cluster bombs, as president biden heads overseas to shore up support for ukraine, he said the u.s. will send them a controversial weapon. it was a very difficult decision on my part. but sis the the right one? i ll ask michael mccaul and the only house member who votes against the afghanistan war, barbara lee, next. and party of one. republican set a date for the iowa caucuses where donald trump s rivals are trying to e he zeros in on his closest opponent. he s got no personality. does ron desantis has a plan to turn things around. my panel will discuss ahead. plus mercury rising. a record-breaking heat wave blankets the globe. and over seas janet yellen pushed china on climate. but is any country doing enough to stop the climate threat? hello, i m jake tapper in washington with the state of union is wondering about long-term consequences days after announcing his controversial decision to send cluster bombs to ukraine, a weapon his administration once refer
cluster bombs. as president biden heads overseas to shore up support for ukraine, he says the u.s. will send them a controversial weapon. it was a very difficult decision on my part. but is it the right one? i ll ask house foreign affairs committee michael mccall and the only house member who voted against the afghanistan war, democratic congresswoman barbara lee next. party of one. republicans set a date for the iowa caucuses where donald trump s rivals are trying to gain steam while he zeros in on his closest opponent. he s got no personality. does ron desantis have a plan to turn things around? he is the man to do it. my panel will discuss ahead. plus mercury rising, a record breaking heat wave blankets the globe. janet yellen pushes china on climate. we have the duty to cooperate. is any country doing enough to stop the climate threat? hello. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is wondering about long-term consequences just
the lead starts right now. for the first time since the start of britain s war, ukraine will be getting an aid package from the u.s. that includes cluster munitions, bonds that are banned by most countries. president biden gave an exclusive interview where he tried to defend that controversial decision, and the special counsel zeroes in on an oval office meeting during donald trump s final days in office, a meeting described as nuts. follow-up from the exclusive cnn reporting and what it tells us about the investigation into trump in january 6 and a possible third indictment of mr. trump. there then, he survived the taliban and decades of war working as an interpreter in afghanistan during the war, only to be shot and killed while driving a lift in the united states. the latest on the search for suspects. welcome to the lead. we start today with our worldly deadly cluster munitions or bombs, a lethal weapon that can disperse hundreds of smaller explosives over an area up to
projects. it is an interesting one, because on one hand, donald trump says that day one, dictator for a day, i m going to drill drill drill. russia producing more fossil fuels than anybody in the world by a long shot, and then antibodies ever produced. let s get down to the skin of some climate activists who say that maybe that is not the goal that we should be having. and so this is that intersection between energy dependent and being a leader in the world and guaranteeing freedom for people who don t want to buy their gas from russia, and at the same time, being conscious of the climate. it is an interesting tightrope that we are going to talk about. have a great weekend, i will see you again tomorrow morning. all right, take care alley. all right. right i m ali velshi. we begin this morning with a blockbuster penalty that a jury has awarded the writer e. jean carroll in a defamation case against the twice impeached four times indicted ex president. yesterday, a
in for ari melber. trump questioned by the attorney general s office for seven hours. transcripts of the deposition were released last year, but this is the first time we re able to watch the exchanges play out on video. headline-making moments like this when trump is asked about his role within the company since becoming president. i d rarely have anything to do with anything having to do with the company. i really wasn t interested, believe it or not. i was interested in solving the problem with north korea, which was ready to blow up. i considered this the most important job in the world, saving millions of lives. i think you would have had nuclear holocaust if i didn t deal with north korea. i think you would have had a nuclear war if i weren t elected. attorney general letitia james claiming trump and his namesake organization inflated assets by billions of dollars, seeking over $350 million in damages. averdict is expected in the coming weeks. this case could effe