um uh, speaking of the newer i was the one that mentioned that george and john john kirby's folks, him for the national security council. he said, rather bizarrely, but i'm going to quote him. russian officials seem to be pretty goodman, newer salesman. i mean, why the victory? all i mean, you know, it fresh, the russians were the victims here. okay. i mean, i, you know, you, you're the 1st one, the 1st one here to use the word victory lapse is this warrant of victory lap. i think most people, when you hear the story, there's sympathy that civilians died. i don't think, you know, you can, you can create your own narrative, you know, make, they deserve it type, you know, and we hear that all the time from neil cons. but i mean, after this, this rate to be cut out to be deemed of victory left, but it certainly doesn't. and those who say the russians when the victims don't, will victims. and what exactly is the united states congratulating itself will came up? well, i think you and i figured it out there were simultaneously congratulating themselves in creating an alibi. it's kind of tied

increase the level, is not meeting the need. john kirb , the level, is not meeting the need. john kirby, the national— level, is not meeting the need. johnt which is going tojoin aid drops into gaza, so far it is only been thejordanian military doing it, but she has been talking about logistics and opening the maritime corridor for aid talking about logistics and opening the maritime corridorfor aid into gaza as well stop he said among the first deliveries of aid will be food, and he was being questioned there as you heard by some of the reporters in the room about the logistics of how all of this will work. much more to come on that, on the context with christine fraser, he will be here, but first let's get the weather. hello there. february in england and wales was the mildest on record, but the first day of march has brought something quite chilly. a lot of showers, too, for england and wales. and in norfolk, we had some hail in those showers as well. and again, we've seen a bit more snow over some of the higher hills — here in derbyshire, a very slushy mix earlier on today. we've got cold air in place right the way across the uk. we'

white house spokesweman john kirby offered the -- spokesman john kirby offered the following explanation into the president's thinking. >> that's up for the israeli people to decide. but the president spoke about the passion with which leader schumer made that speech, and those remarks rz nate with many americans out there. >> reporter: president biden has ordered a thousand the american soldiers off the coast of gaza to build a temporary pier, soldiers that sail from the united states a few days ago, they're now crossing the atlantic. president biden also says he does not favor the israelis carrying out an operation to southern gaza saw into the city of rafah. israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, says that's where hamas' four battalions are, and he wants to finish what hamas started on octoberth and kill its leaders. -- 7th and kill its leaders. jeff e jeff lucas tomlinson at the white house, thank you. griff: let's bring in member of the house homeland security agree. congressman, i want to just ping. where lucas left off there -- pick up where lucas left off there about this s

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john kirby didn't say it was appropriate. john wouldn't even back up the red line that the president said was drawn in rafah. so, what is it? >> you know what? you got to figure and we were talking to danny danon the ambassador on this program on friday a little bit about how chuck schumer essentially was trying to help joe biden. you know, because, to your point. >> ainsley: bings go. >> steve: nancy pelosi saying what chuck schumer said was an acts of courage. you had adam schiff defending. >> ainsley: all the same talking points now. >> steve: why is that? they need to dig joe biden out of a hole. essentially what they're doing is saying chuck schumer is saying okay, israel, you got wrap it up. you got have a cease-fire. that's what the entire administration is doing behind the scenes. >> ainsley: they were all for israel in the beginning of this, right after october 7th. then they saw a thousand or however many it was uncommitted voters in certain counties, that scared them. and now they realize they have a problem. we're tryi

john kirby showed panic from the event. but now i want us to hear directly, what about yesterday, said john kirby, i... about it on the air yesterday, now let's hear it again to remind those who watched the broadcast yesterday, as well as those who joined today, listen to john kirby in direct speech. idil bears full responsibility for this attack, but the statements coming out of russia remind me of the words of my uncle, who had a small farm and raised a few heads of cattle in the state of florida. he liked to say that the best seller of manure often carries it in his mouth. russian officials seem to be pretty good sellers of manure. they are excellent sellers of dung, carrying that dung in their mouths, and much more from that mouth gets out a large-scale fire broke out the day before local time in the brazilian city of recife, on the atlantic coast of this country. local mass media reported that the fire took place in one of the yet-to-be-completed high-rise buildings. eyewitnesses also reported that pieces of the structure were falling from the upper floors, fortunately, no one was injured as a res

john kirby, the u.s. has not seen any such plan. joining us now is raf sanchez. so i don't know if you saw johndn't try to walk it back. the president praised chuck schumer's speech calling it a good speech, one that represents the views of many americans. and he detailed a litany of disagreements between the white house and netanyahu and said they have not received those plans for rafah. >> reporter: yeah, it is just a long list of friction points between the united states and israel right now. i can tell you in netanyahu's circle, that speech by chuck schumer, the most senior jewish official in the u.s. government, landing like a bombshell. a lot of anger. prime minister netanyahu's right wing party rushing out the statement saying israel is not a banana republic and it will not allow even an ally as close as the united states to interfere in israel's democratic process. we should note chuck schumer's speech came a couple of days after that unclassified u.s. intelligence threat assessment which kind of ventured into political analysis saying that prime minister netanyahu's time at the top of

john kirby, and although blinken condemned the terrorist attack, expressed condolences and even... on march 7, the us and british embassies in moscow warned their citizens to stay away from mass events. johns also leaves many questions. i am not aware of any further information regarding this terrible event. but on march 8, the embassy warned of an impending extremist attack in moscow. yes, yes, i’ll probably let gazdep speak on this matter, but i don’t think what was it. associated with a specific attack. serbian president aleksandar vucic, who has repeatedly denounced the methods of the united states, in particular and nato in general, expressed his opinion this time. this means that their intelligence agencies intercepted certain communications, received information and knew that something would happen. most western experts accepted the french version that an afghan isis cell could be behind the attack. british politician george galloway, in turn, did not rule out the possibility of militants. could act on the attack of western intelligence services. if the biden regime is found to be involved in a mass terrorist killing in moscow, a de facto state of war will arise between the superpo

john kirby. good to see you. here, john. let's start with chuck schumer's speech.t sided with chuck schumer in calling for new leadership in israel. >> well because the president understands that's up to the israeli people. that's up to the israeli government they elect to determine and how if there's going to be new elections, what it would look like. >> martha: senator schumer also understands that. he's just calling for new elections, and you've seen they would like new leadership as well. >> again, that will be up to them to determine. it's a democratic country, and we have to respect their sovereignty. in the meantime, he is the prime minister of israel. they are two leaders that have had a long working relationship. they don't agree on everything. we don't agree on everything with respect of what's going on in gaza, but that's the government that is in place, and that's the government, the war cabinet, that we'll continue to work with. >> martha: the president wants a temporary ceasefire. >> yes. >> martha: a palestinian state, a a two-state solution, and a p

let's bring in john kirby white house national security advisor, john thank you very much. what is your initial reaction to what we are seeing here on the ground? >> it's early to know a lot of detail happening in moscow sewer ability to get very accurate information in these early hours is very limited but we have seen the imagery and it is horrific with these gunmen that they are doing to innocent people at this concert hall. and as you know the state department reissued a warning today reminding americans that are living in moscow to stay away from populated areas and certainly gathering places like concert halls and shopping malls but will try to get as much as we can in the coming hours, obviously our thoughts and prayers to all those innocent people who are affected by this. >> martha: ben hall reminded us moments ago that there was a warning to russia from the united states intelligence services that they should be aware that there could be an incoming terrorist attack and has been reported, and you can be more specific for us, that attacked did not happen as our int

the white house, john kirby, says that the united states of america is not going to send its troops to participate in hostilities in ukraine, he said so. which stated, let's hear what johnirby had to say. from the very beginning , president biden stated very clearly that there would be no american troops fighting on the battlefield within the borders of ukraine. and you know that president zelensky is not asking for this, he is only asking for means and capabilities, he never asked for foreign troops to fight for his country, he and his army will do that, but they need means, and here we have to help them, mr. oleksiy, but our western partners do not want to send military contingents to the territory ukraine, they give us quite... modest aid, they give us military aid, and the united states of america even now cannot decide in what way to give the same military aid, how do you think the defense is going to inflict a strategic defeat on putin, if they don't do anything about it, or they do minimally, you said the key words, extremely modest assistance and extremely... extremely slow and careful measures to limit the influence of the putin regime, and russia in general. s

john kirby, the white house national security council's strategic communications coordinator, says, the biden administration continues to work with. that he approved such a financing package for ukraine. let's hear what john kirby had to say. it wasn't like we weren't looking at other options, but whatever they were, they weren't going to be like additional funding, there's no way around it. replace. as i have said many times, there is no magic source that can do what additional funding can. but are we considering the options? absolutely, we must, given the situation on the battlefield, especially in the east. mr. yevgeny, everyone is talking about the need to help in ukraine. the president of france says that it is necessary, no, no, that it is necessary to cross red lines, that there are no such red lines, olaf scholz says that it is necessary to help ukraine, but does not provide taurus, the united states of america they are talking about the need to restore the financing of ukraine, what is holding them back, why them? for the past three or four months, they have not helped ukraine, but only talked about it. they are restrained on the one hand by the political situation within their countries, on the

from john kirby: we should have told them about this, but about the terrorist attack itself and the fact that the russians are now trying to link ukraine to it, he said the following, let's hear johntly. no one should be surprised that putin and his friends in the kremlin continue to try to find a way to blame this terrorist attack on ukraine, but it has no connection to ukraine. it was an attack carried out by the militants of idil and krakpa. this is just another kremlin propaganda. they are trying to connect it with ukraine in order to come up with some excuse for continuing the violence and abuse they have been perpetrating against the ukrainian people for more than two years. and they do connect, and today information just appeared that both bastrykin and patrushev, in a word, everyone is talking about the fact that there is no evidence yet. no, but during the interrogations, the suspects will confess, and ukraine may be involved, in addition to ukraine, the usa and great britain, in a word, after such torture, everyone will confess. let's move on: the draft law on the allocation of additional financial assistance ukraine, can get the support of the majority, even in the hous

we heard separately from john kirby at the white house couldn't yet speak about what was behind this but they are pretty sure as they believe johnby told our martha maccallum that it's not the ukrainians, the images are horrible to quote kirby just hard to watch. a former chief in moscow joins us. thank you for joining us here. the fact that the u.s. embassy two weeks ago particular referring to mass gatherings and concert halls. what does they know or sense then. >> that warning was issued on march 7th and it advised her 48 hours and typically when we issue these sorts of warnings and could be pretty fragmentary and may not have known exactly the specifics of who is planning a terrorist attack and what sort of attack was planned. the u.s. government will be drilling down on that and i'm sure the russian counterparts even though we don't see i die with rush on hardly anything in that very limited space of the venn diagram. the bilateral relationship. there is still counterterrorism collaboration which is ongoing. >> neil: i was thinking dan, don't know if this occurred in your days of moscow but moscow is no stranger to terroris

john and katie, hearing peter doocy press her initially on this conversation that martha maccallum had with john kirby yesterday afternoon, kirby reassured repeatedly the president is engaged with all border agents, and department of homeland security despite the president only met with the current chief with the visit to the border at brownsville on thursday. but raul ortiz, heading up that position on "60 minutes," she could not say or john not say whether or not the president had ever met with him. the question is how was that possible, katie? >> it's possible because he doesn't really care about the border. the fact joe biden has been to the border twice in his 40 year political history says a lot and if he's not interested in talking to people in charge he's not interested in solving the problem. he's not allowing problems to go with border patrol agents, you have a number of agents say they cannot talk about weighs going on for reprisal of what's going on, the former border patrol chief speaking with martha, he was not allowed to talk about the negatives at the border and elsewhere, but you know, the press secretary was also asked about the death of laken riley and whether president joe biden would discuss this in the state of the union address or elsewhere possibly. and the press secretary responded with harsher terms for republicans than she did for the man who allegedly murdered laken riley, and she was talked abo

john kirvyi is convinced that if the request for additional funding for ukraine is put before congress, he will gather enough of voices but it should have been done a long time ago. john kirby said this in an interview with voice of america journalist mykhailo komadovsky. the official recalled that the pentagon recently found an additional 300 million for weapons for the armed forces, but these funds were only enough for one military package. aid, so the decision of congress is decisive. at this time, i am not aware of any other support packages being developed or moving toward adoption. we will continue to do our best to try to find ways to support ukraine, but so far there is no alternative, and even its current assistance is not even close to enough for ukraine. the only way to support ukraine. now that spring is here, and soon summer will soon be, when the fighting will soon become more intense, it is to approve the request for additional funding that the president has submitted. johnadded that the kremlin's new statements that the united states, britain and ukraine were behind the terrorist attack in moscow are nonsense, and the united states, for its part, warned russia about the threat of an attack. the official stressed that responsibility for the terrorist attack carried by the terrorist organization idol. we provided useful, and we believe, valuable information about what we believe was an imminent terrorist attack, and we also warned americans to... stay away from public places like concert halls. therefore, we were very direct with our russian colleagues, so that they had as much useful information as possible. what they did or did not do with this information, they themselves should say. in turn , the experts interviewed by the voice of america claim the fact that the moscow authorities do not was able to identify the threat, indicates a significant failure in russian national security. in particular, the american colonel says this. rater robert hamilton a

john, last question. >> thanks, karine. john, you made a point throughout the briefing about mentioning that this was a u.s. abstained on. last week's resolution that the u.s. brought forward, was that binding or nonbinding? mr. kirbyck on that. i don't have that answer for you. but i'll take the question, and >> and if it was binding or nonbinding, why would it matter? why would that matter? why is that important in terms of that resolution that the u.s. pu mr. kirby: well, let me get an answer for you and then i'll answer the second one as well. >> okay. and then one additional thing. with the resolution that the u.s. put forward lt forward a wk before or a month before? mr. kirby: because we were working with previous texts fore putting forward to try to get them into a better place. this language doesn't just get cooked up and thrown onto the security council floor in a matter of 30 minutes. it's usually worked over time. and we were working with the authors and other countries to try to get the language into a better pla.e left with no alternative but to veto. in this case, we chose to abstain because it didn't mention anything about hamas. but yet, because it did reflect our policy view that a hostage deal ha

john duffy, former wisconsin congressmen and cohost of "the bottom line" on fox business. great to see you today. this is so disingenuous. i mean, all of it. john kirby is trying to argue that the president was talking with, in contact with a man who says they never met, and they also didn't meet the border czar, kamala harris. >> by the way, i watch the interview lives, and i felt for johnartha there, because there's no good answer. >> harris: well, the truth. but he didn't grab for that. >> because the truth hurts. he had to defend his boss, the president, who hasn't met with border patrol. he met with border patrol when he went to brownsville, texas, where the crisis is not happening at the border, but that's not enough, harris. because it is the number one issue americans care about, you meet with the border patrol and try to strategize on what tools you have to fix the border, but if your policy is to have an orphan to open border and get as many people into the country as possible, you want to sideline the border patrol and make sure that you open the borders and get as many people in as possible. >> harris: it is awful to think the president wasn't talking to the head of the border patrol. that person. just like, for three days, he lost touch with his secretary of defense, who didn't tell anybody he was having a personal hospitalization. a secret one. i mean, thes