russian state media is reporting that two ukrainian drones were flown toward the kremlin last night. again, this is coming from the state-controlled russian media with absolutely no verification at all from the ukrainians or anyone else for that matter, and there are a variety of reasons why a russian claim like this would be advantageous to them which we will get into in a bit. and russia is calling this, though, a terrorist attack and also claiming that it was an attempt to assassinate russian president vladimir putin. we have team coverage on this breaking news for you. nic robertson is in eastern ukraine, nick paton walsh is in dnipro, ukraine, and major general james spider marks is joining us as well. let s start with nic robertson. what else are you picking up? reporter: well, what we re hearing from the ukrainians is they re down playing this, saying this is a trick to be expected from our opponents. they re saying that russia is trying to use this event or purp
now we expect that they are going to meet on tuesday, next week, to make a decision about how to go forward. hold on a second. next tuesday? why are you meeting seven days from now? the fact is that the house is on recess right now and kevin mccarthy, the house speaker, is a broad. so as soon that they are going to be able to get together and have this conversation is next tuesday. that is exactly right. a lot of lawmakers, including mitt romney today argued why are we waiting so long? this is an emergency, we know congress takes time to figure these things out, we need to be on the sooner. hadn t president biden said he was not going to meet? i don t know if he ever stated that, but the feeling was that he was not going to meet with mccarthy because he didn t feel that the republicans were negotiating with good faith. what had been the holdup until now? one of the arguments the white house had made was that they were not going to negotiate on the debt ceiling. the
good evening, everyone. thanks for tuning in i m alison camerota. welcome to cnn tonight. let s start with the culture wars. in the past 24 hours the battlefield has been noisy. more battles about books in the classroom, drama over drag shows, and gaslighting about gas stoves. here is florida governor ron desantis this morning surrounded by and taking urgent action to protect gas stoves. they are trying to take away your gas stove. they are coming for any little thing in your life that they can do, and i think what they want to be able to do is they ultimately want to control the amount of energy you consume. well, it turns 92% of floridians use electric stoves, but let s not let that get in the way. what is this really about? well, governor sarah huckabee sanders spelled it out. we are under attack in a left wing culture war we didn t start and never wanted to fight. sure seems like some people do want this fight. but what s the truth about culture war rhetoric? we
out. joe biden is running and with donald trump leading the gop field, it seems ever more likely that the country will get exactly what it doesn t want, 2022 deja vu both men have dicey approval numbers. but when it comes to who americans would rather see in office, a majority of voters have repeatedly shown a distaste for trump-style drama, which makes the news today that was not about joe biden perhaps even more beneficial for democrats than anything the president could have announced earlier in new york, the civil lawsuit brought by writer e. jean carroll against donald trump has officially begun we have new details on who was picked for the jury today and what lawyers for both sides will argue in their openings, which should start in just a moment. and in georgia, we finally got an idea of what imminent means from the fulton county d.a. fani willis says a decision on whether to charge donald trump will be announced as soon as july remember, he s already been indicted fo