hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. relieved of duty. cnn learning a sixth officer now put on administrative leave from the memphis police force and the brutal beating of tyre nichols has a painful memory of missed chances as communities look again at what can be done to change the way cops police. plus this week president joe biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy meet. a debt ceiling stalemate that shows zero signs of ending is issue one. and it s an early test of divided government. today the american secretary of state is in israel. the backdrop for his visit a string of death and destruction. raids, synagogue attacks as it come busts. a memphis police major says a six of the police officer has been now been relieved of duty, in in connection with the stop and subsequent boaeating that l to the death of tyre nichols. it follows the scorpion unit, a police team meant to corral street game no lon
everything possible to resolve this problem peacefully. new scenario has been unleashed and peace initiatives have been completely subverted by lies and hypocrisy. good morning, i m poppy ha harlow. sarah sniden n n ner is here wi. don will be back with us tomorrow. and here we re watching a speech that president putin just finished, a fiery response after president biden s surprise trip to kyiv. putin s warning to america and the west overall is russia s invasion of ukraine is nearing that one year grim milestone. president biden is preparing to deliver his own dueling speech here in poland in a matter of hours from now. plus families complaining of rashes, headaches and nausea, but are the symptoms actually linked to that toxic train wreck? east palestine, ohio? the head of the epa is returning to east palestine as the feds try to figure all this out. and an arrest in the death of a los angeles catholic bishop, who is the man in custody and what is his connection to
the belief among democrats that a horrible political climate is improving some. plus, a high stakes trip. multiple officials now tell cnn the house speaker nancy pelosi will touch down in taiwan, ignoring dramatic warnings from china. and this week, democrats promised to put a vets bill back on the floor a second time. that after republican rejection prompts angry viral protests. we begin the hour, though, with death and devastation and sadness in kentucky. more heavy rain coming tonight and adding to the already historic and destructive flooding. at least 30 people are dead, including these four children, 2, 4, 6, and 8 years old and swept away when strong flood waters ripped them from their parents. the governor says they will, quote, be finding bodies for we weeks. certainly the deadliest and most devastating of my lifetime. we can now confirm we have lost 30 kentuckians to this flooding and that is going to grow. we know about additional bodies beyond these 30 confirmed
espionage act, obstruction of justice and criminal handling of government records. no one has been charged with a crime that we know of as of now. this just in, the democratic chairs of the intelligence committee and the oversight committee and the house have written a letter to the director of national intelligence saying they want a damage assessment, and briefing regarding these documents recovered from mar-a-lago, and of course trump and his allies are of course spending and peddling wild conspiracy theories about the fbi search at mar-a-lago. the theories range from ridiculous and laughable to down right dangerous. cnn s daniel dale joins me now to talk about this. trump is saying all the fbi and the department of justice has to do is ask for these documents back, and there would have been no problem at all. all they had to do was ask, and that post on his truth site. does that align with what we know? it does not at all align with what we know, jim. we know there was
claiming that the west s sanctions are doing nothing to hurt his economy. donald trump fires back at the committee and his former vice president. and china is showing off its most advanced aircraft carrier in what appears to be a direct message to the west. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we begin in ukraine where russia is reportedly sending more firepower to eastern lines. russian artillery is pounding areas near sievierodonetsk, trying to cut it off from surrounding cities. ukraine says it intercepted two russian missiles near odesa and no one was killed. in kyiv, ukrainian and eu flags flew side by side. the move doesn t guarantee membership, which would be years away, but president zelenskyy says it s still important. here he is. translator: ukraine deserves this positive. ukrainian values are european values. ukrainian institutions remain resilience, even in conditions of war. ukrainian democratic habits have not lost their pow