kaitlin collins first to you. this was a combative speech and not at all subtle. >> a very political speech. i think with the exception of the speech that he gave on the anniversary of january 6th at the capitol, this might be the most political, most forceful speech in that sense that he has given since taking office. it's a bit of a surprise, because we had spoken to white house officials earlier. we asked, he is someone who strayed from naming trump very many times during his first year in office. he often stayed away from that. so as a white house reporter to hear him come out so quickly and name drop him so fast and talk about basically the brand of extremism that he thinks trump has founded within the republican party and clearly he thinks is thriving not in the sense that he wants it to, he came out very quickly and said trump and said maga time and time again. it was a very political attack against those republicans. he tried very hard to draw a distinction between republicans and republicans who style the

cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlin collins is at the united nations and ben wedeman is in kharkivaine. kaitlin, putin raised the stakes. does the white house believe the president's message lived up to the moment? >> reporter: well, they kind of already had this idea of giving that speech, that forceful condemnation as you noted of russia's invasion of ukraine with president biden saying they're violating the core tenet of the united nations charter. they have invaded their neighbor and trying to wipe the ukrainian population off the map. he said that rebukes and goes against everything that this body that is gathered here today stands for. so it was kind of already going in that direction. i think those comments from president putin in that rare address a few hours earlier didn't dramatically change the speech because the white house was aware putin could be making this announcement about maureen forcements. but they tweaked certain parts with secretary blinken and jake sullivan. but it was a very forceful condemnation from president biden saying this is not what russia can do an

cnn's kaitlin collins is at the white house and joins us now with more.tle bit about how president biden has been honoring the queen. >> reporter: one mark of respect has been lowering the flags here at the white house to half staff as they did earlier today, not just here but in all federal buildings. that's something they're going to do until her burial. that is something that came right before he went to the british embassy where as he was signing that condolence book, he had brought this card with him. it's a card you see president biden carrying that has his talking points or short remarks that he was making. he was copying from it in the book this private message. we don't know exactly what he said, but we do know that president biden first met the queen back in then 1982 when hea senator from delaware and went on a congressional trip to england. he last saw her last year when the world summit of global leaders wars hosted there and the queen hosted a private tea for president biden and jill biden. they talked about putin at that meeting. they also

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