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
fine. a lot of you will say, neil, don t talk. anyway, we ve got more on what s happening on the price front, where are that that s all going down for the time being, but the real trouble for much of the country and up to a third of all americans is this heat wave that s gripping a good part of the country. fox weather s robert ray in galveston, texas, where it s particularly hot. welcome, my friend. reporter: neil, good good morning to you. happy weekend, happy saturday. galveston island just off of houston, the gulf of mexico. and look at that, neil, this big seawall, 20-foot seawall, jetting down. it was created after the 1900 hurricane that still killed more people in america than any other natural disaster. it is scorching here this morning. temps expected to be in the mid if 90s, dripping as i speak right now. gulf of mexico temperatures above average, and that is concerning, definitely, as our tropical storm season is about to heat up in august and into september. in
all the events so far. on friday, 19th may, according to the sun newspaper, the young person s family complained to the bbc about one of its presenters. on thursday, 6thjuly, allegations of a different nature were put to the bbc, according to director general tim davie. the next day, the sun publishes claims that a bbc presenter paid a teenager £35,000 for sexually explicit photos. on saturday, 8thjuly, the sun on sunday publishes more details of the presenter s alleged actions. and today, the bbc confirms a presenter has been suspended and the corporation is in touch with police, with the met confirming an initial contact has been received. our legal correspondent dominic casciani has answered some of the questions about this case. effectively, if you go on social media this weekend, there have been two burning questions. firstly, has there been a crime that s been committed? and secondly, why hasn t this individual been named? so let s go through these in turn has an
ukraine. the white house news conference is still ongoing, but less prostrate to washington and speak to our correspondent nomia iqbal. let s cross straight. take us through what jake sullivan said. cross straight. take us through what jake sullivan said. jake sullivan said. more or less concerned jake sullivan said. more or less concerned that jake sullivan said. more or less concerned that the jake sullivan said. more or less concerned that the us - jake sullivan said. more or less concerned that the us would i jake sullivan said. more or less i concerned that the us would send cluster munitions to ukraine, all of the pentagon get to confirm that. but you made the point that ukraine needs artillery and that s the core of the conflict, and it was critical for the us to supply ukraine with the supplies. the us always makes the supplies. the us always makes the point that they will not leave ukraine uncovered, they will not leave ukraine vulnerable. so, what was inte
is allowed into the eu, which has been stalled for years. eu spokesperson says there are clear steps that cannot be linked to the separate nato tract. president biden must explain providing cluster bombs to ukraine. ukraine prime minister among four allies which voiced opposition. this is about keeping ukraine in the fight. these additional art tillery shells have cluster bombs in them, they have a low dud rate, to defend their own territory, hitting russian positions. white house officials explain russia has been using cluster bomb on ukraine since the beginning of the fight. ukraine has every incentive not to pose a risk to their own civilian. president biden revealed ammo. president biden: they are running out of that ammunition and we re low on it. that remark drew concern about the u.s. readiness to defend itself, which the white house say is not a concern. many in congress are split on biden s decision. i have qualms about it, there is international prohibitio