tank standoff. who will blink first over sending crucial fire power to ukraine. former ambassador nikki haley says it s time for a new generation to lead. guess who she has in mind for 2024? good morning. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. happy friday, everybody. i m christine romans. president biden saying he has no regrets over the way the white house handled the discovery of classified documents at his private think tank office and delaware home. as we found we found a handful of documents were failed were filed in the wrong place. we immediately turned them over to the archives and the justice department. we re fully cooperating, looking forward to getting this resolved quickly. the president s first remarks in a week on the classified document discovery. cnn s jasmine wright live in washington this friday morning for us. jasmine, mr. biden spent about 30 seconds addressing the documents, the very end of the comments on storm re
some leopard tanks to ukraine while holding back the american-made abrams model. what s the difference, and can ukraine get some tanks before russia ramps up its war in the spring? plus, a new investigation opened in new mexico into a republican candidate s campaign possibly being laced with money from fentanyl sales just days after his arrest accused of plotting to shoot the homes of his democratic rivals. and julia roberts made her a household name. coming up, the real erin brockovich is here on a mission to help military families. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper and we start with the world lead in what appears to be a standoff between the united states and germany when it comes to giving more heavy weapons to ukraine. more than 50 countries and organizations met at ramstein air base in germany led by top military leaders but the group failed to come to an agreement on one of ukraine s most pressing request, whether or not germany will send the leopard tanks to i
Tank standoff. who will blink first over sending crucial fire power to ukraine. former ambassador nikki haley says it s time for a new generation to lead. guess who she has in mind for 2024? good morning. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. happy friday, everybody. i m christine romans. president biden saying he has no regrets over the way the white house handled the discovery of classified documents at his private think tank office and delaware home. as we found we found a handful of documents were failed were filed in the wrong place. we immediately turned them over to the archives and the justice department. we re fully cooperating, looking forward to getting this resolved quickly. the president s first remarks in a week on the classified document discovery. cnn s jasmine wright live in washington this friday morning for us. jasmine, mr. biden spent about
Brutal spring. jake, the ukranians also say there is a whole other face tote this as well. they say they are having increasing problems getting spare parts for their soviet union era tanks and ammunition as well. so on the one hand the modern western tanks would be for better capabilities, but it s also about staying in the fight, especially as that russian offensive loomgs. jake? fred pleitgen in kyiv, ukraine. let s talk about this with william cohen, former republican senator from maine and defense secretary in the clinton administration. thanks so much for joining us. let s start with the tank standoff. germany s defense minister said there s both good and bad reasons for giving the leopard two tanks that they are desperately asking for. why do you think germany is so hesitant here? well, i think part of it is political, around certainly emotional on the part of the germans. we don t give germany enough credit for what they have been doing and the amount they are contributing,
Support network, according to the white house, will be hit with more u.s. sanctions. wagner has been recruiting huge numbers of prisoners to send them to the front to die as cannon fodder. the u.s. believes of 50,000 wagner mercenaries currently in ukraine, 80% were recruited from prisons and are convicts. jake. says a lot. al alex marquardt, says a lot. while they are waiting for the diplomatic tank standoff plays out they are forging ahead with the battle capabilities that they have right now. cnn s fred pleitgen saw ukranian forces gearing up for a large-scale mugs envision. reporter: preparing to prepare for a second gigantic attack even as they are already under assault by russia, ukranian units held large-scale drills to prepare for bigger badder battles to come. the head of ukraine s joint forces tell meal we need to know