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Coventry direct redefining insurance im dr. Sanjay gupta in atlanta. And this is cnn us this afternoon on Cnn News central. Im boris sanchez, live in the Nations Capital alongside Alison Camerota grateful to have you, brianna keilar, obviously has the day off and we begin here in washington, dc, where just moments ago, President Biden made a Surprise Visit during the White House Press Briefing. His first time ever taking questions there as president and he took quite a few. He seemed to relish his exchanges with a report. Yeah, they got to drag him out of there. The president spoke about every...

Fight with his countrymen. earlier today with increasing danger, a the massive russian personnel approaching the capital. the president was asked once again about the ukrainian leader . >> mister president, how worrie are you about president zelenskyy. you think you should stay and the ukraine? >> i think it is his judgment t make and we're doing anything w can. >> when asked about russia targeting civilian areas, mr. biden replied it is clear that they are, but one also asked whether russia was committing war crimes he said it was still too soon to make a determination . all those comments co...

Union interests or those who served us. >> gretchen: the workers doing union jobs that include nurses, accidental lab, security guards. so give us a sense what official time is versus actually working for the v.a. >> my understanding is that you're not doing your day job at v.a. sometimes at another location and it is advocacy on behalf of the union, union interests, employees. it might be related to your job, but not specifically as a nurse. the ironic part is 85 of those on official time is nurses, yet the v.a. is trying to fill jobs for nurses. without shining the light of this on things li...

Christie, a guy that's conservative fiscally. he's balancing the budgets. he's spending less this year in his '13 budget than the democrats spent in their '08 budget. he's taken on entrenched union interests in jersey where they're the most powerful, and he's won. he's taken on democrats in the senate. he's won. the guy's taken on the teachers unions that wanted to stand in the way of reform. he's won. i understand you disagree with him on what he said on the sandy bill, but is this one issue really what's disqualifying him? because i had heard also, there were people that had concerns about h...

Performance. >>neil: how were they treated at school? >>guest: surprisingly very well. a great example, the overwhelming majority of teachers in our state are good. >>neil: not picked on? >>guest: my kids were targeted by protesters with thousands of people bused in outside of our community, but at school with friends and teachers and principal, though have been excellence. >>neil: what do you think of the outside critics, with the outside billionaires and investors, and the other side has plenty of union interests comeing from the service workers and the teachers and on and on and a small fra...