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♪ you're live in the "cnn newsroom." i'm jim acosta in washington. and we begin this hour with the war in ukraine and its global implications. the director of the cia confirms what cnn has been reporting that the u.s. is confident that china is thinking about providing lethal aid to russian troops in ukraine. the agency does not believe a final decision has been made. and today, the white house is urging caution. >> you know, beijing will have to make its own decisions about how it proceeds. whether tell provides military assistance. but if it goes down that road it will come at ...

now. president biden was wrong back in december when he predicted that inflation was at its peak and said this. >> i think you'll see it change sooner than -- quicker, more rapidly than it will take than most people think. >> leader mcconnell is standing by. first, gene sperling. good to have you with used too. the question that comes up again and again is that the messages that we received from all left fields of the white house and treasury have been wrong. so how did you get this so wrong? >> well, martha, the white house and the treasury department were saying last year and i can...

more children could die. i'll be joined by correspondence to discuss the conservative leadership contest in the crisis in ukraine and the departure from iraqi politics. stay with us on bbc news. hello and welcome to bbc news. after weeks of debate, voting has closed in the conservative party leadership race. after two months of campaigning, and eight initial candidates whittled down to two, we'll find out on monday whether liz truss or rishi sunak has been chosen by party members to be the next leader — and so prime minister. here's our political correspondent ben wright: after a l...

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ [laughter] >> greg: all right. don't clap. don't clap. so like paul pelosi driving down a 2-way street, pretty obvious that merrick garland crossed the line. and now the media realizes their whole narrative is falling apart like a pot roast in a hot tub. whatever happened to the story about the nukes? yeah, apparently trump stole valuable nuclear secrets he was planning to sell to someone. i don't know about you, but this seems like a strange career transition for a real estate tycoon. should i build a new luxury condominium development in midtown o...

>> martha: molly, here's ron klain saying no, the net cost is still zero because we raised more than enough revenue to pay for every investment without raising taxes on anyone making less than $400,000, which is tough to figure out given all of this stuff a has been stripped out of here by senator sinema and senator manchin. >> they don't have a good idea how they're going to fund this massive spending bill. again, remember, it was not that long ago that spending $700 billion on tarp was met with such frustration by the american taxpayers that had to pay for it. democrats claimed that they hav...