gold. your strategic advantage. sandra: all new at 2:00, chaotic withdrawal that left our afghan allies behind gets the hollywood treatment. a new movie showing the american troops and their translators and the debt we owe them. you think if i could be shot of this debt i wouldn t be. you think if i could just go through the usual channels i wouldn t. that is not how this debt works. john: the story behind that movie actually goes back even further, all the way back to 2007. inspired by one marine s fight to save his iraqi interpreter when the american government failed to do it. that marine joins us all new at 2:00. sandra: looking forward to that. we could as america reports rolls into a second hour. i m sandra smith on this friday, john. john fri-yay. and waiting to hear from homeland secretary mayorkas, live on the border and this showing migrants on raft crossing the rio grande was shot last night in the very town where secretary mayorkas will speak. we ll se
firsthand look at the murder scene. alec s defense attorneys called their final witnesses to the stand to try to poke holes in the medical examiner autopsy report. john: is the defense closing strategy working to sway members of the jury, nancy grace has been covering the murder saga from the beginning, join us live from outside the courtroom with her take-aways coming right up. i m really sorry that the lab leak has become such a distraction for so many people. frankly, we still don t know. there is no evidence to say. you said the overwhelming amount of evidence indicates it s a lab leak. i believe most card carrying viral virology and others would disagree with you. i think you are misunderstanding. international investigation led by the world health organization is something we have been pressing for. we need that data, we need that information from the chinese government. sandra: walk down memory lane, remember that, years ago and many years of it, denials from
revealing interview, and confesses to being, quote, a terrible liar. and the latest on jimmy carter. i ll speak to one of his top white house advisers who helped engineer his rise from governor to president. let s go outfront. good evening. i m pamela brown in for erin burnett tonight. welcome to a special edition of outfront. and tonight, ready for anything, ukraine s military preparing for provocative acts by rucha to mark the one-year anniversary of its invasion. the warning as president biden made an unprecedented surprise visit to kyiv to meet with president zelenskyy, sending a painful reminder to putin of how his invasion plans have failed. the visit also stinging russian troops already dealing with major morale issues. a telegram account managed by russian military bloggers noting biden has done something putin has not, saying, quote, almost a year after the beginning of the special military operation, we are waiting in the russian city of kyiv for the preside
the lead starts right now. president biden s surprise trip to ukraine, how did the white house pull it off? plus the new promise the president is making while some republicans chastise him for growing. russian families on the run from the brutal war and ending up at the u.s. southern border. what one family went through to escape. and the murder of a bishop found dead in his california home. new details just coming in in this case. welcome to the lead. i am john berman in for jake tapper. moments ago president biden arrived back in poland after his unannounced trip to ukraine and stood side by side with president zelenskyy where biden declared putin is failing as the war nears its one year mark. biden said his trip was important to reaffirm unwavering u.s. support. one year ago, the world was bracing for the fall of kyiv. america stands with you, and the world stands with you. as part of the trip, biden announced another half million-dollars in assistance for ukrain
not staking together. he thought he could outlast us. i don t think he s thinking that right now. reporter: while zelenskyy called the moment the most important in the history of the u.s.-ukraine relationship. translator: this is the visit in this most difficult period for ukraine when ukraine is fighting for our own liberty. today our negotiations were very fruitful. they were very important and crucial. reporter: negotiations about continued military aid. today president biden announcing an almost half billion dollar aid package including ammunition, howitzers and air defense, but big-ticket items like longer range missiles and fighter jets still up for discussion. tran tran this conversation brings us closer to victory. reporter: this surprise, unprecedented visit on the eve of a bloody anniversary. extreme secrecy shrouding biden s journey. no word but there were signs, deserted streets and heavy police presence suggesting a prominent arrival. president biden left