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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. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." let's 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 unprofessional. cnn pentagon correspondent oren lieberman is joining us. how did this up fold and how ar...

Other assets in, manned aircraft and so forth. so i would say it's important. look, we've been able to manage the conflict, support the ukrainians, avoid escalation, and hopefully wear out putin's forces without direct confro confrontation. we've done it because we have superior intelligence. so this drone is part of that intelligence superiority. as evalyn said, we don't want to be deterred from putting other drones and other assets into the region. it's really important. >> you know, this mq-9 reaper drone, it's not a small little aircraft. it's pretty large. almost as big as a regular warpl...

Won the war. senator rubio, what is your take? >> my take is when you deal with someone like vladimir putin it's a balancing act. there are things that responsible leaders have to do avoid escalation. nobody wants them to use nuclear weapons. but sometimes it's encouraging putin to do wrong. i think the president is getting that wrong. he's 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 factor. now our focus should be on doing everything we can to help ukraine defeat russ. putin needs to...