where things stand right now, and on the eve of the anniversary of the january 6th attack on democracy, a warning from the former capitol police chief, this could happen again. we will be here. an incredible update on buffalo bills player as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night . good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle, or let s end an hour away i m going today for with our speaker the house, kevin mccarthy s bid for the speakership has now been defeated, a total of 11 times in a row, in just the past three days. they adjourn just a few hours ago, and will commit back into session soon. the car thieves now made several concessions to the group, now known as never kevin republicans, who are dead set against seeing him with the gavel. but tonight, we are hearing there is a potential deal in the works, and kevin mccarthy seems to think it s getting closer to his goal. maybe, we maybe somebody else we get to a? team. who? he has put it up. to win. h
confronted and killed the gunman. as for how she viewed herb responsibilities that day, how she saw her duty to protect the children inside, listen to this moment from shimon s report, as captured on video of her outside the school that morning. reporter: an officer asked her children attend robb elementary. elizondo s response my son is in day care. he is not old enough. yeah, no. if my son had been in there, i would not have been outside, i promise you that. my son had been there, she said, i would not have been outside. i promise you that. we spoke about her employment by the school district by the guardian of a 10-year-old who was in the school and murdered that day. someone who has been holding a vigil outside uvalde school district offices, demanding answers. i ve been out here for 192 hours, eight days. and my ask is simple. it s to suspend any officers that were there until an investigation is completed. and i ve just gotten nothing but the runaround. so
used to describe these comments that president biden made tonight. in a closed-door, democratic fund-raiser in new york. where he spoke pretty frankly about what he believes is the actual real threat that putin is posing right now when he talks about this threat of nuclear war, we have seen him kind of dangle out there and the speeches that he has given lately. president biden says he believes that is because of how terribly russia is doing on the battlefield. tonight, he used the word underperforming, talking about how he believes the setbacks which have been humiliating and, of course, the draft that putin is put in place has driven russian matter the country is all factoring into this. and it seems to be causing a real sense of concern for president biden tonight, don, who said he believes the world is the closest it has been to the potential nuclear catastrophe that it has been since the 1960s. since the cuban missile crisis, of course, we are coming up on the anniversary
how far will u.s. and allies go to try to calm rising tensions in the region? plus, a heartbreaking find. the california family that was kidnapped, found dead. the youngest victim, only 8 months old. what detectives are saying about the person they believe is responsible. welcome to the lead. president biden taking his first steps possibly towards the decriminalization of marijuana on the federal level. he is pardoning all prior federal offenses of quote simple marijuana possession. this will clear convictions for several thousand americans. president biden is now also encouraging governors to follow his lead and pardon those convicted on similar state charges. the biden administration also says it will continue to review the federal classification of marijuana. right now, it is still a class 1 drug alongside heroin and lsd which means according to the government, cannabis has no accepted medical use at the federal level despite study after study. it is legal in 37 states
soon as december. and herschel walker now says he s not backing down despite the abortion scandal rocking his campaign. ma maggie haberman joins me this hour on donald trump s decision to back walker despite his checkered past. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s begin our coverage in ukraine where a furious counteroffensive is now sweeping russian troops out of territory. moscow has held for months. cnn is your national security editor. nick paton walsh is joining us live from the war zone. nick, this rapid ukrainian advance comes as vladimir putin laid claim to that troubled nuclear power plant. what s the latest on the ground tonight? ukraine s president zelenskyy clear that half a thousand square kilometers of territory in the kherson region have since the beginning of the month been liberated from russian control. that s a larger number of than officials said earlier today and it s part of the slow drip we saw ourselves just yesterday of territory r