next on behind the series. let me tell you about the greatest roster ever assembled. the monster, the outlaw. and you can t forget about the boss. it wasn t just a roster. it was a menu. the subway series. the greatest menu of all time. house republican leaders giving freshman new york congressman george santos not one, but two committee assignments, despite the countless lies he told during his campaign. he joins other controversial colleagues as well who also have new committee assignments tonight. we ll talk about all that and what it tells us about speaker mccarthy s hold on the gop, or maybe their hold on him. but i want to bring in democratic congressman ritchie torres of new york. he is one who has been calling on the federal election commission to launch an investigation into santos over allegations that he broke campaign finance laws. congressman, thank you for being here this evening. this is certainly a congressman, a colleague who has a lot of questions surroundin
cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. hello and warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and around the world. i m max foster. bianca off this week. just ahead on cnn newsroom. reporter: brian walshe facing murder charges in the mysterious disappearance of his wife, ana walshe. even without the body you re going to have enough evidence seemingly to focus on nobody else but him. trying to draw a contrast with the way trump has handled his own documents issues. they re trying to draw a picture of cooperation. you guys can ask me this 100 times, 200 times if you wish, i m going to keep saying the same thing. reporter: aviation experts are calling it a narrowly avoided disaster at new york s john f. kennedy airport. they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. it s wednesday, january 18th. 9 a.m. here in london. 11 a.m. in kyiv, ukraine. we re following this breaking news for you developin
and even more horrible day for the people of ukraine. the lead starts right now. a helicopter crash outside a kindergarten in the suburbs of kyiv and a ukrainian cabinet minister and a child among the 14 killed. what caused this tragedy? plus, she s called matt gaetz a fraud, used a clown emoemp bey to describe marjorie taylor greene and called her own party tone deaf on the subject of abortion. speaking with congresswoman nancy mace as the swing district republican fights for the soul of the gop. and officially charged in his wife s murder. google searches including how long before a body starts to smell, how to clean blood from wooden floor and, how long for someone to be missing to inherit, quote/unquote. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with the big story in our world lead. an investigation is und? er way and three days of mourning in ukraine have begun after a helicopter crashed in the kyiv suburb earlier today. the crash at 8:20 a.m. ukraine time
happening now, another child s body found in the rubble of a ukrainian residential apartment building as the death toll from a powerful russian missile attack rises. this hour i ll ask key white house official john kirby about new u.s. and western military aid to ukraine and whether it s enough. also tonight the white house is ramping up its damage control as the crisis over classified documents intensifies. the biden team defending its delayed and incomplete release of information while accusing republicans of fake outrage. and the husband of a messing massachusetts woman is now charged with murdering his wife. we re breaking down the new evidence in this very high profile case as it takes a dramatic turn. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. we begin with the growing carnage from russia s attack on an apartment building in ukraine, one of the single deadliest strikes of vladimir putin
hiss rival office holders killed. the lead starts right now. one city, four homes, each one shot at. police say who the man was who orchestrated the attacks, they say he wanted to cause injury or death and the apparent targets were his democratic rivals. plus, trading in on the biden family name, house republicans ready to investigate presidential son hunter and presidential brothers jimmy and frank biden for trying to use their access to the now president to try to make money. where does the investigatory trail begin? well, cnn is investigating. and, how did two passenger planes end up on a collision course? could this very serious question impact your next flight? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and the white house counsel s office desperately trying to explain why the biden white house has repeatedly given the american people incomplete, late information about president biden and his staff s handling of classified documents. both