that s outfront. good evening, i m aaron burnett. putin responds. russia s president has now replied to america s written response to putin s demands. now, the state department tonight is tight-lipped. they are saying they won t publicly discuss what putin has put in writing. but as putin delivered his response, we learned something important, that as he was doing that he was pumping up his military forces on the ukraine border. according to the biden administration, putin is now ramping up his presence on the border adding 30,000 more troops. that s the plan they say or the next coming weeks that. brings it to 160,000 troops on the ukranian border. these are actions that speak as loudly as russia s u.n. ambassador did today when moscow tried to blame the u.s. for russia s mass military buildup. it was during a security council meeting that russia tried to derail t.failed to cancel it. russia s ambassador said they brought pure nazis to power in kyiv telling the u.n. ambass
trump publicly admitting for r the first time he wanted his vp to overturn the 2020 presidential election. we ll bracheak down all the new provocations by the former president. covid cases are declining, america are urging the biden administration offering clear guidelines and how to lift restrictions and move away from the pandemic. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world, i am wolf blitzer, you are in the situation room. this cnn s breaking news. let s get straight to the breaking news, escalating tension rieght now between russa and the united states, we are covering all the angles at this hour. our clarissa ward is in eastern ukraine, our nic roberston is in moscow for us. let s go to our chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins. i understand you have new developments we are learning about right now. reporter: the united states has just received the written response from russia in the response with the united states and al
immediately. we believe that joe biden has been blackmailed by this for years, which would explain why he acts the way he does ukraine has tapes of joe biden. ukraine has tapes of hunter biden. the highly credible fbi informant says that the burisma executive who allegedly bribed joe biden $5 million to fire the prosecutor has audio recordings of joe and of hunter. these audio recordings were kept as an insurance policy in case the burisma executive got cornered. here with senator grassley on the senate floor moments ago revealing for the first time that joe and hunter biden may have been captured on recordings with the burisma executive in ukraine. are you ready? 17 different times grassley reveals that joe biden may have gotten hunter biden hired at burisma and if you thought couldn t get any more corrupt, it does. the fbi, when it finally released this document with these allegations to house oversight? redacted out the part about the audio recording. the 1023 produced t
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need to restructure, we need to reconfigure the way in which we police. here we are still waiting for real reform to the way policing is conducted in this country. laura: actually the reform and al sharpton and others are pining for already happened necessity memphis. that police department already revised its policies following the murder of george floyd. the effort was called re-imagine policing in memphis. now, it was called reimagining policing but what was re-imagined? it was re-imagined with awful consequences. in addition to addressing excessive force the department also loosened its hiring standards. in fact, two of the five officers involved in the killing of nichols were hired during this period. so when folks like cory booker or al sharpton blame this this shows the overwhelming need for what they call police reform, i agree. we need to reform their reforms. like memphis, chicago lowered its hiring standards for police in 2022. they were following the likes of