we are coming on the air with several developing stories, the big international pledge secret meeting on secret doc with a little bit of committee chaos, let s start with what is happening right now with the u.s. and allies getting ready to add tanks to the battlefield in ukraine. the white house just now outlining when those tanks will be on the ground, part of a bigger international push to try to get other countries to do the same. our teemg is standing by with the latest. also this hour, senators getting briefed by the head of the u.s. intelligence and what is at the top of the agenda, a whole bunch of classified documents ending up in places where they shouldn t be. we will have the team on what to expect. plus the committee, democrats blasting speaker kevin mccarthy s move to boot top democrats from the in tem committee and his expected push to try to block one member of congress from foreign affairs. we will get into it all later in the show. i m hallie jackson in
appear poised to deliver sophisticated tanks as they urge ukrainians to turn the focus from brutal battles in the east to a renewed offense in the south. also tonight, former vice president mike pence facing his own document controversy. about a dozen records were found in pecnce s home. we re following gut wrenching developments out of california, the scene of back to back mass shootings. police releasing information about the suspect in the latest massacre as the governor there mourns tragedy upon tragedy in his state. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re the situation room. let s get to the top story. the log jam over delivering tanks appears to be this reversal could be a major development in the war. explain how the biden administration came around on this. well, the biden administration finalizing plans to commit to sending the u.s. made m 1 abrams tank to ukraine with officials familiar with the matter.
mar-a-lago. bill: republicans launching multiple investigations into the mishandling of classified records. jim jordan accusing the administration of a double standard. here is what he told fox quote, why was president trump s home raided but not president biden s? why did the f.b.i. take pictures of president s trumps so-called classified document but not president biden s? republicans want fair and equal treatment under the law, end quote. here in turn is house majority leader steve scalise on the topic. you look at the 60 minutes interview joe biden did and the comments he made about former president trump having documents. he made the comments knowing that he mims had classified documents sitting in his garage. he will find out the rules apply to him and we ll finally start asking questions that haven t been asked for the last few years. dana: the secret service claims there are no visitor logs for president biden s home showing who may have had access to classified
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welcome back to our viewers and united states and around the world. i m john, those cnn center in atlanta. it is now 1 am on the u.s. u.s. east coast. the entire state of florida, embarrassing for the hurricane in. a massive storm stretching 100 miles across, which early made landfall on western cuba. knocking out the islands electricity grid causing a nationwide blackout. 11 million people right now in the dark waiting for more process to damage. as of this hour, no reports of any fatalities. since leaving cuba, it has gone in strength fueled by the warm waters of the gulf of mexico. as it heads to florida, now category three, sustained winds of about 120 miles per hour. along with life-threatening storm surge, florida is facing catastrophic flooding, strong powerful winds, all day long, tuesday, visitors across the state to make landfall, now expected sooner than first forecast, and further to the south. but in some parts, it has always been felt, conditions tore throughout