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conference in germany. this is an important moment, a critical moment in the fight in ukraine. western allies are meeting and have been there to hammer out the latest plan to support ukraine now and support ukraine going forward. a key point of contention right now is germanys refusal so far to supply ukraine with tanks that it said are necessary to win against russia. tanks are not part of the latest aid package that was just announced by the pentagon. a very big package, though. $2.5...

and welcome to cnn newsroom. >> im alisyn camerota. today, president biden is going to meet with leaders at the white house. doj signaled that it is going to fight republicans over the committee probes into bidens past. >> we have a team covering developments. we have phil mattingly at the white house, and manu raja at capitol hill. give us the latest on what the justice department is telling house republicans? >> well, we didnt expect that the justice department would hand over eviden...

the fact that the decision on tanks must be taken. standoff on military aid, u.s. and nato allies push germany to provide key tanks to ukraine. were live in london on the diplomatic stalemate. and blow to republicans as the justice department signaled it wont hand over documents they demanded. how it impacts the biden and trump investigations. plus -- anti-abortion activists rally in washington, d.c. for the march for life demonstration. protestors say even though roe was overtur...

bidens mishandling of classified documents. that was the message in a letter sent to house judiciary chairman jim jordan. the committee responded by accusing the doj of being, quote, scared to cooperate with the probe into how sensitive paperwork ended up in the presidents home in delaware. in democrats are urging the president to be open about what happened. >> i want to see complete transparency on how this is handled and brought to the american people. im convince thursday is no int...

There are tanks in that, those offerings. poland for example continues to offer tanks and will provide tanks and other countries will offer some tank capability as well. i dont have any announcements on the m-1s and the german ministry of defense has said that they have not made any decisions on the leopards. >> the defense minister or the new defense minister spoke just before that and said that berlin had not come to a decision on the tanks and saying that there were reasons for and reasons ag...

Have heard the german minister of defense say earlier that theyve not made a decision on the provision of leopard tanks. were really focused on is making sure that ukraine has the capability that it needs to be successful right now. so we have a window of opportunity here between now and the spring when i -- whenever they commence their operation, they are counter offensive. and that is not a long time. if we have to pull together the right capabilities. and you heard the chairman walk through s...

I would have loved to hear more about attack helicopters. of course that takes a long time to train up on if youre going to give them americans. so im not an advocate of giving them american helicopters. but the mig 17s or mi 17s and attack helicopters theyve used, those would have been great to hear about, as well as additional tanks instead of armored personnel carriers, which are great. theyre going to need tank capability as well. and then im an advocate of giving them the mig 29s you heard ...

Version of the tank and will provide poland with a highly advanced tank capability. it will also strengthen our in operability with the polish armed forces, boosting the credibility of our combined efforts and those of other nato allies. we commend poland for consistently meeting nato spending on defence investment targets and together we will continue to modernise our defence capabilities. this procurement by poland will also help to ensure more equitable sharing of responsibilities within the ...

Preparing his playbook on his orders and very sophisticated nuclear document has been developed according to which he has prepared to take the conflict into a tactical, nuclear weapons employment. in the first instance. what does it mean? it means that he perceives that he is losing the conflict. he can and went straight a nuclear strike in europe. the reason he is comfortable is because russian tank capability with low yield nuclear warhead. >> todd: assuming for arguments sake this was not a m...