stemming from those leaked pentagon documents. according to the washington post, one classified nsa report shows a top ukrainian official instructed troops to prepare for mass strikes inside russia to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the invasion. a later cia documentary went out showing washington had successfully persuaded kyiv to scrap that planned attack. cnn s alex marquardt is here now. an attack like that would have been a serious escalation. ukrainian officials are saying that this is essentially misinformation put out to make them look immature and impulsive. reporter: a serious escalation. that s exactly what the u.s. is worried about. provoking vladimir putin in a way that he would react potentially with nuclear weapons. so yes, we have a top ukrainian official dismissing this, saying the washingto the washington post piece was conspiratorially reported. we have a statement from a senior adviser in president
by the police force in 2022. what are you doing to stem gun violence in your city, and wha can washington journal what do you want washingto to-do? my message for washington i very clear, we need to pass an assault weapons ban in congress, we need to pass background checks in congress we need to pass red flag law in congress. that is what we need to do t make sure that we can keep our city safe. and, as a mayor, we are doin everything we can in cleveland to keep our community safe we are using $10 million o american rescue plan funds t create a neighborhood safety endowment fund to invest in proven strategies that we know can reduce crim in our city. we also are paying our officer more negotiated the largest pa increase in modern history and our city to boost officer pa to attract and retain officers in our city but we have
reporting in the washingto post today that the white hous is having conversations abou whether or not they ca unilaterally raise the deb ceiling. is that something that the white house could do, or mus it be raised by congress, an act of congress? claude at the end of the day, i think it has to be raised by congress, and i am aware o theoretical papers out there invoking the 14th amendment, and a trillion dollar coin the reality is, i tend to thin that that would not be accepte as legitimate or credible by international markets, which means, in other words, you would get some of th unfortunate effects of a downgrade, and a default in other, words saying are interest rates spiking so, in the end, congress needs to eat its vegetables. congress needs to raise th debt ceiling, speaker kevi mccarthy, who promised 1 different things to 15 different groups of republicans,
republican presidentia hopefuls descend on iowa president biden prepares t announce his reelectio campaign this week and the supreme court makes th right call on the abortion pill, at least for now i asked congresswoma alexandria ocasio-cortez about the political moment we are in during our sunday exclusive, and that is coming up first. plus, what are the keys to reelecting an incumbent from a tough starting position? former obama campaign manage is the last guy to do it and h joins me in just a few minutes meanwhile, ron desantis seem to be running against anything and everyone except the guy he is going to have to beat to wi the republican nomination, smart strategy i m not so sure. and later, a walk in washingto
arguments on may 17th. yes and that will be the next time that we will hear argument hashing this out of the fift circuit. i think that best way to think about this is the road to th supreme court. because, ultimately, this that is where this is going to en up it may take a couple troop there. maybe once on the procedural issues that we have been talking about. whether the state stays in place or traditionally at th end for the supreme court to rule on this more traditionall on the merits of this case that is likely going to happen next term because the suprem court has barely gotten throug its docket for this term i doubt that it would try to rush us and decide this before june but what we will see is likely if we are guessing, that the state that we have in plac keeping the status quo wil remain in place while all of these issues and not just this case out o texas that the other cases tha you mentioned out of washingto state that are directly in