hello, i m victor blackwell, welcome to cnn newsroom. alisyn is off today. right now, british prime minister boris johnson is fighting for his political life. his conservative party is holding a no confidence vote right now, with results expected soon. now, if a majority of votes come in against him, he s out as the party leader, out as the prime minister. johnson has been under intense scrutiny for his behavior in the height of the pandemic when he disobeyed his own covid rules and held a party while the rest of the country was under mandatory lockdown. and at the queen s platinum jubilee celebrations this weekend, he was met with boos, watch. [ crowd booing ] in a letter making his case to lawmakers today, the prime minister insisted britain s will never forgive him in he s ousted. a snap poll show 6 in 10 want him gone. bianca nobilo joins me now. reporter: the mood is extremely strange. it s fraught and it s groan more and more grim, and despondent as the day has gone
minister boris johnson s political fate now comes down to a secret vote. results due any minute will determine whether he survives. and more shipments of baby formula on the way, but so many u.s. parents desperately want to know where is all this formula going, and how do i get some? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with our national lead and what seems to be growing optimism among negotiators in the u.s. senate that some kind of deal on guns can be reached. as the united states reels from yet another horrific weekend of gun violence. now, it s not clear exactly what this compromise on capitol hill might look like, whether it includes increased background checks or new mental health provisions and funding or encouraging states to enact red flag laws or all of the above, or none of the above. but one of the lead democratic negotiators, senator chris murphy of connecticut, told me this yesterday. i have never been part of negotiations as serious as t
deciding their vote. with numbers like that in mind, republican lawmakers are ramping up their attacks on biden s handling of the economy. has no idea how to deal with inflation, has no plan to deal with inflation. all he does is blame everybody else, including putin, for his inflation. even some democratic lawmakers are now urging the biden administration to do more. i support everything the president is doing, but i don t think it s enough. my constituents don t think it s enough. white house aides pushing back on accusations that the president isn t doing everything he can to lower prices. president biden gets up every day and goes to bed every night thinking about what can we do to get a lid on inflation. now, jake, today officials here at the white house are also noting that this is not just a united states problem. it s a global challenge when it comes to higher prices, higher gas prices. of course, they said they don t have anything to announce when it come
targets if the u.s. supplies long-range missiles to ukraine. this, as the fierce battle for a key city in eastern ukraine is changing right now by the hour. and the january 6th select committee is promising chilling, new revelations about the insurrection during its first public hearing this-coming thursday. we are getting a preview of the prime-time event that is expected to include new testimony and evidence that s never been seen, before. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room . we begin with the mass-shooting crisis in america, growing more urgent and deadly by the day. and by the hour. cnn s brian todd is in philadelphia for us. one of the cities reeling right now from this newest round of bullets and bloodshed. reporter: charges filed in philadelphia s saturday shooting today. include age tempted murder against one of two suspects. two charged with attempted murder today in
gun laws and investing in mental health at any time since sandy hook. can we get there by the end of next week? i don t know. on the war in ukraine, british intelligence officials say russian air strikes in kyiv over the weekend were focused on critical railways for supplying ukraine s capital. the fighting is intensifying in the east as vladimir putin warns of new strikes in response to the u.s. providing ukraine with longer range weapons systems. we re looking forward to what promise to be bombshell hearings before the january 6th committee this week with the promise of new witness testimony and previously unseen material. we begin with that spike in gun violence. join here we with me is garrett haake. the gun violence in philadelphia over the weekend just one example of the chaos sparking fear in so many communities. reporter: in a terrifying example at that, there have been more mass shootings so far this year than the number of days that have passed in 2022, a stri