japan for the g-7 summit, he says the meetings will bring peace closer, live to heiroshim in a few moments. president joe biden believes the country will not default on its debt but the two sides stopped talking late friday night. we ll have more. and later, florida governor ron desantis takes a swipe at his potential rival for the white house, donald trump, saying it would be easy to be the front runner. announcer: live in cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with paula neeson. volodymyr se lensy is now in japan where he will be meeting with world leaders at the g-7 summit. he arrived a short time ago, you see him there, tweeting he ll be having important meetings and that, quote, peace will become closer today. he s there to boost support ahead of ukraine s expected counteroffensive. now, ahead of his visit u.s. president joe biden agreed to support efforts to train ukrainian pilots on f-16 fighter jets and several allies have, in fact, expressed interest in transferri
i m abby phillip in washington and you are live in the cnn newsroom, unprecedented political retribution. that is what is on the agenda in the tennessee state house right now , protesters have been at the capitol in support of the so called tennessee three democratic state lawmakers who are on the cusp of being expelled from that chamber. and any minute now the gop dominated chamber will vote on whether to remove them from office because get this. they protested on the house floor calling for stricter gun laws after the nashville shooting that left six people dead. three of whom were children. now, if the vote passes, it would be the first time in that body s entire history more than 200 years that a violation of house rules resulted in members being ousted . and so just to recap these three lawmakers, they may be stripped of their elected positions for speaking out of turn. after 39 year olds were gunned down in their grade school. cnn s ryan young is on the scene for us, ry
for the fifth straight day refusing to answer questions about the classified documents found in his home and former office. the gop accusing him of a lack of transparency. our team at the white house. the winter storms sweeping across the country. heavy snow and the threat of flash floods. we re tracking it. a suburb cut off from the water supply of a nearby city. the urgent pleas from residents who say they ve been left high and dry. chevy unveiling the fastest corvette ever, and it s a hybrid. our test drive. and after more than three decades on the air, a beloved member of our nbc news family is signing off. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. a defeated republican candidate for a state office in new mexico has been arrested and will be charged with paying and conspiring with gunmen to shoot at the albuquerque homes and offices of four local democratic leaders. no one was hurt in the frightening series of attacks, which began i
disagree with everything he said. the hearing that we had this week is about censorship. i don t think censuring somebody is actually the answer here. i think if your going to look at censorship in america your first action to censure him probably plays into some of the problems we have. joining us now co-founder of punch bowl news, anna palmer. let s start with the testimony that rfk junior is expected to testify to the house. what is the purpose of this hearing? what s the stated reason? and is this really just about republicans giving a democratic challenger to biden, even a fringe one, a big platform? it certainly is going to give him a big platform considering all the swirling controversy around his candidacy. but this is a hearing around
tough person to work for, i mean, again, this is a person who doesn t take vacations, whose whole life is devoted to work. i think people like that expect the same of the people who work for them. reporter: annie carney of the new york times says this swirling controversy over senator feinstein s cognitive ability and her overall fitness to serve will likely hurt feinstein s legacy but carney also believes if feinstein can help senate democrats push through the nominations of progressive judges that they re trying to place on the bench, well then feinstein s legacy will be harmed a little bit less. brian todd, cnn, washington. northern italy is under warning for more heavy rainfall on saturday adding, in fact, more misery to the already flooded region where more than a dozen people have been killed. a live report from rome, coming up. isn t at its best. but a little metamucil everyday can help. metamucil s psyllium fiber gels to trap and remove the waste that weighs you down and