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inside pop first today, a battlefield loss abroad triggers a blame game on americans soil. joe biden saying house republicans are responsible for the fall of a critical city in eastern ukraine to a staggering russian advance. also today, pressure on vladimir putin to release alexey navalny's body. so the world can assess what caused his death inside a russian jail. already, the american president saying he has no doubts, putin and his thugs are behind the kremlin critics death. we start our coverage with cnn's arlette saenz, who's at the white house and arlette, we just heard from the president a short time ago. what's he saying this morning? >> well, just president biden once again, expressed disbelief that house republicans have yet to pass additional aid for ukraine. eddy critical time in their battle against russia. this took on heightened significance last week after the death of alexey navalny in a russian president's something

president biden specifically says vladimir putin is responsible for, but this all comes as the president and democrats are trying to use this moment to pressure republicans to pass this additional assistance for ukraine. the president last week, week expressed frustration that the house went on a two-week break and earlier today in an exchange with our colleague mj lee. he said it's shocking that republicans have yet to act. take a listen >> a president would be flawed is on the hand of house republicans. right now >> making a big mistake where they're walking away the way to walking away now in that moment with reporters, the >> president said he's also considering additional sanctions against russia in the wake of navalny's death. but he also didn't a project any

confidence that navalny's death would nudge along those house republicans publicans who are skeptical about aid for ukraine. this all comes as the administration for months now has warned that ukraine would be significantly hampered on the battlefield if they were not to get this additional funding and president biden over the weekend to held a phone call with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy and the white house says that in that phone call, he says specifically cited the withdrawal of ukrainian troops from that key town in ukraine as evidenced that they need this additional systems. the president said that he wasn't fully confident that more towns wouldn't fall a since they are facing these ammunition shortages. but the president, even as he is pushing these republicans to get get on board with this aid, he's running up against the political reality that there is a small group of house republicans who do not want to bring this up for a vote of the president was asked whether he would be willing to meet with house speaker mike johnson. he said he would if johnson would be willing to

talk about anything. but it really remains unclear what this fate of ukrainian hey, will look like, what the house so far, not bringing it up for a vote, even as president biden is consistently pushing for republicans to do so. >> all right, arlette seinz force at the white house. thanks so much for that reporting. also internationally today, anger and disbelief directed toward the united states and republicans in congress who have blocked that new aid to you crane so far, cnn's nick paton walsh is in southern ukraine and nic very few european leaders are really holding back in assigning blame to republican refusal to fund ukraine's war of survival here yeah, absolutely. and at that full of avdiivka has a local commander, at the least speaking today been blamed entirely on the lack of shells, essentially, a lack of that 60 billion that can pay for that ammunition. and also a lack of individuals to have troops. that's a separate issue. ukraine his facing partly financial, but really down to the extraordinary casualties it has slowly been facing and its

desire to slow down mobilizing further parts of its population. but the fall of avdiivka in a mistake, jessica is an exceptionally key moment, not just because it's been fought over for a decade since russia first invaded in 2014. and more ferociously in the past months, yet another town that russia is willing to throw thousands, it seems of troops out and lose them in the fighting. in all to gain something of a minor strategic advantage, i should remind you that president zelenskyy of ukraine said that for every russian or ukrainian that died, seven russians died. but because it possibly in the minds of many ukrainians heralds, the beginning of the difficulties they're going to face because of lack of ammunition, because of that $60 billion being held up in congress, just a side note here. we're in kherson and the lights are off every night, pretty much for the fear of drones and russian shelling that's why it's pretty dark behind me, but that's a stark reminder that it's far away from those political games in washington. it's very much a life and death situation here. and the ukrainians now deeply

concerned about where may fall next, f dv could this weekend so let's get himself in kupiansk further north near kharkiv, trying to shore up troops there. they fear they may be next for resurgent russia, indications in the south near robatina. that's a tiny village that was one of the main games. tiny is it was at the southern counter offensive in the summer. that's under russian pressure to service and villages near bakhmut. the list frankly goes on and it may well be that in the weeks ahead, i'm again speaking to you about the fall of another town hard fought over russia seems to have the wind and itselves at this point when it may be because they've seen how clearly the western aid is just not coming. that's damaging morale, but more importantly, it's practically damaging ukraine on the front lines here, jessica, we're seeing it unfold in real time. all right, thanks so much. nick paton walsh, wars in ukraine. let's bring in our panel on this. we have cnn's mj lee, cnn's jeff zeleny, and cnn's kylie atwood. great to have you all on this presidents de and mj lee, i want to start with

you on the president, we heard you there. are let reporting from the white house your question to the president earlier today about does he have, or do republicans have blood on their hands? with this, with stalling on funding to ukraine. and he stopped short of saying that stopped short of saying that, but did say that it was a big mistake. but house republicans were making by not approving and moving forward with this national security package that would give tens of billions of dollars in additional aid to ukraine. i think the president didn't really sound optimistic at all when i asked him in a second question, do you think navalny's death will end up making a difference essentially am prompting house republicans to take action. he said, i hope so, but he just wasn't sure that anything was going to change and that is just the stubborn reality that the president is grappling with right now. the fact that house speaker johnson and a small group of house republicans are not willing to go there. and obviously, what house speaker johnson is dealing with is his own political future. he knows how tricky it is to bring up

something that doesn't include border security. and that's why we've been stuck in the same place for really let's now and may continue to be struck, stuck. >> i want to listen to >> what senator jd vance said over the weekend and then jeff, i want to ask you about the republican party when it comes to national security, let's listen to that first his death is a tragedy. i don't think that he should have been in prison. i don't think that he should have been killed in prison, and i condemn putin for doing it. here's the problem. >> it doesn't teach us anything >> new about putin i mean, i've never once argued that putin is a kind and friendly person. we don't have to agree with them we don't have to, we can contest him and we often will contest him. >> but >> the fact that he's a bad guy does not mean we can't engage in basic diplomacy so again, jeff releasing a member of the republican party bound playing navalny's death, downplaying the role that vladimir putin might have played within it. and it speaks to a broader schism that we've seen unfold right before our very eyes within the republican

party, which used to be so well-known for national security issues. that was one of the things they were really hang their hat ons democrats had to convince people that they were the ones that could keep america safe for broad are you surprised to see this >> playing out? and do you think this will continue to really be more pervasive within the republican party in the trump era, it's not surprising. i mean, a decade ago absolutely hit surprising in the bush administration would've been surprising. i didn't cover ones before that, but certainly it would have been surprising in the reagan administration. but look, even senator vance, they're downplaying and underscoring and he said much more than donald trump, he is not said anything about that. this was vladimir putin doing this. so i think it is just a remarkable full transition really, it's coming after america's longest wars in iraq and afghanistan, there was dramatic fatigue in that respect, and donald trump tapped into that and it's really kept it going. but it is raising so many questions about what comes next. it's hard to

imagine that this would have happened. even a four or five years even during the obama administration, for example, if some democrats also raised some questions about some of this funding that they would have been excoriated by the republican party. so it just really shows you it is changed the lineup of these parties, but when the president did not say the blood no chance thing, i thought that was so striking to me, it sounded like he still wanted to make a deal. he still wanted to get house republicans on board with this sort of a legislative mindset there. you have to wonder if he thinks that, but i certainly didn't say it, but such a good question, great question and trying to hold out hope maybe that they can still get there. you brought up donald trump and how he fits into all of this. let's read what he said. this is his first mention of navalny and it still doesn't quite directly get it anything. writing on truth, social, the sudden death of alexey navalny has made me more and more aware of what is happening in our country. it is a slow, steady

progression with crooked radical left politicians prosecutors, and judges leading us down a path to destruction. he went on to say, we are a nation in decline a failing nation. >> kiley this is again, the first thing he said about navalny days after the fact how is he trying to use this politically as he runs for another term? >> it's really just bizarre to watch. >> he's making comments about it. he also made a completely unfounded comment that in some way paired him seeing political persecution here in the united states to navalny, seeing political persecution in russia, which is a comparison that has no actual reality to it. but it's also not altogether surprising if we saw the way that trump acted when he was president, he had a relationship with president putin. there were always concerned about that relationship. and so that's really starting to come back to the for now. and i think the

one person that has benefited from this is nikki haley. you see the republicans on the hill kind of contorting themselves in different positions, trying to stay on the side of trump, but also trying to be backers of nato and then you see nikki haley, just really battling it out of the ballpark in such that she's not only saying that trump has to answer if putin is to blame for navalny's death, but also saying trump has to answer if it's okay for putin to be killing his critics. if there's just saying that there's a lot more there. and i think reminding the american public of the challenges that trump has faced when it comes to his relationship with russia. >> you mentioned nikki haley. we're going to talk about her. we're going to take a quick break first. >> let's read golden blue all over donald trump >> hawking $400 heist tops as nikki haley fights for survival in south carolina talk about it next we have since sunday at

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million he's still appears to be leading in the polls by double digits in some polls showing him with a 30 point lead and she's been campaigning almost daily. they're holding multiple events a day. >> now. she is lashing out of the former president saying that america can do better than both president joe biden and former president donald trump. take a listen when it comes down to it. you have a choice. >> do we want more of the same? >> or >> do we want to go in a new direction more of the same as not just joe biden, more of the same as donald trump >> and if >> you look at where we are do we really need to say the best we can do are to 80-year-old candidates. >> because we >> need someone who can serve eight years fully disciplined, no drama, no vendettas, just results and getting work done for the american >> so we talked about donald

trump and his messaging. he was in michigan over the weekend and trying to spin again his legal problems as election interference, but he was also in philadelphia, pennsylvania launching a new money-making being venture. he was launching a new series of a golden sneakers called it never surrender sneakers. now, i do want to be clear here. these at $400 a pair are still exorbitantly expensive. however, we're hearing a lot of comparisons though he's doing this to raise money for his legal bills. he owes over 400 million in fines. that is a lot of pairs of snow seekers that he is going to have to sell if he wants to even chip away at that number, it's something he says he's wanted to do for a long time, but it really goes to show you if donald trump is good at using his name as a brand to make money, but also as we've seen, he is also good at losing money as well. >> that's right. all right. kristen holmes, far as we're going to talk about the sneakers more in just a second. thanks so much. meantime, our excellent reporters are back with me before we get to that kiley, you have been on the trail with nikki haley. we're now just five days away from that primary in her home state of south carolina, so much on

the line for her set the scene for every everyone what you're hearing from your sources we head into this final stretch. >> well, i think one interesting thing to look at from nikki haley is the expectations that she's set for herself in south carolina after new hampshire, she told folks that she needed to do better in south carolina than she did new hampshire. she was 11 points behind trump there. then in weeks following that she was a little bit less committed did to doing that well in south carolina, just saying that she needed to show momentum and then just this morning, she said on fox and friends that she expects it to be close. you express it to be competitive in south carolina. so i think there's probably a reason that she's saying that this morning typically, if you're a candidate, you don't get out there and say you think it's closed unless you're seeing internal polls that suggest that. but really the stakes couldn't be higher for her because if she does lose to him by 30 plus points and that's where she is in most of the recent polls there'll be real questions about the capability for her campaign to have a future beyond this, we continue

on and then we head into super tuesday, of course, which are so many states that are just primed for trump to do really, really well. we've also heard her going even more directly at the former president. let's listen to a few of those clips >> it's amazing to me how weaken the nietzsche is when it comes to putin. i think trump is mentally diminished. donald trump cannot win a general election. how many more times do we? we have to lose before we finally figured out that he's the problem >> so jeff, we started covering this primary where everyone was at very careful to not criticize and that's been a big talking point amongst a lot of people in dc, real alkyne, they just need to go right after him. it'll make a huge difference. is it enough at this point, what she's saying now that she is more going much more directly at him. >> let me we'll find out it truly been a crescendo, starting at as you said, barely anything at all to now, it's pretty loud. but one of the challenges throughout all of this, the loudest voices against more president donald

trump didn't do so well. exhibit a, chris christie, mike pence. we can go on. >> ron desantis in the >> end is, you know, logging so many miles on the road with him. but look, i think she's still has a limited segment of the republican party that's available to her. she's going after moderates and other things. one thing that may be a little bit unusual that south carolina, there's not party registration by party, so they are hoping that there are enough of the new moderates who have moved into the charleston >> area, the sea coast area. there's been a dramatic population shift. it's actually the fastest growing state. the census estimated last year. so a lot of people were not there when she was governor that can sort of work both ways. a lot of people moved down to south carolina during covid, but that's where they're holding out hope for. but the bigger question is, how long does she stay in this race? does she want to be a thorn in his side? a backup plan and insurance policy where the republican party, or perhaps all of the above. right. and just find out this week the resources to do it then you start to look at

her opponent. kristen mentioned the sneakers mj, the golden sneakers, the never surrender in hightops seekers, as he now needs to pay $355 million in that ruling, it really struck struck me though, when kristen was talking about just how he operates his brand, putting his name on things, the shiny gold, all of it just such a contrast to joe biden right? >> and >> yet, so many people are tired of hearing about both of them, frankly, in this two-point race, we have yeah. and i think what you said is totally right, but this is completely on brand for donald trump. the fixation on his own name, seeing his name on something, and also monetize his own name. we don't know yet exactly where the proceeds from the sneaker sales will go, but certainly we do know that his legal bills have been significant and he does need to make up for that. and yeah, that contrast between former president trump and current president joe biden they have

been just so stark and very much on display, no matter what the issue is, we were talking in the last block about the reaction to alexey navalny's death. i mean that in and of itself has been so key in drawing those highlights between the two general election candidates. >> seeing >> their responses like, yeah, it couldn't be more clear that you have a democrat who operates one way and then a republican and really a unique candidate that operates in a totally, totally different way >> and as kylie was saying in the break, who knows how many people be wandering around it? in those sneakers >> how those will play rows of his rallies. i'm sure. well, i'm sure all of those sparkling with them. >> a drink trump vodka there's >> yeah, you can have all started with the hat. >> we also heard from the former attorney general, bill barr who of course, didn't was unsparing in a lot of his criticism about donald trump, especially after january 6, you'll remember in his

testimony to the committee called his fraud lies crazy, amateurish, total nonsense. nonsense, but he also said on the 16th, voting for trump is playing russian roulette with the country voting for bid is outright national suicide. and jeff, it's just further proof that the republican party continues. we see this on the hill in the senate already on the house, but even more than just to continue to rally around the former president knowing everything for sure. >> i mean, the reality is the vast majority of voters will put their jerseys on. and if they vote at all, which is another separate question, but they'll put their jerseys on and vote republican whether they like trump or not. mitch mcconnell is exhibit a of this. i mean, he is someone who obviously has many differences the former president, but during the trump administration, huge strides in terms of appointing conservative justices look at the supreme court. so that's what people sort of see as the greater good about his potential election. but again, i think the bigger point is th of voters right in the middle of what will they do. some will not vote. there's a third party option

that's why this selection is so uncertain. that's right. we talked >> more about that just a little bit. stay with us ahead in new york times columnist says it's time for democrats to thank joe biden for his service and urge him to make graceful exit to party leaders in washington agree >> candidate john edwards cheated on his cancer-stricken wife, had a baby with his girlfriend, and then tried to pass it off as a campaign staffers kid. >> we're here to get your side of the story. did your intimate relationship with him begin that night? yes. how did you end up with a sex tape and john in other words, in real hundred tabloid trash is full alive. >> donner was believed he could outsmart anyone's on the campaign trail. he still running for president. >> what did he think was going to happen? >> because all based on a law united states of scandal with jake tapper, new episodes sunday at nine on cnn

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bind and do the job of president. that's not the question of 2024 campaign, but i think we're seeing is that he is not up for this and my panel is back with me now, jeff, these are i want to say the whispers, but when you talk to democrats, they are some of them are yelling that very loudly. it's not the whispers you hear privately and behind the scenes and yet there doesn't seem to be >> any indication the biden will be stepping aside. >> no. i mean, there they used to be whispers even in the 2020 campaign, which we all covered. i mean, there were whispers then about age and fitness for office. it's a whole different time. i mean, the conversations, it's hard to have a conversation with the top democratic strategist, a lawmaker on capitol hill without part of the conversation being, well, how do you think president biden's doing? >> so? but the reality here is as mj, i'm sure would agree with being at the white house every day. there's a zero of this conversation in the, among the people who matter. i put jill biden the top of that list. a few other advisers. so

this is outside chatter here and they basically say democrats are going to have to sort of suck it up and deal with it. he is going to be the nominee and once there is a choice, they believe people will come around that might be true to a point, but a piece that answer was talking about, he believes it should go to the convention throw it open to the wild and see what happens. because conventions historically are about fighting for the nomination. there was a big discussion among a lot of strategists and democrats over the weekend, how dangerous is that as it more or less than this, i would be stunned if that would happen. but you have to leave open your mind of the possibilities since so many people are talking about yeah. >> i mean, yeah, i'm curious. mj, what you think about i mean, the white house does know what like these stories. >> obviously, you know, i'm particularly because we know that president biden will read a column like this. he takes very seriously what these kinds of pundit say. the journalists that he will have off the records with those tend to be calmness and these kinds of thinkers, i mean, what ezra was saying in his column is that

basically it isn't too late that people can convince president biden to basically accept that he isn't going to be the nominee or move aside and then do the crazy thing of going to the convention and whether it be vice president kamala harris or somebody else. but there is room and talent within the party for somebody else to be the nominee. it is, of course, really late and that would be a wild political scenario. but i do think that is just like the existential question for democrats right now and something that i asked president and i'm biden directly last week, i asked him you yourself, you have said that many other democrats could defeat donald trump. so why do you think it has to be you and we saw him bristle at that question and say saying, you know, that is your opinion. it isn't my opinion that is the fact that we get from many, many polls. can you hold he can and he also said, the answer is that i'm the most qualified person to be president. i think the issue is that there are plenty of democrats who believe other democrats can do the job,

but it is still the quiet part that most democrats are not willing to say out loud. >> and i also think we have discussions it's about the conversations happening in washington, the conversations happening at the white house. i don't cover the white house or the democratic party. i'm covering a republican running for president. i'm covering foreign policy, but i hear conversations all the time from people in multiple different states when it comes to biden and if he is the best pick for the democratic the party to be running right now. and so i think it's important not to pretend that those are conversations that are created by those of us who are covering the white house and covering biden. these are real questions that real americans are actually asking and talking about, right? yeah. >> so to that, and i want to play a clip from abc news charlemagne, the god and what he was saying about joe biden. let's listen >> he's just an honest wiring candidate. like there's nothing about no joe biden that makes you want to listen to him. he

has no main character energy that all the couches voter apathy. and you know, that's, that's where everybody is up with in 2024. and right now right now, it feels like the couch is going when it is it's such an apt way to kind of lay it out pretty starkly, right? you've got the couch and right now the couch is going to win by saying essentially people we'll may just stay home. >> i mean, the burden is on the biden campaign, which the president is well aware of this, of drawing that distinction with donald trump. i mean, we are history does not to provide any modern-day examples and few examples in our history of such a rematch. but i think the question is, are voters going to be as alarm? as turned off by the former president? i was in detroit a couple of weeks ago and talking to a pastor there who he said, look, trump doesn't scare people as much as he used to. people got through it. they'll get through it. so the burden of the president and his campaign is to make that case to voters why this election matters more

than ever before and to draw that distinction, and they have eight-and-a-half months to do it. >> it's like everything almost gets normalized after a period of time, right? they've, they've seen trump, they know trump there. they're not as afraid of him in a way. >> yeah. and to the point about the couch, i think what is really remarkable is that when you talk to democrats and i'm talking about biden's supporters. biden allies, lawmakers who are loyally for president trump prep president biden, excuse me. there's nobody that is saying they are jazzed about the 2024 election. nobody is saying, i'm really excited that this is going to be another biden trump matchup. in fact, it's the total opposite. there's this sense of dread. they don't want to see that rematch anymore. again, i think it's for a number of reasons. there's obviously a lot of nervous energy about president biden. a lot of feelings about former president trump. i also think that there's just a lot of heaviness in the news right now. it is just a fact that people are wary of the war in israel, the war in ukraine all of the headlines that they're

seeing, like there's real fatigue i just think that there's a little bit of a darkness even among people who are loyal supporters of president biden, right? >> and there is just, it seems like such, such a heaviness and begrudging acceptance to this as kind of what is happening quickly before we take our break, i do want to mention michigan, of course, is coming hang up, and i think that will be a good test to see you have somebody like what she did sleep, who is urging democrats to vote uncommitted to really send a message kiley to voters michigan is going to be, of course, a critical battleground state. and it has an interesting makeup of voters that are critical a critical part to biden's coalition. and this is a problem for president biden. i mean, the fact that you have a democrat pushing democrats not to vote for the president in one of these early states gets to the meat of the matter that there is not just one issue for president biden in this campaign right now. and the fact that he's older and people are concerned about but that they're actually policy issues as well. that is really driving folks to have concern about voting for him. and so as

we see in michigan, this movement to vote for uncommitted over biden. i think it crystallizes a challenge for this white house in how they're going to talk about the israel hamas it's war in the next few months heading up to this election. >> yeah, and mj, that has to be something that they >> continue to talk about every day and trying to mold that message and hit the right balance. >> oh, yeah, they're very aware of the issues that the ongoing war in israel has created for the campaign. i mean, you've seen the efforts of the campaign on the white house have been making to try to make sure that they are speaking to and in conversation with with these arab american leaders. but the reality is, these are pretty or could be pretty hardened views at this point right there, young people there are progressives, there are arab american voters in that community that are just really furious at what they're seeing happening in gaza. >> all right, thanks so much. >> you guys up next, >> can the conspiracy theorists with the famous last name hurt biden with one of the democratic party's most important voting blocks.

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it could come down to these handful of states and really small margins that could impact biden really, yeah, for sure. i mean, third candidates are always a factor. they certainly were in 2016, but this is a different magnitude of that because it's a third-party candidate with a famous last name, really the gold plated name, still in democratic politics for the state. so it's been interesting to watch both the dnc and the biden campaign initially ignore him entirely, right? and now really starting to focus on beginning a strategy to really identify him and define him and remind people who may only remember about the environmental activism or the famous name, remind him of others for things he said one of his challenges i think will be on foreign policy actually mean that is a huge factor that's driving a lot of young voters and progressive voters. how he stands on that. but i think we are going to see

negative ads against him trying to define him in such a way to keep his number down because that is a huge challenge for president biden. >> there was a mobile billboard outside of the event yesterday from the dmc. they also released a statement saying that it's outrageous and offensive that robert f. kennedy jr. would claim to be a leader for our community after the damage that he's inflicted. so that was jaime harrison the head of the dnc, saying that he says his black americans suffered disproportionately from covid kennedy jr. pushed harmful misinformation about the lifesaving covid vaccine and even was ranked as one of the top spreaders of false information on social media. so jessica, that kind of telegraphs the argument that we're going to get from democrats in response. >> yeah, and there is polling 13% for rfk junior against joe biden and donald trump. so not an insignificant number. all right, thanks to both the vw group ceo up next new cnn reporting on the republican exited from the house join the conversation. with gayle king

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