governor intensifying and apparently costing the state thousands of jobs just days af before the republican is ex expecting to announce his campaign. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with a new u.s. message about the war in ukraine. a significant development as president biden is out there on the world stage right now and in a potentially very pivotal moment in the conflict. phil mattingly is with the president at the summit in japan. kn nic robertson is in eastern ukraine. phil, as the president prepares for this summit, the biden administration is signaling a major shift on ukraine. what can you tell us? yeah, wolf, it would be a significant development. the president is just a few hours away from starting the first day at the g-7 summit here meeting with leaders. leaders that have been integral to the steadfast support of ukraine since russia s invasion oaf the course f the year
personnel from the u.s. embass evacuated overnight from sudan s capital city o khartoum a former army general is gonna join me and what it took to ge embassy officials out what the future holds for the war tor african nation plus, new nbc news polling wit a fresh look at the upcoming presidential election, and wha they re saying about president biden just days away fro announcing his reelection bid. and why governor ron desantis hopes of being a presidentia contender may have already failed we ll take a look at all o those numbers, plus, could w see donald trump take th witness stand this week? a hint, the answer has nothing to do with elections coming up in the next, our special guest, senator alex, right here in california joining as well. you don t wanna miss tha conversation, we re gonna ge his thoughts on what he like t ask the chief justice of the u.s. about ethics concerns a the highest levels of th supreme court. we begin with that breakin news, overnight, out of sud
biden. abrams battle tanks finally heading to ukraine. cnn s chief white house correspondent phil mattingly has the reporting. we are fully, thoroughly, totally united. reporter: a diplomatic break through with dramatic implications. the united states will be sending 31 abram tanks to ukraine. reporter: the u.s. tanks set to significantly expand ukraine s battlefield capabilities. it makes it possible for germany, but also other european nato allies to provide battle tanks to ukraine and that will significantly strengthen their combat capabilities. reporter: at the same moment europe s largest land war in 80 years is in its most after weeks of u.s. officials say it was untenable. the maintenance and high cost it would take to maintain an abrams doesn t make sense to provide that to the ukrainians at this time. reporter: their inclusion a demand from german officials in order to clear the way for delivery of their own tanks and to sign off on the german-made
happening now, president biden pledges to arm ukraine with some of the most sophisticated war machines on the planet. american abrams battle equipment. it could take months to deliver the equipment. new developments in the biden classified documents probe. we re getting a behind the scenes look at measures the u.s. justice department was prepared to take if, if the president refused to cooperate with an fbi z search of his delaware home. congressman george santos is dodging questions about a controversy half a million dollars in mysterious campaign payments he once claimed were personal loans. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re the situation room. let s get straight to our top story. the united states pledging abrams battle tavnks to ukraine. we have details on this major, major poost to the war effort for ukraine. what are you hearing about how all of this will unfold? this was a top request and that being
developments we re following this hour, but i want to get to the breaking news right now out of texas. that s coming up. a very dangerous tornado outbreak unfolding right now. cnn s rosa flores is in deer park, texas for us. she just filed this report. reporter: wolf, the pictures out of deer park, texas, are very dramatic. take a look behind me. there is an overturned car. the glass is broken. the car is mangled. you can see the trees here are also mangled. but these are not the most dramatic pictures. i want to show you, because there is a car that is yards from where we are. i talked to the sister of the owner of that car. she tells me that that car was parked right over where i am actually standing, just near here. and you can see that some of the cleanup has already started. but that car was, according to that woman, parked in this parking lot that you see over here behind me. this woman said that she actually works for the district, and that they were inside when the