top of the hour this tuesday, i'm jim sciutto. >> i'm kristin fisher, and next hour, president biden is set to speak from warsaw, poland, one day after the unprecedented trip to ukraine's capital, and of course, c nshgnn will bring you

speech when it happens. and andrzej duda bringing the president to the capital amid the ongoing war next to his country. >> and as i told president zelenskyy when we spoke in kyiv yesterday, ki proudly say that our support for ukraine remains unwavering. >> this is hours after vladimir putin delivered his own state of the union, state of the nation speech trying to blame the u.s. somehow for the war in ukraine and you remember of course, it is russia who invaded country a year ago today. and russia would suspend their participation in the new start nuclear weapons treaty as it is known, and russia is already not in compliance and the question is what this means going forward and will russia perhaps break

the limit on nuclear warheads set by that treaty, and we begin in warsaw where president biden is going to speak. phil mattingly is there, and cnn national correspondent is there in hkharkiv, and this is not to be a response to putin's speech, and what is the president's message? >> well, jim, it is unbelievable split screen moment whether it was not scheduled or planned that way, but if anything else, the white house officials did watch what president putin did detail, and the primary take away was something that they were cog any tiff of before that speech started and there is no near-term end game, and no sense that russia is going to move off of the line or the lane that it has maintained for 365 days, and this is driving at the importance of what president biden is doing here in warsaw days away from the marker of the

russian invasion to try to underscore the importance of what has transpired over the course of the last year, and what is necessary in the year ahead, and driving all of that is kind of the central theory of the case that president biden has had since before this invasion began and that is the importance of the coalition put together despite the divergent entities domestically or defense assistance or whether what has been extraordinarily critical, but it is an absolutely essential element of the year and perhaps further along in the year ahead, and perhaps more than anything, jim, the president wants to broaden it out, and yesterday was a dramatic symbolic moment, and really kind of characterized for full effect on the ground in kyiv, this is a moment to step back to drive at the fact that this is a bigger picture issue

than just two countries or the u.s. and russia and ta u.s. and the assistance of ukraine and it is at the inflection point that the president wants to underscore is critical to drive this going forward understanding that the durability of that coalition, and the durability and the training of the people has been critical in the past year, and more essential in the years ahead, guys. >> and like you said, unavoidable split screen moment. and even if the white house does not want it to be a rebuttal to putin, the world will see it given that it is a few hours after. sam, to you, the speech today is coming off of the heels of president biden's unprecedented and surprise trip to kyiv. and what has the reaction been like there where you are in ukraine with that trip, and what are the ukrainians listening for and what do they want to hear from president biden's speech which is now an hour and half away? >> well, kristin and jim, the

key moment is seeing the u.s. president there alongside the ukrainian president in the capital of ukraine close to the one-year anniversary of putin's invasion, and in terms of what the ukrainians wants to see out of this, it comes from the government down and yes, it is the u.s. has led the world to look at what this victory might look like for the ukrainians in now that it is ridding the country of russians altogether, but the ukrainians wants the weapons and they want them here and now and the strategic weapons to give them the edge of what is anticipated to be a russian invasion. there have been and we have seen the evidence of this up and down the eastern front here of softening up operations conducted by the russians against ukraine, and the attacks on kherson today which killed several civilians and several

rocket launching systems used all of the way up to luftansk to try to break the will of the people, and they say to do this they need more tanks and missiles and they need them now. >> and thank you, sam kiley. and now, in his speech, president putin tried to blame the u.s. for the escalation there. >> translator: the elite of the west do not conceal their ambitions which is to strategically defeat russia, and finish us off once and for all. >> joining us now to talk about this is presidential historian

and historian and translator of russian propaganda and the author of the upcoming book "the russian propaganda z generation." ian, i will start with you, what do you believe is if result? >> it is the same speech that putin began when he started the declaration of the military operation and nothing new, and the wheel out of the greatest hits that russia is at war with the west, and it is engaged with this great civilizational conflict and that the war is not really about ukraine at all, and it is about the survival of the nation, and that the west is somehow the blame and ukrainian

is how to somehow to blame for the genocide in eastern ukraine somehow. >> nef tatali, you have coverede presidents throughout, and you have the two powers opposing sides in europe, and you have china considering joining, and are we back to the dangerous cold war among the super powers? >> no, i do not believe that we are in a cold war and i believe it is very important for president biden to continue framing this conflict as one over the sovereignty of a european nation. the front line states in europe. and in fact, giving a speech from a front line state, poland, and we are working with the nato allies as the arsenal of democracy to help the ukrainians

regain their sovereignty, and it is very important for president biden to continue the focus on ukrainian sovereignty. as you said, russia wants to make it is a existential threat to it, and it is all about russian sovereignty for pew tin, a -- putin, and you know and we all know, that it is about ukrainian sovereignty, and it is not in his interest to play putin's interest to be washington versus moscow, and he would love to have kennedy and khrushchev, but it is not. >> and that why this speech is not going to be a rebuttal to what president putin said, but tim, what should president biden say, if he is not going to talk about that, what should he focus his remarks on in an hour and half? >> why sovereignty matters, why

the values that we americans hold dear and why values that many in the world hold dear, and this is not an attempt to create a u.s. global system, but it is an attempt by the u.s. and allies to help ukrainians recover their freedom. this is an opportunity to inspire, but also to clear about who is making the sacrifice, and it the ukrainians first and the europeans second and we americans are trying to help the best we can without being directly involved in combat. >> ian gardner, you speak in your book about how putin can turn russian propaganda into maintaining public support for the war even as the russian forces have perform sod poorly there and how can he support as the war continues and does it survive? does he keep the public on his side? >> the really effective

mechanism that putin has is not him as a speaker. and today, this two hours of rather flaccid appeal will not appeal to russians, and he rather has a huge army of operatives that are savvy at spreading the messages to memes and videos and putting them out to schools and what we are seeing is the end of the rally around the flag effect that we saw at the beginning of the war. people are starting to ask where does this end? what is victory of a special military operation even look like. >> and especially when the special military operation has staggering military losses. >> and you know, we have talked about how the russian public is viewing this war, but what about the american public and the support that, you know, president biden is going to have

to continue to have to ask the american taxpayer for as it continues to support ukraine's efforts. tim? >> that's a tough call, because many americans of the cold war generation are accustomed to us focusing on our leadership and our reputation. biden, and president biden has a very, very narrow line to walk. because we do not want this to be our reputation versus putin's reputation, and this is only going to serve putin's purposes, and by the same token, we have to inspire our fellow americans and see this as a fight of the generation and the future of sovereignty in europe affects the ability of the united states to be free itself even though we are not directly attacked or being attacked by russia. >> the ukrainian leaders are saying that we are fighting this war for europe as well and not just for their sovereignty. tim naftali and tim gardner,

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this morning the epa administrator michael regan is back in east palestine, ohio, ten days after a train derailed and spilled chemicals all over the ground there. regan and the governor is there to instill confidence to drink water right out of the tap to ensure it is safe. >> and drinking tap water is a

photo-op, and in 90 minutes there is a health clinic that will be opening to look at rashes and headaches and other complaints. and joining us is a physician from the hospital near east palestine. i know that you are very busy, doctor, but has your hospital seen an uptick of people coming in to complain about these types of symptoms of the rashes and whatnot? >> yes, we have a primary care practice in east palestine and also several miles down the road that is a walk-in, and we are seeing the patients there and not so much in the emergency room, but in the primary offices and the offices, and we are

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to day, voters in one virginia congressional district head to the polls for what could make history there. >> jennifer mcclellan is facing republican leon benjamin, and if mcclellan wins, she is the first black woman to represent virginia in congress. so we have melanie on capitol

hill this morning, and for those who do not follow this as closely as you, how did this special election come about? >> well, it came about under sad circumstances. this is to replace democratic congressman donald mcketcham who died after a long battle with cancer. and so both of the candidates have run for office before. mcclellan in addition for running for state legislature also ran for governor, and benjamin has ran for this exact seat multiple times and losing by double digits. and if mcclellan wins, it is a big deal, because she has talked about bringing diverse perspectives to the table, and she says that her family experiences of growing up in the segregated south is what has

pushed her to champion voting rights. and this is a democratic stronghold and in richmond and went for president biden by over 35 point, so this special election is not going to change the margins in congress, but it is historical nonetheless. >> thank you, very much. we are less than an hour away from the speech from president biden in poland, and yet, already republicans are criticizing him. and nikki haley said that even with his visit there, he acted too slow sly. >> it started with obama and russia goes to ukraine and they do nothing about it. and now he is creeping in to do it. >> and so joining us is cnn political spectrum news and anchor errol louis, it is

mirroring what president biden has been saying that the fight for democracy is critical, and she did criticize him saying that he is slow to the take, but the rest of the speech sounded pretty similar to what president biden is saying, so how is this issue going to play out in the gop race? >> she is going to have a tough time threading that particular needle. one would almost forget from her speech that she worked for a guy, donald trump, who was close to vladimir putin, who said that he trusted putin more than his own director of national intelligence, who has called the invasion of ukraine savvy and so forth, an unless she specifically disavows each and every part of that, her own position is not going to be terribly clear, and notice she is saying that the president, the current president joe biden was not strong enough and not quick enough and slow up the mark, and she is also part of the republican stance that says that we are not supposed to

write blank checks to ukraine and we have to fully support the ukrainian position is what they are saying, but only up to a point. what that point is, is completely unclear. >> and to know she was part of the trump administration, and four years to respond to the 2014 invasion of crimea that she referred to in the speech there. i want to speak more broadly about the republican race, because after two years of wondering if anyone is going to challenge trump, we have the answer that nikki haley who was part of his administration and ron desantis, and tim scott, and mike pence and others, and does it mean that members of his own party are not scared of trump anymore? >> oh, i don't know about that, jim. they would be wary and wise to be careful of being singled out by donald trump. if you are going back to 2015 and 2016 and what worked for a crowded field is to have a whole bunch of them, and whoever was

the closest challenger is the one he would turn all of the fire on, and that person would go away, and then he would move on to the next one, and so bush, and then cruz and rubio, and then so on. so if you are a trump strategist, you want all of the folks in, and each of them is going to have to wait and hope that one of the others is going to be targeted first, and it looks like ron desantis is playing that role. >> and we know that nikki haley is in and south carolina tim scott is going to iowa and a telltale sign that he is considering running, and nikki haley and tim scott, they have similar ideology, and how do those two differentiate themselves? >> well, look, they are each going to have to hope that one of the others or the others drop out or go away or fade in the polls or prove themselves unable to raise money, but until that happens, each of them has as

good of a shot as the next, and they will all stay in. tim scott and nikki haley obviously cannibalize the same base, because they are coming from the same state, and tim scott is a sitting senator as opposed to nikki haley who is getting attention by amping up the rhetoric, but she doesn't have a position of power to work right now, and polling in the low single digits, and she is going to have to work hard to get the numbers up, which is going to include some harsh statements, and here again, the person in the background, the first to have declared, donald trump is just waiting to see which of the first to go after first, and this is when the race will start. >> i want to ask you about another development, house speaker kevin mccarthy has given tucker carlson access to all of

the capitol hill coverage of january 6th, and more so than his failures of the public comments, and what is the intention of this, and how significant is handing over or giving him such access, and giving carlson such access to this video? >> well, there is certainly going to try and recast all of the findings of the january 6th committee, and essentially try to rewrite history and say, well, the capital police did not do what they were supposed to do as opposed to dealing with the obvious question of who told to mob there, and who told them to direct through the halls to ransack it, and who led them into the senate chamber or led them to defecate or spread defecation on the walls. so, we will see a massive attempt to rewrite history here, and it is going to be interesting. i don't know if they have the goods, but it is going to be interesting to see whatever footage they have to cast maybe

a different storyline that i doubt the american people are going to buy. >> all right. errol louis, thank you so much. >> right now, the voters are casting ballots in a primary for wisconsin, the wisconsin supreme court which is one of the most pivotal races this year, and in that battleground election state, the two candidates who received the most votes in the nonpartisan primary in that election, with the narrow majority is at stake, and those justices could decide several high stakes issues and those include abortion, abortion rights as well, and all of this is ahead of the next presidential election. >> this is still ahead -- police arrest a suspect in the shooting death of a los angeles bishop. what do we know about a possible motive? we will have the very latest next. to keep the people that have been here tataking care of us.

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this morning, investigators in los angeles are trying to determine a motive in the shooting death of a catholic bishop. >> but the sheriff says that the suspe suspect is married to the bishop's housekeeper. josh, what do we know about this man arrested? >> yes, 65-year-old carlos medina was arrested after a sheriff's tactical team after an hour's long standoff. to walk you through this, bishop david o'connell who is renowned for the work as a peacemaker was

found dead in his home. a deacon went to check on him after he was late for a meeting. it was a tipster who helped to solve the case. the unidentified person said that medina had been acting strange and making comments about the bishop owing him money, and the sheriff's department gathered footage showing an suv pulling into the bishop's driveway and then departing. the sheriff robert luna said that the motive is unclear, and though reports of financial dispute, the investigators have not yet drawn any conclusion. >> i am not standing here in front of you telling it is a dispute over money yet, but it is something that we have heard to this point. that is something that the detectives will go out to validate and see if it is true or not. based on what i know at this time, the suspect had been at the bishop's house before doing work. so, there was some kind of a

maybe a working relationship, but we are still trying to figure out what that relationship was. >> now medina has not been charged and cnn is trying to find out if he has an attorney, but as the investigators are trying to peace it together, members of all faiths have been expressing anger and grief over the brutal killing of this beloved bishop. >> sad story. thank you, josh campbell in los angeles. and right now, following the case of alex murdaugh's son on the stand testifying in his father's defense. this is as the attorneys are trying to look into allegations that he murdered his wife and other son. now, he is asked how he found out when they were murdered. busster, when did you first find out that your mom and

brother were murdered? >> my dad called me. i can't remember the exact time. but it was later. he called me on the phone. he asked me if i was sitting down, and i was like, yeah. and then he, you know, he sounded odd, and he told me that my mom and brother had been shot. >> alex murdaugh's defense attorneys have criticized the prosecutor's case as speculative, and then last week, appeared to suggest that the killings could be related to a financial dispute with a drug gang. so cnn's randi kaye has been following this all for us, and she is outside of that courtroom. randi, what are you making of what we have heard so far this morning from murdaugh's son? >> the defense is doing exactly what they wanted to do. this is why they put buster murdaugh on the stand. he is the only surviving son of

alex murdaugh, and he has been on the stand for about an hour. they have been talking about hunting and guns. they went turkey hunting and hog hunting, and there were two weapons used in the killings, and so the defense was quick to point out that one of paul murdaugh's weapons have been missing and one of the weapons have gone missing, and a ballistic ekxpert testified tha one of the shell casings would have come from a family weapon, and that is why it is important for one of paul's guns to have gone missing and raised doubt there. listen to this. >> how about paul, how was he about securing guns? >> not good. >> what do you mean? >> paul left guns on the property more than anybody else. sometimes he would use my gun and leave it and i would have to track it down. >> did paul carry guns in his

truck? >> he did. >> would he keep his truck locked up? >> no, not all of the time. >> the goal there seemed to be by the defense that perhaps someone else got their hands on paul murdaugh's missing gun and used it. the picture there is to paint a picture of a loving, caring family, and they went on the show family pictures and a birthday party picture before the murders where the whole family was celebrating together, and talked about buster murdaugh being at sporting events with his father, and going gol flg with his father, and how much he loved his mother, and whether or not he had the potential for violence and did he see any violence at home or any dispute turning violent and buster murdaugh testified no. back to you. >> all right. randi kaye, we will let you get back into the courtroom to monitoring that testimony from

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