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congressional leaders wrap up a new round of talks without a deal on raising the nation s debt limit. the president speaking out about the meeting just a short while ago as he scraps part of his overseas trip to keep the negotiations going. and a very disturbing new security lapse by the u.s. secret service. an intruder entering the home of biden s national security adviser, jake sullivan, undetected. we re taking a closer look at the growing threat to top american officials. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, air raid sirens have been blaring in the ukrainian capital of kyiv a day after a major new air assault by russia. moscow claiming it hit a critical target overnight, a u.s. patriot air defense missile system. cnn s sam kkiley s on the groun. what do we know about the strike by russia and the fate of that patriot system? reporter: tonight, wolf, the ukrainians say ....
with the committee and that is according to reporting by abc and cnn. then you have mike pompeo confirm today that he is in talks with the committee. abc news reporting this about the state of the negotiations with the panel saying in part, quote, the house select committee investigating the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol is in active discussions with former secretary of state mike pompeo for his testimony behind closed doors. sources familiar with the matter telling abc news. pompeo is tentatively scheduled to speak with the committee come the coming days, sources said. pompeo was among the few trumpa allies and officials that at least publicly stuck with the ex-president in the immediate aftermath of the attack. he said, quote, while we all think the violence that took place in the capitol was tragic, and i ve watched away people walk away from the president and they are not listening to the american people, not remotely. pompeo played a critical role in the t ....
Russian targets in russian-controlled territory here in the eastern part of the country. and the reason i put these range finders here is just to show what a difference these missiles make in terms of giving ukrainians capability. this is a 50-mile range radius around luhansk, a key russian-held city in the russian-held part of eastern ukraine. 50 miles was the maximum range of the missiles that ukraine had prior to the deployment of the storm shadow. now they have the storm shadow which is three times that range, 150 miles. gives them the capability to fire those missiles from this far away and strike key targets in russian-controlled territory from stand-back conditions, and this is what we confirm now, that the ukrainians are using them and they re able to strike well behind the battle lines there giving them an advantage going forward. particularly, wolf, as we ve talked many times with this highly anticipated ....
Have been given by the united states and germany to ukraine during that very concentrated assault on the ukrainian capital kyiv with these missiles. so they re not saying that it s been knocked out entirely, but it s clearly been damaged sufficiently that they re going to have to perhaps take it out of circulation if you like for a while while they examine it and repair it. the ukrainians have not made any comment which is typical of them about what has not been and has been successfully hit, particularly not military targets. they do not reveal the details ever of success or failure in attacks against military targets. so what they are saying, no, is that this was a new tactic being employed by russia to try to focus a very large amount of missiles on a single target or a single target area in the form of kyiv over a very short period of time, clearly intending to ....
And smart weapons systems to keep the ukrainians will to resist. that s what they re trying to achieve. they re trying to wear down this is a battle of wills. that s point number one. number two is clearly they want to take the ukrainians and get them out of their stride. the anticipation of this offensive is what s driving the russians crazy. frankly, the ukrainians need to stop talking about it and get about the business of executing the offensive. they ve got to do it. guys, thank you very much. just ahead, is a debt limit deal likely any time soon after new talks over at the white house and president biden s decision to pare down his trip overseas. beautiful. you see how the light catches the hubcap? ststunning. yoyou sure you don t want your family in the family photos? they helped us save money when we bundled, so. yeah. same difference. okay. this one s goingn the mantle. ....