looming in the background, china, which has been flexing its military power in the region recently. north korea, which may launch a missile test during the president s visit to the pacific region. and, of course, the war in ukraine. president biden called out vladimir putin in his remarks today, and he s set to sign off on a major aid package while in asia to help ukraine. cnn s white house correspondent jeremy diamond is in seoul following the president. so, jeremy, what else happened on biden s first day there? reporter: well, alison, in his first remarks in south korea, president hailing the u.s./south korea relationship as a linchpin of peace, prosperity. there are heightened intention with north korea as u.s. intelligence indicates that north korea could potentially test fire an intercontinental ballistic missile and or a nuclear weapon while president biden is here in south korea or while he is in the region as he goes to japan next. that has, of course, heightened
remains strong and they re waiting for a judge to sort of give an answer as to what will happen moving forward. there were other filings that were also put forward by defense attorneys, and one of them, they re asking that the judge throw out a lot of evidence that was laid out so far in this case. much of what we heard in february there was law enforcement that testified to a search warrant that was in the crumbley s home after this incident happened, and they re asking that a lot of this evidence just not be a part of the trial should it go to trial later this year. that includes ethan s 22 page journal. law enforcement testified he wrote several instances about the school shooting to the day before the shooting actually happened. there were text messages from ethan to a friend talking about how his parents didn t really care about his feelings or get him any help. there was a bird head found in a jar in ethans room. so defense attorneys here saying none of this matters in the