Ukraines counteroffensive and sobering new assessment. And now it is time to set the rule of the road as they head to the trial, and trumps team is saying that the prosecutors are going after his First Amendment rights now. And 40 Million People are under severe threats today after the extreme storms have battered the United States over night. Im omar jimenez with kate bolduan and john berman. This is cnn news central. We have brandnew reporting this morning on ukraines counteroffensive in russia. Weeks into the fight, the reports from the battlefield are increasingly sobering. Specifically, concerns of the ability to retake specific territory. The National Security correspondent and the awardwinning author jim sciutto broke this reporting, and now he heard the reporting, and this is a marked change in weeks to folks in the u. S. And europe and the military and diplomacy and also lawmakers and there is a consistent read of the intelligence assessments here, and that is the counter offe
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nation. zelenskyy says when? the lead starts right now. let me in the message from the ukrainian president who showed up at the nato summit, cheered on in a city square as he pushed to join the international alliance. his criticism about the process as russian strikes were hitting his cities back hoeme. and will donald trump be indicted a third time? today a new grand jury was selected to decide just that while a different federal grand jury in d.c. is also hard at a work. plus do you believe that white nationalists are racist? yes, if that s what racist is, yes. it s not really a difficult question. white nationalists are racists. that s what the term means and yet senator tommy tuberville of alabama keeps making a spectacle of himself and his struggle with trying to discuss this issue. he just gave yet another answer on the topic. welcome to the lead , i m jake tapper. we start with the world lead in one of the most consequential gatherings. today the alliance
as a new problem for speaker mccarthy has emerged, the rebellious conservative freedom caucus, including some members threatening to oust mccarthy over the deal. russia s capital city attacked. putin blames ukraine. the trial begins for the gunman behind the deadliest attack on jews in american history at pittsburgh s tree of life synagogue in 2018. the shooter hasn t disputed he s the one pulling the trigger. why did his lawyer enter a plea of not guilty? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. in our money lead, a make-or-break moment. the committee is debating the bipartisan debt ceiling deal struck over the weekend to try to avoid an economic catastrophe. but there are multiple hard line republicans on that very committee, the rules committee, who are furious with the deal. they have the chance to derail it all right now. one of those conservatives, congressman chip roy joined his freedom caucus earlier to urge the entire republican house caucus to vote no. they re
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