tonight including me. a man tells a joke about two dogs and a squirrel, to million dollar fine and could be headed to prison? what is happening? utah mom accused of killing her husband and then writing a children s book about her grief, punching a sister-in-law on the face while trying to get into her husband safe. i am you erin burnett, upfront tonight, strike on a russian base, new video of a fiery blast on a russian base, you will see the explosion there, the ball of fire you see there is inside the russian occupied city of mary a pole, according to ukrainian officials. it is home to at least 150 russian soldiers, mariupol is been an important staging area for russian fork it forces, it has been safe from attack for months, but things to powerful new missiles from the uk it is now in ukraine s crosshairs, ukraine s military posted a video, a drone they said only cost about $1000, showing it taking out a russian tank, valued at more than $1 million. what could be a
we ll hear from both sides of the legal debate. he s the failed republican candidate accused of orchestrating the shootings at the homes of democrats, now investigators are looking into whether solomon pena s campaign was funded by fentanyl. also, this a massive loss for music. david crosby dying at 81. we ll speak live with one of his best friends. cnn this morning starts right now. to all of those stories in just a moment, but first we need to talk about ukraine s president, volodymyr zelenskyy, making a desperate plea for more weapons before it is too late. there are signs that russia is regrouping and preparing to launch a major offensive. and cnn has learned cia director bill burns personally flew to kyiv for a secret meeting with zelenskyy to brief him on vladimir putin s plans. this morning, the defense secretary, lloyd austin, is at ram stein air base in germany to huddle with western allies. president zelenskyy spoke virtually at the meeting. the war st
how quickly and how easily it came off, how much better i felt, what a change it made so fast. i feel like anything is possible after accomplishing what i ve done with golo. it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. the department of justice just delivered a major blow to the new gop-controlled house. in a letter to chairman jim jordan, the department signaled it may not fulfill house requests for information on ongoing investigations. as you know, there are now special counsel investigations into how president joe biden and former president trump handled classified material. cnn s sara murray and jessica dean join me now. what does the letter from the justice department say? reporter: jim jordan has asked doj for all kinds of things, all kinds of documents and staff briefings and in this letter, they re saying, thank you so much for your interest, but here are the guidelines around what we re going to be able to give you a
understand that one, and he healthy democracy, dialogue and debate is essential, number 1, number 2, why even frame a question that way, that feeds into that trope. no, i disagree, i think it s a fair question and here s why. dialogue and debate i hear you. yelling at him to resign was talking to reporters in terms of decorum and behavior is a different thing, which is fine if you think it s okay. so hold on a second, when we can t talk about the courtroom, he allegedly falsified campaign- finance documents and stole from people, all right, that is a despicable act, we should be outraged by that, when i was yelling at representative massey about guns killing children, we should be outraged by that. listen, raising my voice is a sign of passion and intensity,