missiles from north korea. nate foy is live in kyiv, ukraine. what is president zelenskyy doing on his first day back? aishah, he s back in kyiv and already back at work. president zelenskyy met with the foreign ambassadors in an afternoon meeting where they discussed building relationships with other countries in the new year, and creating opportunities for ukraine. as we look to the new year and more, you know, specifically, more soon, the christmas weekend coming up, president zelenskyy said they do not have the luxury of any time off. we have no right to a weekend, no right to rest, no right to vacation, no right to an eight-hour workday. all the rights guaranteed by the constitution of ukraine are currently on hold as representatives of the state. and north korea denies
report early this morning, so that when they go into that afternoon meeting, they can speak to the committee members, and ask questions. that is also when later this afternoon, the report will be released publicly. i did have an opportunity to speak with adam martinez, ahead of the release of this report. his second grade son, was in rob elementary school, one of the students who was evacuated, unharmed. one of my questions for mr. martinez was, whether or not this report was going to provide any sort of consolation, or comfort for these families. for this community. and help them to move on. he said he was not sure about that, but he did hope that it might provide some answers. i want to play a little bit of what he shared with me. where they told it was a barricaded subject? that is why they backed away? we don t know that. we do not know everything. but, we need some type of
they re going to spend the afternoon meeting with families and first responders. it s a solemn task made even more difficult by what appear to be some serious failures of law enforcement and its response to tuesday s mass shooting. the visit comes only 12 days after the president and first lady both travelled to buffalo where they visited the site of another massacre. there it was one racially motivated and it left ten people dead. yesterday vice president kamala harris attended a funeral, one for an 86-year-old, the oldest victim of the attack. and this just in, the justice department just announced they re going to conduct a review of the law enforcement response to the shooting. lucy is with me with that breaking news. lucy, what are you hearing? reporter: well, this critical incident review of the law enforcement response was actually conducted at the request of uvalde s mayor. it s a significant development,
about it. so in one regard this is a national defense question. in the other regard, if it s something else, some other technology, people want to know who or what is flying these things, hallie. gadi schwartz, we look forward to seeing more of your reporting tonight. appreciate it. deadline white house starts right now. hi, everyone, it s 4:00 in new york. president joe biden today out with a call for all americans to reject the racist ideology that has time and time again led to deadly and delaware stating violence in communities all across the united states. afternoon meeting with the families of the victims of the mass shooting in buffalo that took place four days ago, visiting the memorial near the site of the shooting, president biden give a speech in which he commemorated each of the ten victims, and then he said this. white supremacy is a poison.
it will not be included in the plan. the democrats had originally hoped for 12 weeks of paid family leave, but then last week in our own cnn town hall, president biden said that had been whittled down to four weeks and now sources have said it is likely out of the plan completely. and what appears to be a concession to senator joe manchin who had expressed some concerns about that proposal. now this comes as democrats are scrambling to put together and hammer out the final details of this plan. president biden and his top negotiators here at the white house have really zeroed in on those two key holdout senators, senator joe manchin and kyrsten sinema, meeting with both of them over the past 24 hours to listen to their concerns. but also at the same time, the white house is still talking to those progressives. case in point, senator bernie sanders was here at the white house this afternoon meeting with president biden for a little over an hour. he said that it was a good discussion but