washington tonight , cutting losses. that s the focus of tonight s angle. now it s natural that we as humans often have a hard time letting go , admitting to ourselves that the path we re on is a dead end, that the goal we set is unattainable or that the cost of achieving are just too high. instinctively we feel like ending something prematurely. maybe it s a sign of weakness that quitting for losers but especially in politics the opposite is often true with joe biden as president, there are sadly many areas where america needs to cut her losses first we need to cut our losses in ukraine. if you hadn t noticed, the ukrainians are not winning as our own nation is hurting. we ve allocated more than fifty three billion dollars and counting in humanitarian military aid to help them beat back the russians. but now well, here s a headline from bloomberg. putin may win in ukraine, but the real war is just starting and more americans now say russia rather than ukraine is winning th
this is cnn breaking news. welcome to the lead. y i m jake tapper. we start with our national lead. we expect an update from buffalo police after that racist massacre in upstate new york. ten innocent people killed by a racist domestic terrorist who targeted individuals in a predominantly black area of town saturday. officials say it could have been worse. police believe the shooter planned to continue his rampage after leaving the store with his sick goal of killing as many black people as possible. he was wearing tactical gear, armed with a semiautomatic rifle. he had surveilled the area the day before. this shows the moment the suspect was arrested. the erie county sheriff called the attack a straight up racially motivated hate crime from somebody outside of our community. he lived at home with his parents more than three hours away. today, investigators are parsing through a 180-page screed written by the killer. it details how he had been radicalized and was fixate
active and on going investigation in buffalo. waiting to get new information that is supposedly should have new information about the gunman and possibly how long he was here in buffalo casing this area. officials say he was inside the store and possibly talked to employees. you can still see the crime scene tape here. you can see this is new video. the fbi is here hahn scene trying to canvas the area. they re taking pictures and marking several bullet holes that were left in the building where the gunman opened fire in what is called a racially motivated hate crime. out of the 13 people shot here in buffalo at the supermarket, 11 are black. it have aers believe the gunman s rampage was not going to end there. he was planning to continue shooting people in the neighborhood that he apparently chose because it has the largest black population in buffalo. they believe he mapped it out one day before the shooting. listen. the hatred towards blacks, jewish and immigrants was his
Tonight on the reidout a bunch of Dodgy Affidavits that dont add up. You have a group of people with dubious credentials. Thats your characterization. Thats all your characterization. So far, you have provided no evidence. You myth as well be working for dominion and smartmatic. Im waiting for you to provide the evidence. Youll see it in court. That was back in 2021. And now, we will hear all about it in court, as the cracken lady, Sidney Powell, accepts a plea guiel, agreeing to testify against donald trump and the other codefendants in the Georgia Election interference case. Also tonight, the disgraceful Republican House caucus is still leaderless, with jim jordan vowing to make yet another embarrassing effort to win the speakers gavel. And were one hour from an address from joe biden. And we begin tonight with the release of the cracken, but not in the way donald trump was expecting. We learned one of trumps key allies and legal agitators cut a deal with fani Willis Office in the Ge