midst at all. standing the test just state capitol in atlanta. this is cnn tonight be sure to tune in for special coverage of president biden s state of the union address. i ll be back here along with my esteemed colleagues, dana bash and erin burnett. abby philip, and a cast of thousands, 08:00 p.m. eastern on cnn. our coverage continues right now happening now, we are learning some of what president biden will say tonight about the state of the union. details on that and why there s so much focus on how he delivers his message to congress and to the country. also tonight there s breaking news on donald trump s $83 million defamation judgment and what a judge just ruled on trump s request for a temporary delay and in uvalde, texas, parents of murdered children erupted grief and anger at a new report on the massacre at robb elementary, where 19 children and two teachers were shot and killed welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf bl
the american people before this summer s conventions. what he needs to do for a strong state of the union address tonight and how some allies are working behind the scenes to push the president to own the big stage. and within the next few hours, the city of uvalde, texas is expected to release its findings of its report on the botched police response to the robb elementary school massacre. we have a closer look at what we can expect and we re learning burning more about last year s train derailment in ohio and how the response that followed was based on a bad call. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central the stage is set for tonight s big speech from president joe biden, perhaps the biggest of his presidency. and just a few hours he sets deliver a state of the union dress that i have to navigate some pessimism about the economy, anxiety over record immigration, frustrations with the israel-hamas war and grow
need. the american people want to know the truth. what s what our committee has been doing. this is a diversionary tactic. bring it on. ukraine s intelligence services foiled a russian plot to assassinate zelenskyy. ukraine russia fired nearly 500,000 shots at ukraine s forces in the past seven days. western officials are telling cnn they are getting increasingly sober updates on ukraine s counteroffensive. arrest warrants issued in this massive brawl in montgomery on a boat dock. many questions remain about the melee that appeared to be very much split across racial lines. doing his job, and for some reason they didn t like it. it s an unfortunate incident. shouldn t have happened. something we are investigating right now. good morning. top of the hour. so glad you are with us. victor blackwell with us all week. good morning. good morning. a lot to get to, especially that video everyone is talking about. unbelievable. it s creating memes across the in
in an a tourist arctic penal colony early this month. his body was then withheld, say navalny s team. what is widow calls and abuse that prolonged the family s agony he was starved in a tiny stones glad you from the outside world and denied visits, phone calls. and then even letters and then they killed him. even after that, they abused his body. and it d be used. his mother the kremlin denies allegations of wrongdoing and any responsibility for navalny s death the kremlin meanwhile, western ambassadors have been remembering the loss of another russian opposition leader, navalny. but boris nemtsov, gun down here back in 2015, the kremlin denies any involvement in this killing two but anyone who takes on russia s position mantle knows they re taking huge risk. well, erin, it s still unclear tonight where in moscow exactly alexey navalny will be varied. the funeral service is being held at a church in the area of the russian capital where the late opposition leader li
joe biden facing a vietnam moment in the war in gaza, that s tonight on newsnight good evening i m abby phillip in new york and tonight, a soldiers final act and his last words add to the unprecedented pressure, pressure on president biden. aaron bushnell was an active-duty air force member, just 25 years old. he took his own life on saturday in a shocking protest. he let himself on fire in front of the israeli embassy in washington, dc. we re not going to show you the actual video of those final moments. it s too gruesome, but this is still that was taken from a video that he recorded in it, bushnell explains why he felt that he had to do what he did. he talked to the camera for nearly a minute and he said at this, i will no longer be complicit in genocide. i m about to engage in an extreme act of protest you can see bushnell s standing us flag visible on his uniform. the embassy gate there behind him. his last words were words that he shouted until he collapsed from the f