officers plead not guilty in the beating death of tyre nichols. and ukrainian president pleading to get the tools they need to end the war with russia. and the epa is talking to cnn after that toxic train disaster in ohio. that is what we are watching this hour. thank you for joining us. i m kristen in for kate bolduan. we start with the police officers who have been charged with the beating death of tyre nichols have plead not guilty to second-degree murder and assault. after they beat him, he died three days later. cnn did speak with tie ryre nic mother when she came into the courthouse. it is important for you to be here today? yes. they need to see my face. and shimon prokupiez has been there all morning. what exactly happened in court today? right. so this is the officers, the five former officers, and it was their initial appearance before the judge here in memphis, and behind me in court here, and they were out on bond, and they walked in. it is essentia
javelin missiles, and up to 30% more rocket shells which is crucial for ukraine to target ammo depots and russian depots to command and controls and increase that to 850 a month, and then 60 stinger anti-aircraft missiles a monthment some of that is the goal, and some of it has been met on the stinger side, and one of the great challenges that they are looking to meet, kristen. 500% increase in artillery shells is wild. thank you, oren liebermann. and president biden is looking to ease the concern over shooting down unidentified objects by the u.s. military to reassuring americans that they were likely not tied to chinese spying. we don t yet know exactly what these three objects were. but nothing right now suggests that they were related to china s spy balloon program, or
we re in mesa, arizona, tonight s cnn arizona republican presidential debate. it s been about a among since they last faced off and since then even more upheaval. rick santorum is now the surging candidates and the one for mitt romney to beat tonight. both men we are campaigning down to the wire and may have given each other press ammunition. he s here with us, going through the details. what s the latest? for the top two candidates, the devil is in the debails. two potential flash points. tonight mitt romney s new tax plan and rick santorum s faith-based brand of politics. he made what could be a risky move, a plan that could come under fire. i m going to lower rates across the board for all americans by 20%. it will last setting the top bracket for the wealthier earners at 28%, and cut the corporate tax rate to 25%, lower than the 28% proposed by the president, but higher than his gop rivals. romney would offset some of those cuts by limiting popular deductions for th
this kind of changing the names of companies to get around the sanctions of using a phony trade-in voices to ship arms through china. the torpedos labelled as fish processing equipment, there were also some rocket shells that were sent and labelled as oil drilling equipment. now, at the state department today, p.j. crowley was asked about all this and here s what he had to say. doesn t surprise us at all. there is this, you know, cat and mouse process that does go on. we are aggressively pursuing sanctions against north korea. we announced, you know, additional steps earlier this week. we re not surprised that, you know, north korea will try to respond and hide its activities. well, we don t know exactly where these arms were being shipped to but experts say the common destinations are from north korea to burma. north korea to syria and then on to iran. and the thinking is, steve,