Ukraines counteroffensive and sobering new assessment. And now it is time to set the rule of the road as they head to the trial, and trumps team is saying that the prosecutors are going after his First Amendment rights now. And 40 Million People are under severe threats today after the extreme storms have battered the United States over night. Im omar jimenez with kate bolduan and john berman. This is cnn news central. We have brandnew reporting this morning on ukraines counteroffensive in russia. Weeks into the fight, the reports from the battlefield are increasingly sobering. Specifically, concerns of the ability to retake specific territory. The National Security correspondent and the awardwinning author jim sciutto broke this reporting, and now he heard the reporting, and this is a marked change in weeks to folks in the u. S. And europe and the military and diplomacy and also lawmakers and there is a consistent read of the intelligence assessments here, and that is the counter offe
of the jewish community in pittsburgh who said they felt a lot of relief when that conviction came down. just to describe the tone inside the courtroom, it was also silent as they read the first charges and the first guilty verdicts. it shows you intently the community has been paying attention to this trial. i want to touch on the charges that robert bauers was found guilty of. 63 federal charges, also guilty of 22 of the capital offenses, it was the instruction of the free exercise of religious beliefs resulting in death. the jury said robert bauers killed jewish worshippers while they were exercising their religious freedom. it has been a long time coming and a hard trial to listen to over the past three weeks. i ll bring up one testimony we heard. we heard from carole black. she was a survivor of the shooting. she described hiding in a closet while bullets were ringing out above her. she saw her friend mel wax be killed. she testified he immediately went down on his back.
welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. this hour, the white house is lamb basting members of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu s cabinet. specifically two right wing extremists who are calling for the ethnic cleansing of tony bl some are wondering if the netanyahu administration will have to choose between extremists and the biden administration. and a federal appeals court, a closer look at abortion since roe v. wade was overturned. we have a brand new court filing from donald trump. this time he s going to the u.s. supreme court to try to appeal the decision made by the colorado supreme court to remove him from its 2024 ballot for engaging in insurrection. let s get right to cnn s paula reed who is here with me. paula, i know you have a big stack of papers that you just printed out, but what can you tell us about this appeal? two weeks ago, the colorado supreme court removed trump from the ballot. that decision is on hold, because previously, the republican p
pete: hello good morning it s 8:00 o clock hour on the east coast, that was a navy band northeast ceremonial band that you were listening to. they have been here all morning and they were here yesterday and they are fantastic, it is the day before memorial day, the day before we recognize, honor and remember all those who lost their lives in service to our great country. from that we have fewer e-mails honoring service members in their lives that were killed in action. pete: let s start with john and judith who are in remembering their son john j dunn, he was killed in an intruder aircraft to japan in 1984. rachel: honoring the navy johnny johnson he was killed aboard the uss plymouth when he was torpedoed by an au boat off the coast of cape henry virginia back in 1943. lastly lynn is remembering her cousin billy mays in the vietnam war 1965 the family says, the heartbreak is still as wrong today as the day we were notified. let me tell you all the vietnam veterans never miss
a man whose father and grandfather that were killed in a bombing in gaza can t communicate from ckhan yunis because of a blackout. we have new details in the hunt for the hamas leader. putin speaking out for the first time about reports he has a body double, taking it on, as a series of questions flashes across a screen during putin s annual press conference. why are so many people in russia poor? who is behind the scathing questions? she may be the only republican woman in the presidential race, but are women voters buying what nikki haley is selling? that s our special story. so let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the breaking news, a blackout. gaza s communications network nonexistent. as of tonight, there is a near total blackout in gaza. no way to get a message in or out. just before the show, we tried to speak with a palestinian man who was in gaza. now, when we first heard from him this morning, he was able to share with us so