i m sara sidner in new york. jim acosta has the day off. you are in the cnn newsroom. we begin this hour with breaking news. former president jimmy carter is receiving hospice care at his home in plains, georgia. sources tell cnn president biden is staying in close contact with the family. let s go now to cnn s jeff zeleny in washington. what more have you learned since we ve just heard this not too long ago. we are learning this this afternoon and the carter center advised something we had not known, the former president has had a brief series of hospital stays. he made the decision to spend his final days to enter hospice care in plains, georgia. that is really so extraordinary because that of course is where the former president has sent his entire life with the exception, of course, of his four years here in washington at the white house as well as his military service as a young man. he went home to plains, georgia, in his post-presidency, and that s where he s been ev
standoff between its allies. lloyd austin meeting with european defense ministers at ramstein air base in germany. we are also, though, just getting in some breaking news, cnn white house reporter natasha bertrand, oren liebermann joining us. what are you hearing potentially about what more we re learning? even this secret meeting that the cia director held last week with president zelenskyy? yeah, so about the meeting between ukrainian president zelenskyy and cia director bill burns we are learning that burns went there really to brief the ukrainian president on what the u.s. believes are the potential battle plans by russia to launch an offensive in the spring. now, of course, bill burns has been a very key emissary between the u.s. and ukraine as well as even with russia over the course of the war and this really just signifies the urgency the u.s. feels in this moment getting ukraine the information the intelligence it needs ahead of this potential russian offensive see
the fact that the decision on tanks must be taken. standoff on military aid, u.s. and nato allies push germany to provide key tanks to ukraine. we re live in london on the diplomatic stalemate. and blow to republicans as the justice department signaled it won t hand over documents they demanded. how it impacts the biden and trump investigations. plus anti-abortion activists rally in washington, d.c. for the march for life demonstration. protestors say even though roe was overturned, there work isn t done. despite intense negotiations among the west s most senior defense officials, determine any still won t agree to send its coveted leopard 2 battle tanks to ukraine and they won t even allow other countries who have them to supply them about on paper it appears ideally suited for ukraine plus thousands are already deployed to more than a dozen nearby european countries, so getting some into ukraine would be relatively easy. poland for example is eager to give some of
biden s mishandling of classified documents. that was the message in a letter sent to house judiciary chairman jim jordan. the committee responded by accusing the doj of being, quote, scared to cooperate with the probe into how sensitive paperwork ended up in the president s home in delaware. in democrats are urging the president to be open about what happened. i want to see complete transparency on how this is handled and brought to the american people. i m convince thursday is no intent by the president to do something that was wrong. reporter: do you think this hurts him political? are you concerned at all? this is a matter that needs to get the president needs to get behind. he has to get all the information out. he has to square it away, make it clear that there was no intent here, that it was kept in a place that did not compromise the national security of america and that there are steps in place today to make sure this does not happen in the future. the whit