Assessments about ukraines counteroffensive, specifically Ukrainian Forces ability to retake significant territory from russia. Ahead, the many challenges ukraine faces. Here at home, we expect a live update from alabama officials. This after an ugly brawl along a riverfront park. Police have issued at least four Arrest Warrants. We are following the latest. Trumps legal team and the Special Counsel are up against the clock, facing a new deadline. They must respond to the judge within hours over essentially what the Rules Of The Road will be leading up to the trial. We are following major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. We begin with new reporting today about the state of the counteroffensive in ukraine. Weeks into it western officials are describing to me an increasingly sober assessment about Ukrainian Forces ability to retake significant territory now held by russia. The primary challenge for those Ukrainian Forces is the continued dif
biden is sending troops to the border. the lead starts right now. a border surge is expected as a key immigration policy is set to expire. now the biden administration is deploying even more american troops to the u.s.-mexico border. cnn is on the ground there as keyboarder towns declare states of emergency. plus, are we headed for default? warnings of a recession and major job losses, if congress and the white house cannot strike a debt deal soon. we ll lay it out for you how your money, how your job might be impacted. and he s known as the godfather of ai. i will speak with a man who left his job at google just so he could speak freely about what he calls the dangers of artificial intelligence. welcome the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with two looming crises potentially just days away, which could have serious consequences for united states. the first crisis has to do with your wallet and an ongoing fight between republicans and democrats over the national
there are americans in sudan who want to leave but are they stuck? the lead starts right now. as the violence erupts in sudan, the u.s. and other nations evacuate their embassies, but what about other americans on the ground? ahead, i ll speak with a top house republican about the biden administration s response so far. plus, fired then hired. a kentucky sheriff s office explains why it hired the cop who killed brianna taylor. that cop s attorney is speaking out to cnn. and planes on fire, others hit by birds. what is going on with the airline industry? transportation secretary pete buttigieg is here. we have a lot of questions for him. welcome to the lead i m pamela brown in for jake taper, and we start today with our world lead. the white house says it is actively working to get americans out of sudan as a bloody conflict between two rivals turns even deadlier. they are using intelligence and surveillance tools to help national convoys of cars get to the port in sudan w
the review that i hope we will be finished with soon. there will be more detail that time. coming as the new sent letters to the white house counsel s office and national archives trying to get information on biden s handling of classified documents. i want to bring in senior political columnist, a political, jonathan martin. and cnn political commentator, carl finney, and david irvine is with us as well. i m glad to have you all here, what are you thinking right now? because look. this is not the news or the way i think president biden wanted to start the new year or the new congress. i am sure there was a bit of rumbling, and the dysfunction that was happening with the republicans, last, week with the speakers vote. but, the fact of the matter is, he s got to contend with this. what do you take out of it? well, two things, one is the circumstances are different and obviously his folks called when they realize they had classified documents there, which is the right thing
says they seem to be going head and head. so-called pro-life republicans seem to have forgotten their behemoths antiabortion pro family stance when it comes to their candidate for georgia senate, herschel walker. as you know, walker allegedly paid for his ex girlfriend to have an abortion. she is provided various pieces of evidence to the press. this, despite the fact the walker claims not to know the woman. more importantly, walker wants a ban abortion for everyone else if he makes the senate with no exceptions for rape, incest, or the life of the mother, that is not even the whole story. because, that woman has actually told new york times that herschel walker actually asked her to have a second abortion. it refused. she gave birth what is now a ten-year-old son. if you think herschel walker and fellow republicans couldn t possibly back them after all of that. will you be mistaken. congresswoman let me ask you. let me ask you this though, congressman. by supporting he