evidence. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. russia s military said to be divided tonight over ukraine s stunning military offensive, retaking thousands of square miles from moscow s forces, which are now on the defensive in eastern and southern ukraine. cnn s senior international correspondent matthew chance has the latest for us. matthew, cnn s reporting that putin himself is giving directions to generals on the battlefield as russia s military appears increasingly divided on how to proceed with this war. tell us more of what you re learning. reporter: that s right, wolf. tonight another illustration of just how much intelligence u.s. authorities have, the u.s. intelligence has, on the thinking of what s going on inside the russian command structure. they re talking about intercepts that they ve sort of made available to cnn. we re reporting on that. about how there are disagreements on the
called a january 6th rioter. plus, what new text messages from mark meadows reveal, and why a former congressman pressed the january 6th committee to press the wife of a supreme court justice. ten straight days of protest in iran for a woman killed over a hijab. now the regime is out with its own crowds pushing a different narrative. welcome to the lead i m kasie hunt in for jake tapper. we start with politics lead, we are less than 48 hours away from the next public january 6th committee hearing. cnn is learning about text messages from then trump chaief of staff mark meadows linking the white house with a pro trump operative who was trying to seize voting machines. we re going to have more on this exchange in just a moment. we re also learning about new links between the white house and a rioter on january 6th. denver riggleman who was an adviser to the january 6th committee is telling cbs 60 minutes. riggleman will join us on the lead in a moment. cnn s sara murr
united states, i would never admit this to anyone, but i missed war, i didn t miss fighting, i missed the camaraderie, i missed the brotherhood, i missed the sense of purpose, and i haven t found that since i ve been back. but when i saw your film, it was the first time that i saw that, and it was really shocking to me because these were the people i was sent to kill. and he said to me, like, i realize that i had more in common with the men that i was fighting than the men that sent me to war. wow. and i thought that was really profound to hear. that s why i think this film is so important, especially when i get messages like that, messages from the yemeni community who are saying we see the news talk about syria and ukraine but yemen is continually ignored and seeing our people and some of the issues we ve had to deal with in your film has meant a lot. it s rally interesting to have those two groups respond to this film. that s why for me it s so important it gets out th
sort of jams that narrative up and here is why. the first request for prechb r prechb race of records came from congress on january 16. the email migration happened on january 27th. and our understanding is that they were told in december and then again on january 25th how to preserve those records, that if they were going to do it, they would need to do it themselves. basically one of these emails made that you might get at your own office from your chief information officer saying we re moving to a new system, so you are going to upload your documents, you have to do it yourself. right now the secret service again continues to say, look, we re doing everything that we can to rectify this. so for example, they have handed over about 10,000 records to the house select committee. they have this cover letter explaining what they are trying to do to rectify the situation and what they can expect to see in this 10,000 records. they also say that they are continuing to do this for
massachusetts wednesday. stop short of declaring a national emergency, he hinted that such a move could be coming in the weeks ahead.e clear, climate change is an emergency and in the coming weeks i m going to the power i ve have as president to turn these words into formal official government actions of the appropriate proclamation, executive order that they president possesses. when it comes to fighting climate change, i will not take no for an answer. let s bring in also journal columnist chemist also come editorial board and editorial pay writer. so kim, first quick question, is there any chance the presidents climate agenda could come back legislatively and congress this year? it is possible for the reason it is stalled right now senator joe manchin saw this most recent inflation numbers part he has been trying to come to an agreement with them. but decided it would not be good economically to move just right now. he left open the possibility this was something tha