any moment now we expect to see president biden welcome one of america s strongest nato allies to the white house. the meeting is russia s invasion of ukraine is just beyond the one-year mark. the pentagon has announced another $400 million aid package for kyiv. phil mattingly is live. we ll start with you and what you know about the president s meeting with chancellor schultz. it s a critical meeting and sounds like something with of meeting when it pertains to this war with the allies and alliance that s been together. it stead very fast. there is probably no more critical leader at this point than chancellor schultz. this is a relationship. the two leaders get along quite well. no staff component between the two leaders who have been critical to an alliance that has produced a significant evolution in terms of the types of weapons, the capabilities that they provided over the course of the year. there have been points where the germans haven t gone as far and throughou
to governor itself, the district should have autonomy and some of them are saying they re disappointed. d.c. has this right, it s a sad day for d.c. home rule. deeply disappointed. it is a very divisive issue for the democrats and it is a har b harbinger on the issue that democrats may have on crime going into this election. certainly something to watch. thank you so much. it is the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. hello, everyone. today disgraced former south carolina attorney alex murdaugh was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of his wife, maggie and his youngest son paul. a judge handed down two consecutive life sentences without parole for the killings. his defense team plans to file an appeal in the next few days. before he was sentenced, the former lawyer maintained his innocence. i ll say it again. i respect this court. but i m innocent. i would never under any circumstances hurt my wife maggie and i would never under any circumstances hurt my son p
started making a lot of noise about how this is soft on crime. they put forward legislation and he does an about-face. and he says i don t support changes the d.c. council has put forward such as lowering penalties for carjackings. if the senate overturns this, i ll sign it. it s created an uproar with democrats. and how are democrats responding? in a variety of ways. in the senate some of them who are mindful of this notion that they don t want to be seen as soft on crime, they will vote to repeal it. but there are other groups who are saying, look, all you re doing is cow tying to republicans here. and the district should be able
together. maybe tonight they sober up. maybe. what about john kasich who really started firing up in the last 24 hours. is he showing desperation or showing that the establishment really is beginning to say can you answer question to both? can any of these guys run against hillary clinton? i think it s a little bit of both. but there s something going on in the republican party and there s a little export/import bank. a lot of republicans said i m tired with the base and will work with democrats to get it done. john boehner, i ll light myself on fire and you get to do it. and i m going to raise the debt ceiling. there s a whole bunch of establishment republicans now saying to the base, as embolden as the base is, we are tired of cow-tying to you. i think it may open more wounds and become more bloodier politically, but it s a new twist in this fight. the establishment may be