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The latest news from around the world with host Fredricka Whitfield. Passed. A little better prioritization of spending. I certainly dont like playing shutdown politics. And how damaging would that be for republicans ahead of the november races . I dont think it would be helpful, so lets try and avoid it. Reporter now, fred, sources close to so mume of my cnn colleagues on capitol hill have heard from people close to the republican leadership. House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell had a meeting with President Trump earlier this week telling him that Appropriation B...

Within a few weeks destroy every russian armored column in the whole of ukraine. in other words, the essentially destroy all russian troop formations. the ukrainians would then have essentially won the war. they would walk in, reoccupy their territories. general petraeus talked about sinking every ship in the back sea. this is quite doable for the american military. they own the skies. they know how to do this thing. this is like gulf war one. and i think something like that would be both a sufficient deterrent, and i know something like this has been communicated to the russians. i don't know...

Needs to win on the battlefield and that's where we can help the ukrainians the most. >> since we have been speaking you have been saying, listen, this is how biden -- you said a warning shot. i don't want to misquote you. if you use a nuclear tactical weapon we will have to respond. so what happens if russia does use or putin uses a nuclear tactical weapon? how do you think the u.s. should respond then? >> i think the most sensible thing it do, and i think this is what my understanding is, is being thought about, is that the united states should not respond to a nuclear weapon by putin, even ...

They discuss this. they don't appreciate the saber wet rattling. they warned against it. but they make clearly have not seen signs that we are moving closer to a nuclear element. that hasn't changed. i've talked to officials tonight, they say there has been no sign that putin is moving towards nuclear weapons, no new signal over the last 24 hours that he has decided to use nuclear weapons, and the u.s. has not changed its posture when it comes to nuclear weapons. that's an important note here. when the president was getting at that is something that u.s. officials have tried to grapple with si...

That puts them into a strong negotiating position, at which point putin has to decide, he can do one of two things. he can say, right, we've liberated this area, we're not giving it back, but we're prepared to negotiate and stop fighting, etc. that's a problem for ukraine and the west, because ukraine is not going to give up that territory. it may possibly give up crimea. it's lost it, really. it's lost, but they may give up the hope of trying to regain it is what i'm saying. but it's a problem for nato, because if russia then incorporates those territories into its own territory, then nato, i...