prime minister liz truss today setting the women s and men s indoor speed record for duration of a prime minister, only 44 days in office, that is not even her abrupt resignation earlier today throws our closest ally even further into chaos. now that our friends across the pond weren t able to find any humor in this instability, the economist magazine pointedly wondered which would last longer, liz truss s prime ministership or a perishable ahead of iceberg lettuce, a youtube live stream puts this theory to the test six days ago. well, lettuce, liz, is still standing. when folks start invoking solid items when discussing how long it will last at her job, at some point it becomes a feta complaint. but let us move on. how could six weeks ago so horribly wrong? liz truss s is fall from power exhilarated after she introduced trussonomics, a plan for massive tax cuts aimed at the wealthiest britons so that they could create jobs, she said. essentially, trickle down economics. th
russian forces that killed at least 19 and wounded dozens across major ukrainian cities. this includes kyiv, lviv, dnipro and this morning, hhelninske. the missiles launched from two russian aircraft and some were shot down. president putin threatening harsher responses following a mass explosion on a strategic bridge between crimea, illegally annexed by putin in 2014, and mainland russia. the top brit intelligence officer sir jeremy fleming is expected to say today that russia is exhausted their forces are returning out of weapons as they face staggering numbers of casualties on the battlefield. cnn s nick paton walsh is live this morning in denipro in ukraine. an emergency meeting what is he expected to say? reporter: two things. referring to in a statement before this meeting how he s going to talk about the terrorist attacks. i suspect repeat calls from ukrainian officials that the u.s. and its allies designate russia as a state sponsor of terrorism. that s one poss
the news continues, cnn with jake tapper starts now. welcome to cnn tonight i m jake tapper. tonight the economic alarms are blurring, and i don t mean one of those vaguely known but soft alarms on your smartphone. [noise] no, i mean one of those really have noxious alarms that you might hear if you are he s back on the turn that off. but you cannot turn this alarm off. and as much as you want to wish it away, it is clear that with less than three weeks after the midterm elections, the forecast is doom and gloom. that is why president biden today today gave not one but two speeches on the economy. families are hurting, you have heard me say it before, but i get it. it has been a rough for five years for the country. but a lot of folks here are still struggling, but there are bright spots. i get it, folks are still struggling, but one word that you did not hear from president biden today? the word recession. but he did admit a recession was a possibility during o
new day starts right now. four ukrainian regions illegally annexed by russia under martial law this morning. the russian military does not even have complete control of the areas, in kherson, the russians are trying to accelerate the relocation or evacuation of some 60,000 residents in the face of ukrainian advances. vladimir putin perhaps struggling to maintain his grip even inside russia. introducing several levels of increased security measures. overnight a russian rocket struck a children s school in a village in zaporizhzhia. and destruction towards the south after another night of strikes targeted the energy infrastructure. here in the u.s. president biden weighing in on the declaration of martial law saying it reveals putin s dwindling options in the war. i think that vladimir putin finds himself in an incredibly difficult position. and what it reflects to me is, it seems his only tool available to him is to brutalize individual citizens in ukraine. the state
situation i cannot deliver the mandate on which i was elected by the conservative party. plus a cnn exclusive, lawyers for former president trump allowing federal investigators to search mar-a-lago again. and newly released emails between trump and his former lawyer proving his voter fraud claims were bogus. a federal judge calling it evidence of a conspiracy to degree fraud the united states. but let s begin with the breaking news out of the u.k. liz truss resigning after six weeks, 44 days in office. our team is following this breaking story. scott mcclain is outside of 10 drowning street and richard quest is standing by as well. six weeks in office and gone after a disastrous budget plan. so what happens next? yeah, that is a great question. we ll have a new prime minister by the end of next week. i think that liz truss tried everything that she possibly could to save her premiership. that also started to go wrong from the minute that she announced her disastrous eco