and even more horrible day for the people of ukraine. the lead starts right now. a helicopter crash outside a kindergarten in the suburbs of kyiv and a ukrainian cabinet minister and a child among the 14 killed. what caused this tragedy? plus, she s called matt gaetz a fraud, used a clown emoemp bey to describe marjorie taylor greene and called her own party tone deaf on the subject of abortion. speaking with congresswoman nancy mace as the swing district republican fights for the soul of the gop. and officially charged in his wife s murder. google searches including how long before a body starts to smell, how to clean blood from wooden floor and, how long for someone to be missing to inherit, quote/unquote. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with the big story in our world lead. an investigation is und? er way and three days of mourning in ukraine have begun after a helicopter crashed in the kyiv suburb earlier today. the crash at 8:20 a.m. ukraine time
and the way he treated and spoke to other people and the fact that he didn t have conversations. he had accusations and he had a way of telling people they didn t know what they were talking about. always politics? yeah. reporter: video appears to show pena at three different trump rallies in d.c. in one clip his name is stitched into his hat and in july 2021, kr, nn video captured a man appears to be pena in the rally crowd. pena would later post a picture of himself as an attendee. a year later pena ran for office as a republican candidate for the state house. he lost last november by a slant sl landslide but pena would not accept an election loss. police say he targeted four democrats to blame finding their addresses and confronting them. so i went to the gate and that s where he was and he seemed agitated. he seemed a little aggressive. i did tell someone about it. they said this guy is a felon. mr. pena orchestrated and made phone calls and hired people to sh
mishandled classified documents. we ll see if he s singing the same tune after what the fbi found at mar-a-lago. and russian shelling shutting down another reactor at the biggest nuclear plant in europe. is it safe and should the world be worried? it is a big disappointment on the launch pad in dpla flo florida. nasa pulling the plug on the scheduled launch of the unmanned artemis one rocket. engineers could not fix a liquid hydrogen like in time for liftoff and that s the second time this week technical issues forced nasa to scrub the launch. nasa officials say it will be several weeks. we do not launch until we think it s right. and these teams have labored over that and that is the conclusion that they came to. so i look at this as a part of our space program of which safety is the top of the list. the goal of the artemis program is return humans to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years and ultimately, take them to mars. police in mississippi arrest
prepares to sign it into law. will it make a difference in the epidemic of gun violence in the united states? i ll ask the new york city mayor eric adams. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf f blitzer, you re the situation room . we begin with the u.s. supreme court decision undoing a half century old precedent and ending a woman s guaranteed federal right to an abortion. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider has more on the ruling and ramifications. hell no we don t need roe. reporter: roe v. wade roe v. wade no longer the law of the land. eliminating the right to abortion and leaving all decisions concerning abortion rights to individual states. the final 5-4 majority opinion striking the draft from justice samuel a lee toe. in a dissenting opinion, the court s liberal justices lament the current state of the conservative court saying with sorrow for this court and many millions of american women who have today
win the battle and lose the war. you know? there is a if you discredit or politicize the justice department in the eyes of 60 million americans, you haven t gained that much even if you ve got these classified documents. so that is the balance that i think and i m sure they re thinking about, which is very difficult. because with anybody else you would just say, look. you broke the law or you seem to have broken the law. we have to get these documents back. what strikes me when you say that is the idea of obviously it is a bit of a damned if you do damned if you don t philosophy in having to think about these things but the idea of the battle versus the war one could say something quite similar, fareed, the idea of, you know, vilifying law enforcement and vilifying the agencies whose job it is to help support the enforcement of the law in the long run by doing that if you are a supporter of trump, if you are trump himself, those who are members of congress who believe tha