there s no way around it, that s just the best one. believe me, i ve tried it every which way, and it really doesn t get better than pete butt. but this would have never happened under my administration. people are saying i made the trains less safe. not true, okay? not true. i did a lot for trains. i made them bigger, faster, less safe perhaps, but yeah, perhaps you did. perhaps. saturday night live s take on donald trump s recent trip to east palestine, ohio. meanwhile, president joe biden says he doesn t have plans to visit the town devastated by the train disaster, and we ll have his comments on why. plus, the first lady seems to have given away the president s plans for 2024. we ll play for you what she said. also ahead, a weekend of deadly russian strikes in ukraine brings more attention to the debate over supplying ukrainian forces with fighter jets. and a new report from the department of energy on the origins of covid. good morning. welcome to morn
look at these individuals, this woman who you see pictured is the head master at the covenant school. her name was katherine koonce. so what did she do on that morning? she was on a zoom call in her office. typical morning. she hears shooting. she gets up from her desk. goes directly to the sound of the shooting in the hallway and that s where she lost her life against this shooter who was there to wreak tremendous havoc and heartbreak. bill: not just faculty members who sprang to action. this is evelyn. she tried to call for help. she was pulling a fire alarm in the hallway when the shooter shot and killed her. she was only nine years old. look at evelyn, right? this is hallie scruggs, william kinney is the other little boy who lost his life. so we re hearing the stories this morning of two of these people and what they were doing at this moment. tonight nashville will hold a candlelight vigil for them. the governor of tennessee, bill lee, is urging the people of his sta
officials locate four kidnapped americans after they were stuffed in the back of a pickup truck. now two are dead. two alive. plus a new exclooifs be interview with ukraine s president. a 45-minute conversation including volodymyr zelenskyy s take on a setback in bakhmut. and ron desantis tries to grab the moment. the governor delivers the state of the state address, and previews his 2024 plan to make america more like florida. up first for us, devastating words from a mexican border taunt. officials announcing two american kidnapped victims are two, two others are alive. a source tells cnn that one of those two locked in a battle to survive. the race against the clock to find the hostages started last week. just across the border with the brazen attack. you can see it here. gunmen firing on the van before pulling americans from the car. john miller is working his sources. we begin with our security correspondent josh campbell. what s the latest on the sad tragedy here?
state university as police are still trying to piece together the gunman s motive. this hour, i ll ask the michigan attorney general about the many unanswered questions in this investigation. also today, former vice president mike pence is speaking out for the first time about his plans to fight a new subpoena from the u.s. justice department. he s arguing that his effort to avoid testifying in the special counsel probe of donald trump is about the separation of powers. republican nike y haley kic off her 2024 presidential campaign. she says it s time for new leadership, taking veils swiped at former president trump. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with tonight s vigil for the victims of the michigan state university mass shooting. the pain and grief still very raw two days after the attack. miguel marquez is on the scene for us there. miguel, tell us more about this vigil and t
maybe you want to keep those seat belts fastened. the lead starts right now. major questions raised today about your safety in the air as senators grill the faa why the agency cannot be so sure there will not be more runway near misses and grounded flights. plus, nikki haley officially kicks off her 2024 campaign, bringing a pledge to bring in a new generation of leadership. but how long can she maintain this delicate dance, throwing subtle shade at trump while not alienating his supporters? and hayashi, you know, that first flying object shot down, the one that was deemed a chinese spy balloon. u.s. intel says maybe it wasn t supposed to be over the continental u.s. after all. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and the airport chaos taking over capitol hill after the series of near collisions and the nationwide ground stop that led to thousands of delayed and canceled flights. the acting head of the federal aviation administration