stare down between the u.s. and china and the outcome could have huge ramifications for russia s war in ukraine. u.s. officials are saying beijing is considering arming vladimir putin s forces with drones and ammunition and it s a move the biden administration thinks would prolong the war and up the death toll significantly. the cia says there is no evidence that china has yet sent any of this lethal equipment, but the white house promises major consequences if it does. beijing will have to make its own decisions about how it proceeds, whether it provides military assistance, but if it goes down that road it will come at real cost to china and i think china s leaders are weighing that as they make their decisions. now, this warning is coming just weeks after a suspected chinese spy balloon traversed the united states, leaving the relationship between these two super powers in tatters. cnn s phil mattingly is at the white house for us. does the white house see this as thei
is amazing. cnn continues now. translator: a year ago on this day from the same place around 7:00 in the morning, i addressed to you with a brief statement, we are strong and we are ready for anything. we will defeat everyone. this is how it began february 24th, 2022. i think everyone will attest to this, it s surprising that we are still here in this war that ukraine is still hanging on and still fighting back. as we know vladimir putin thought, hey we go into ukraine and it will be done zip zip zip. that is not happening. that is what we are talking about as we mark this one year. good morning. ukraine stands defiant and unconquered on this anniversary. it s now entering the second year. what is next for russia after a year of heavy losses. we will be joined live from moscow. and china is now stepping up and taking a more active role. can beijing help to broker a peace deal or will they get involved more on russia s behalf. and we know now that the engineer tried
it s the top of the hour in cnn newsroom. we re following multi-. concerns about that chinese spy balloon hovering over the u.s. secretary blinken just postponed his stop in china. the pentagon is about the size of three buses. it s huge. it was spotted soaring over montana at 60,000 feet. just moments ago the balloon was spotted over columbia, missouri. the national weather service tweeted these images of what they say is a large balloon in the kansas city area. despite growing calls to shoot it down, for now president biden is opting against that. the chinese are saying it s a weather balloon that blew off course. we re aware of the statement. the fact is we know it s a surveillance balloon. i can t be more specific than that. we know the balloon has violated u.s. air space and international law which is unacceptable. we ve conveyed this directly to the prc at multiple levels. john miller is here with us, cnn s intelligence analyst and kylie atwood. tell us abo
viewers around the world. max foster has the day off. i m bianca nobilo. this is the third property associated with president biden that the fbi has visited. the president from the very beginning of total cooperation with the justice department. tyre was a beautiful person. and for this to happen to him is unimaginable. legacy of tyre nichols is that we have equal justice swiftly. this time the man many consider the greatest player in nfl history seems to really mean it. it is time. he has proved everything he needs to prove. so go ahead, move forward. this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is thursday, february 2, 4:00 a.m. in rehoboth beach where fbi agents have wrapped their search for classified documents at the president biden vacation home. mr. biden has repeatedly insisted he did nothing wrong in handling classified material, a claim echoed by the white house. i think that we won t get ahead of potential speculation and steps tha
at the white house, marking the 30th anniversary of the family and medical leave act. let s listen. i had my brother and sister and chris knows them both well. i asked them to come into the incoming governor. we elected an incoming governor. we hadn t had a progressive senator in delaware for a while. it was very conservative. used to be a red state. we didn t call it that then. and so but a group of senators who were really so good to me, saved my sanity, starting with mike mansfield and the distinguished senator from south carolina fritz holings, they said come and stay six months. at the time i thought they they said you have to help us organize. we had 58 democratic senators. that shows you how smart i was. but the point was that i started commuting every day, 260 miles a day on the train to come home with my kids. that s because i was really, really lucky. i had a sister who is my best friend and a brother who s my buddy, five years younger. they gave up they liv