committee will meet to formalize impeachment inquiry into president biden. steve: what it means the full house could vote on that as soon as tomorrow. ainsley: well, that falls on the same day that lawmakers are demanding that hunter biden testify behind closed doors. lawrence: alexandria hoff knows it all. she is in washington with the latest. good morning, alex. maybe not all of it but there are a lot of pieces in play. the white house is trying to put to use statements made by republicans who feel there isn t enough evidence to impeach the president. some have changed their minds on that in recent weeks. the way this timeline breaks down is that today the house rules committee is going to consider the resolution that would authorize the impeachment inquiry. tomorrow, house republicans are expected to vote to approve it. mind you, this isn t a vote for impeachment, just to allow for the inquiry and more investigative power into that. tomorrow is the same day that th
fellow at ucla. great to have you both. on jill, if i can begin with you. it is notable, right? the official russian story is it was an on board fire. this was not due to enemy fire here. when you hear state tv really calling for blood in response here. it seems that, should we expect the official story to change on this? that russia will grant this was a loss in the war? you never know. but right now, i would say, a lot of russian propaganda is internally contradictory. so you heard that man kind of slightly deranged approach. and i m serious. i ve watched it a lot of him. even the state media don t seem to be buying the official story. hence, you had. in show and in another one, this person who that, well, the ukrainians were hunting that ship. it was planned in advance. now, of course, if it was
war ship moskva is an enormous loss and a giant embarrassment for russia s military. moskva was the flagship of the black sea fleet. russia claims it sank as a result of on board fire. but officials believe that ukrainian missiles, two of them, sank the ship. a russian air strike on kyiv today was likely retaliation for the sinking. and commentators on russian state television are expressing their anger at the sinking, calling for the bombing of kyiv. translator: the warship moskva is a cause for war 100%. it is our flag. there is nothing to think about. there has to be a response. we should bomb kyiv. then they won t come. that s what needs to be done. much to discuss tonight with jill doherty, a professor, and general wesley clark, a senior
putin has revised his strategy. russia could be relaunching a large scale offensive to conquer the donbas region in the next few days. new threats by the kremlin warning if ukrainian attacks on russian territory continue, russian armed forces will strike decision-making centers, including kyiv. also new this morning, conflicting reports on what happens when one of russia s most important navy warships, these were taken before ukraine said its missile hit this ship. hours later russia said it was an on board fire. cnn has been unable to verify the claims. in the men time the u.s. is ramping up commitments to help ukraine sending an additional $800 million and rushing ahead of time. cnn s matt rivers is here to talk about this. this ship if ukraine were to have hit it, this would be a
this is possibly one scenario, a lot of drag on the airplane and the airplane would start descending. jon: and if you have a full load of fuel and full load of passengers that can be obviously tragic. it s a one scenario. they are also looking at fuel problems and it did get fully fueled where it last landed and we are looking at possibly engine failures, there s a lot that play out, so the flight data recorder that they discovered and the voice recorder, both of those will show accurate depiction and give a narrative on what brought the plane down. jon: update on egypt 804 which went down in the mediterranean back in may, investigators had pointed to on board fire as likely cause but government officials found traces of explosives on some of the bodies recovered. 66 people died in that crash,