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
committee and other law enforcement agencies want access to the text messages his lawyers accidentally sent to the plaintiffs. plus, changes to airline cancellation rules may be about to take off. why passengers could actually get refunds for all of those canceled and delayed flights. welcome to the lead. we start with the world lead. a russian court found wnba star brittney griner guilty today of drug smuggling, quote, with criminal intent. the judge ordering griner to spend nine years in a russian penal colony that s under the maximum sentence. griner was arrested and charged in february for smuggling less than one gram of cannabis oil in her luggage. her lawyers argued she had been packing quickly to play for the russian premier league and didn t know that the cannabis oil, which had been prescribed by a u.s. doctor, was not allowed in russia. griner delivering this plea as part of her closing statement. i want to say again that i had no intent on breaking any
this is gops. the global public square. welcome to you around the united states and the world. i m fareed zakaria live from new york. today on the program, what would it take for ukraine to win this war? i ll put that question to two of america s top military officials. general david petraeus and james. do gas prices trump human rights? i ll ask an expert. and the federal reserve acts boldly to get inflation under control. will it work? i ll ask rana. first, here s my take. in 1942, winston churchill tried to ready the british people for a long conflict. referring to the allied victory in egypt, he said, this is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end. but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. when we think of it in those terms, what phase are we witnessing in the war in ukraine? we are likely in the middle, explains gid eon rose, an excellent book how wars end. he points out that every war begins like a chess game, with a dramatic attack and a defense.
I am poppy harlow with Phil Mattingly in new york. Erin burnett is in tel aviv, israel. President biden is getting ready to give a primetime address to the nation after returning home from the war zone in israel overnight. We are expecting him to make his pitch for war aid to israel and ukraine. Biden said he secured a deal with the egyptian president to allow trucks with humanitarian aid to process to gaza tomorrow where millions are of civilians are running out of food, water and medicine. If you have an opportunity to alleviate the pain, you should do it. Period. And if you dont, you are going to lose credibility worldwide. And i think everyone understands that. President biden also said u. S. Intelligence backs up israels claim that a Mall Fupgsing Rocket fired by Palestinian Militants caused the deadly blast at a hospital in gaza, not an israeli airstrike. New video appears to show a rocket fired from gaza make a sudden and sharp turn back where it came from moments before the exp
raffa is watching this one for us and she s joining us now. what are you seeing in terms of forecast? now? we re watching the possibility of a storm system developing on monday. and here s the bullseye were severe threat would be right over dallas, parts of southern arkansas, there, right in the path of totality, the jet stream or the path to store munis kinda sitting right there. and that s where we can find that storm development and the clouds. so our risk of seeing some rain is pretty high over parts of texas, louisiana, arkansas another storm system up in the northern plains as well. and you can see where we can find some showers as we go into monday and that would of course come with some cloud cover. so when you look at the cloud cover, you could see it does look pretty cloudy, especially on the southern half of the path of totality here from texas into arkansas, maybe a little bit more clear up in new england, places like upstate new york and vermont on that path of