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
there, and that is a really hard thing to do, and so, there is movement towards allowing the f-16s to go, and there is approval, and it is going to train up the pilots and take them into the position, and that not going to happen before the fall comes, and the fighting conditions comes, and that a pressure point. is it true that you have a new book coming out, jim? yes. thank you for mentioning. it is a book called return of great powers and the center is the 30-year period that we have experienced post 1989 the fall of the berlin wall, and the collapse of the russian powers, and the time in russia and europe and asia. the analysis this morning is sobering. we look forward to the book. thank you, my friend. thank you, john.
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