battlefield, it looks more like this. the heart-stopping will to live. one russian soldier begs a drone to spare his life. it has caught the attention of our nation. this reporting coming from the wall street journal. this is the soldier. look into his eyes. he s a liquor store manager. he was drafted in to this war against his will. he had no interest in fighting on the front lines. never thought he would be here. he was basically told you re going to fight or you re going to prison. he left home early the morning that he had to report. his wife and his 3-year-old at home sound asleep. 6 months later, this extraordinary war-time video. look at these soldiers as they race away out of the way of drones. this is bakhmut, which you ve heard so much about. this is the front lines. this is the human experience that so many soldiers around the world in so many wars know and understand. but in this case, this man is being hunted by a ukrainian drone that is pinpointing his locatio
good morning everyone. welcome, caitlyn is off. anger fear and frustration at last night s cnn town hall. a railroad ceo coming face-to-face with residents after a toxic train wreck released a toxic chemicals in their town. and a tv journalist shot and killed at a murder scene when learn about the shooting spree that left three day including a child. and the grand jury investigating donald trump is going deeper into his circle. but we begin with the train disaster in east palestine, ohio. and pete buttigieg is going to the scene. just hours from now federal investigators are expected to release their preliminary report as to why the train derailed and burst into an inferno. cnn analysts the video of the train leading up to the wreck. sparks flying from the wheels indicate they may have been overheating and the train slowed down dramatically but kept going for 20 miles before going off the rails. it raises the question, did the engineer realize something was wrong? and in
thank you, poland. thank you. thank you, thank you for what you re doing. god bless you. [ applause ] right now on andrea mitchell reports president biden s keynote speech in poland, reaffirming america s and nato s ironclad support for ukraine, pushing back against vladimir putin. framing the work as a life and death battle for freedom and autocracy and aggression. but there should be, no doubt, our support that ukraine will not waive are. nato will not be divided, and we will not tire. biden s address following on his widely celebrated wartime visit to kyiv yesterday, appointed u.s. rebuke to putin who delivered his annual address to his nation earlier today. putin announced he s suspending russia s s.t.a.r.t. treaty with the u.s. the announcement by russia that it is suspended the situation is unfortunate and irresponsible. we ll, of course, make sure that in any event, we have posturing appropriately for the security of our own country and of that our allie
talk. why this uvalde teacher now says he s angry at law enforcement who he heard in the hallway while 11 of his students were being killed. and office ultimatums. return to the office or lose urjob. the tough decision more workers are now facing. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our politics lead today. president biden now getting involved as a key democratic senator says negotiations with republicans on gun reform have reached a, quote, critical stage. that democrat, chris murphy of connecticut, visited the white house today to give president biden a rundown of where bipartisan negotiations stand. before murphy headed back to the hill for yet another meeting with his fellow lawmakers. they have expressed growing optimism a deal for a narrow targeted bill could potentially be reached as soon as the end of this week. so what remains on the table? well, incentivized states to pass red flag laws. potential waiting periods for 18 to 21-year-olds buying
they would abide strictly with international humanitarian law on the usage of these weapons. in other words r, you know, avoiding built up civilian areas. again, though, i think that it is pointing to the larger problem that ukraine is going to have particularly in the east. but also throughout the country of massive amounts of unexploded ordinance. we re seeing especially in the donbas region, something that really resembling sort of the 21st century version of world war i trench warfare with just enormous amounts of orthem bein lobbed across the territory. finally, looking big picture here, 500 days into the war, i mean, surely when it started that s not a sentence many of us thought we would be saying. are we any closer to an end now or are we more likely eventually