desantis, picked charlie crist, a former republican himself, as their nominee this fall. also, new details surrounding former president trump s handling of classified material. cnn learned overnight that the national archives told trump s legal team months ago that it wanted intelligence agencies to conduct a damage assessment on more than 700 pages of documents found at mar-a-lago. we ll get into that. also, a big announcement expected today from the white house, sources say president biden could cancel up to $10,000 in federal student loan debt for some borrowers and extend that moratorium, the pause on loan payments through the midterms. much more on that ahead. we have got our correspondents in florida and new york covering all the angles of tuesday s primary. let s begin this morning in new york with cnn national correspondent jason carroll. jason, you were out there yesterday as voters were going to the polls. you ve got new york s 19th congressional district offeri
stands for! plus president biden following through on a core campaign pledge wiping away thousands of dollars in student loan debt. and russia s war on ukraine turns six months old today, still locked in a bloody stalemate. translator: we re holding on for six months. it s difficult for us. we clenched our fists, fighting for our fate. up first, is it momentum or just a moment? democratic lawmakers and strategists hope a win in new york s special election stops a midterm drift 11 weeks before november. the verdict out of hudson valley is that democrat pat ryan will now represent new york s 19th district, that s where president biden won in 2020 by just 1.5 percentage points. democrats see major national political implications in ryan s surprise win because the candidate made abortion the centerpiece of his campaign. the sad truth, mark molinaro and the republicans oppose a woman s right to choose. republicans will allow women and their doctors to be prosecuted for g
anytime soon. jim, poppy? david, thank you very much. and to oren at the pentagon, today, obviously, marking the importance of this day, the u.s. is announcing $3 billion in new military aid for jukraine. that s the largest security assistance package they have given to date. can you talk about what is included and as i understand it, it is going to take a matter of months for much of this to reach ukraine. exactly. to put this in perspective, this is three times larger than the previous largest security assistance package. that was a billion dollars that came just a couple of weeks ago. earlier this month. this now $2.98 billion to be exact, announced by president joe biden and the white house earlier today, to mark the six-month anniversary of the war, and to mark ukraine s independence day. in terms of what is in here, we expect more details from the pentagon a little later on this afternoon. but we know there are air defense systems, as well as counter drone systems and artille
assistance. we need more of it. that s true. the $3 billion assistance announced by the white house will certainly be welcomed here in ukraine. david, thank you very much for all that reporting. let s discuss now with retired air force colonel cedric lei leighton. we are six months into this. putin clearly had been banking on the west not having the stamina to stay in this. is fatigue starting to be a problem? it definitely is. the good news for the ukrainians is that there s a lot of aid still coming. this $2.98 billion that was announced today makes a big, big difference. let s kind of review where things have been. you know, this is the map as it stands right now with ukraine. you have the russian forces obviously in red, the ukrainian gains in yellow. but that doesn t tell the entire picture here. if we take a quick look at a