one-year mark. cnn is on the ground in kyiv and moscow. the bodies said to be piling up. also tonight, five former memphis police officers plead not guilty to second-degree murder and other charges in the fatal beating of tieyre nichols. his mother at the hearing and said they could not look her in the eye. i ll speak to ben crump this hour. rick scott backing down from a controversial plan dropping social security and medicare provisions after bipartisan backlash including president biden s direct attack during the state of the union address. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is on assignment today. i m pamela brown and you re the situation room . and we begin this hour on the front lines in ukraine. a new round of russian shelling adding to the mounting toll of death and destruction after nearly a full year of war. cnn senior national security correspondent alex march alex marquardt is there. reporter: it is a critical
actually went through these binders page by page. just for context, it s not unusual for presidents and vice presidents to be given these travel briefing binders. that include background memos on people there leaving with in foreign countries, our sources say, sometimes, they just include basic biographical information on foreign leaders. . government officials. sometimes, they also include more sensitive information. our colleague, evan perez, says that the fbi is working with the excess with it. it is potential risks, and let s remember, these papers were not in a secure location. they were in the pence private home. according to one since that was briefed on this classified documents. it is nothing, particularly, unusual in the paper s. they described the classification markings, which are for some of the documents, as on the, quote, lower level. the source also said, there was no mention of a sihai, or s cp markings. those are two of the designations of the most sensiti
everything possible to resolve this problem peacefully. new scenario has been unleashed and peace initiatives have been completely subverted by lies and hypocrisy. good morning, i m poppy ha harlow. sarah sniden n n ner is here wi. don will be back with us tomorrow. and here we re watching a speech that president putin just finished, a fiery response after president biden s surprise trip to kyiv. putin s warning to america and the west overall is russia s invasion of ukraine is nearing that one year grim milestone. president biden is preparing to deliver his own dueling speech here in poland in a matter of hours from now. plus families complaining of rashes, headaches and nausea, but are the symptoms actually linked to that toxic train wreck? east palestine, ohio? the head of the epa is returning to east palestine as the feds try to figure all this out. and an arrest in the death of a los angeles catholic bishop, who is the man in custody and what is his connection to
it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. today the attorney general accused donald trump, his family and organization of a pattern of fraud and deception that was, her word, astounding. letitia james is suing the former president for $250 million, alleging fraud that spanned years before he entered the white house. also named in the suit, three of trump s adult children and two executives of the trump organization. they re all accused of inflating or deflating assets for their gain. over the course of our investigation we found that mr. trump, his children, the trump organization, created and used more than 200 false and misleading asset valuations on a statement of financial condition over that ten-year period. here s just one case cited in the 200 plus page lawsuit. ag james said trump claimed his florida estate was worth $739 million, when it was only worth $75 million. now she is not only demanding a quarter billion doll
come drone attacks cause blackouts across ukraine. russia targeting more power plants and escalating the bloodshed and suffering of civilians. also tonight, a cnn exclusive on the trump tapes. stand by to hear some of then president trump s revealing recorded interviews with journalists bob woodward including trump boasting about the letters that sparked the mar-a-lago documents investigation. as early voting in georgia sets records right now, the high stakes midterm election is now only three weeks away. we re following flash points in the battle for control of congress including a new promise by president biden on abortion rights for women. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re the situation room. our top story this hour, wide spread blackouts across ukraine as russia strikes major power and water facilities. ukrainian officials warning that moscow s attacks have already destroyed nearly a third of their ener