leading up to today s news conference. take a listen. president biden: now we ll get down to business here and who i turn it over to. thank you very much, mr. president. i think it s time for our friends in the press to leave, though. thank you. [reporters shouting out questions] thank you very much. look being forward to the press conference tomorrow. kayleigh mcenany has a little experience dealing with this kind of thing and the perfect guest to join us today. we ll talk to her in a moment. but first white house correspondent peter doocy is live with the top story this hour. how are you feeling, peter? you heard the president, what press conference? it will be the first time in months that the full press corps has had an opportunity to ask the president questions. the last time this happened was in wilmington where he was standing still at a microphone. the press office has defended access to biden saying he has answered questions more than 40 times. almost eve
covid-19 vaccine. congratulations on that, sir. this, i think is what a lot of us are tracking. these variants and wonder how worried we should be about them and if this could tllead to another surge. what do you think? i think americans watching these mutations in the covid-19 virus, which we were expecting in the health care field, pretty much all variants you likely see will likely end up in this country. what is clear about these, it makes the virus much more transmissible. in other words, you can get it a lot easier than you could before. that s why vaccination remains the number one thing for americans to try to get and number two, social distancing and mask wearing, those types of things we ve been doing become even more important going forward. officials say when did we detect this? early january, they say. to be honest, south carolina, i m in washington, d.c. not far from there and immediately thought, i wonder if it s already here? do you think that it s actuall
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ukraine s border. president biden has warned of serious consequences should russia s vladimir putin move ahead with invasion. the kremlin sees nato support for ukraine as a growing threat on russia s western flank. that s right. blinken and lavrov s meeting, it s an effort to avoid having this clash of wills end in blood shed in ukraine, damage u.s. credibility, and, you know, unpredictable side effects like a potentially huge spike in energy prices. a lot at stake. covering the talks as only cnn can, cnn s fred lick plotkin is in geneva. nic robertson is in moscow for us. let s start with you, fretd. w fred. what message is the secretary of state bringing to the counterpart? reporter: they rolled past where i am a couple minutes ago. the secretary of state is going to have a strong message if russia decides to further invade ukraine, if there is an armed incursion into ukrainian territory, there will be a severe response not just from the united states, but from the u.s.