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mourning with them. >> 15 lives taken. so many more lives, so many families shattered forever. we'll have extensive live reporting and perspective on perhaps the saddest fact of modern american life. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. we begin sadly with yet another mass shooting here in the united states, this time at robb elementary school, elementary school, in uvalde, texas. cnn's ed lavandera is in dallas. he's got the latest information for us...

already from china. we'll have much more on that in just a moment. but we're also keeping an eye on the pentagon where in just minutes, top leaders will hold a press conference. this question of military intervention in taijuan, it's very likely to be raised. we'll bring that to you when it begins. president biden is also formally answering an indy pacific trade pact. a lot to get to this hour. let's get started. cnn's jeremy diamond is live in tokyo. jeremy, what are you hearing from administration, from the white house about the president's comments in taijuan? >> reporter: well,...

made from there. but the idea that it can be taken by force, just taken by force, is just not appropriate. it will dislocate the entire region. >> now, those comments were a deviation from the standard strat stra strategic from the administration and it caught them off guard. they said the stance on china and taiwan has not changed but some of the president's own aides tell cnn they did not expect him to be so kquiv cool n the topic. china did not like these comments. what was their response? >> reporter: alison, there's no question that beijing has been watching president biden's tr...

an explosive report of sex abuse cases inside the southern baptist convention. survivors repeatedly ignored and disbelieved by the largest protestant denomination in the united states as leaders themselves tried to protect their own reputations instead of protecting the victims. >> welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we start with our world lead and top white house advisers caught off guard by this response from president biden when he was asked in a news conference in tokyo if the u.s. would be willing to foe further than it has with ukraine to help taiwan in the event of an inv...

the berlin wall had just fallen. all over east germany angry crowds roamed the streets, lashing out at symbols of communist rule. that night in dresden they found a target, the local kgb headquarters. a mob surrounded the building. as the hour grew later the crowd grew larger. inside peering through the curtains was a young kgb lieutenant colonel named vladimir putin. >> he was terrified that they were going to storm the building. >> putin was a junior officer. but the boss was away. he was in charge. >> the berlin wall in come down. police weren't going to help. and he called for in...