paula reid in for jim acosta. you re in the cnn newsroom we begin this hour with a potential new milestone in russia s war in ukraine. ukraine has announced that it has used a u.s. made patriot air defense system like this to bring down a russian hypersonic missile. if true, it would be the first time ukraine was able to intercept a missile that travels at ten times the speed of sound. cnn s sam kiley joins us from kyiv with the latest. sam, how significant is this? reporter: i think it s very significant indeed, for two reasons. first of all, it s kind of proving the need for highly sophisticated weapons such as the patriot missile that the ukrainians have been asking for effectively since 2014 when they were first invaded by the russians. but then on a technological level, paula, this is a very significant development because patriot was never designed for hypersonic missiles because they didn t exist when patriot was designed. this is a missile that can travel up to te
israel defense forces are almost a full day into what they call a precise and targeted operation to hunt out hamas in a hospital. what exactly does that mean? the lead starts right now. inside of that hospital, in gaza, now a military scene where israel and the u.s. say hamas is hiding a command center under the hospital. what is the goal of this targeted operation? also brand-new on the lead. 100 minutes of horror, exclusive video from the body cam of a terrorist for the first time, you could see video from inside of a hamas tunnel. before that group s horrific october 7th attack. plus, you might not believe this, hunter biden wants to subpoena donald trump. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. gaza s largest hospital is under siege. israeli forces launched a raid on the al shifa hospital in the early hours on wednesday after accusing hamas of operating from tunnels, souped by american intelligence. a report he inside of the hospital said the complex is surround
More aggressive, forward leaning strategy but some senior officials and senior democrats inside the white house said, look, we don t know if that s a good idea. i m told they were concerned about what that would mean for hunter. if you were in the room for this meeting back in december, which side would you be on? would you encourage a client to, yeah, go fire off some letters, throw some punches, or would you have advised maybe not the time to be too forward leaning here? well, i think, paula, it depends on who you are. since i m a lawyer, i would take the view that he should be aggressive if that s the legal strategy that they think is the right one. i think the hesitation probably comes more from the political side of the house. legally and ethically, it seems to me that hunter biden s team certainly can push back, if that s what they think will help them in terms of the criminal investigation and case. as a lawyer, i would be on the side of doing what they think will benefit him