have you ever seen this much chocolate, at least in the cityo of new york? that s why people are hatinghato on me. the race card officially over, but oh, oh, oh. disney canceled conservative star wars actress gina carano strikes back on prime time. plus, cocaine, hippos. last night, we invited senator lankford on from oklahoma. t he s the republican who coauthored the border bill with democrats who admittedd the border never closes. he said he was in a meeting last night cond he couldn t make it. so we invited him on again tonight becausuldn t make we hat of questions like, why would you spend $20 billion on a border bill that doesn t close the border0 billio ? langford lankford told our team he didn t want to come in tonight to get his skult wan cracked in. he probably doesn t realize i m a pussycat. he wrote the bill. i read the bill. why not tell me how it worksl. read? instead, lankford went on cnnt twice to talk with danona bash and jake tapper, anchors who cov
welcome back to the cnn newsroom. much of the world expected ukraine to fall quickly to russia s invasion given the onslaught of man and machines and heavy weaponry. now ukraine enters a second year of battling its way to freedom in that war. this time, this time lapse, i should say, just shows how successful ukraine s military has been this past year. the russian troops mostly contained. the fighting in the east is intensifying and ukraine s military is kahn for more western aid including fighter jets. president biden for now appears to be dunk down the request from ukraine s president for f-16s. take a listen. we re sending him what our seasoned military thinks he needs now. he needs tanks, artillery, there are things he needs now that we re sending him to put him in a position to make gains this spring and this summer going into the fall. he doesn t need f-16s now. the u.s. has announce ad $2 billion aid package. according to the united nations, ukraine has already pa
air raid sirens and fresh destruction. president vladimir zelenskyy pleading with g 7 nations for more weapons during emergency talks on the deadly russian bombardment. also tonight, the u.s. justice department is urging the u.s. supreme court to stay out of the dispute over classified documents seized from mar-a-lago. we ll break down the new federal response to the trump team that was filed just a short while ago. and a baltimore man walks free after 23 years in prison. prosecutors dropping murder and all other charges against him after he was featured on a popular crime podcast and cleared by dna testing. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re the situation room. we begin our coverage tonight in ukraine where valid p vladimir putin s assault on the city is taking a deadly toll. fred pleitgen is on the scene for us in kyiv. reporter: as the russian military continues to fire barrages of missiles at ukraine eng
candidate who doesn t want to commit. the lead starts rile now. with just over three weeks to go to the midterms, early voting begins in a key state that entire country is watching. herschel walker with a new admission today and the republican who wants to be arizona s next governor indicates she might not be interested in the actual results. plus, kamikaze terror, kyiv comes under attack from drones that russia is getting from iran. a pregnant woman killed. could this change how the u.s. gives support to ukraine. and stopped on a mission to kill. a serial killer suspect in california arrested, what ware learning today about his past and how the police finally got him. hello and welcome to the lead. i m john berman in for jake tapper and we begin with our politics lead. the latest poll of polls shows democrats and republicans in a dead heat for control of the house of representatives. early voting kicked off today in the critical swing state of georgia. democratic s
on girls and women s reproductive autonomy. cnn is live as crowds swell outside the supreme court. plus, the widespread impact, where trigger laws now or soon will make abortion entirely illegal for any girl or woman regardless of circumstances. also on this monumental day, the first major gun safety legislation in decades on its way to the white house for president biden s signature. how democrats and republicans came together to compromise. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with the historic decision from the united states supreme court which has overturned roe v. wade. finding that the 167 million girls and women in the united states have no constitutional right to an abortion. massive crowds gathered outside the high court in washington, d.c. this afternoon. some celebrating, some protesting the 5-4 decision. conservative justices samuel alito, clarence thomas, neil gorsuch, brett kavanaugh, and amy coney barrett leaving abortion rights as a que