Breaking bread and bolstering military ties. Vladimir putin makes a promise to his special guest, kim jongun. At the u. S. Warps Ns A Pay Is W pei a price. The battle is on but not all House Republicans want to fight it. When House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy is saying about the growing divide over his attempt to impeach. Plus, from crab walk to perp walk. An escaped murder captured in pennsylvania. Were following all of those stories and much more here on Cnn News Central. Today north korean dictator kim jongun pledged his full support for the ongoing invasion of ukraine. Comes as ukraine officials are sounding the alarm about an actively advancing arms deal between the two nations. Ahead of their summit putin gave kim a tour of russians far east. Russia said they would help develop their space and Satellite Program and while kim was there they launched two Ballistic Missiles off the eastern coast of the korean peninsula. It did not look like a coincidence. Cnns will ripley joins me from t
the house. there s 50 republicans in the senate. loads, thousands of republicans in state offices. not all of them believe this but none speak out against it and to me it s sort of a same thing. the reason they re not speaking out is simple. they re afraid of drmpb. by extension afraid of the party base. the party base will believe anything donald trump says and i won t mention the names but conservative media outlets. including idiotic things like this. like that this is an inside job. you have senators, ron johnson talked about how nancy pelosi impeached donald trump to cover up the role on january 6. it is not at all clear there s no dot connecting. you just say things and the base believes it because neutral fact checkers say it s not true and