i think that the president, as we saw with his confidence about democracy, he goes out of his way to underscore the stakes when he thinks the stakes are indeed high enough, and wants to punch through the noise on that. all right. the president due to speak in a few moments. thank you both for joining us tonight. thanks. we have this programming note. erin burnett outfront will have live kompbl of the president s speech at 7:00 p.m. coming up, a top adviser to president volodymyr zelenskyy says the gates of war have opened inside russia. how vladamir putin is responding to the attacks on the border. she picks only the perks she wants and saves on every one!! all with an incredible new iphonene. get iphone 14 pro on us when you switch. it s your verizizon. hi, i m michael, i ve lost 70 pounds on golo. i spent thousands on other diets that didn t work. on golo, i spent a coup hundred bucks
we are following a series of attacks on russian soil. territories near the border with ukraine hammered again by shelling as a top adviser to ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy says that the gatgatef war have opened inside of russia. fred pleitgen is in dooekyiv win update. how is vladamir putin responding to all this? reporter: he appears to be increasingly concerned about all this. one of the things we have seen over the past year is that the russians have felt pretty invincible on their home territory. well, today, vladamir putin striking a decidedly different note. let s listen in. translator: today, we will also address these issues in relation to assuring russia s security. in this case, domestic political security -ing the efforts of our foes to destabilize the
belgo belgorod. and we re hearing increasing anger from other russian officials. i think this sort of shows that there is a new strategy here perhaps from ukraine even though they haven t claimed responsibility for these attacks, but it does seem to be fitting a new pattern and it really sets up a challenge as we see the nato members meeting and how much unity are they willing to project for ukraine. and the secretary-general was asked whether these recent attacks including the drone attacks on moscow shift his stance in some way. take a listen. we have taken the same position as we have at the beginning of the war and that is that ukraine has the right to defend itself. war aggression against putin and moscow. not explicit green light for cross border attacks, but i
again, because there would be a purpose. intelligence community would have to figure out how do you extract someone whose lives is at risk or how do you protect this information. fascinating. beth, thanks so much for all that context. sources tell cnn former vice president mike pence will launch his 2024 presidential campaign next wednesday june 7, the announcement with a video and speech in iowa is set ahead of a cnn town hall with pence later that evening at an iowa college. his presidential bid will pit him against his former boss, the overwhelming early frontrunner in the republican primary race. multiple sources tell cnn former new jersey governor chris christie plans to announce his candidacy next tuesday at a town hall in new hampshire. he also ran in 2016 and has been an outspoken critic of former president trump. a new front opening in moscow s war in ukraine with cross border attacks bringing
black sea so close to where the war is actually happening. the governor in that region really the epicenter of the sort of cross border attacks that we ve seen, we know it was a staging ground initially for the invasion and continues to have military importance to russia. the governor called it a massive strike. eight apartment buildings, a school, a couple other buildings damaged, four people injured, a couple hospitalized. and also in luhansk this morning pro-russian officials saying that five people were killed and 19 injured in a strike using himars. and so seems big picture that ukraine has obviously is building up to this counteroffensive, they know when it will start and in the leadup to that, there are signs that they are becoming bolder and that more of the sort of shaping softening operations seem to be happening. pro ukrainian russian fighters who oppose putin that we ve been hearing about more in