the guardian newspaper today, spencer who is a great reporter took on the untask of trying to figure out what exactly the administration s policy is on syria right now. confused by donald trump s policy on syria? that just means you ve been listening to what his administration has been saying in the last few days. for the record, spencer identifies five different syria policies in less than two weeks. over the course of two weeks we ve gone from the policy being that assad can stay. to assad must go to it being the only shoous is chemical weapons. then being the united states will attack isis first and then
administration s policy is on syria right now. confused by donald trump s policy on syria? that just means you ve been listening to what his administration has been saying in the last few days. for the record, spencer identifies five different syria policies in less than two weeks. over the course of two weeks we ve gone from the policy being that assad can stay. to assad must go to it being the only shoous is chemical weapons. then being the united states will attack isis first and then assad can stay or go, depending on whether russia agrees, to then, the u.s. will respond militarily, not just militarily, but it will respond also to barrow bonds, which are conventional weapons, which the syrian military uses every day. so that was five different policies in less than two weeks and after that, today they walked back, so apparently we re on to policy number six.
congressman arthur davis says he s voting for mitt romney this time around. he s going to tell us why. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. the cold war is long over, but a chill has settled in in the relations right now. the key shoous, moscow s support in the regime for syria. it may help fuel a brutal crackdown. president obama is addressing that issue headon at the g-20 summit in mexico. dan lothian is joining us right now. dan, what s the latest on this tension between the u.s. and russia? the two leaders met for about two hours. president obama saying the meeting was candid and thorough. i have to tell you, you take a look at the body language, and it gives you a sense of what the meeting was like. they did not sit close together. president obama was leaning towards president putin. president putin was leaning away. you didn t see any smiles at the end of the remarks. they had a quick handshake. sort of half a smile. president obama patting him briefly on