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
kind of stuff goes away. the white house says they deny a recession is coming. listen to this exclusive video that we just got in from fox digital. watch in. have you checked gas prices lately? have you checked interest rates? we re in a recession. prices are going up, employment pay is not going up as fast. know that a lot of us will be able to enjoy. we ll have to work to be able to pay bills to live, to eat. i think we re in a recession. interest rates have gone up, up, up. the economy seems to be slowing down. the price of cars is unreal. if you can get one. martha: that s pretty good. these folks have it straight. we ll talk to glenn youngkin, the governor of virginia where the interviews were done. he s coming up. white house correspondent edward lawrence reporting live from the north lawn. the consumer sentiment is critical as economic data comes out. more americans are pessimistic about the economy. the lowest level since february 2021. the current preside
american to visit the island in 25 years, this is a significant moment in the battle with china that exists on so many economic and military fronts. the communist nation has been caught buying up farmland for unknown reasons in the united states. also expanding their military bases with a stated goal of dominating the united states and making themselves the number 1 super power in the world. now they re choosing the united states of behaving like gangsters after the secretary state antony blinken said any crisis that follows this visit would be entirely on beijing. here s their response. the united states should and must be full responsibility for this. the remarks but secretary of state blinken confounded right and wrong and showed the mentality and gangster logic of some american people that i can provoke you wantonly but you can t oppose me or defend yourselves. martha: she claims she s just visiting taiwan and that that is allowed under the agreements that exist betwe
briefed on the alpha bank story in a meating. the story falsely was tying trump to a russian back. and mook said he discussed it on the stands with hillary. i don t remember the substance of the conversation but notionally hey, we have this and we want to share it with a reporter. mook said she agreed. devin nunes was chair of the house intel at the time. was a major whistle-blower ahead on this story giving president trump a heads-up on all of it. we re going to talk to mark penn, more on that and the devastating new poll numbers for democrats and the white house. joe concha is cher with us as well, a fox news contributor. great to have you with us today. i do want to get to the poll numbers. it s been a rough week for this white house. those are polls across the board coming in in similar numbers. mark penn, before i go to that and we ll talk about this in the next block, but a quick reaction on your part to the way that this story was sort of cultivated and spread that we
what we ll provide ukraine rather than provoke vladimir putin i think is a clear signal to putin that he can wait us out, and there do seem to be some fractures within the alliance about how much we re willing to give, how much we re willing to support and how long we re willing to do that. talk about that, because some of the weapons the west is now sending ukraine are weapons that would not have been sent at the beginning of the war, last february, last march, for fear of provoking putin. do you think there is a red line here for putin, a limit to how far nate ecan go in helping ukraine before russia takes even more drastic steps? i think the red line is the introduction of strategic capabilities, like bombers and other high-technology equipment of that level, but more importantly, probably the red line is the introduction of nato forces on to the soil of ukraine. that probably is the red line