happening now, joe biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy can just wrapped up their first high-stakes talks on raising the nation s debt limit. mccarthy telling reporters moments ago that he thinks he and the president can find some common ground. also tonight, mourning in memphis, as tyre nichols is laid to rest three weeks after he was brutally beaten by police. we ll take you inside the emotional funeral and the urgent outcry for police reform. and cnn is in the trenches with ukrainian soldiers on the eastern front, as officials in kyiv warn that russia is gearing up for maximum escalation of the war. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. stories. important developments in the debt limit showdown right now. joe biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy just wrapped up a very high stakes meeting at the white house. their first face-to-face since mccarthy won the gavel. our reporter is on c
charged in the january 6th attack on the capitol. how authorities tracked them down, and tonight images from inside the capitol, what they re seen doing. one allegedly posting, glad to be part of history. pierre thomas with late reporting. the weekend storm hitting the northeast. two storms combining. one from the rockies combining with one from the south. what will bring to new york, philadelphia, boston, and entire northeast. tonight, the new images in new york of alec baldwin seen for the first time since learning he ll be charged with involuntary manslaughter. what his legal team is saying tonight. the war in ukraine new images coming in. the horrific explosions in the east and what president zelenskyy is pleading for now. the u.s. defense secretary in germany, and why the germans so far are saying no. authorities on the death of an american in mexico. the husband found dead. the wife sleeping. and why the family isn t buying the explanation. also tonight the
Its own laws, it is smugglers, and Human Traffickers and drugs and weapons and terrorism also people here unlawfully committing seriously, deadly crimes, sovereign nations need secure borders. Strong countries enforce their law ands federal government needs to do its job or someone else will. Governor abbott and ron desantis are highlighting these issues, there are now threats to sue governors and calls for criminal probes. Someone removed governors from office but not remove people here unlawfully . Joining us now is former dhs secretary chad wolf thank you for joining us, your successor said that border is secure how would you describe it. The border is anything but secure, we continue to see month after month high numbers over 200 thousand illegal apprehensions over 900,000 Got Aways This Fiscal Year that is ending in about a month from now, with that much unlawful and uncontrolled migration across the sort of everyone border you have no control over it you could point to a couple o
thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. ee you at the end of tomorrow thanks john for joining us this evening. tomorrow morning, the family of tyre nichols, the 29-year-old who was fatally beaten by police on january 7th, played nichols to rest at the mississippi boulevard christian church. vice president kamala harris plans to attend, along with current biden administration officials and former mayors keisha lance bottoms and mitch atlantic. reverend al sharpton will deliver the eulogy. tomorrow night, we will speak with reverend sharpton about how the nichols family and people across the country are grieving in this moment, and what justice can this case looks like. for tonight, sharpton, nichols family, and their attorney benjamin crump are gathered at the historic in memphis to discuss how authorities continue to respond to nicole s death. we learned yesterday that in addition to the five former police officers who were arrested last week on
bakhmut in ukraine. and the reason this matters, jake, is because the fight for bakhmut, as has become the case with much of the war in ukraine, has become a war of attrition that military and intelligence officials increasingly say is really likely to turn on access to artillery ammunition, which side is able to sustain its supply of artillery ammunition the longest. one senior western intelligence official that i spoke to earlier today said in bakhmut alone, the two sides are spending up to multiple thousands of rounds of ammunition a day, which is just staggering. so what north korea is doing here is really helping wagner, and by extension the russian side, perpetuate this fight in bakhmut that our sources say has left this part of ukraine looking like they re done. will the weapons and ammunition from north korea make a difference in ukraine? not necessarily from a broader strategic perspective. the fight in bakhmut specifically is not seen, even if russia is able to