also tonight the biden white house is sticking to the script as its new strategy for dealing with the classified documents crisis takes shape. we ll have the latest on what s happening behind the scenes amid growing pressure on the president. and prosecutors reveal chilling new evidence as the massachusetts man is form formally charged with murdering his missing wife. our experts will break down the case and all the disturbing new details. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. tonight ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is calling the helicopter crash near kyiv is a tragedy, and he s suggesting that every death in his country is a result of the ongoing war. cnn s chief international correspondent clarissa ward has more from kyiv on this disaster and the investigation that is now under way. reporter: a quiet kyiv suburb turned into an inferno. the sounds of screaming can be heard. min
secretary instead talk about the m1 s, listen to this soundbite really quickly. i do think the m1 tank, when it is delivered will make a difference. there s no silver bullet in this case but i think the m1 tank when it s delivered and reaches its operational capability it will be effective in the battlefield. aishah: general mike milley. there s no contradiction between what milley is saying and what we are asking for. you ask any military cadet at west point and what is the important ingredients of military operation whether defensive or attacking you will see that air superiority and air dominance. in fact, even in the u.s. military doctrine there s a paragraph which very clearly states that without air dominance or air superiority it
provide 31 abram tanks to the ukraine. i always love the fact that our guest on the couch today, secretary pompeo, literally has experience in every facet of life. so you were once based in west germany with the second squadron, you were a tank platoon leader. mike: for a long time. speech i was going to see you been in an m1 tank tell us what you ve done and what this communicates to the american people. mike: i will say two things. look, i think this is the right decision. i also think it s also so late. but i guess better now than ever. but we should ve done this a while back. we should ve been providing ukraine s with the tools they needed and could use. we have to make sure we get them the right training, this is a beast of the m1 tank is incredible powerful beast of an equipment, and the leopard challenger tank is welcome of these are three world-class armaments we need to make sure they have these tools, the only way to bring this to an end is to convince putin the top down
has a competent security team. these are some very experienced, smart people. we shouldn t confuse a political diplomatic argument with a military one. the entire effort here appropriately is to force germany to take a more aggressive role in participating in the defense of ukraine. the m1 tank is readily available within a week. we have hundreds of them in europe now, and can put them in the theater very rapidly. it goes 265 miles on a single fuel tank. it goes 45 miles an hour. it kills people in the dark at 3,000 meters. there are 1,100 m1 tanks with the egyptians. of course, the ukrainians with
you can fight combined arms warfare, they have not been able to do it. and they align the tanks with the bradley fighting vehicles, infantry troop carrier, self-propelled 155s, air above them, and they create very cohesive fighting organizations, the russians cannot beat that. and it was designed to beat the russians with the warsaw pact in the area of germany. and look, i have no idea where it s going on, it s absolutely foolish. also like the m1 tank, they said it takes jet fuel. no, it doesn t. jet fuel, diesel, gasoline, it probably will take channel number 5 perfume if you can afford it. i believe they could evict the russians from ukraine. but we have to give them the