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Pacific. Im Ana Cabrera reporting from New York. Thank you for joining us. Right to the breaking news at the United Nations this morning, President Biden is about to address the general assembly for the final time as this Countrys Commander in chief. His address comes amid global turmoil with War still raging in ukraine. And conflict escalating in the Middle East. Israel ratcheting up its attacks against hezbollah over the last few days, killing more than 500 in a series of deadly Air Strikes wi...

state university as police are still trying to piece together the gunmans motive. this hour, ill ask the michigan attorney general about the many unanswered questions in this investigation. also today, former vice president mike pence is speaking out for the first time about his plans to fight a new subpoena from the u.s. justice department. hes arguing that his effort to avoid testifying in the special counsel probe of donald trump is about the separation of powers. republican nik...

spree and to meet with leaders in the asian american community, as well. >> this comes as the president also meets a major goal today, way ahead of schedule. 100 million covid vaccinations in his first 100 days in office. that is 42 days early. also today, the cdc is expected to announce new social distancing guidelines for children in schools. but as more states begin to ease restrictions, experts are warning of a potential psspike cases. several states are seeing an uptick as officia...

More americans are fighting just to hold on to what weve got because if incomes are growing, its not as fast as the cost of Prescription Drugs and saving for retirement, housing and education. And thats when the numbers on a page are looking good. Now that were starting to see a downturn coming out of the manufacturing sector, it just demonstrates how out of touch the president is and how destructive his policies have been. Hes managed to hang on, tack on an extra couple years to the obama recov...

The foreign policy space, which a lot of governors dont attain prior to running for president of the united states. however, i couldnt help but think to myself, the main reason why republicans have lost seven of the eight past popular vote counts is due to the fact that there is so many of the policies that they push forward, especially in the area of economics, are not popular with the american people. i have seen nothing today to differentiate her, to chart a new path forward in that regard. u...

Right, i was on capitol hill this afternoon for a small briefing with the house speaker and also the senate majority leader, chuck schumer. and they both made extremely clear that a no-fly zone over ukraine, which is what president zelenskyy is asking for, is not going to happen. and she put it in really stark terms, jake. she said the no-fly zone is a third world war. and its really unfortunate. >> and nobody has been more clear about that than president biden himself, who has been crystal clea...

Republican party. it seemed yesterday that the congressional version of the republican party was trying to work its way into rationalizing, well, its his call. if we can get him to sanction turkey, lets rally around him on sanctioning turkey. and they were getting comfortable and then -- and then trump said just as theyre coming closer, he says, uh-uh. no. no. no. im going to make it even harder. >> yeah. yeah. >> so what do they do? i think the only way to make him change his mind is hes got to...

>> well, because the latter is more political, the former is not. i mean, the former is the foreign policy space. they know more about that, number one. number two, they believe the american public does not, certainly the core base doesnt track that kind of information and news to the same degree. its not like theyre uninterested but its not to the same degree where theyre passionately pushing that in polling and things like that where it shows up, you know, how you deal with syria is important....

To do that. i think what youre seeing here is that the president is taking leverage in the foreign policy space and using it to his own political ends. and if the president is permitted to do this, if hes permitted to put the lives of the ukrainians on the line, permitted to allow russia to go unchecked in its efforts to come into ukraine and all in the service of his political ambitions, then weve lost the sense of who we are as a nation and we really are about one man and thats the whole found...

>> so usually, brianna, what you have, and this has been true across many, many administrations, you would have multiple people also present in that meeting in addition to interpreters from both sides, from both countries. you would normally have the national security adviser, the secretary of state, the seniormost expert at the national security council who is expert on the topic at hand, in this case russia and vladimir putin. and, indeed, president trump has a noted expert working on the nati...