and welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. i m rahel solomon in for christine romans. wee begin with nikki haley, the 2024 presidential contender breaking with former president trump and florida governor ron desantis on a cnn town hall last night. they differentiated herself from her rivals, sometimes, by name, on a number of points including social security and medicare. and january 6. here s haley on ukraine where trump and desantis have avoided clearly backing the country s fight against russian aggression. listen. this is bigger than ukraine. this is a war about freedom. and it s one we have to win. a win for ukraine is a win for all of us. because tyrants tell us exactly what they re going to do. what we heard, china said they were going to take hong kong, they did it. russia said they were going to invade ukraine, we watched that happen. china says taiwan is next, we better believe them. russia says poland and the ballotics are next, if that happens,
mike pence admits that he too had classified material at his house. will the justice department appoint another special counsel as lawmakers react now to the pence news? and california s three mass shootings in three days. the latest, a case of workplace violence. what led a gunman to allegedly target his co-workers as we learn the identities of 19 killed in less than a week. plus reversing course. sources tell cnn the u.s. is now ready to send its abrams tanks to ukraine as germany also softens its opposition. so what changed? welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown. jake tapper is on assignment. we start in our politics lead with a story first reported by cnn. roughly a dozen classified documents found at former vice president mike pence s house. a lawyer for pence found the papers at pence s indiana home last week, according to sources, and turned them over to the fbi. the documents were not stored in a secure area of pence s home and the discovery directly contradic
frankly the headline number, matt, is a big one here. also it shows healthy growth in several sectors of the economy. yeah, jim. this is blockbuster growth. and it is pretty remarkable. this number is going to go a long way towards shutting down this idea that the u.s. economy is already in recession. to be adding more than half a million jobs, in a month, at this stage of the recovery, is pretty impressive. let me give you some context around this 528,000 job figure. this is twice as much as the consensus from economists. not only that, but it is 200,000 more than even the most optimistic forecaster had pencilled in. two big milestones that came out of this report, the labor market has now fully recovered all of the jobs lost during covid. total nonfarm payroll is back to february 2020 levels. the unemployment rate is now down to 3.5%. that matches the half century low set before covid. again, none of this suggests an imminent or ongoing recession. but here is the problem,
it s time for a woman to break the glass ceiling. i m a big fan of women, we balance, we prioritize, we know how to get things done. honestly, we ve let guys do it for a while, it might be time for a woman to get it done so reporter: haley is getting two more rivals when chris christie and former vice president mike pence also throw their hats into the ring. the field is getting incredibly crowded there s no doubt about that. the first republican debate, in august, jeff zeleny, cnn, des moines. now to a highly unusual sonic boom startling people and pets in the washington area on sunday. the booms caused by u.s. fighters scrambling to protect the capitol. more now from cnn s natasha bertrand in washington. reporter: a loud sonic boom that was heard across
police say this appears to be a random crime. to our world lead. soon nato s best tanks could be rolling onto the battlefield in ukraine after a week-long diplomatic log jam instigated by germany s refusal to send its more nimble leopard tanks unless the u.s. sent the abrams tanks first. now sources tell us the biden administration is changing its tune and finalizing plans to send its jet fuel guzzling tanks. joining us now, natasha bertrand in washington and fred pleitgen in ukraine. first of all, natasha, u.s. officials have repeatedly describes its abrams tanks more typical to use than germany s leopard tanks, why change course now? they are reiterating that these are cumbersome, difficult to use and costly. but they say now well, our sources say anyway, that they are preparing to announce their commitment of a significant number of abrams tanks to ukraine. now, it is unclear at this point