defense today. the lead starts right now. might there be a breakthrough? after months of tuber vville blocking military promotions. the secretary tells cnn in an exclusive interview this blockade by tuberville has become a threat to national security. and major questions for the secret service today as the agency says it s closing it s case and that they could not figure out who dropped a baggy of cocaine inside the white house. plus one of california s premier hospitals facing a new federal civil rights investigation into its alleged treatment of pregnant black women. welcome to the lead i m jam tapper. we re going to start with our world lead. president biden today made quite the bold statement about putin s bloody war against ukraine. putin s already lost the war. putin has a real problem. how does he move from here? what does he do? there is no possibility of him winning the war in ukraine. he s already lost the war. that stunning assertion from biden at a new
defense today. the lead starts right now. might there be a breakthrough? after months of tuber vville blocking military promotions. the secretary tells cnn in an exclusive interview this blockade by tuberville has become a threat to national security. and major questions for the secret service today as the agency says it s closing it s case and that they could not figure out who dropped a baggy of cocaine inside the white house. plus one of california s premier hospitals facing a new federal civil rights investigation into its alleged treatment of pregnant black women. welcome to the lead i m jam tapper. we re going to start with our world lead. president biden today made quite the bold statement about putin s bloody war against ukraine. putin s already lost the war.
current administration and they feel it is time to really focus on those community issues like homeownership, employment rates, those kind of things. they really will be the targeted message that really many voters are going to respond to there in south carolina. sung, you know, cnn s jam tapper actually spoke with mayor buttigieg and he took issue with senator kamala harris. she spent a lot of time in south carolina, she won t be there for the forum this weekend, but buttigieg took issue with some of her comments about her doj should she win the presidency would prosecute trump if indeed she has the opportunity to be in the white house. listen. your fellow 2020 democrat, your opponent, senator kamala harris, said this week if she is elected president her justice department would have no choice but to go forward with obstruction of justice charges against president trump. would the justice department under a president buttigieg feel the same way, do the same thing?