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paula reid in for jim acosta. you're in the "cnn newsroom" we begin this hour with a potential new milestone in russia's war in ukraine. ukraine has announced that it has used a u.s. made patriot air defense system like this to bring down a russian hypersonic missile. if true, it would be the first time ukraine was able to intercept a missile that travels at ten times the speed of sound. cnn's sam kiley joins us from kyiv with the latest. sam, how significant is this? >> reporter: i think it's very significant indeed, for two reasons. first of all, it's kind of proving the need for h...

israel defense forces are almost a full day into what they call a precise and targeted operation to hunt out hamas in a hospital. what exactly does that mean? "the lead" starts right now. inside of that hospital, in gaza, now a military scene where israel and the u.s. say hamas is hiding a command center under the hospital. what is the goal of this targeted operation? also brand-new on "the lead." 100 minutes of horror, exclusive video from the body cam of a terrorist for the first time, you could see video from inside of a hamas tunnel. before that group's horrific october 7th a...

More aggressive, forward leaning strategy but some senior officials and senior democrats inside the white house said, look, we don't know if that's a good idea. i'm told they were concerned about what that would mean for hunter. if you were in the room for this meeting back in december, which side would you be on? would you encourage a client to, yeah, go fire off some letters, throw some punches, or would you have advised maybe not the time to be too forward leaning here? >> well, i think, paula, it depends on who you are. since i'm a lawyer, i would take the view that he should be aggressive...