top of the hour this wednesday. i m jim sciutto. i m kristen fisher. next hour, president biden heading home after this critical trip to europe including a historic visit to ukraine. this morning the president held a roundtable with the nato secretary-general and leaders of those nato countries that are closest to russia s borders and the u.s. and its allies really facing this daunting challenge now of how to keep the momentum on ukraine side one year after russia s invasion. today as we approach the one-year anniversary of russia s further invasion, it s even more important that we continue to stand together, and i think this is proof of this, how strongly we feel. well, on the other side, russian president vladimir putin met this morning with a top chinese diplomat. putin says moscow and beijing are, quote, reaching new milestones as we learn now that a meeting may be in the works between putin and chinese president xi jinping with u.s. officials warning that chin
everyone. and welcome to cnn. this morning. saturday, march 25th. what victor? what? i m ambro walker. are we doing like another studio change? i m victor blackwell. so here s what happened. the air conditioner in the studio didn t work. so we did the six o clock hour in 80 degrees plus lights sweating. we were sweating. and then we said , we can t do this. so we moved to separate studios that were air conditioned. during that hour. at seven. they fixed the a. c. now we re back in this studio. hopefully it works first weekend back with us. you brought the chaos. bring the heat. you brought the heat. you sure did. i don t like it so much. alright. here s what we re watching this morning. when he came through. it sounds like helicopter real real fast, and it came so fast and quick. we can do nothing but get up on the cover. severe storms ripped through parts of the south more than 20. people are dead more than 100,000 people without power. one mississippi town is described as q
young. and uh and so it s a it s not exceptional that that young people are doing important things in our military. that s that s really not the issue. the issue is and by the way he had a top secret clearance. the issue is, uh, you know how, uh, you responsibly execute, carry out your duties and how you protect the information. as the pentagon tries to contain this, a secret document not previously reported on shows the chinese military is preparing a supersonic spy drone unit. we have cnn s alex marquardt here with us on on this story. what do we learning about this drone? it s pretty incredible. it is pretty remarkable. it does show significant advancement in china s drone capabilities. and as you noted, this is an assessment that comes from the national geospatial intelligence agency. it was a document was obtained by the washington post, which we ourselves have not seen. verified but what it does indicate is that they have made significant leaps to this drone , which is
hit a base housing u. s personnel. they believe that drone was iranian. it made u. s forces quickly struck back targeting facilities used by iran s revolutionary guard, so, says u s officials say u. s officials this morning cnn got reaction from the white house. we don t seek a war with iran. we re not looking for an armed conflict with that country or another war in the region. we do seek to protect our mission in syria. all of this is unfolding as president biden is set to meet with the canadian prime minister justin trudeau. we are alive in ottawa. we re waiting to hear from the president himself. on this attack in syria. also just a few minutes ago. you can see him there in the back of him. that is trump attorney evan corcoran, arriving at a washington dc courthouse. he just entered the building. he is going to testify today before a grand jury in the mara lago classified documents probe and he will do so without the protection of attorney client privilege. first that we
top of the hour. a busy wednesday morning. we begin with breaking news this morning. cnn has learned that the fbi conducted a search at president biden s home in rehoboth beach, delaware. the search taking place this morning as a special counsel investigation into the president s handling of classified material picks up. mj lee is at the white house. paula, what more can you tell us about this search. was it expected? sfwlr it was absolutely expected. back when the classified documents were discovered in the office, his attorneys went and also searched his two homes. one in will mington. they say they did discover classified materials at his wilmington home, but they did not uncover any at this property. once this baim the subject of a special counsel investigation, ten days ago the fbi conducted its own search of the wilmington house. it lasted 13 hours and did uncover additional classified materials. so it was very much expected that the fbi would also go back to the reho