judge blocks the fda approval of a key abortion medication. how the biden administration is planning to respond and china simulating strikes against taiwan after the nation s president visited the us we re live in beijing as tensions escalate. all right. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. this is early start this morning. justice department officials are racing to find out how top secret u. s military documents were leaked online. the information is intended only for those with the highest levels of us security clearance documents cover a wide range of topics from assessments of ukraine s military strength and casualty figures to intelligence on american allies like israel and south korea. the documents will reportedly first posted on obscure internet gaming sites. but have now turned up on twitter and youtube in recent weeks, democratic congressman ruben gallego, raising concerns that this leak could jeopardize sources and
happening now, joe biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy can just wrapped up their first high-stakes talks on raising the nation s debt limit. mccarthy telling reporters moments ago that he thinks he and the president can find some common ground. also tonight, mourning in memphis, as tyre nichols is laid to rest three weeks after he was brutally beaten by police. we ll take you inside the emotional funeral and the urgent outcry for police reform. and cnn is in the trenches with ukrainian soldiers on the eastern front, as officials in kyiv warn that russia is gearing up for maximum escalation of the war. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. stories. important developments in the debt limit showdown right now. joe biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy just wrapped up a very high stakes meeting at the white house. their first face-to-face since mccarthy won the gavel. our reporter is on c
going on behind the scene. russia is respond to go this news. the russian ambassador to germany says berlin s move brings the conflict, quote, to a new level, as creme len spokesperson peskov says russia will destroy ukraine s tanks. natasha, is the u.s. s view this is a game change r? in a way. they re not going to hit the ground immediately, it could take as many as three, four months for the ukrainians to even be trained on them, but what we are told is that this could potentially be game changing in terms of breaking through russia s defensive lines in ukraine. they want to take the fight directly to the russians so they can take back that territory versus striking them with longer-range equipment that the u.s. has given them. they re still asking for the extremely long-range missiles, but in terms of a grinding fight that allows them to break those russian lines, they say this could be game changing. the reason would you the u.s. has been pushing jerchy for weeks,
sbolduan starts right now. in the next hour, president biden will deliver remarks on u.s. support for ukraine. he s expected to announce the u.s. will be sending a-1 abrams tanks to ukraine. this long debated move also comes just as germany confirms they will also be spending tank to say ukraine. both of these moves have been in the works for a while, a step both countries have resisted for a variety of reasons. these coordinated announcements now also pave the way for other european countries to do the same and supply tank to say ukraine. as ukrainians are preparing for a big spring offensive by russia. we re going to discuss all of this with nato secretary-general stoltenberg. what are you hearing, oren? reporter: we re told about 30 tanks will head to ukraine, one of the most advanced tanks pretty much out there. how soon? this will take time. we ve seen the coordination between the german announcement to send its german-made leopard tanks and other countries to send
don t match up with videos. and cnn s interview with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. he s revealing whether he would consider acting as a wartime mediator between ukraine and russia. and a look at donald trump s defiant deposition in a fraud investigation in new york. this, as he faces a new criminal probe of hush money payments over his alleged affair with porn star stormy daniels. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin this hour with the glaring discrepancies between the initial memphis police report from tyre nichols and his arrest and beating. we have all the new developments. reporter: a bundle of contradictions between what the world witnessed in the video showing police beating nichols and what was found in the initial police report about the incident. first reported by the new york times, the photo of a police report was posted online by a memphis talk show post