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Group of Seven nations moved forward plans to limit President Vladimir Putin’s energy revenue by curbing oil and gas prices.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo arrived in Ukraine to meet President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Widodo, who will host this year’s Group of 20 summit, is due to visit Russia Thursday.

>> translator: i think we have to use any format, any chance in order to have a possibility of negotiating, a possibility of talking to putin, but if these attempts fail that would mean that this is a third world war. >> reporter: alex marquardt, cnn at the state department. a lateup date on the mall strike. released drone video purporting to show ukrainian forces using the shopping center to hide rocket launchers and showing systems used in a nearby open space to fire presumably at russian ai...

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War with the united states over this. particularly given that our goal here is to make sure the chemical weapons are not used on children. >> we are lucky to have three star admiral and congressman joe sestak with us today. as a former congressman, right out of the gates, if you were in congress today, how would you be preparing to vote on an authorization of force? >> i would support the president. i think the president was fairly inartful in how he drew the red line, that if the syrian governm...

For most -- >> let me just stop. thats what you say when you think people are stupid and the public -- the public is not stupid. we get complicated. we get nuanced and people voted two times for a president who is nuanced. but he has been down right contradictory. >> michael, we know there has been a messaging people and the american people are not stupid which is why were seeing numbers in the polls today. this is going to be a challenge for the president tonight. what can he say to change publ...

Considering it is because of a threat of an american strike. >> it is only because of the threat of force that we are discussing today and that threat is more compelling if congress stands with the commander in chief. >> the president believes we need to keep this threat, this reality absolutely on the table. >> with the white house still pursuing authorization for the use of force to keep the pressure on, congress is scrambling to draft an alternative after the senate delayed tomorrows key vote...

Limited in time and scope. i think that the stat tour, when a president said and the way we went about this will have some impact. i hope its demin mus but its not going to be the most artful way to have gone about it for leadership of the world. >> admiral, do the military folks youre in contact with think this strike as currently planned is a good idea? >> i havent spoken to anyone about how it is planned in terms of what the targets are. but you know, its going to be pretty obvious what the t...

Vote, probably next week. it sounds like they are trying to come up with a resolution since the negotiations have been going on between the united states and russia and syria. so that it would create some sort of a system to endorse that for the senate. from what i understand in the house, it seems unlikely they would actually bring up some ig to vote on at this point. >> john, the majority of americans are zbens a strike and feel the situation has been mishandle d which is why yesterday with th...

Over and over again this is not a real thing. this is very -- were skeptical of this, no meat to this, what the russians are saying, playing a game here. then towards the end of the day, that language began to shift towards, well, the president did talk about this last year at the g-20 with mr. putin. so i think -- you have to look at putins sort of ability to game out american politics and give him credit for that at least. >> okay, so putin at the moment when were about to say, congress is say...