after a year of russian brutality and ahead of an expected counteroffensive. the mayor of kyiv will join us live this hour. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin this hour with president biden making his 2024 plans official, and making the case that he deserves a second term. cnn s phil mattingly reports on the president s big announcement and how trump figured into his message. four more years! four more years! reporter: president biden is officially in. this is not a time to be complacent. that s why i m running for re-election. reporter: a short campaign-style video timed four years to the day after this 2020 campaign launch. we have to remember who we are. this is america. reporter: the launch heavily and intentionally featuring vice president kamala harris and telegraphing a campaign strategy crafted to sharpen attacks on national republicans. around the country ma
right now. breaking news. an american reporter has been arrested in russia accused by russia of espionage. we re talking about an american citizen who has now been arrested for what you can assume is doing his job. two black hawk helicopters crashing overnight in kentucky, sudden old house something pop loud, loud bang helicopters from 101st airborne division were on a routine training mission when the incident happened resulted in quotes several casualties. concerns for the health of pope francis as the 86 year old is hospitalist tests showed that he does indeed have a respiratory infection. it s unclear if the leader of the world s nearly 1.4 billion roman catholics will be able to lead the celebration of this weekend s pump. sunday mass and holy week ceremonies the vatican leading up to easter on april 9th. children are dying. there are six people are dead in that school, including three children, because you guys got rid of the assault weapons ban. talk about protecting o
speaking in poland a former eastern bloc country that s no stranger to russian aggression, biden started off by saying that the war has so far defied two big expectations. one, that kyiv would fall within days, and two, that the western alliance would splinter as the war dragged on. watch. one year ago the world was bracing for the fall of kyiv. well, i can report kyiv stands strong. kyiv stands proud. it stands tall. and most important it stands free. when russia invaded it wasn t just ukraine being tested, the whole world faced a test for the ages. europe was being tested. america was being tested. nato was being tested. all democracies are being tested. the questions we faced were simple as they were profound. would we be strong if we looked the other, would we be weak? all of our allies would be united or divided? one year later we know the answer. we did respond, we would be strong, we would be united, and the world would not look the other way. president biden also
and certainly not taken seriously until months later, which is why the evidence matters. it s why, when you hear people saying, gosh, haven t we talked about this enough? sometimes they are guilty people or apologists for coup plotters. we re talk about how trump and his aides were hoping to mount an attack, hence secret at the time, to submit a false slate of fraudulent elector that would somehow inject last-minute doubt into the january certification. aides initially hid the plot, but evidence and emails have come out which shows how they were discussing it, and then we of course have tried to interview them to learn more about it. now there are reports that even the lawyers pushing it knew at the time that s they did not have the law on their side as the washington post is now reporting, so the plots are coming into more view. trump had seven plots thwarted. the lawsuits that game into court, somehow calling the military to help. that got shutdown inside the government.
A 6 day strike that has upended hollywood. This does not mean writers are returning to workjust yet. The deal is subject to the final Contract Language and members of the guild will have to approve the deal, and details of the deal were not immediately released. A spokesperson for the writers guild said the guild says picketing is now suspended but they are encouraging writers to continue to picket with sag aftra. Actors are still on strike with no deal. In washington, capitol us lawmakers are in crunch talks to avoid a Government Shutdown due to happen injust seven days time. Live pictures there of capitol hill. The republicans, who hold a slim majority in the house of representatives, are at a deadlock, with members on the right of the party demanding wide ranging spending cuts. Time appears to have run out to pass all the bills necessary in time for the start of the new fiscal year on octoberfirst. The question now is whether lawmakers can pass a Stopgap Measure to buy more time. If