united states and around the world. and just ahead on cnn newsroom make no mistake, if any object presents a threat to the safety and security of the american people, i will take it down. to see that i couldn t stop it, it was the worst thing. they were like my kids. we will go through this process with the citizens of east palestine for as long as it takes. just happened to hit some good shots finally and made a couple putts. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is friday, february 17th. in washington, d.c., u.s. president biden is finally speaking publicly about those unidentified objects shot out of the sky by the military. he says nothing suggests these objects are related to china s spy balloon program or that they were surveillance objects from any other country. it is important to note the u.s. has not been able to recover any of the debris because of the remote locations and severe weather. phil mattingly r
top of the hour this friday. i m jim sciutto. i m erica hill, and right now all five former police officers charged with murder and other charges in the death of tyre nichols are inside of a memphis courthouse. they are set to be arraigned on seven charges including second-degree murder and aggravated assault. this morning the shelby county district attorney said that the prosecutors are still looking into charging a sixth former officer who tased nichols in the traffic stop that night as well as others possibly. we are looking at everybody who was involved directly or indirectly in death of tyre nichols, and this is officer hemphill and those who showed up after the beating had concluded, and we will do what we can as quickly as we can, but thoroughly. now, we are still waiting for the release of 20 hours of additional footage from deadly beating and the aftermath, and it could be relevant, and cnn s shimon prokupiez is there at the courthouse, and i understand that
intensifies as more russian shelling targets major cities killing civilians. the u.s. now promising ukraine new equipment has been pleading for prey. united states obesity sending 30 when abram tanks ukraine for. when they will arrive is still a big question. parks is going to take many months or for the tanks get their progress with saddam s republican congressman michael mccaul. democratic congressman adam smith s ranking member of the armed services committee to discuss u.s. help for ukraine as the war years the one-year mark. then. the administration s stonewalling congress on the classified documents for congressional republicans and democrats say they are in the dark on what exactly was in those classified documents discovered in biden s and trump s homes. fox news sunday legal panel will break down the fight between the d.o.j. and capitol hill over what was found and. mcdaniel elected his chairwoman for her fourth consecutive term. we ll ask our sunday panel wh
there was a time, before the war in ukraine, when europe thought about its place in the world, and how it could become less dependent on the united states. as washington turned inwards, and administrations refocused us foreign policy towards asia, france and germany talked about the need for strategic autonomy . but today in warsaw, at a meeting of the bucharest 9, it was the american president sat at the head of the table. all nine members of this group were part of the former soviet union or the defunct warsaw pact. the commitment of the united states to nato, i ve said it too many times, i ll say it again, is absolutely clear. article five is a sacred commitment the united states has made. we will defend literally every inch of nato, every inch of nato. and this is an important moment. i look forward to the discussion, the next steps we can take together and to keep our alliance strong and to further deter aggression. because what literally is at stake is notjust ukraine,
the fact that the decision on tanks must be taken. standoff on military aid, u.s. and nato allies push germany to provide key tanks to ukraine. we re live in london on the diplomatic stalemate. and blow to republicans as the justice department signaled it won t hand over documents they demanded. how it impacts the biden and trump investigations. plus anti-abortion activists rally in washington, d.c. for the march for life demonstration. protestors say even though roe was overturned, there work isn t done. despite intense negotiations among the west s most senior defense officials, determine any still won t agree to send its coveted leopard 2 battle tanks to ukraine and they won t even allow other countries who have them to supply them about on paper it appears ideally suited for ukraine plus thousands are already deployed to more than a dozen nearby european countries, so getting some into ukraine would be relatively easy. poland for example is eager to give some of