hello and thanks for joining us. i m abby phillip here in washington. now, president biden makes it official. just moments ago, the u.s. is sending abrams tanks to ukraine. that announcement comes just hours after germany revealed that it will send its own leopard 2 tanks to ukraine. germany had been reluctant to do that but ultimately they bent to weeks of intense pressure from western allies. cnn s phil mattingly is over at the white house for us. but let s begin first with our own jim sciutto. jim, can you walk us through what we are talking about here? what are these tanks, and where are they coming from as it relates to what s going into ukraine? reporter: abby, this is a significant move and let s begin with what the capabilities are. this is a german leopard tank then you have the u.s. sending abrams as well. first thing to say about this, highly capable, it s an offensive weapon, not a defensive weapon and the ukrainians hope here, their aim is to use this as a weap
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this is cnn breaking news. top of the hour, i m pamela brown in washington. you are in the cnn newsroom on this busy saturday night. we are getting more details on tonight s breaking news about the fbi search for documents at the home of president joe biden in wilmington, delaware. the search was overseen by the office of trump-appointed u.s. attorney john lausch who has been handling the initial review of the justice department s probe into classified documents since robert hur is still transitioning to his role as special counsel. arlette saenz is back with us now. arlette, what is the latest? re arlette? we re going to go to our panel of experts as we wait for arlette. shan wu is here, an attorney. i want to get your thoughts on this significant development. there s the political aspect of this, there is the legal aspect of this. bottom line, it is significant that a sitting president s private residence was searched by the fbi and a fifth batch of classified documen
hey, there, i m victor blackwell. welcome to cnn newsroom. i m alisonyn camerota. top officials are mourning a dozen of their own but not clear if the deaths are caused by an attack, an accident or something else. 14 people were killed after a helicopter crashed near a kindergarten in the kyiv suburb. the dead are a crew, child and nine government officials and staff including the ukrainian interior minister. last year cnn reviewed the minister 42 years old a lawyer and politics trying to reform and engine on the ground. the leaders and held a moment of silence for the victims frederick pleitgen is there. are investors closer to solving this? one thing they don t believe. they say and possibly pilot and fall here in the area speaking them rescue crews, search crews are finishing up the clearing operations. most of the debris is cleared from the area now. they do say the fog was very heavy but a witness i spoke to said we saw the chopper coming in. it didn t look as tho