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
americans clearly do not approve of the president was my policy is. biden s approval at 31%, a record low. that includes only 19% of hispanics and 23% of independents. with the truth. can we handle the truth? good morning, todd and carly. i m not sure. the president i don t know if you saw, i started out by butchering massachusetts representative s name then he called him a she. he praised the climate conference in glasgow, england, which is in scotland, and announcing as a result of fossil fuel emissions, he has cancer, which he doesn t. president biden: rather than is being able to walk, guess what? you had to put on your windshield wipers to get literally the oil slick of the window. that s why i am so cancer. for the longest time, had the highest cancer rate in the nation. that raised eyebrows, and a few hours later, the white house attempted to clean up telling fox news biden was saying he was referring to past skin cancer, which was removed and documented in h
we start with the war in ukraine. we ll look at what s happening on the ground in a moment. first to sanctions. eu leaders have finally agreed on a partial embargo of russian oil imports. it will affect oil that arrives by sea. that s around two thirds of imports. this is the second day of the summit. we know that the eu has been trying to work out a way to ban russian oil imports for months. we ll get into why it s been so complicated in a minute. first, this is the president of the european commission. we decided then to have a ban now on de facto 90% russian oil imports of russian oil imports to the european union by the end of the year. and this comes at a time when we see that russia has disrupted supplies to, by now, five member states finland, bulgaria and poland but now to a company in the netherlands and a company in denmark. that message was echoed by the ukrainian foreign ministry. they said. let s look at the bigger picture. russia currently supplies about 27%
even though he s polling far beyond his republican rivals in the state, his team recognizes he can t get complacent in this final stretch. he wants to ensure he doesn t cede any ground to his rivals. his speech has focused heavily on attacking president biden and specifically his record on foreign policy. at one point, donald trump was referring to the president s meeting with chinese president xi earlier in the week and stated to escalate his criticism calling joe biden quote, a stupid person, and suggesting he may be on medication. our leader is a stupid person. our leader our leader can t get off this stage. you see the stage? when he s finished with a speech by the time whatever he s taken wears off and he s looking, okay, thank you. all right. thank you. now, paula, some of these remarks and what you just heard right there is in line with some of the increasingly vi rhetor he s been using. last week while in new hampshire, he received a wave of backlash for callin
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