along with our great, great american panel later will have more explosive alyssa blanck testimony about how our doj has been weaponize. also, aoc is having a little bit of trouble she might be in legal trouble will explain straight-ahead, and i may even shock you in defending her. [boos] you don t know what i m going to do yet so stay tuned the first joe biden well he is continuing to keep us all in suspense and waiting take a look. i beg your pardon? will only announce their election sure? when i announce it. i don t think he knows it s friday. it s now the 80-year-old sitting president will not say whether he plans to run for a second term. although, his wife jill said it for him. but that does not exactly inspire any confidence in me, but he ultimately if he does decide to run it looks like you to be back to the basement bunker for julie who is reportedly now enlisting prominent democrats to travel and speak on his behalf. because he is likely not capable look
world. wolf blitzer is off today, i m brianna keilar, and you are in the the situation room. let s go right to ukraine, as we follow the pivotal ballots for bakhmut, and growing concerns it could fall to the russians very soon. melissa bell has our report from the war zone. reporter: bakhmut still stands, says the ukrainian military out of sight any sign of life driven underground. what is like life for the civilians, for the soldiers? what life? what, what life? you know, the soldiers are doing their work, which is quite and civilians are trying to survive. there s no water, there is no electricity. reporter: this was bakhmut in august when the siege had just begun. this is bakhmut seven months on. the city is empty, people are afraid to go . empty, people are afraid to go out. every day new destruction. it s better not to go outside writing dr. elena from inside the town. cnn met her and other nurses on christmas eve, not quite happier times, but certain l
the u.s. is arming ukraine with more american ammo and rocket launchers. the lead starts right now. stocking up ahead of a likely russian spring offensive. the u.s. deploys another $400 million in military aid to ukraine. can president biden secure even more as russians encircle the strategic town of bakhmut? plus, from prominent attorney to convict, the swift prison sentence today for alex murdaugh after a jury took only a few hours to find him guilty of killing his wife and son. and drag shows shut down. tennessee becomes the first in the nation to put new restrictions on the performances. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper today. we start with our health lead. moments ago, the white house announced a lesion removed from president biden s chest last month was a common type of skin cancer. cnn s phil mattingly joins us now from the white house. tell us more about this diagnosis. reporter: that lesion was removed during the president s annual phy
happening now, the key ukrainian city of bakhmut amid fears it could all at any time. alex murdaugh is sentenced to life in prison after jurors quickly convicted him of murdering his wife and son and the judge calling him a monster. desantis trump split is on display. this as cnn uncovered comments by a new appointee of governor desantis with an animati-gay conspiracy room. alex marquardt is near the front lines in ukraine. alex, bakhmut is significant. reporter: russian forces are trying to encircle ukrainian forces but holding out. this is a very tough fight for the ukrainians that got tougher with a ukrainian bridge on the main supply route that ukraine uses to get to the front line. essentially the only paved road ukraine can use to back up the forces. we were on that road yesterday. we showed it to our viewers here on this program. we saw all kinds of military vehicles going to and from that front line so now, if ukraine wants to supply its forces, if i wants to
we should be wondering why it was so fast. i mean, look, most times and charles can agree or disagree with me. as a former prosecutor, when you get a verdict this fast, it s usually a verdict of guilty. this jury has salt through multiple weeks of testimony. this trial started with jury selection january 23rd, i want to say. it s been going more than 61 witnesses presented by the prosecutor. we heard from experts witnesses, we had cell phone evidence, blood spatter evidence. at the end of the day, i think what really moved the needle for the jury was the rebuttal closing from the prosecution. when the prosecutor got up and said, alex murdaugh kicked the person he loved the most, and it wasn t his wife. it wasn t his son. it was himself. and in order to preserve his lifestyle, his addiction, his financial fraud, he picked himself. and if that s what the jury heard last before they went into the jury room, i would not be surprised to see if the verdict is guilty. ellison ba