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next elections would be legitimate. the most immediate concern for the white house this morning is clearly ukraine. and the president s comments come at a tipping point in that region as russia nearly completes its buildup of forces along the ukrainian border, an invasion biden suggests is all but inevitable. russia will be held accountable if it invades. it s one thing if it is a minor incursion and we end up having to fight about what to do or not do, et cetera. but if they actually do with their what they re capable of doing with force amassed on the border, it will be a force for russia. my guess is he will move in. he thats to do something. less than an hour later, the white house trying to clean up the remarks saying in a statement, president biden has been clear with the russian president. if any russian military forces move across the ukrainian border, that s a renewed invasion, and it will be met with a swift, severe, and united response from the united s ....
from his delivery to demeanor to stunning statements, the president now drawing criticism at home and abroad for drawing on comments on security and the future of his domestic agenda and worries overseas. his chief comments, what the west might be willing to allow russia to get away with. russia will be held accountable if it invades. it depends on what it does. it s one thing if it s a minor incursion and we end up having to fight about what to do and not do, et cetera. i m not so certain what he s going to do. my guess is he will move in. he has to do something. as this administration, have you determined whether president putin plans to invade or move into ukraine as you said? look. the only thing i m confident of is that decision is totally, solely, completely a putin decision. the president moments ago on damage control, clearly trying to clean that up at a white house photo op. i ve been absolutely clear with president putin. he has no misunderstanding i ....
country s covid exhaustion. many democrats worry the biden white house is not up to the midterm year political challenge. they say the trumps have inflated his assets to $100 million. now he wants his children to explain the fuzzy math under oath. there are difficult days ahead. russia just sent troops to its borders. the worry is an invasion is next. to we begin this hour with president biden. the president is holding a rare news conference in just a few hours. he will begin his take on his first year s performance and the most pressing challenges as we turn the page now to year two, and then the questions. his leadership will be a focus of many. whether the issue is another covid winter, the stalled agenda or the ukraine. dan balz at the washington post and kaitlan collins, cnn. he walks into a room and assesses, how does he grade his first year, kaitlan? his aides have talked about this privately. i think he comes kind of with a sense of humility recognizin ....
house. in three dozen exclusive interviews with cnn, top democrats say the white house political operation is unprepared and unresponsive even to basic requests for help. cnn s jeff zeleny is at the white house. so jeff, what are we expecting to hear from the president in an hour? well, alisyn, and victor, president biden obviously knows well the challenges before him. he s watching this unfold in realtime with the voting rights legislation he has been pushing for made a priority is likely to fail this evening, hours after his press conference. that is sort of a sign of the limits of presidential power. but he also has been in this town long enough to see that things go up and they go down at the white house. at this moment, he believes this is a moment for a reset, to reset the just the very fact that he has command of all the challenges going on. talking to a white house official just a short time ago, this is how they framed what the president plans to do at the ....
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. it s already three days since the major eruption of an underwater volcano in tonga, and still, there is a very worrying lack of information about the scale of the damage done across the many tongan islands or the whereabouts and well being of many of the islanders. we have some pictures. these very limitied pictures have just been sent to us. they are from one of the surveillance flights sent by australia and new zealand to assess the damage. the eruption itself appears to have taken out the one main underwater communications cable and there are suggestions that could take weeks to restore. tonga has a population of around 100,000. the red cross estimates that about 80% of them may have been affected. 0ur correspondent rupert wingfield hayes has the latest. these pictures of the hunga tonga hunga ha apai volcano erupting are from last friday. this is just a foretaste of what was to come a day later an erup ....