psaki said biden hasn t spoken to zelensky, but there have been high-level communications between the two countries and leaders and she has made clear, the president has made clear his point that crossing will get a full-scale retaliation. there have been a few acts of cleanup after that long press conference yesterday. zjeff zeleny, thank you. antony blinken will meet with the russian foreign ministry in geneva tomorrow. fred flight kin joins us now. fred, talk us through the break to the president s remarks yesterday. reporter: yeah. a lot of international confusion about those remarks. you could really see secretary of state blinken was doing diplomatic leg work meeting in berlin where he met with the foreign ministers of france and the united kingdom as well.
and it will likely be a big advantage for him in an era where many democratic candidates said they won t take corporate donations or support from super pacs. sanders consistently polls in the top five of the democratic field. can he leverage the recognition into results? republicans seizing on sanders pushing the democratic party left. a spokesman for the rnc saying the vast majority of voters oppose his radical agenda like they ll oppose all the 2020 democrats who rushed to embrace it. stand by, ryan. joining us, zjeff zeleny, chris cillizza and nia malika henderson. i want to start with you. the interview is a double-edged sword. bernie sanders is bragging about the fact that he moved the democratic party on major issues
traumatizing. our zjeff zeleny asked straight up, is this child abuse? how could this not be child abuse, for the people who are taken from their parents? not the ones who are sent here with their parents blessing with the smugglers, the people who are taken from their parents? unfortunately, i m not in any position to deal with, you know, hearsay stories. if someone has a specific allegation, as i always do when i testify, i ask that they provide that information to the department of homeland security. we will look into it. of course we do not want any situation where a child is not completely adequately taken care of. again, not in any position to deal with hearsay. even if she couldn t answer some of the simple questions that the trump administration knew would come at this briefing, could nielsen admit that the president could be using this issue as leverage in his immigration fight? madam secretary, can you definitively say, are athe children being used as pawns for a bor