Alleged coconspirators be in the works . Also tonight, were learning that western hopes for ukraines counteroffensive are fading right now as officials receive very sobering updates on the fight to retake territory from russia. Ill get reaction from key white house official john kirby. And in the president ial race, Florida Governor ron desantis boots his Campaign Manager in an ongoing shakeup, replacing her with a trusted adviser as his bid for the gop nomination keeps on struggling. We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the Situation Room. This is cnn Breaking News. Lets get right to the Breaking News on a key hearing in the January 6th Criminal Prosecution of donald trump. Were joined by our Senior Legal Affairs correspondent paula reid. So what are we hearing tonight from the judge whos overseeing this critically important case . Wolf, the Rocket Docket continues here in d. C. The judge who will oversee the January
defense today. the lead starts right now. might there be a breakthrough? after months of tuber vville blocking military promotions. the secretary tells cnn in an exclusive interview this blockade by tuberville has become a threat to national security. and major questions for the secret service today as the agency says it s closing it s case and that they could not figure out who dropped a baggy of cocaine inside the white house. plus one of california s premier hospitals facing a new federal civil rights investigation into its alleged treatment of pregnant black women. welcome to the lead i m jam tapper. we re going to start with our world lead. president biden today made quite the bold statement about putin s bloody war against ukraine. putin s already lost the war. putin has a real problem. how does he move from here? what does he do? there is no possibility of him winning the war in ukraine. he s already lost the war. that stunning assertion from biden at a new
secret service is reviewing visitor logs and checking security footage. they say the probe will wrap up early next week. mike: james comer calling for more details while blasting the discovery as a shameful moment for the white house. let s get right to mark meredith live at the white house. what do we know about the location where the cocaine was found? mike and jacqui, good afternoon to you. drugs were found in the lower level entrance of the west wing, an area officials have been saying is heavily traveled but also area that vip guests, as well as staffers, use to get in and out of the west wing. secret service says it is investigating who brought the drugs into the building, however they believe where he may not get a definitive answer. and they have done fingerprint testing and dna testing on the container the cocaine was found in. president biden has yet to comment publicly and no indication he plans to weigh in. the white house has been sending most questions to
zelenskyy telling cnn in an exclusive interview that vladimir putin is weak, that his power is crumbling. you ll also hear what the ukrainian president said about the ongoing counteroffensive and what it will take for this war to finally end. turns out it was not just georgia. new cnn reporting that former president trump pressured the governor of arizona to overturn that state s election results in 2020. he pressured his own vice president to find fraud there. now mike pence is responding. new emails revealing more disturbing warnings about the safety of the titan submersible before its doomed trip, including one from a former oceangate employee who said you couldn t pay him to go down on the sub. we re following these stories all coming in right here to cnn news central . vladimir putin has lost command of entire ranks of the russian military. that s what ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is telling cnn s erin burnett in an exclusive interview. watch this. tr
windows there. prigozhin said his military firm was bound to and we quote cease existence on july 1. but with no wagner, does success in ukraine look more like no chance? we re on it with greg palkot on how anxious europe is responding. gillian turner at the state department on what the administration is saying. and senate intelligence committee chairman mark warner on the potential fallout he s seen and retired major general david petrard with putin back in charge but unclear how much in charge. forget about from russia with love. it s like russia with the world at a loss. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. you think you had this whole thing in russia figured out? in a world, not even close. greg palkot in kyiv with more. greg? remarkable stuff, neil. today we re dealing with duelling statements from two very large figures and all the turmoil in the last couple days in this region. nothing really syncs up. let s back up for a little bit. remember the wagner mercenary gro