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
i m erica hill in new york. explosive evidence, gruesome, internet searches and trash bags filled with dna. we ll begin with those chilling new details all emerging from court just a short time ago as a missing mother s husband is now being held without bond on a murder charge. prosecutors telling a massachusetts judge exactly what they believe happened to ana walshe. it is believed that brian walshe dismembered her body. jason carroll is live outside the courthouse. criminologist kacey jordan here. first, we did learn a lot this morning about what prosecutors say brian walshe did in the days both before and after ana walshe as reported missing. you were in the courtroom. what did prosecutors reveal? right, and very specific detail i was seated just behind the prosecutor there. she took out her notebook, erica, and was flipping over page after page reading a long gruesome list of allegedly some of the things that brian walshe had googled in the wake of his wife s disapp
this hour as a police standoff unfolds in california. this is believed to be connected to the mass shooting in monterey, california, that killed ten and left ten injured. the suspect is an asian male. armed and dangerous. witnesses say people in a dance studio celebrating the lunar new year when shots rang out. natasha chen joins me from california. what more are we learning? reporter: jim, a law enforcement source tells josh campbell it is related to the investigation into this shooting that happened in monterey park a couple blocks away from where we are. behind is a fbi mobile unit. lots of law enforcement. we are waiting to hear about the possible connection here to that standoff that you are seeing. the standoff through aerials is in torrance, california, 30 miles southwest of us approximately to the coast and we have been seeing now these vehicles, armored s.w.a.t. vehicles to the front and the back of a white van and still for quite sometime. the reason it could be i
joining us. i m ana cabrera in new york. fighting for every last vote. more than two weeks from now americans will hit the polls and minutes from now president biden will hit his wins in office but is it enough to keep democrats in power? the president is about to speak to the democratic national committee headquarters. the plan, rev up staffers and talk about the economic agenda. gas prices dropping. here is what he s contending with, inflation still crushing americans out pacing wage growth and mortgage rates have more than doubled. today s speech comes as the latest polling shows voters trust republicans more on the economy right now. cnn phil mattingly is at the white house. why does the president need to rev up democrats at the dnc? reporter: ana, this is as hu much a tradition that should tell you we re close to election day as anything else. when the principle whether the president or the senator, wherever the candidate visiting staffers to rally them to get them goi
governor and tomorrow in the contest for senate in pennsylvania. nearly 7.3 million people have already cast their ballots in 39 states according to one analysis. right now, president biden is making his pitch to voters. he s hoping to shift the momentum away from republicans. a new analysis of the political landscape in these final weeks shows republicans are making late gains as they try to win back control of the house. white house correspondent jeremy diamond is with us now. give us details on what the president is saying. reporter: president biden is delivering right now what he termed a closing argument here as we are just about two weeks from election day. the president, though, isn t in the battleground states where you might expect him to be delivering that kind of closing argument. he s at democratic party headquarters where he said his goal is to try to energize the organizers who are calling into those battleground states, the staff at the democratic party who