increase in medical tourists heading south of the border coming up. on page 1 of that threat assessment, china, among the fascinating details, how beijing is doubling its efforts to sway local politicians in the u.s. as a way to gain some diplomatic breathing room with washington. but we start with the brand new litmus test for republicans, being forced to publicly choose sides following the latest release of videos from january 6th. for a second straight night, fox news host tucker carlson perpetuated the lie that the insurrection was a mostly peaceful group of meek and orderly people who were sightseeing that characterization drew an angry, even visceral reaction from some republicans, although not all of them. i think what happened on january 6th was despicable, if you disagree with something congress is doing or not doing, you can t try to take over the capitol. tucker carlson that january 6th was i don t know what tucker carlson said. he said it was mostly
air raid sirens and fresh destruction. president vladimir zelenskyy pleading with g 7 nations for more weapons during emergency talks on the deadly russian bombardment. also tonight, the u.s. justice department is urging the u.s. supreme court to stay out of the dispute over classified documents seized from mar-a-lago. we ll break down the new federal response to the trump team that was filed just a short while ago. and a baltimore man walks free after 23 years in prison. prosecutors dropping murder and all other charges against him after he was featured on a popular crime podcast and cleared by dna testing. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re the situation room. we begin our coverage tonight in ukraine where valid p vladimir putin s assault on the city is taking a deadly toll. fred pleitgen is on the scene for us in kyiv. reporter: as the russian military continues to fire barrages of missiles at ukraine eng
shield. there also appear to be at least two rifles there. that picture was taken at 11:52 a.m. that s just 19 minutes after the gunman first entered the school. and 58 minutes before officers took him down. now, there s another picture obtained by the texas tribune this time that shows multiple officers armed with rifles there. ballistic shields, multiple shields. and axe-like tools. most of which the tribune reports were never deployed. now, we must note, we do not know at what point in the standoff this image was taken. but it does seem by these images that police were well equipped to storm the gunman. and this is raising new questions and understandably new anger about the police response by uvalde officers. we re also learning that some officers on the scene questioned the plan, as confusion delayed the breaching of the classrooms with kids still inside. rosa flores is live in san antonio this morning. rosa, with the new images that really just delve further in to w
she thought all this was just a scam. now i can only imagine what an emotional and traumatic time this is for her and, frankly, for all the families. what more can you tell us? reporter: yeah, the families are describing this wave of emotions, at least the families of those who have survived saying when they found out their loved ones were okay, they felt relief, but then having a whole host of questions, and then at the same time feeling absolutely gutted and heartbroken for the families of those who did not make it out. but let me let you listen to what eric williams wife had to say about it. i was very relieved, i felt sorry for the other families, but i was relieved to know that he was that he was okay is and that i d be able to see him and talk to him again, tell him that i love him, touch him, hug him, you know. reporter: so that s his brother you heard from there,