the u.s. is arming ukraine with more american ammo and rocket launchers. the lead starts right now. stocking up ahead of a likely russian spring offensive. the u.s. deploys another $400 million in military aid to ukraine. can president biden secure even more as russians encircle the strategic town of bakhmut? plus, from prominent attorney to convict, the swift prison sentence today for alex murdaugh after a jury took only a few hours to find him guilty of killing his wife and son. and drag shows shut down. tennessee becomes the first in the nation to put new restrictions on the performances. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper today. we start with our health lead. moments ago, the white house announced a lesion removed from president biden s chest last month was a common type of skin cancer. cnn s phil mattingly joins us now from the white house. tell us more about this diagnosis. reporter: that lesion was removed during the president s annual phy
and the way he treated and spoke to other people and the fact that he didn t have conversations. he had accusations and he had a way of telling people they didn t know what they were talking about. always politics? yeah. reporter: video appears to show pena at three different trump rallies in d.c. in one clip his name is stitched into his hat and in july 2021, kr, nn video captured a man appears to be pena in the rally crowd. pena would later post a picture of himself as an attendee. a year later pena ran for office as a republican candidate for the state house. he lost last november by a slant sl landslide but pena would not accept an election loss. police say he targeted four democrats to blame finding their addresses and confronting them. so i went to the gate and that s where he was and he seemed agitated. he seemed a little aggressive. i did tell someone about it. they said this guy is a felon. mr. pena orchestrated and made phone calls and hired people to sh
News coverage is provided. Eric lets go to chicago. Andrew, how do we know this claim is true as giuliani claims someone fiddled with the tape. I dont think anyone knows whether the tape has been fiddled with. I wouldnt put anything past him. Even if these tapes prove to be admissible, they still have major problems. The tapes arent complete. Its apparently a tape of a tape. And you have big segments of the tape that cant be heard. Remember there is still nothing illegal that was discussed in those tapes. I realize why everybody likes it. We have the president of the United States talking about a payoff to a Playboy Model that never took place. It appears mr. Trump says
something so exclusive with his client. Thats a breach. Then releasing this information to cnn to try to make the president look bad. It doesnt matter if the president waived the i have with respect to these tapes or conversations. You cant put these tapes out to people to try to embarrass your client. If hes able to av
and name paris davis will still stand alongside the nation s pioneering heroes. reporter: davis says to receive the medal of honor is noting short of a dream. it s mayda day to say thank u to america for allowing me to be in the military, serve the country and the country has been pretty damn good to me. he is one of four service members in u.s. military history to have earned the medal of honor and soldier s medal. pamela, it was a privilege to put together the story and meet paris davis who remained in the military for 20 years. what an inspiration, so well-deserved. thank you. a florida man s smart phone helped save his life from body cam video. you can see the man s car upside down in a canal. this is wednesday in martin county. deputies say the driver swerved to avoid an animal mall.
i don t know what to say. you and i both do this for living. this story is quite literally beyond the pail. a situation where they loved an animal mall and a connection in this case this is all that is taking advantage of. i m thinking about congressional pseudonyms. mitt romney s burner account. carlos danger. anthony weiner s pseudonym. it comes to mind. now we have because anthony devolver was his. nancy pelosi forced anthony weiner to resign. she said no more. this is embarrassing. at what point i know the margin is thin. at what point do you think kevin