control. but a city of bakhmut is facing a ferocious assault right now with thousands of civilians in dang danger as the russian s advance. and a man is rested for trying to bring explosives on a flight to florida in his suitcase. what we re learning about the case. new information coming in. and juries visit the scene where alex murdaugh s wife and son were kill and then the closing arguments in the disgraced lawyer s murder trial. prosecutors wrapping up just a short wild ago after condemning his lies confirm his guilt. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. let s get right to our top story this evening. very intense fighting raging right now in the key eastern ukrainian city of bakhmut. civilians hunkering down as russia throws some of the most battle hardened forces into the fight. cnn s melissa bell is joining us live from kyiv with an update. melissa, how dire is the situation in the
there s no way around it, that s just the best one. believe me, i ve tried it every which way, and it really doesn t get better than pete butt. but this would have never happened under my administration. people are saying i made the trains less safe. not true, okay? not true. i did a lot for trains. i made them bigger, faster, less safe perhaps, but yeah, perhaps you did. perhaps. saturday night live s take on donald trump s recent trip to east palestine, ohio. meanwhile, president joe biden says he doesn t have plans to visit the town devastated by the train disaster, and we ll have his comments on why. plus, the first lady seems to have given away the president s plans for 2024. we ll play for you what she said. also ahead, a weekend of deadly russian strikes in ukraine brings more attention to the debate over supplying ukrainian forces with fighter jets. and a new report from the department of energy on the origins of covid. good morning. welcome to morn
summary judgment of a massive ought yen of viewers, a past logical fear of a ratings defeat and witches ease brew against in a network s own working journalists and fact checkers. we should tell you at any moment we re expecting breaking news in the form of fresh filens from dominion and fox, to lay out any arguments in the case. while we wait, for years we have turned to phrases lie inside the bubble and the echo chamber to describe that relationship between fox news and its viewers. never before has it been so plain to see from the outside. the discovery filings show that fox hosts were telling their viewers what they knew they wanted to here even when the very same fox news host communicated the truth to one another in private, which was different from what they were broadcasting. dominion s case may very well wrest on their ability to get a jury to understand that distinction. today, though, the story goes even further in the form of something rare. a highly visible i
the toxic train derailment in east palestine, ohio. his administration s response to the disaster. the classified documents found at biden s home and his former office. and of course that question is the president running for re-election? also tonight, president zelenskyy marking one year at war, defiantly claiming ukraine s victory will be inevitable, saying he wants to meet with china s president xi. and we ll go to ian pannell in kyiv tonight for reaction after what president biden said this evening about f-16s. the other news this friday night, one-time prominent attorney alex murdaugh testifying in his own defense. what he acknowledged on the stand. we re also tracking the major storm. a second one now set to move right across the country. heavy snow, ice, and dangerous winds. and yet another close call tonight. a passenger plane about to land. another plane cleared for takeoff on the same runway. and one year later, from new york to paris tonight, the powerf
why didn t china take the pentagon s call. the toxic train derailment in east palestine, ohio. his administration s response to the disaster. the classified documents found at biden s home and former office. and of course that question, is the president running for re-election? also tonight, president zelenskyy marking one year at war, defiantly claiming ukraine s victory will be inevitable, saying he wants to meet with china s president xi. and we ll go to ian pannell in kyiv tonight for reaction after what president biden said this evening about f-16s. the other news this friday night, one-time prominent attorneydefens acknowledged on stand. we re also tracking the major storm. a second one set to move right across the country. heavy snow, ice, and dangerous winds. and yet another close call tonight. a passenger plane about to land. another plane cleared for takeoff on the same runway. and one year later, from new york to paris tonight, the powerful images coming in t