viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world, i m bianca nobilo. i m max foster joining you live on cnn. just ahead on cnn newsroom. they wind up stopping innocent people and they wind up using brute force to do it. this incident was heinous, reckless and inhumane. helping ukraine defend, protect ukrainian land. they do, however, pose a significant event to forces inside ukraine illegally. the fbi searching the home of a sitting president. the justice department was not fully comfortable with joe biden s team doing the search on its own. reporter: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it s thursday, january 26th. 9 a.m. here in london, 3 a.m. in memphis, tennessee, where any day now we could see the police body camera footage of the arrest of tyrei nichols who was stopped taken into police custody. the family of the 29-year-old black man is demanding answers. the preliminary autopsy says nichols s
if they get there in time. this is not just a professional failing, this is a failing of basic humanity towards another individual. memphis braces for fallout over the fatal nonstop beating of a black man by police with video set to be released any day now. what s going on now with george santos? the man just listed as treasurer for santos campaign says he doesn t even work for the congressman. all right. here we go. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. we begin with a potential game changer in russia s campaign with a big if. president biden announces to send 31 abrams tanks to ukraine after germany said it will deliver 14 leopard 2 tanks from its own supply. the challenge now getting the tanks to the battlefield in time to make a difference. we ve got to make sure we re helping the ukrainians plan and prepare for the fighting we think they re going to be facing in the spring and summer months as the weather gets b
this incident was heinous, reckless, and inhumane and in the vain of transparency, when the video is released in the coming days you will see this for yourselves. i expect you to feel outraged in the disregard of basic human rights as our police officers have taken an oath to do the opp opposite of what transpired on the video. good morning we re glad you could join us, i m live in memphis. poppy is in new york. and kaitlan is on assignment. any day now the video of the beating that led to tyre nichols death will be released. we re live on the ground for you. look again, the national archives weighing whether to ask former presidents and vice presidents to check for any classified documents. what four presidents told cnn. plus this. the administrator down played the report from the teacher and the possibility of a gun saying, and i quote, well, he has little pockets. this is outrageous. more questions this morning about the 6-year-old who shot this shot his teacher.
being there for us. let s bring in brigadier general patrick ryder. thanks so much for being here. it was just a few days ago that we heard about how these m1 abrams tanks were too labor-intensive, too complex, too hard to refuel, and too hard to send to ukraine. what changed in the past couple of days? well, it s important to highlight too, that what we have been focused on is the near-term ri requirements for ukraine on the battlefield, the capabilities that they need to be immediately effective to address the things that sam highlighted. however, we do assess that ukraine requires a combination of armored personnel carriers, fighting vehicles, and tanks to be able to have the maneuver capability that will need to be successful, both in the near term and in the longer term in this fight, and so really what you are seeing here is the united states making a commitment, demonstrating its commitment to ukraine for the long-term, combined with the near-term capabilities that
happening now, president biden pledges to arm ukraine with some of the most sophisticated war machines on the planet. american abrams battle equipment. it could take months to deliver the equipment. new developments in the biden classified documents probe. we re getting a behind the scenes look at measures the u.s. justice department was prepared to take if, if the president refused to cooperate with an fbi z search of his delaware home. congressman george santos is dodging questions about a controversy half a million dollars in mysterious campaign payments he once claimed were personal loans. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re the situation room. let s get straight to our top story. the united states pledging abrams battle tavnks to ukraine. we have details on this major, major poost to the war effort for ukraine. what are you hearing about how all of this will unfold? this was a top request and that being