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ukraine after russia unleashed a round of brutal missile attacks just hours after the white house said it will send american tanks to the ukrainian watt thefield. weems we'll take you live to kharkiv. in virginia, a school board fired its embattled superintendent after new claims that administrators were warned multiple times that a 6-year-old student had a gun just before shooting his teacher. in washington more than 70 democrats in the house and senate are urging president biden to reconsider new are restrictions for those seeking asylum. just as the administration is touting. ...

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 germany's 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 billion for ukraine. that does, however, include striker armored vehicles for the very first time....

and welcome to cnn newsroom. >> i'm 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 biden's 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 didn't expect that the justice department would hand over evidence into the series of ongoing criminal investigations, but in this letter to house chairman jim j...

Includes potential use of nuclear weapons. we have to be sympathetic not just to president biden, who has to take this into account, but also the europeans. the germans are more sensitive because of the horror they inflicted on all of europe in world war ii. but to go back to the underscore of what the problem is, ukrainians need an armored division by this summer, 300 main battle tanks. the m-1s are available. it's the only combat hardened military force on the world outside of ukraine is the u.s. army. so we can deploy, support with contractor support and train ukrainians to fight effectivel...

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 don't 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 against, but we have seen the u.s. putting the pressure on berlin and now obviously other countries a...