you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. and we begin this hour with the war in ukraine and its global implications. the director of the cia confirms what cnn has been reporting that the u.s. is confident that china is thinking about providing lethal aid to russian troops in ukraine. the agency does not believe a final decision has been made. and today, the white house is urging caution. you know, beijing will have to make its own decisions about how it proceeds. whether tell provides military assistance. but if it goes down that road it will come at real cost to china. and i think china s leaders are weighing that as they make their decisions. but let s begin with the latest in the fighting in ukraine. alex marquardt is there for us. reporter: jim, some of heaviest fighting, with some of the worst casualty rates on both sides is now taking place around the eastern city of bakhmut. russian forces before the mercenary groups of convicts and co
now. president biden was wrong back in december when he predicted that inflation was at its peak and said this. i think you ll see it change sooner than quicker, more rapidly than it will take than most people think. leader mcconnell is standing by. first, gene sperling. good to have you with used too. the question that comes up again and again is that the messages that we received from all left fields of the white house and treasury have been wrong. so how did you get this so wrong? well, martha, the white house and the treasury department were saying last year and i can t stress this enough, reflected the overwhelming economic consensus in the private sector, in the u.s. and other places around the world. it wasn t so much it wasn t the people were wrong with the facts that they had. it s that things happened after that that affected the outcome. so we had not just delta, but omicron. we had gas prices at $3.31 january 17 when putin first started doing military ex
more children could die. i ll be joined by correspondence to discuss the conservative leadership contest in the crisis in ukraine and the departure from iraqi politics. stay with us on bbc news. hello and welcome to bbc news. after weeks of debate, voting has closed in the conservative party leadership race. after two months of campaigning, and eight initial candidates whittled down to two, we ll find out on monday whether liz truss or rishi sunak has been chosen by party members to be the next leader and so prime minister. here s our political correspondent ben wright: after a long, rancorous campaign, it s now time to count the ballots. just 160,000 tory party members are picking their next leader, the next prime minister. and the challenges facing them are huge. they were spelt out today by the current chancellor. he is backing liz truss, presumed frontrunner. there are no easy options. we have war on our continent. we havejust come through a pandemic. but this economy i
[laughter] greg: all right. don t clap. don t clap. so like paul pelosi driving down a 2-way street, pretty obvious that merrick garland crossed the line. and now the media realizes their whole narrative is falling apart like a pot roast in a hot tub. whatever happened to the story about the nukes? yeah, apparently trump stole valuable nuclear secrets he was planning to sell to someone. i don t know about you, but this seems like a strange career transition for a real estate tycoon. should i build a new luxury condominium development in midtown or sell nuclear secrets to putin? it s a tough call. on one hand you could make a lot of money legally. on the other, you could be executed for treason. of course, the media always picks the most absurd crap to peddle about trump. so what s the media who invested so much in the sigh companies is now. they say if you criticize the raid you re inciting violence against the fbi who is doing the lourdes work of sniffing me
where the derailment happen. but we re so close, we have folks who were evacuated. we have folks who are worried about their health, their air, their water, that we ve been encouraging to get the testing. but to make sure that the cleanup happens and norfolk southern foots the bill. there s a commitment of making these hfolks whole. every penny that this railroad has caused, they re going to be pay for that. i know you got tough words for norfolk southern. you feel that they re kind of getting away with this stuff a little too often. what can be done about this, i talked to former secretary of transportation ray lahood just yesterday, he said congress has to tighten the regulations for these and trains have been responsible. i agree. these railroads have been plenty profitable. they ve cut their costs and