the lies continue. this time george santos caught making up a story about his mother being in the south tower on 9/11, this as republicans reward him in congress. emergency measures are in place today as the nation is hitting its debt limit. why congress may be playing with fire. a warning to vladimir putin. ukraine s president said his country will take by crimea. will alec baldwin be charged the killing of a shooting onset? we ll discuss. cnn this morning starts now. we begin with yet another apparent lie from george santos, a republican congressman from new york who fabricated just about everything on his resume. he s been caught lying about his late mother. santos long claimed his mother was in the south tower of the world trade center on 9/11 and later died from cancer. new immigration records confirm santos mother was in brazil and never in the u.s. and now a navy veteran from new jersey is accusing santos of stealing $3,000 from a gofundme account. santos de
The lies continue. this time george santos caught making up a story about his mother being in the south tower on 9/11, this as republicans reward him in congress. emergency measures are in place today as the nation is hitting its debt limit. why congress may be playing with fire. a warning to vladimir putin. ukraine s president said his country will take by crimea. will alec baldwin be charged the killing of a shooting onset? we ll discuss. cnn this morning starts now. we begin with yet another
Russia eradicated off the map. the russians are playing on this. the ukrainians are saying this is russia s war of aggression. the ukrainian s say crimea is theirs and they want to take it back. obviously russia doesn t want that to happen. fred, when we talk about the weaponry ukraine is getting, there s this battle over tanks. the germans saying they ll send tanks if the u.s. does. what is going to happen? are they going to get these german tanks? reporter: it is so interesting. tomorrow is that big meeting where the contact group is going to meet. a lot of people are expecting tanks will be part of the equation. the germans hold the key to that. they manufacture the leopard 2
We re live in kyiv this morning. the big question is whether or not this could happen. does it seem like that s a realistic goal for zelenskyy to have? reporter: well, it certainly is the ukrainian s goal. they ve been saying they want to take back crimea. if we look at some of the gains that the ukrainians have been making in the south, in the kherson area, you can see it on that map, if they gain a lot more territory, they could be knocking on crimea s door and could be cutting off russia s land bridge to crimea. that s one of the things that president zelenskyy was alluding to. he said if ukraine gets the weapons, they ll take back crimea. the kremlin has reacted to this. they ve said they believe zelenskyy simply wants to see
The line there but push russian forces further back? because you hear this discussion as well, recapturing parts of donbas even some say crimea, and that s a more optimistic view, but is that a realistic view? i think it depends on part to what extent the u.s. and nato continue to support ukraine, but the next weeks, i think, are going to be in some ways decisive. the ukrainians have the gun to sustain some momentum in a counter cou counteroffensive, and they have decisions to make now that they ve pushed the russians out of the perimeter of kharkiv where might they open a new front. that s a political decision as well as a military one. the russians are attempting to layer in their own form of governance and ukrainians need to contest that. raising the russian flag and sometimes even the soviet flag in some of these cities. thank you so much for joining us. after 11 days on the run, casey white is now said to be cooperating, described to be pretty candid with investigators