natasha bertrand, cnn at the pentagon. >>> the u.s.ederal reserve is expected to raise interest rates today for a second time this year. experts say it's likely to increase by a quarter point. it comes just days after the collapse of first republic bank, the second biggest bank failure in u.s. history. analysts say the collapse was precipitated by the central bank's year-long rate hiking campaign. [ applause ] [ closing bell ] and the expected hike is causing jitters on wall street. u.s. stocks ended sharply lower on tuesday as investors grew fearful the turmoil in the banking sector had not been contained. the dow, nasdaq and s&p 500 were all down and regional bank shares also tumbled. >>> the u.s. house speaker will meet next week with president joe biden, according to a source familiar with the matter. they are set to discuss the looming debt default, which treasury secretary janet yellen says could happen by june 1st. house democrats don't appear to be getting much traction on a long shot procedural move to raise the nation's debt

cnn's natasha bertrand has the latest on this for us. what are you hearing from u.s. natasha? >> yes. we actually just got a statement in from u.s. secretary of state antony blinken about this, john, who said essentially what other u.s. officials said about this incident was that the chinese pilots in this instance were acting very dangerously and this underscores why it is so important for the u.s. to have ongoing military to military communication with the chinese, something that the chinese r rebuffed repeatedly over recent months as recently as this week when secretary of defense lloyd austin, with his chinese counterpart while they are in singapore this week and it was rejected and outright rebuffed by the chinese. the u.s. response to this incident, just the latest incident of provocation, they say by the chinese against a u.s. aircraft that was operating in u.s. airspace is that they will continue to do so. they will not be deterred what they describe as a dangerous intercept because they say they're operating in international airspace. the chinese have a very

we have team coverage with natasha bertrand at the pentagon, and tell us about this announcement that the u.s. is going to support training on the f-16 and what exactly does this mean? >> yeah, john. this is a really significant announcement from the administration, and marks a u-turn from president biden who said a few short months ago who said that ukraine does not need f-16s, but he has told the g7 leaders in japan that he is prepared to join a coalition of countries to train the ukrainians on f-16 that is going to begin in a few weeks and expected to take several months, but this had been up in the air as to whether or not the u.s. would support this. a number of european countries have a supply of f-16s and they have a willingness and desire to send them no ukraine, and they had been pleading for them, but it is not clear if the u.s. has to send them because of the sensitive technology, but not only is the u.s. prepared to allow the allies to export the jets, but they are prepared to join the coalition of the trainers to instruct the pilots on the f-16 jet, and this training is n

natasha bertrand joins us from the pentagon. what is ukraine saying about this intelligence?there a sense its will become definitive? >> yeah. ukraini ukrainian president zelenskyy denied this. they discussed the possibility and kind of speculating that ukrainian special operations forces were thinned attack. now that's not definitive. u.s. intelligence officials only assess with low confidence at this point that any ukrainian group was actually behind this attack. however, they do believe it is highly unlikely that president zelenskyy himself or any other senior ukrainian government officials were either involved in this or even had knowledge of brit it actually happened. now in, importantly, the russians continue to blame the ukrainians. there is still no proof of whether this was perhaps a pro ukrainian group based inside russia that did this or even perhaps a group of russians inside russia who did this. the intelligence community is looking at a number of possibilities here. it is, you know, not the first time we should note that the u.s. has suspected that the ukrainian

let's take you to the pentagon and cnn's natasha bertrand there live.n missile using the u.s. patriot system. what more can you tell us about that? >> yeah, boris. the pentagon did confirm for the first time that ukraine did, in fact, down a russian hypersonic ballistic missile called the kinz hal missile on may 4th using a patriot system, that sophisticated air defense system that both the u.s. and germany have provided to the ukrainians in recent months. this is significant for a number of reasons. first, among them being that ukrainians were able to successfully deploy this very sophisticated system to down a very difficult to intercept russian missile. this is a hypersonic missile that travels at ten times the speed of sound. the russians had boasted in the past that it was a missile that was very difficult to shoot down and intercept, so the fact that the ukrainians were able to do this speaks according to the pentagon, very highly of their ability to use this system effectively. now all of this comes as the pentagon is announcing a new $1 billion

officials tell me and natasha bertrand a patriot air defense system has only minor damage following asian attack outside kyivo tuesday morning. an official tells us they sent inspector to examine the system. i'm told it's still functional. ukraine, we should note only has two patriot missile batteries, so this news is significant going forward. it comes as ukraine is beginning criminal proceedings guess six bloggers for illegally disseminating information about the country's air defense system on social media during that very same attack. sam, i wonder why this tough crackdown. do they believe that the security was compromised by these posts? >> there's no evidence and i don't think they would show any evidence if they thought there had been help given to the targeting capabilities by deliberate or inadvertent use of social media. in other words, two rapid or live reporting onto social media of strikes by missiles or indeed the antimissile missile systems such as patriot. they banned it for some time and it's affected you and our reporting in the past, jim. they are very, very strict

cnn's natasha bertrand is at the pentagon.so many shocking details in retrospect, a whole host. but they knew about this we could know this is exactly what the snipper expect is looking into. two commanders have been temporarily suspended there. he was warned several times in 2022, to stop looking at classified information that really had nothing to do with his activities. and he was actually stuffs notes in his pockets. he was asked whether he was going to shred that document. that's significant, of course, because the notes he took was eventually what he posted online. in october, one month later, he was again in a classified briefing at the air national guard there in massachusetts, asking very detailed and probing questions about classified intelligence that had really nothing to do with his day-to-day job as an i.t. person there. he was given a cease and desist order by his superiors to stop dealing in that type of classified information. in january he was caught again by looking at a classified intelligence system that d

made natasha bertrand has more. >> reporter: secretary of defense approved an additional 1500 troops to the southern border in anticipation of the expiration of the law that allowed the administration to expel migrants more quickly. they are expecting when the law expires on may 11, a surge of migrants will try to trocross t border. so homeland pent bagon asked fo more troops to help manage the expected surge. and importantly these troops are not expected to perform a law enforcement function at the border, meaning they won't be out in the field day to day engaging with my grant, but they are expected to help free up resource so is that that department can then perform it law enforcement function. so essentially they will be doing things like data entry, warehouse support, logistics. things that keep them behind a desk. but the fact that the department of homeland security requested the additional support really underscores just how concern the administration is about a potential major my grant surge on may 11th, the day that that tif title 42 what yolaw is set to e. and they are try

continue the conversation with the bureau chief jill dougherty and national security reporter natasha bertrand. let me just start first. here's a picture of the kremlin complex. this is about the palace. now let's look at this video that's remarkable to see. if you watch closely, you see the flag. you see a drone come into space. then i'm going to stop the video. this building that our viewers are seeing, what is it? how important? >> well, the yellow building beyond the kremlin wall is the senate building. and that is inside the fortress of the kremlin. that also includes the president's residence. we understand that he was not there at the time because he does have many other residences. one is outside of moscow and then he has several in various parts of russia. so again, what you can deduce from that, that video originally was shot by a neighbor that lives on the other side of the river, kind of behind the kremlin. so i think it's very interesting. who was up at that hour at 2:00 a.m. with a video on the kremlin. maybe they do it all the time. maybe not. then it eventually kind of slowly t

. >> we just had a report a few minutes ago from natasha bertrand that talked about how u.s.ukrainian strikes from russians inside russia over the last several days. how comfortable are you, governor, with either the ukrainians or people aligned with the ukrainians taking that fight inside russian borders? >> well, i think you have to look very closely at the intelligence as to what the reality is, and i'm not privy to that intelligence information. we want to be able to support ukraine. we want them to win. we don't want them to go into russia have have counterinvasions. but we want them to protect their sovereignty and sometimes that does involve going after artillery that might be impacting their cities inside of ukraine but it causes them to take the fight over across the line. and so, you have to be careful about that. you don't want an expanded war but we're also not going to let russian threats determine the u.s. military level of support for ukraine. my only criticism of this administration is they've moved too slow. talking about abram tanks or f-16s, let's make a de

cnn's natasha bertrand is live at the pentagon. we've seen the u.s.ly say, you know, we're not going to send tanks. we're not going to send rocket launchers or the air defense missiles only to later lent. quet the question is, is that what is happening here? >> there have been many lines that administration said previously they would not cross that they have now crossed. but right now, we're still seeing a lot of reluctance about it u.s. to signal it would send its own f-16 fighter jets to ukraine. the u.s. has a large stockpile of those. instead, they are telling us, officials are telling us that they will not block european allies who have these supply of f-16 fighter jets from exporting them to ukraine themselves if that is what they want to do. this is really significant because the u.s. has to approve any transfer of these f-16 jets to ukraine or to any third country at all because of sensitive u.s. technology that is in those jets. previously, it was unclear whether the administration would approve the export of the fighter jets. now we're heari

natasha bertrand, tell us more. >> when that title 42 will end, it expires may 11th, the administration is expecting a surge to try to cross the border. in anticipation of that, we are learning they are preparing to send 1500 active duty troops to the border in order to help dhs. this came at the request of the department of homeland security. those 1,500 troops are not going to be performing any kind of law enforcement function. instead, they will be providing support in terms of data entry, administrative functions, ground-based detention and monitoring, warehouse support. logistical help so the border protection can get out in the field and not be hampered by those administrative functions. all of this coming as the administration including the department of homeland security secretary is saying publicly they do expect the surge of migrants to try to cross the border when that title 42 era law expires. but again, these troops will not be performing a law enforcement function and they will primarily be behind desks. >> primarily for now, still a big move from the pentagon. thank you f

cnn's natasha bertrand is live for us at the pentagon.alking to officials, they do not know who is responsible, but what is clear is that they are saying that vladimir putin is very wrong about who he is claiming is responsible for this drone incident. >> yeah, so the national security council coordinator for strategic communications, john kirby, he actually accused the kremlin of flat out lying about this notion that the u.s. was behind this drone attack in any way. and while he said earlier today during a press briefing that he could not get into the minds of the kremlin officials who are accusing the u.s. of doing this, he also said that they don't necessarily need a pretext in order to launch these kinds of attacks on ukraine. they don't need a false flag, for example, to justify their continued invasion because they continue to bomb ukraine day in and day out. here's what john kirby said earl earlier today. >> not investigating and i want to be clear, i said we're still looking at this, we haven't come to any conclusions one way or t

cnn's natasha bertrand is joining us from the pentagon. why is the u.s.couple reasons, sara. the first is that this balloon does not appear to have been maneuverable so it doesn't appear that it was being maneuvered by any foreign government or external actor. it also according to our sources was not emitting any signal. so that means it was not being used likely for intelligence gathering tore surveillance purposes. that chinese spy balloon was emitting signals when flying over the united states suggesting it was being used for spying. in addition to this the balloon that the u.s. military observed flying over parts of hawaii did not transit over any sensitive government sites or any critical defense department infrastructure. just to remind viewers the chinese spy balloon that was shot down earlier this year it did hover over sensitive military sites. the contrast there really suggested to u.s. officials that this was not necessarily a balloon that posed any kind of national security threat. the balloon also according to the defense department did not p

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