defense today. the lead starts right now. might there be a breakthrough? after months of tuber vville blocking military promotions. the secretary tells cnn in an exclusive interview this blockade by tuberville has become a threat to national security. and major questions for the secret service today as the agency says it s closing it s case and that they could not figure out who dropped a baggy of cocaine inside the white house. plus one of california s premier hospitals facing a new federal civil rights investigation into its alleged treatment of pregnant black women. welcome to the lead i m jam tapper. we re going to start with our world lead. president biden today made quite the bold statement about putin s bloody war against ukraine. putin s already lost the war. putin has a real problem. how does he move from here? what does he do? there is no possibility of him winning the war in ukraine. he s already lost the war. that stunning assertion from biden at a new
another act of violence targeting a member of congress. two people in virginia, in democrat jerry connolly s district office, are attacked by a man with a metal baseball bat. this is a gentleman with a long history of mental illness. he has been engaged in bizarre behavior in the past, including violent. he decided today for whatever reason to come to us and inflict more of the same. a trump justice department special prosecutor investigating the fbi over the russia investigation for bias issues. his report after four years. not recommending any indictments. i will speak to andrew weismann about the results. mike pence and florida governor ron desantis making big moves ahead of expected announcements to take on donald trump. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. this afternoon, the second big showdown between president biden and house speaker mccarthy over the debt ceiling. a critical moment says the treasury secretary, as the president is about to leave for a
time on hbo max. join us here on cnn the week after the super bowl to find out who is talking next. welcome back to the 8:00 hour of the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with more breaking news. some of the first images we have seen of possible debris from that chinese spy balloon downed yesterday off the coast of south carolina. this video was shot by a south carolina resident just coming in this evening. this resident told cnn he saw a navy boat carrying what he believed to be debris from the balloon. cnn cannot independently confirm whether this is indeed debris from that balloon. we are reaching out to the u.s. navy for comment. in the meantime, this comes at the same time we are learning new details about when the pentagon learned about the balloon and when the president was informed about it. more on that in a moment. i want to begin in north myrtle beach, south carolina, and the focus of the recovery efforts. ca carlos, what can you tell us abou
either they win or they were cheated. now the monthly jobs report is out today showing continued strength in some sectors. weakness in a few others. with today s news, we have now created nearly 10 million new jobs since i took office. bottom line is, jobs are up, wages are up, people are back to work and we re seeing some signs that inflation may be may be i m not over promising, may be beginning to ease. i will talk to treasury secretary janet yellen about the jobs numbers and today s big g7 announcement that the world s leading economies are capping the price of russian oil to try to limit the profits. helping fund vladimir putin s war machine in ukraine. former trump white house counsel pat cipollone and his deputy pat philbin is appearing before the january 6 grand jury. the congressional committee is asking former house speaker newt gingrich to appear for an interview about his alleged role in helping spark the riot. we will break down the latest from th
down the legal ladder, keeping it on the market for the foreseeable future. also, the president of the united states huddling with world leaders at the g7 summit in italy ahead of a highly anticipated news conference with ukraine s president zelenskyy. the former president returns to the capitol right near the scene of the most controversial moment of his time in office on january 6th, shoring up support among republican lawmakers and business leaders with hopes of returning to the white house. a very good day to all of you. i m alex witt in for andrea mitchell. a major ruling from the supreme court today. it s unanimous. the widely used abortion pill mifepristone can stay on the market. the supreme court rejected a challenge to the drug brought by anti-abortion doctors who question the food and drug administration s authority to ease access to the pill saying the groups had no legal standing. writing for the court, justice kavanaugh said, while plaintiffs have since