trains and tracks were damaged. putin appoints a new commander with a brutal history to lead russia s war on ukraine. general alexander known as the butche er of syria, notorious f inflicting horrific atrocities in that campaign. he said his country is ready for battle but needs more weapons and a no-fly zone. let s begin coverage with cnn s phil black who joins me here in lviv and all eyes shift to the east. that s right. much of the analysis talks about imminent operation in the east, one due to start at any moment. one senior adviser to the ukrainian government said, look, we re already dealing with. we re already here. we already deal with a major escalation with bombardment, particularly, residential areas with key battle points. we see large numbers of russian troops being sent in to reinforce the existing positions there. both in terms of forces and hardware as well. what they haven t seen yet and what the next step is expected to be will be a hard push to try to bre
laura ingraham on a busy news night. in one hour joe biden will speak from the oval office. he will make the case for sending aid and support to not just israel but to ukraine as well. well, lumping the two conflicts together is a typically swamp tactic but it should never be allowed and we will tell you why. as the president makes his case, we see the rise of an anti-israel sentiment, especially in urban areas across the united states, more protests tonight in american cities. meanwhile, as americans feel more unsafe at home, americans abroad are being warned by the state department to exercise increased caution. americans in lebanon have been told to leave as soon as possible as violent clashes erupt across the region. would also like to take you live to the ground there later in the show, which we ll do, and in iraq, of course, drones and rockets are, again, targeting an air base that houses u.s. troops. in syria, another base housing u.s. troops was targeted by two drones
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the government and for manafort to keep things moving along. they did. that is the same judge that challenged the special counsel s office and accused them of just trying to use charges of financial crimes to squeeze manafort in giving them information that they could use against president trump. the trial proceeded anyway and the former trump campaign manager that was a wakened by an fbi agent performing a no-knock raid is being confronted with evidence that he hit $60 million from the irs which he received consulting ukrainian politicians. the charges are for falsifying income tax returns, bank fraud and failing to file reports. if convicted, manafort could face 305 years in jail. there s sentencing guidelines for federal cases like that that would suggest that the judge would probably give him something less than that, shep. shepard: what is the next step in this trial, peter? any minute, shep, we expec
Untrackable. it will require people buying these components for ghost guns undergo background checks. that would be a major change to the way that these ghost guns are currently used and able to be purchased in the united states. president biden this afternoon also expected to announce a new nominee to head the atf, after his previous nominee failed to pass senate confirmation. the ne w nominee is steve d dettlebach and under leadership since biden came into office in 2021 and expected to be one of the moves that can help president biden try and move forward in his fight to combat gun violence and also to move forward with some of these gun safety reforms he s been pushing. kate? jeremy, thank you very much for that. joining me right now, cnn law enforcement analyst, jonathan
Settlement with the state department. one that would let them post the blueprints beginning tomorrow. it appears some of the blueprints have gotten out early. the attorneys general are suing the trump administration in an effort to keep the instructions off line. they argue it s a national security risk. since terrorists, criminals and others that wouldn t typically pass a background check can get we pops. the headline here, untrackable, untraceable, homemade guns available to everybody. anita vogel with the rest of the story. she s live with us this afternoon. anita? hi, shepard. this is causing a lot of fear, anger around concern for those reasons that you stated. nowadays, you can make almost anything with a 3-d printer. they re used in the medical industry and manufacturing. starting tomorrow, you can download blueprints to make a gun out of plastic a gun nobody can keep track of or identify. eight states plus the district of columbia are suing the state department for settling w