Avoid Escalation News Today

narrowly leading ron desantis ahead of the 2024 primary showdown. the early race heating up right now, as trump escalates his attacks on desantis and other potential opponents. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." lets get right to the very dramatic developments over the black sea today. a russian fighter jet forcing down a u.s. drone during an incident the u.s. air force is calling reckless and unprofe...

Other assets in, manned aircraft and so forth. so i would say its important. look, weve been able to manage the conflict, support the ukrainians, avoid escalation, and hopefully wear out putins forces without direct confro confrontation. weve done it because we have superior intelligence. so this drone is part of that intelligence superiority. as evalyn said, we dont want to be deterred from putting other drones and other assets into the region. its really important. >> you know, this mq-9 reape...

Won the war. senator rubio, what is your take? >> my take is when you deal with someone like vladimir putin its a balancing act. there are things that responsible leaders have to do avoid escalation. nobody wants them to use nuclear weapons. but sometimes its encouraging putin to do wrong. i think the president is getting that wrong. hes been dragged by members of his own party in congress to positions with regards to ukraine. i think that existed before the invasion. it was a contributing facto...