that cia director william burns made a secret trip to ukraine to brief president volodymyr zelenskyy and share u.s. intelligence on russia s next moves in the war. actor and producer alec baldwin now faces criminal charges in the fatal shooting of a crew member on the set of the film rust. our legal experts are weighing the evidence and whether the involuntary manslaughter charges will stick. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. we begin with the partisan showdown over raising the debt ceiling and fears of an unprecedented default by the united states. our chief congressional correspondent manu raju explains where this critical fight stands tonight. reporter: tonight congress and the white house engaged in a risky standoff as the u.s. reaches its $31.4 trillion borrowing limit. the white house and congressional democrats say no negotiations to raise the debt ceiling and no conditions
2016. before he was elected to congress. but then, he took off with the money. santos, for his part, denies the story. we have his response for you tonight. and there are new details tonight about what investigators found when they searched the home of the alleged killer of four college students in idaho. and what it could all mean for the case. i m get right to the court appearance today. that losing republican candidate who is charged in connection with shootings at homes of new mexico democrats based on his grievances for having lost. joining me, the top law enforcement official in new mexico. attorney general torres. nice to see you, thanks for coming. thanks for having me, laura. is a truly disturbing case. many people are looking at it scratching their heads in part, but also thinking, is this the result of what happens when you have got election denialism or what do you think that you are entitled to a certain result. this is not a case that you are personally pros
challenging. you cannot and should not do it unless you have a full tank. we give all that we can for as long as we can, and then it s time. and so, for me it s time. good morning, everyone. poppy is off wi, kaitlan and i here. when it s time to go, it s time to go. it shocked a lot of people. that was a resignation that people were not expected. that was new zealand s prime minister resigning. we ll discuss her surprise announcement in a moment with christiane amanpour. plus president biden has been planning to announce his re-election bid after february 7th but then came the document scandal does that delay his decision. there is a new george santos lie. the new york lawmaker claims repeatedly and consistently that his mother was in the world trade center on 9/11 now we know she wasn t even in the country. a bold prediction by volodymyr zelenskyy in a speech in davos, vowing his country will reclaim crimea from the russians. but we begin with this president
she was in the south tower and she made it out, she got caught up in the ash cloud. my mom fought cancer till her death. i don t know, what is it becoming? there s a line that gets crossed on the level of lies we talked about. we joked about things like the scarf and volleyball championship team. this is a different level. hey, everybody. k kaitlan and i are here, poppy is off today. we were talking about george santos, the question is is there no bottom? where does this end? it s one of his most brazen claims, his mom was inside the world trade center able to survive the 9/11 attacks, battling cancer and cnn uncovering evidence she wasn t even in the united states. and this. at 4:58 a.m. how to stop a body from decomposing. gruesome google searches and a disturbing shopping list prosecutors laying out explosive evidence as the husband of the missing massachusetts mother, ana walshe, stands accused of murder. let s talk about the u.s. economy, headed towards a c
there s too much of it. three weeks into the new year and already 33 mass shootings in the united states with the latest in california leaving ten people dead, new details on why this tragedy could have been even worse. plus president joe biden facing new criticism from within his own party. to think that any of them ended up in boxes in storage one place or the other is just unacceptable. the fallout continues to grow over the fbi s discovery of more classified documents at the president s delaware home. and germany signals a change of heart when it comes to other countries sending this type of tank to ukraine. details in a live report. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. thanks for being with us. well, the community of monterey park in california should be celebrating the lunar new year, but instead it s reeling from a deadly mass shooting. the los angeles county sheriff said the suspect in that massacre died from a self