standoff between its allies. lloyd austin meeting with european defense ministers at ramstein air base in germany. we are also, though, just getting in some breaking news, cnn white house reporter natasha bertrand, oren liebermann joining us. what are you hearing potentially about what more we re learning? even this secret meeting that the cia director held last week with president zelenskyy? yeah, so about the meeting between ukrainian president zelenskyy and cia director bill burns we are learning that burns went there really to brief the ukrainian president on what the u.s. believes are the potential battle plans by russia to launch an offensive in the spring. now, of course, bill burns has been a very key emissary between the u.s. and ukraine as well as even with russia over the course of the war and this really just signifies the urgency the u.s. feels in this moment getting ukraine the information the intelligence it needs ahead of this potential russian offensive see
some leopard tanks to ukraine while holding back the american-made abrams model. what s the difference, and can ukraine get some tanks before russia ramps up its war in the spring? plus, a new investigation opened in new mexico into a republican candidate s campaign possibly being laced with money from fentanyl sales just days after his arrest accused of plotting to shoot the homes of his democratic rivals. and julia roberts made her a household name. coming up, the real erin brockovich is here on a mission to help military families. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper and we start with the world lead in what appears to be a standoff between the united states and germany when it comes to giving more heavy weapons to ukraine. more than 50 countries and organizations met at ramstein air base in germany led by top military leaders but the group failed to come to an agreement on one of ukraine s most pressing request, whether or not germany will send the leopard tanks to i
pulled the trigger. that s not what the actor says. and despite an eight-month investigation at the highest levels, the supreme court has apparently failed to find who leaked last year s abortion opinion. and constitutional lawyers say that is as frightening as the leak itself. but we begin with president biden who said tonight he has no regrets about his handling of classified documents. the white house correspondent kevin corke live in the nation s capitol with more. kevin, good evening. kevin: evening, trace. the president s son hunter who as you know is facing a number of investigations dealing with his businesses and other controversies actually once noted he and other family members quarantined at his dad s house where the classified documents were recently found. just to reset, his memoir was published in april of 2021, in it, he said he and his family members spent election night 2020 at the house in wilmington. after the white house press secretary and the council
sins away. todd: a lot of sins in new orleans, who knows about nashville. maybe tom brady will end up there. looking at sin city, looking at tennessee titans, and looking at the 49ers, we ll see what happens with that. that is carley, i m todd, we have news. carley: absolutely, good morning, happy friday, best day of the week, we have crime news starting with this. audience of anti-crime summit bursting into applause when a top police officer pushes back against a lawmaker, this clip was obtained by new york post. respectfully mr. dean read statistics about repeat oafeders, they would not be repeat offenders if police were not constantly rearrested them. todd: a shocking report from the manhattan institute, another social justice crime policy, tossing 69% of criminal cases due to new york s discovery law, no shock here, that was changed in 2019. up from 44% of cases dismissed in 2019 prior to the law being updated. carley: this whole thing, he was saying crime is
into the investigation reached to the nation s highest court which involves introducing thousand of staffers but subpoenas and polygraph test. the witness testimony turned over to the fbi. jonathan turley called the supreme court s failure to produce answers almost as chilling as the leak itself. todd: ashley strohmier here with the very latest. we still don t know who licked the dogs but everyone has to do an interview did and every single one of them signed a sworn affidavit under penalty of perjury they did not disclose to anyone who didn t work for the courts. however, they told their spouses the outcome of the case and vote and the supreme court released a statement on the eighth month investigation and following up on all available leads, marshall s team with forensic analysis and conduct of multiple follow-up interviews of certain employees but the team has two o date unable to find a person responsible by preponderance of evidence. or whether electronic of the dog