struggle. the annual military parade noticeably scaled down. victory day celebrates the soviet union s triumph over nazi germany and russia usually flexes its military might. this year it was only one tank from world war ii and no flyovers of fighter jets, bombers in his speech, accuse the west of unleashi war agains the russian mother land. it comes days after a mysterious drone attack on the kremlin hours before putin s speech russia launched cruise missiles at ukraine s capital. let s bring in matthew chance to start us out. as someone who covered all things putin and moscow so closely, what was your take? well, i think you re right, poppy. definitely much smaller than we have seen in years past. i think 8,000 troops this year. 12,000 last year, for instance. there was no military flyover. usually that s a spectacular highlight of this kind of victory day parade. there was an intercontinental ballistic missile as the centerpiece of the parade. russia underlining it is
kevin mccarthy, the speaker oflf the house, all of his meeting requests. he wouldn t even pick up ta the phone and take mccarthy s calls. he even blaststhy s calls. a go. bill raising the debt limit, the very thing that woulvedry ti tht the u.s. fromwith a defaulting. but now, with the possible pblea default, only twenty two daystoda away, joe biden, well, today he finally met with the speaker ofy the house and the minority leader in the senate. but lat is this a little too? little, too late? we all right.will coming up tonight, we ll ask louisiana senator john kennedy that question. that we start tonight di with this. did the cia activelythe cr helpr joe biden get elected president in the fall of twenty 20 ? did they put a cinder blocke on the scales of the election? s isas is alleged about the fbi? we have a bombshell new report from the house judiciary committee. it is exposing a shocking levele of election malfeasance among tployees at the ciact. according to fox news,
talks like a campaign, and this week, florida governor ron desantis could make his 2024 campaign official. after a weekend of trying to steal the spotlight from donald trump, putting the former president as a loser. a night witness alligator boots and all road trips across the state taking advantage of trump being forced to cancel a planned rally due to bad weather. desantis flipped burgers and it did all he could to call out trump s effect on the gop but did not dare call out trump by name. as bad as things are going right now, if things do not go well for us republicans in 2024, it s going to get a whole lot worse. we must reject the culture of losing and that has infected our party in recent years. the time for excuses is over. i mean, the courage! clearly talking about trump without saying trump s name. here s the thing, desantis might be younger, he might be more into politics and then donald trump, at least on the national stage, but there is little daylight betwe
days. we have new video to show you, bakhmut getting absolutely pummeled in shelling. this shows the devastating toll the war has taken on this city in particular the past year. this as ukraine prepares for the counteroffensive to try to reclaim occupied land. sam kiley joins us from eastern ukraine. sam, good morning. reporter: hey, poppy. what can you tell us? reporter: oh, sorry. there is a rather heavy wind condition here, so difficult to pick you up. but i think the main thaing to take away from this latest wave of attack by cruise missiles, surface-to-surface missiles, the full pan alpy of missile technology fired by the russians is once again they are trying to soak up the air defenses of the ukrainians and expose vulner blts such as they could find in ke kyiv. 30 miles an hour filed, 29 the ukrainians claim to have shot down 29 out of 30. either a missile or debris of a missile hit the southern port city of odessa killing one person. three people were killed the
beginning of the recorded music era for $5. it was an i irresistible proposition. the new original series the 2010s premiers tomorrow might here on cnn. good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. it is saturday, may 13th. i m amara walker. and i m victor black well. so pasta, the 6:00 hour we have been debating pasta. you love it. can can you believe that? i could take it or leave it really. the reason is because it s just a vehicle for the stuff that i think taste best. could eat the sauce with a spoon. it s the texture for me. and i love certain textures of pastas. it has to be perfect. if it s home made, i can eat it with no sauce. so your theory about being a vehicle for sauce is so wrong. we could split a dish. i ll take the sauce. you take the pasta. here s what we re watch ing for you this morning. i have to admit it s nice to be able to breathe one more time, but wit can t let our guard down. we still know it s coming. cities among the