It's Monday morning, what do we know?

Suspect in mass shooting found dead and more classified documents are discovered

What do we know?

• The LAPD and Los Angeles County Sheriff announced late Sunday that they’d found the gunman who killed ten at a Lunar New Year celebration Saturday night.  The gunman, who was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, walked into the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park Saturday night and opened fire, killing five men and five women.  Police said it appeared the gunman entered a second dance hall, Lai Lai Ballroom in nearby Alhambra, where he was confronted and disarmed by people inside before fleeing.  Prior to the discovery of the body L.A. County Sheriff Robert Luna identified the suspect as 72-year-old Huu Can Tran.  The motive for the attack remains unknown. The shooting is the deadliest since the Uvalde massacre last spring

• More than 100,000 Israelis took to the streets of Tel Aviv over the weekend to protest the Netanyahu government’s planned overhaul of the country’s judiciary.  Critics have rightly accused Netanyahu’s ultranationalists of trying to undermine not just the judiciary but Israeli democracy.  Netanyahu has dismissed the protests and said he plans to move forward with the changes, which include being able to overrule the country’s high court with a simple majority in the Knesset

• President Joe Biden and Jill Biden cooperated with a new search of their Wilmington, Delaware home over the weekend.  A team from the Department of Justice searched the Biden home and discovered additional classified documents, some dating back to Biden’s time in the Senate.  The mishandling of classified documents by the last two presidents and the last three nominees to be president raises questions about how secure the nation’s secrets are and how seriously high ranking members of the government take laws meant to keep those documents secure

• President Biden will name Jeff Zients his next chief of staff, replacing Ron Klain.  Zients has spent most of his professional life in the private sector but has worked in both the Obama and Biden administrations.  Zients served as Biden’s Covid coordinator from January 2021 until last spring and returned recently to help manage some of the staff turnover that traditionally follows a midterm.  Klain is expected to step down following the State of the Union 

What do we know in Ukraine?

• Tensions continued through the weekend after Germany refused Friday to commit to sending tanks to Ukraine.  Though Berlin failed to reach a decision, Germany has not ruled out supplying tanks and late Sunday the new German Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock, said in an interview that if Poland wanted to send its German-made Leopard 2 tanks, Berlin would not stand in the way. Nevertheless, several countries, including Britain, Poland, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania have all stepped up pressure on Germany to supply tanks.  French President Emmanuel Macron, speaking at a news conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday, said France was hasn’t ruled out sending its Leclerc battle tanks and would make a decision based on three criteria: that the tanks wouldn’t lead to escalation of the conflict, that the addition of tanks would be effective and that supplying the tanks wouldn’t compromise French security

(((Tendar))) @Tendar

M2 Bradleys in Poland going east. Russia has no chance against the Western production capacities. The US can deliver far more, even without producing new vehicles (which they can do on top). #USA #Ukraine #Poland

• On the battlefield there has been limited fighting in the Donbas region and the southern Zaporizhzhia Oblast, where Ukraine repelled a small Russian offensive

Iuliia Mendel @IuliiaMendel

OMG. The heart is breaking. Marinka, Donbas. In the book I’m telling how we were visiting it together with Zelenskyy and how people were praying for peace 😭 Russia is a Terrorist!!!!