good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight, the horror. ukraine s ministry of defense releasing these jarring and grotesque images. this is before and after. the soldier here is ukrainian. the image on the left is him taken during the siege of the azostal steel plant. that is when they were hunkered down not getting the full food and water that they needed. but there he was fighting. and on the right four months later, that is him now, starved, deformed. it is not even possible to imagine what happened to that man. and yet that picture is the reality. it is how russia is treating human beings. and you can t look the other way when you see that. it comes as putin has taken the war to a whole new level today running a sham election in parts of ukraine that are kind of under russian control. i ll show you the ballot. it reads just one question. the wording varies depending on the region. are you in favor of seceding from ukraine and joining the russian federation? and dow
london tomorrow. and questions over the list of so-called best colleges and universities in the u.s. after one university said its data was cooked. a brewing scandal putting money, prestige and power on the line. welcome to the lead i m jake tapper. we start with the politics lead. any moment president biden will give a speech in boston on an issue that s very personal and important to him and his family. the cancer moonshot initiative. president biden hoping to bring more attention to his administration s efforts to cut the cancer death rates in half. his son, beau, died of brain cancer in 2015, he was only 46 years old. let s get to athena jones for us. the date and location of the speech are no coincidence. that s right. this event is taking place at the john f. kennedy library on this day because this marks the 60th anniversary of jfk s moonshot speech where he launched the years long effort to land a man on the moon. saying we choose to put a moon on the moon in th
activities on january 6, 2021, and in the days that preceded and needs to hear from him on the record as they note other former white house counsels have done in other congressional investigations. there are, of course, privilege arguments about him coming forward and testifying about exchanges with a then-sitting president of the united states, who was his client, so it s unclear whether he will comply with the subpoena. but tonight a lawyer familiar with cipollone s thinking tells cnn he will probably agree to a tr transcribed interview limited to specific topics to avoid attorney/client issue. what we do know is there was tuesday s stunning testimony from cassidy hutchinson, a former aide to then-chief of staff mark meadows. she alleged cipollone had very serious concerns about donald trump s actions on january 6th. mr. cipollone said something to the effect of, please make sure we don t go up to the capitol, cassidy. keep in touch with me. we re going to get charged wit
the news continues. let s hand it over to sara sidner and cnn tonight. all right, thank you, anderson. i m sara sidner. and this is cnn tonight . a major development tonight following the bombshell testimony from the trump former white house aide. the january 6th committee has subpoenaed pat cipollone to compel him to testify. he s long been considered a key witness by the committee, but he s resisted speaking further with the panel after sitting for a closed door interview back in april. the committee claims its investigation has revealed evidence cipollone repeatedly raised legal and other concerns about then-president trump s activities on january 6, 2021, and in the days that preceded and needs to hear from him on the record as they note other former white house counsels have done in other congressional investigations. there are, of course, privilege arguments about him coming forward and testifying about exchanges with a then-sitting president of the united states
Holy [bleep]. Bill we begin with a fox news alert looking at one of the many tornadoes that ripped through iowa yesterday and communities across that state. Look at that aerial view. Obliterated as violent tornadoes ripped through a heartland. Three are dead. Todays Severe Weather is still out there. Well get to iowa live today. Plus there is this. The border in the dark. Iran, iran. Why did you come . No freedom. Yes, in iran. Iran is a country, no freedom for speech, writing, for singing. Bill the line is never ending. Those are migrants from near and far converging on the southwest border. They have never stopped. Most are adult men, many deemed security risks, no one is stopping them despite the attention that we gave the trump trial, we have a little bit away from the border but back on that today as we say good morning. It is wednesday midweek, bill hemmer live in new york city. Thats some video from bill melugin. Dana there is only so much real estate in an hour and a lot of new