News for you . Premieres tonight at nine On Cnn . Youre, in the cnn newsroom. Im Jessica Dean in New York and we begin with President Biden on the verge of a major decisions in that could dramatically reshape the war in ukraine. The president is considering whether to allow ukraine to use a western longrange missiles that could strike at targets deep in russian territory. Uks prime minister keir starmer, refusing to answer whether that came up in his meeting with President Biden, but russian president Vladimir Putin is warning that if biden does give The Green light, russia will quote, be at war with nato. Cnns Kevin Liptack is following this for us. Kevin, what are you hearing about the president s thinking around this . Will President Biden certainly seems more open to this idea. Then he had in the past. And i think that tells you enormous amount of pressure that President Biden is feeling not only from the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy, but also members of congress, includ
the controversial russia gop memo does not even allege let alone prove that anyone committed any crime. it doesn t even mention bob mueller. it crites investigative journalijourna journalist mike isikoff. these two reporters mentioned in the memo, on the beat for their first exclusive reaction and give us a better set of insight. fbi director chris wray, of course appointed by trump, is now putting out a statement, he doesn t state the memo directly. he tells employees, quote, talk is cheap, the work you do is what will endure. also reacting tonight, national security hawk mccain saying this only serves putins interest.