formally launch their impeachment inquiry into president biden will they move now to hold his son in contempt. markets soaring, the dow reaches a new high. retail numbers in, beating expectations, stock furthers up again. how high can it do? i m john berman with kate bolduan and sara sidner, this is cnn news news central. just moments ago we watched as rudy giuliani arrived at court in washington d.c. after saying he intends to take the stand in his defamation damages trial. in a move to counter emotional claims from two election workers who say his lies and conspiracy theories after the 2020 presidential election turned their lives upside down. over the past two days, the court heard gut wrenching testimony from former pole workers. they described how giuliani s lies spawned a flood of racist messages and even death threats that forced them to leave their jobs and home, cost them some friends and made them feel so unsafe they were afraid ton even use their own names. ka
The Ukrainian Air Force’s top brass has confirmed Kiev’s possession and use of US-provided Joint Direct Attack Munition-Extended Range (JDAM-ER) smart glide. 25.08.2023, Sputnik International
telling cnn there s something else in that aid package and that is something called jdam. what she is are precision kits, kits that bolt on essentially to a so-called dumb bomb, a bomb that would fall off an airplane on to the battlefield and hit wherever it hits. these bolt on kits turn those so-called dumb bombs into precision guided weapons. it will have guidance, they will be able to aim at particular targets, at a particular point in time. and that could give ukraine s air forces a critical advantage that they haven t really had so far. russian troops dug in during the winter, they may be able to hit those targets once they get all of this in place. not so easy, no the so fast, because the kits have to get there and the ukrainians have to figure out a way, along with the u.s. and other allied partners, how to use these weapons on their soef yviet era fighter je.
from russia. cnn s barbara starr joins us live from the pentagon. what s in the new package? we ve all talked about the patriot air defense missiles being part but we now are being told by multiple sources something called jdam in there. that is basically a bolt-on kit to a bomb and what it does is it turns a so-called dumb bomb into a smart bomb. dumb bomb, something that falls off an airplane, falls to earth and hits whatever underneath it at that point but precision-guided smart bombs and that s what this bolt-on kit will give ukraine precision-guided weapons much more of a multiplier on the battlefield against russian dug in targets and it s what the ukrainians have been wanting. they have aircraft but they have to figure out exactly how to modify their soviet era aircraft to put these jdam kits on.
because many of them were not involved in this process which was cut a deal a deal was cut between the senior appropriators and the leadership and that is about it. but they ll still be forced to vote on it before the end of the week to avoid a shutdown. manu, let s get reading. it is good to see you. thank you so much. so we also have new details or learning new detail this is morning about what could be included in a new round of security aid that the biden administration is expected to sent to ukraine. kits that convert so-called dumb bombs into something much por revice. barbara starr is live at the pentagon with us for the latest on this. what are you learning about this? hi, kate. well, this new package of assistant could really be a announced at any time. sources are telling cnn, not only the patriot air missile but the new bomb kits. what are we talking about? a so-called dumb bomb is fired off an airplane and drops to the ground and hits whatever it hits. no precision,