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The news continues right here on cnn well, welcome to all you watching us here in the United States, canada, and all around the world. Im kim brunhuber. This is cnn newsroom dont wasnt biden, won in rainy and attack on israel could be the eminence want a live report on what it means for regional escalation plus this ban here in arizona is one of the biggest after shocks. Yet Vice President Kamala Harris in arizona ripping into donald trump over abortion rights, will look at how the former presid...

Iran. russia doesnt buy that, the missile interceptors are the same launch system, the mark of one launchers on guided missile cruisers, what else are they fire? tomahawk cruise missiles. thats one reason why vladimir putin thinks the west in the united states have violated the imf treaty, the treaty that president reagans side with russia back in 1987, the soviet union then and of course president trump got out of it. speaking of weapons systems, some analysts say lets go back to the late 70s, ...

The united states could have explored additional sanctions. i would have been an advocate of exploring direct dialogue with russia specifically over this issue simply because of the importance of the treaty. you have to remember, this is a treaty that got rid of all the ss 20 missiles in europe in the 1980s and one that between the united states and russia at least still had the appearance of preventing some slowing down of the proliferation of additional missile technology. >> susan, you mentio...

Reagan. the inf treaty was signed more than 30 years ago, a mayor achievement in arms control. after world war ii, they raced to advance missile designs that outproduced each other. now in the mid 1970s, the sow y -- soviets unveiled the ss 20. it could hit targets to northern alaska. they were pursuing arms control negotiations while deploying their own missiles in western europe. talks continued through the decade until the treaty was signed in 1987. it bound the united states and the soviet u...

Pattern he likes to trash every president before him instead of building on what other presidents have done, the real message and the real benefit of the treaty will outlast whatever trump does with it. >> im almost out of time, but i want to throw this out there, this idea that the treaty may not have been effective anymore. the u.s. has acknowledged for years russia wasnt abiding by the treaty. then theres the concern of the chinese developing these missiles that the u.s. couldnt necessarily f...