ahead. i ll speak with the family of paul weiland, another american, the kremlin has locked up on espionage charges and a group of military families gets the tragic news. nine service members killed when two black hawk choppers crashed. cnn has a crew right near that save. plus tension in the house from paper tossing to hallway shouting in your face. debates are getting heated on the hill. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper, and we start today with our world lead. top u . s. officials are strongly criticizing russia after an american reporter was detained on charges of spying. evan gersh covic appeared in a moscow court today accused of trying to steal russian state secrets. his employer, the wall street journal, says it quote vehemently denies those claims. but now gorshkov itch faces up to 20 years in prison. and today , lawmakers on capitol hill are accusing russia of using this journalist as leverage, and the white house is dismissing the charges.
to 70% off guilt .com today. hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john sitting in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. and today a new jobs report that seems well, just right. hiring cool. somebody is still strong and the unemployment rate matches a 50 year low just one month, but it s a report that tracks the feds blueprint for timing inflation. yet some new cnn poll numbers will share with you tell us most of you. you ll see the economy as weak and half of you tell us your bottom line is worse today. in the year ago , plus his timeline and no one else is. joe biden delays big choices about 2024, who delete his campaign where to put the headquarters and when to make his reelection bid official and is it a moment or a movement republicans exile two of tennessee s youngest black lawmakers from the statehouse over a protest demanding stricter gun laws. we thought they won today, but they don t realize they don t realize what they have started a movement. the
hello i m abby phillip in washington. welcome to cnn newsroom we begin this hour in the middle east, where both violence and tensions are escalating. today israeli forces unleashed air strikes in southern lebanon and gaza and israel says it struck targets belonging to the palestinian militant group hamas. israel blames hamas for firing 34 rockets from lebanon yesterday and the latest barrage since the two countries were at war back in 20 in 2006. now that has raised fears of an escalating conflict across the region, and just overnight, we learned that israel has mobilized some of its military reserves. a short time ago, israel s defense minister ordered security bolstered across the country after two israeli women were shot to death in the west bank. israel has called it an act of terror. let s get straight to cnn s fred pleitgen, who is near the israeli gaza border, and scott mclean is in beirut, lebanon, for us as well. but let s start with you, fred. fred you did talk to t
perry s attorneys are calling for a new trial, saying they want to introduce evidence that foster repeatedly instigated confrontations and was the quote first aggressor. when the murder happened on july 25th 2020 perry, now a 35 year old army sergeant. worked as a rideshare driver and had just dropped off a passenger near a blm protest. prosecutors say perry drove into the protest and instigated a confrontation. perry s attorneys say foster, a 28 year old air force veteran motion to perry as protesters were beating on his car practice something some of them right legally carrying an assault style weapon. that night . perry had a handgun in his car and at some point in the exchange. he fired multiple times, killing foster. during the police interrogation. perry gave several versions of the position of foster s gun was going in there. they want to, you know, also told police he did not try to kill foster honestly did not want to want him to die. i wanted to do was capacity him.
nashville, releasing dramatic body cam video of officers arriving at the scene, searching for and confronting that killing the shooter. this was after the shooter opened fire at a private christian elementary school, killing three children and three adults. police say they don t know the motive, but they also say the attack was quote calculated and planned. i want to bring in cnn s tom foreman. he s at the magic wall for us to explain what we ll see in this body cam video. which many of you we want to warn, you may find disturbing. also we re joined by ed davis, the former boston police commissioner, and cnn law enforcement analyst, michael finnegan of former d c. metropolitan police officer. gentlemen thank you very much for being here, tom. let me start with you. you ve been covering school shootings since before columbine. so tell us what you see. in this video. you see, most of all is what looks like a textbook handling of things here and that they start off from the very