Condos urging them to get inspected amid fears of another collapse. We are standing by for a briefing by local officials, this hour. We want to welcome our viewers here, in the United States, and Around The World. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Lets begin over at the White House with cnns chief national Affairs Correspondent jeff zeleny. Jeff, President Biden, he is clearly adamant, totally adamant, about all u. S. Forces leaving afghanistan in the coming weeks. Wolf, President Biden did offer a robust defense of his decision. He said the two overriding objectives had been met. That is hunting down Osama Bin Laden and rooting out the Al Qaeda terrorists that attacked the u. S. , back on 9 11. N now, biden, of course, is a longtime skeptic of this war. He said, quite frankly, this decision was overdue. Afghanistan, he said, must have its own course and defend its country. I will not send another generation of americans to War In Afghanistan with no, reasonable expectation
Member of congress, but is he still all but certain to get reelected . Lets go outfront. Im erin burnett, outfront tonight, the breaking news, kyiv under attack and another potential warning shot from russia to the west, Missile Attack on ukraines capitol while United Nations secretarygeneral Antonio Guiterrez finishing a visit there, fire breaks out in 25 story residential building, ukraine says at least 10 people were wounded and no ings didnt the u. S. Secretarygeneral was there and russia did fire those missiles. Earlier this week, defense secretary lloyd austin didnt rule out that Russian Forces were targeting him and the u. S. Secretary of state Antony Blinken by Striking Rail lines only a few hours after the two left kyiv by train. This comes as russia ramps up its warnings to the west to stop helping ukraine. Heres Russias Foreign Ministry spokesperson today. Translator they are openly calling on kyiv to attack rigs ah including the use of weapons from nato country. I dont advi
Find these, quote, bastards. This hour ill speak to a ukrainian prosecutor who identified ten russian soldiers suspected of atrocities. Cnn has obtained exclusive photos of the Bucha Slaughter taken in realtime. Our correspondents are standing by in the war zone and over at the white house. As russias invasion of ukraine enters its 10th week. We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the Situation Room. Announcer this is cnn Breaking News. Lets get right to the Breaking News tonight. Russia renewing attacks on kyiv. Hitting just east of the city center. President zelenskyy condemned the strikes just a little while ago. Cnns Anderson Cooper is joining us live from the ukrainian capital of kyiv. Anderson, this was a brazen attack on kyiv. The first in weeks. You were there. Set the scene for us. What happened . Reporter yeah, the attacks took place earlier today. Several miles from the location where were at right now. You ca
happens. let s go to mcallen, texas, on-site hearing, a field trip, if you will, at the highest level at the southern border after what you saw broke off on sunday. a bum rush in el paso, texas. some of them had already booked travel, democrats are pulling out of this unique opportunity to get hands on after the border crisis. again, the white house with a familiar line today calling the hearing itself a stunt. any news and we ll bring it to you immediately. get to this. tensions escalating. united states and russia blaming each other after a warplane crashed into an american drone over the black sea. it is first known encounter between the two militaries since the start of the ukraine war a bit more than a year ago. i m harris faulkner, you are in the faulkner focus. flighter jet clipped propeller of the reaper drone as it flew over the black sea yesterday. the hit forced american operators to bring down the $32 million drone. national security council spokesman john kirby
he s my guest. let s go out front. good evening, i m erin burnett. ron desantis is vowing that his two flights of undocumented immigrants to martha s vineyard are just the beginning. these are just the beginning efforts. we ve got an infrastructure in place now. there s going to be a lot more than happening. we are going to use it, and you re going to see more and more. now, ironically that $12 million that he refers to is coming from interest earned on coronavirus aid funds, aid funds that came from president biden. well, you see how desantis is using it in his threat tonight. republicans and democrats are at an all-out war of words. they use them as political pawns, treated them like chattel in a cruel premeditated political stunt. if they will not go to the border, we re taking the border to them so they can see the challenges they are posing to the entire united states. what desantis is doing a disgrace. these communities are so hypocritical because they are n