europe to reassure western allies after the pentagon presented him with options before he departed washington. >> that is something he will discuss with his allies on thursday. >> reporter: the nato ally said it expects to increase the presence. >> with major increases to our forces in the eastern part of the alliance, on land, in the air and at sea. >> reporter: ahead of his address to nato, volodymyr zelenskyy has continued his appeals to other nations for more assistance. cnn has learned the first deliveries of the $800 million in new military aid from the u.s. have started to arrive in ukraine. >> we have seen indications that the ukrainians are going a bit more on the offense now. they have been defending very smartly, very nimbly, very creatively. >> reporter: now, pam, as you see, president biden has just landed in brussels. he will be greeted by belgium's prime minister. tomorrow starts the full day of very intensive meetings to talk about what's happening in ukraine. of course, this comes as the national security adviser told reporters on the trip here that there has been this intens

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do we need to stand up a new agency in washington? are there current agencies that could handle this or even have this technique, capability? >> so, some democrats have proposed creating a new digital regulatory agency. but that's a proposal that republicans have pretty much scoffed at. it's pretty much dead in the water politically. but there is a proposal advancing in the house to create a new privacy bureau within the federal trade commission, which could police some of these issues. so that's something to watch out for. and i think certainly lawmakers are rallying around this issue of how facebook impacts kids. and so i think we'll see them look to advance some legislation around kids' privacy, kids safety online in coming months. >> i think the next big question is whether anyone else comes forward. facebook dismissed her as a low-level employee who wasn't privy to all the information so she doesn't know what she's talking about. if somebody else comes forward, one of the more senior people, we could have a different conversation

. >> washington, d.c. is that place. it was that way for a long time. >> for me, it was so cool to be here, to grow up with all of the people, different people, different culture, no really violence. >> i never got any problems in the spree. >> me neither. >> it wasn't your experience? >> it was not. >> places are like that very often. >> exactly. >> i think it's really beautiful. this is a peanut sauce. peanuts are very african. you are okra gumbo, the sate, this is incredible. this is a new thing. >> this is a new thing. this is the reason i'm cooking. >> you can mix all the culture. if you are curious, and if you are gourmand, you can mix stuff and everything, if it's tasty, it will be okay. >> i went to culinary school, and i would say you actually don't learn how to cook in culinary school. you just learn techniques and recipes. cooking is something some people can do it and some cannot. >> it's not all about technique. >> it's about love. it's about pleasure and love. >> i think it's one of the most beautiful thing

it went from that point which was almost at the white house to beyond the washington monument. it was -- and wide. and -- >> but if you -- >> -- and it was a loving crowd too, by the way, i heard that from many, many people, that was a loving crowd. and, you know, it was too bad. it was too bad that they -- [ overlapping speakers ] -- >> but mr. president, i apo apol apologize, what we're trying to understand is, not blame. >> i understand. >> we want to understand what did you want when you said go up there? >> i would have said that you will show not to go in, although they were ushered in by the police, i mean, in all fairness, the capitol police were ushering people in. the capitol police were very friendly, hugging and ki -- you don't see that but there's plenty of tape on that too, the capitol police, that's the way it is. i wanted -- personally, what i wanted is what they wanted. they showed up. just to show support. because i happen to believe the election was rigged. at a level like nothing has ever been rigged before. there's tremendous proof. there's tremendous proof

we're live in washington d.c. this truly is a special night, a night that some people have been waiting for for years. special live coverage of the white house correspondence dinner. this is the first time in half a decade a sitting president will not only attend a dinner but he's going to tell jokes. we're told he's going to tell jokes. >> yes, we understand that to be true. >> i don't know if they'll be funny but he'll tell jokes. >> i think there will be funny ones. >> president biden will allow himself to be roelasted in fron of the country. trevor noah is the big speaker tonight. >> that's the key. he's going to roast himself and beat trevor noah to the punch. we'll see if that happens. this is coming at a critical time for the biden presidency, primary season is heating up before the midterms here. we'll bring you this event as soon as it begins, but first. >> we'll begin with breaking news out of ukraine. civilian evacuation haves begun in the steel plant in mariupol. the commander says the 20 women and chi

richardson, an expert in chemical and biological research at the naval medical research institute in washington, d.c. >> people in the intelligence community are quite familiar with ricin, based on a handful of cases that most everybody would know about. very few people in the lay public and highly trained professionals such as medical doctors would be quite unlikely to know just about anything. >> ricin is an antigen. a breakdown of red blood cells. in large enough doses, it can be fatal. when an antigen enters the body, the immune system's response is to produce antibodies to fight the invading organism. to find out whether rice and antibodies were in dr. farrar's's system doctors used a technique. in theory, any ricin antibodies in dr. farrar's blood wound bind to the ricin coached on the plate, which is exactly what happened. next, dr. richardson analyzed blood of goats that had been exposed to small amounts of ricin. it appeared that the goats and michael farrar both had similar antibodies in their systems. antibodies designed and structured to recognize and seek out the target invader, ri

>> he was asked that question by the washington post. you're on elections being challenged at home and talked about the phony populism and the republican party and how it's being diminished. there's a lot of controversy over whether that's true or not true. here he is trying to say, look, unless we defend democracy, this russia trying to become an threat to us when he's looking at what could be an existential threat at home and the question is, how do our allies respond to what's going on in the united states. i don't think we really know the answer of that. what he was trying to do today is say we're here. we're back. we're strong. we got it. i think everybody is probably nodding and saying, well, let's just see how this gets handled back in the united states but also they are glad he's there. >> they have also, like you point out, there's been a bit of whiplash for them. >> they are also treading carefully. i want to bring you back in because president biden said the u.s. will respond in kind if russia couldn'ts to act aggressively. we

this hour new revelations from the book that is riveting washington. and plus this man, trevor noah, set to roast the press and the president. the head of the white house correspondents association is here with a preview of that big dinner. >>> and russia's war at home, the director of the sunny new film "navalny" is coming up later this hour. >>> but first, what a turbulent

chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins with me in washington. we do have breaking news this morning. win, win, win, it's a word appearing in u.s. official statements in new ways and really more than ever when it comes to ukraine. ukraine can win. ukraine is winning. we're hearing it in ways that we did not before, including moments ago from u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin. listen to what he just said in germany. >> ukraine clearly believes that it can win. and so does everyone here. ukraine needs our help to win today. and they will still need our help when the war is over. >> it comes as russian foreign minister minister sergey lavrov insists that russia is committed to lowering the risk of nuclear war. but, he says, the danger is real. >> translator: a nuclear war cannot be won. and must never be fought. the danger is serious and real. and it should not be underestimated. >> at this moment, lavrov is meeting with the u.n. secretary-general who notably is in moscow, before going to ukraine. in a couple of hours, the secretary-general will m

the president-elect makes some remarks, he will introduce miss sherry dylan, a prominent attorney in washington, dc with the prestigious firm of morgan lewis who structured the agreements pursuant to the president's business arrangements. she will give brief remarks. before we start i want to bring your attention to a few points on the report published in buzzfeed last night. it's frankly outrageous and highly irresponsible for a left wing blog that was openly hostile to the president-elect's campaign to drop highly salacious and flat-out false information on the internet just days before he takes the oath of office. according to buzzfeed's own editor, there are some serious reasons to doubt the allegations in the report. the executive editor of "the new york times" also dismissed the report by saying it was, quote, "totally unsubstantiated," echoing the concerns that many other reporters expressed on the internet. the fact that buzzfeed and cnn made the decision to run with this unsubstantiated claim is a sad effort to get clicks. the report is not an intelligence report plain and simple. one

washington county, south, trump county, he's doing 2% better. beaver county it's only doing 1% better. but the idea is he's doing better every down there and allegheny county is not an anomaly. if you're looking for fraud you have to look at where are they moving numbers sufficiently that would look outside what the norm is. and, again, i don't see it. it doesn't mean it's not happening. and on the other side of the state -- that's southwestern pennsylvania. southeastern pennsylvania, which is biden country, he's done 7% better in chester county. montgomery county, 5% better. delaware county 4% better. bucks county, 5% better. in philadelphia, where the fraud is supposedly taking place, he's doing 4.5% worse than hillary clinton. and in the suburban counties, the vote is up 10% to 12%. in philadelphia it's only up 3%. so, again, if you're looking at well, i know these are a lot of numbers and maybe i'm not explaining it well, but i guess -- >> no, it's interesting. >> it shows to me that in the areas that you would expect the fraud to occur, the

the two republicans will head back to washington soon with an urgent call to send whatever ukraine needs and fast. >> they're brave, they're committed, just put something in their hand that matches the efforts here and they could win it. >> reporter: we're going to be watching very closely what the impact will be of these russian missile strikes at train stations across the country l it have a negative impact on the ability to ship heavy weapons agreed to by the united states sent here to ukraine to get to those front lines, that's the open question at this point, brianna. >> thank you so much for that. do appreciate your report. >>> i want to bring in cnn white house reporter natasha bertrand and kylie atwood cnn national security correspondent. this was a big visit and there was a lot that that was said as you had secretaries austin and blinken there. let's start with austin said he wants to see russia weakened to the degree it cannot do the kinds of things that it has done in invading ukraine. that's really bolder than we've heard. >> it is and this is consistent of course with what t

that's according to the washington post. chief justice circulated a draft 0 popinion for the court on may 7th, 1992 but that went the other way when announced in june. what would have happened if that draft had been leaked? you know what i'm saying. what will happen now? we don't know, do we? >> i'm a great advocate of transparency. supreme arguments should be televised. i do understand why the justices want to keep their private deliberations private. the secrecy is designed to encourage negotiation, compromise. that's really difficult if the drafts are -- if the drafts suddenly become public and let just be clear about one thing, you know, there have been a very small hand full of cases where the votes of the justices are disclosed somewhat in advance of a decision but never, never in the history of the supreme court has a draft of a case much less an earth shaking case like this one been made public in advance of a decision. so, you know, this is a situation in terms of the operations of the supreme court that is literall

. >>> new this morning, a report in the "washington post" that is raising some eyebrows. normally it's a given that an incumbent president will run for re-election. you won't even think to ask. and insiders won't even think to tell people. but they are making a point to tell supporters that he does plan to run for re-election. president biden and members of his inner circle have reassured allies in recent days that he plans to run for re-election in 2024 as they take steps to deflect concern about the 79-year-old's commitment to another campaign and growing democratic fears of a couple republican return to power. cnn legal analyst ron brownstein. >> i have not been in my hometown for two years. this is my first return. . >> you and i have covered campaigns for a minute or two. i have never seen an incumbent -- i have never seen an article like this. >> yeah. >> where there is a feeling there needs to be reassurance. >> it obviously starts with his age, radio it? but i think there are other things going on here. there is existential dread. making it harder to vote and easi

is now in the line of fire and attack and fear of a war that could become much bigger also hitting washington where a u.s. defense official says u.s. forces have had several close encounters with drones on the belarusian border. encounters that the united states considers, quote, a threat. belarusian dictator of course a key ally of putins, allowing russian troops and missiles to launch from there. meanwhile, in ukraine, a fierce face-off under way in the eastern part of the country where today, we have video of ukrainian fighters firing off one rocket after the next. and then you see the smoke. we'll show you where those rockets landed. that's where ukrainians say russian forces are trying to advance the other way, deeper into ukraine. according to ukraine, ukrainians have destroyed 13 russian tanks in that area in the past 24 hours. and it comes as new details of putin's brutal abduction of civilians comes to light in a cnn investigation. traveling to a town outside kyiv where dozens were kidnapped, some packed into dark rooms, hands bound, eyes taped, tortured for information. we'll give y

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>>> hey, i'm brian stelter live from washington, d.c. today and this is "reliable sources," where we examine the story behind the story to try to figure out what's reliable. this hour, one of the biggest divides between the president and the public. au author kristen soltis anderson has the answers. >>> and the twitter vrs is for elon musk fans or will be soon. what does everybody get wrong about musk? molly ball is here to tell us. >>> and the headline now, the ukraine war taking a rising toll on reporters. the new president of the group jodie ginsberg will join us live. >>> first, finding the serious amid paul of the spectacle. the white house correspondents' dinner spilling across the u.s. capital, spilling dozens of events all weekend long, marking normalcy. president biden showing he can deliver a good job, ripping fox's democracy, mocking his low polls and showing he does get let's go brandon. this has a reality vibe especially in years the democrats control the white house and especially with this time around with kim kardashian a

live from washington, athena jones. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, michaela, not an exit strategy sanders wants to hear. not something you want to hear from a supporter like oregon senator jeff merkley saying yesterday sanders should end his campaign if he's behind hillary clinton in the delegate count after the last states vote in june saying sanders should follow the example clinton herself set in 2008 when she bowed out in june and pledged her support to then senator obama in the interests of uniting the party and working together to win. sanders vowed to take the fight all the way to the convention. last night in oregon he pushed the electability argument saying he's a better choice to defeat trump. here's what he had to say. >> i hope that delegates going to the democratic convention pay heed to this -- in every national poll done in the last month, we are defeating donald trump by much greater margins than hillary clinton. >> reporter: now, that's not a new argument for sanders. it's not clear how effect

cnn's alex marquardt live in washington. alex, the government late to acknowledge this hack, late to discover this hack, and apparently late to understand the full scope of it. what do we know? >> reporter: let's look at the timeline. the first revelations about this hack against the government came out on sunday night, almost five days ago. and since then, pretty much the only thing that has become clear is how extraordinarily widespread this could be. otherwise, u.s. officials are still struggling to figure out which agencies and which departments have been hit, how badly, and what was taken or spied on by these attackers, who are believed to be packed by the russian government. we actually may never know the full extent of the breach. this is how the fbi, the intelligence community, and the department of homeland security's icyber agency put it in an overnight statement. they learned about it over the course of the past several days, saying this is a developing situation. and while we continue to work to understand the fu

the george washington is in port for long-term maintenance. some of these depths occurred off the ship. it is very difficult, it is a very stressful situation for sailors when their ship is in the yard for months on end on maintenance. they do not have the basic standard quality of life in the u.s. navy. now, there's no indication of any correlation, but the investigation will look at all of the cases and try and determine if there is something in the culture, in the climate, in the living conditions. what may have happened here for this to have happened. but the suicide issue really is across the board, throughout the ranks in the u.s. military. congress has ordered the pentagon to stand up an independent review panel across all the services to take a look at this issue. and defense secretary lloyd austin, when he announced a few weeks ago, the beginning of this panel, i just want to read you what he had to say about it. it's an issue that he is deeply involved in. and he said, it is imperative that we take care of all our teammates and conti

. >> reporter: i'm tom foreman in washington, d.c. where the pandas are on the prowl again. the national zoo is reopening. now, they're doing it se conser conservatively, asking people to get timed passes coming in, fully vaccinated and to stay away from some exhibits but by and large they're trying to work their way up to 5,000 people, only 20% of the zoo's capacity but it's a nice easy start and those folks will be able to see most of the lions and tigers and bears, and, yeah, if they're lucky even a glimpse of those famous pandas. >> tom foreman and our other correspondents. >>> the pandemic news in the u.s. is mostly good. overseas, though, depends on where you look. sustenance for mountaineering expeditions and long journeys across the world! but most importantly? they give us something to eat when we drink beer. planters. a nut above. ugh, these balls are moist. or is that the damp weight of self-awareness you now hold in your hands? yeah (laugh) keep your downstairs dry up at 2:00am again? with gold bond body powder. tonight, try pure zzzs all night. keep your downsta

led police departments in philadelphia and washington, dc. he's a cnn senior law enforcement analyst. k kaitlan, what does the president want to do, accomplish today? >> the main thing the white house wants to be a takeaway here, president biden is focused on the levels of crime in this country, and the concern that you have seen show up in poll numbers among people about the crime that has been up since the pandemic and they want to make this stop today to show this is something he's addressing. you've seen his republican critics try to paint him as weak on crime and something to focus on, the efforts here, he's going to the nypd headquarters when he lands here in new york from washington. on the way right now, talking about the efforts they want to have nationwide. not just what's happening here in new york but saw this directive from the white house earlier today telling u.s. attorneys office to bolster sources and combat crime on a local level and prosecutors go after the so-called ghost guns, basically untraceable. it's something you've

smith goes to washington," i remember when i was a boy when my father in the senate, they used to make them stand there and talk until they ran out of breath or could not stand up anymore. why don't we go back to that and rather at least, if we took joe manchin's suggestion and just made them do it the old fashion way, the way they used to then we would have a better chance of the majority out lasting them and when they feel strongly enough about something like protecting voter rights, they can get it done. >> as if you are not passionate enough. you want to talk about this issue because i know this is on your mind and heart. you were in memphis yesterday. we have picture of you out there right now. you were protesting it from being built predominantly through black communities. here is how you described it and we'll talk. >> this pipeline project is a reckless, racist rip-off. when the pipeline representatives said this is the past of legase resistance. lease resistance? i see a lot of resistance here today. >> they put out a statement saying that they chose throughout the vacant prop

only at at&t. >>> washington, d.c. police say the man suspected of opening fire on a city street, wounding four people, is dead. it is believed he took his own life, as police breached the apartment where he was found. cnn's polo sandoval has more. >> a sense of normalcy been restored in this washington, d.c. community. there are members of this community trying to understand exactly what happened friday. imagine a gunman several stories up basically opens up on the sidewalk below, taking aim at people randomly. the police chief saying as investigators were closing in on who they believe to be the suspect, that individual took his own life. inside that apartment, though, investigators saying they located a sniper-type setup with a tripod, six firearms, inc incl including several rifles and pistol. investigators believe the intent of this individual was to kill members of the community. just three people shot, all three of them, though, said to be okay and expected to recover. a fourth individual was grazed by a bullet

our audience is here in washington and around country and ready to ask questions. everyone here tonight is following covid-19 safety protocols. welcome to you both. before we get started from the audience, just a couple of questions starting with you secr secr secretary kerry, slashing emissions in half is quite ambitious. what must u.s. companies in america change to achieve this goal. >> u.s. companies are already moving in this direction. some of the most financial institutions committed in the trillions of dollars over the next ten years to invest in the technologies and processes that are going to help reduce this emissions and other countries are doing this. europe is cutting by 55%, u.k. is cutting by 78%. why? because the scientists made it clear to us that this is critical if we want to hold the earth's temperature increase to 1 1 1.5 degrees cenigrade. president biden getting all the country enlisted. 85% that create the problem, emissions, comes from other country. >> administrator mccarthy, do you see the president's announcement? >> i see this is begin

i was just in washington for the imf world bank meetings, and this is an absolute pyre priority for everyone at the meeting. even if they do what's plausible in the coming months, a lot more people are going to strarve or be food stressed just because the largest grain producer in the world has just invaded the fifth largest grain producer in the world and all that supply chain is disrupted. on the back of the pandemic when we already had these challenges. >> the book is called how three threats and our response will change the world. and it is by the great ian brimmer. be well and thank you so much for being here. >> good to see you. >>> math textbooks, disney world, businesses addressing how to talk about race and gender, they all have one thing in common, they're caught up in ron dedesantis' culture wars. tater totting, cold or hotting. mealin', feelin', pie-ing, trying. color your spread. upgrade your bread. pair it. share it. kraft singles. square it. ♪ ♪ ♪i'm so defensive,♪ ♪i got bongos thumping in my chest♪ ♪and something tells me they don't beat me♪ ♪ ♪ ♪he'd b

. >>> the washington press corps top u.s. officials and hollywood celebrities gathered for the first time since 2019 last night for the white house correspondents' dinner. the night was filled with laughs, but also with moments of gravity. host trevor noah reminded the audience what their colleagues are experiencing in ukraine right now. >> they're risking their lives to show the world what's really happening. you realize how amazing it is, like, in america, you have the right to seek the truth and speak the truth. even if it makes people in power uncomfortable. i stood here tonight and i made fun of the president of the united states and i'm going to be fine. i'm going to be fine, right? >> cnn's priscilla alvarez is with us now. good morning. president biden very self-deprecating, also plenty of jabs at the gop, but he also struck a really serious note about press freedom. >> well, as you heard there, the overarching theme of the night was democracy and freedom of the press. but biden certainly packed in his jokes. he took

but "the washington post" is on the case. what they can tell us is for the last five years, it's about 1,000 people killed by police every year, and the racial disparities are around the same. that's good news. it is almost certainly better now than it was 20, 30 years ago based on all the estimates of all of the data scientists who have looked at this stuff. so that's better in the long course of things, but we're not anywhere near good enough. that said, the outrage that we're seeing over the past year, that's almost certainly because even if it's 1,000 a year, which means an average of around three a day every year, even in the midst of a pandemic, right? even given that, we are seeing more of it, and it is a lot less like what we read about in the paper, meaning the officer's account, and a lot more like what black communities have been screaming and hollering about for years. >> well, look, the facts in all of these cases are different, but many people, speaking to what you said, many people question why someone wouldn't

cnn washington correspondent sunlen serfaty is on capitol hill this morning. despite mccarthy's denial, we hear him say it loud and clear in this audio. >> reporter: that's right. we hear him say it, bianna, and that's why this may -- a complete contradiction but that he is caught in a lie here. this was an audio leaked audio phone call between mccarthy and some of his republican colleagues, obtained by "the new york times" and in this clip we're going to play for you, liz cheney is asking mccarthy whether he -- he thinks there is any chance that former president trump would resign, and here's how he responds. >> i had a few discussions, my gut tells me no, i'm seriously thinking of having that conversation with him tonight. i haven't talked to him in a couple of days. from what i know of him, i mean, you guys all know him too, do you think he'd ever back away? but what i think i'm going to do is i'm going to call him, in the discussion i would have with him is that i think this will pass, and it would be my recommendation that you should be gone. that will be

cnn senior washington correspondent joe johns is working this story for us. i understand you are at a family reunification center, not far away from where this shooting took place. tell us what you are learning and what happened as far as we know. >> reporter: that's right, wolf, this is the cleveland park library in northwest washington, d.c., also connecticut avenue, one of the busiest fares in washington, d.c., people injured by the shooting have been told to come to be reunited. here in washington, d.c., shots rang out and we're talking about a lot of shots according to eyewitnesses i spoke with. bursts of five, some say there were at least 20 shots. others have said dozens and dozens of shots. three people injured as you said not seriously as far as we know. at least not life threatening. more importantly, a massive amount of the city in northwest washington has been cordoned off near the university of the district of colombia, some embassies, including the embassy of israeli are in the area where police have been searching for the shooter also also just

go to wicnn.com/fareed for a li to my "washington post" column this week. and let's get started. ♪ >>> on monday night in washington and tuesday morning in beijing, president biden and president xi held their first summit virtually. biden opened the meeting by saying the two nations had a responsibilities to the world not to veer into conflict with each other. i can think of nobody i would rather talk to about the relations between these two nations than my next guest, henry kissinger. 50 years ago in 1971, then-u.s. national security adviser henry kissinger made a secret trip to beijing that led to the opening of relations with washington. he, of course, went on to become secretary of state. he's now the chairman of kissinger associates, which helps american companies do business around the world, including in china. his new book is "the age of ai." henry, there are a lot of people who feel that the united states needs to be more tougher on china. this is a policy that trump began. this is a policy that biden has continued, talking about extreme competit

because you did. >>> hey, i'm brian stelter live from washington, d.c. today and this is "reliable sources," where we examine the story behind the story to try to figure out what's reliable. this hour, one of the biggest divides between the president and the public. au author kristen soltis anderson has the answers. >>> and the twitter vrs is for elon musk fans or will be soon. what does everybody get wrong about musk? molly ball is here to tell us. >>> and the headline now, the ukraine war taking a rising toll on reporters. the new president of the group jodie ginsberg will join

he said a note of protest has been sent to washington by the, presumably the russian embassy protesting pumping ukraine, very em emotive language. russia is stretched thin in the latest offensive against donbas. the ukrainian army is constantly replenished is worrying to them. cle >> clearly it is ruffling their feathers. claire, good to see you. >>> in the last few minutes, the russian attack in the lviv region of ukraine where i am, the railway forces said it was struck in central and western ukraine. the statement accuses russian troops are disat the matt kelley destroying railway infrastructure, adding within one hour, five railway stations were hit, five in just one hour. there are said to be casualties. we'll bring you more information as we have it. that coming to us the last few minutes. the head of state railway russia has struck five railway stations in central and western ukraine. one of those about 35 miles or so from where i am in lviv, ukraine. >>> coming up, what the head of doctors without borders says he is seeing on the front lines here. and the desperate need to get c

cnn senior washington correspondent joe johns joins me now. how does the administration plan to get the bill passed? >> reporter: right now we know they're trying to sound the alarm and the fact of the matter is the biden administration wants to pick up where they left out before the recess. of course, this is something that could be very difficult simply because while they want the funding to be passed as soon as possible, the administration is also aware that there are a number of republicans and even a few democrats up on capitol hill who would really like to see reinstatement of the trump title 42 policy put in effect when trump was in office that essentially allows the use of public health law in order to expel asylum seekers. biden has said he wants it to go away and it expires next month but there's a push to reinstate it. what the administration is doing now is they are sending up the warning flag if you will talking about the consequences if the covid-19 funding doesn't get passed. we have a graphic. here are some of the consequences.

alex marquardt, cnn, washington. >>> the sundance award winning cnn film "navalny" airs sunday night at 9:00 eastern here on cnn. >>> so we do have some good news to report. the good stuff today. our very own john berman is happily back home after this week's boston marathon and he says he is feeling 100%. he's back to feeling better here. so he's going to be here to tell us all about the adventure on monday. have a great weekend. cnn's coverage continues right now. >>> close to catastrophe. officials describe a dire situation in mariupol as the russian military aims to establish full control over southern ukraine. and perhaps even into disputed territory in neighboring moldova. good morning, everyone. i'm bianna golodryga in new york. happening right now, food, water and ammunition growing more scarce by the hour as hundreds remain barricaded inside mariupol's azovstal steel plant. on the outside, growing evidence of what some are calling genocide. new disturbing satellite images

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let's check in with cnn senior washington correspondent, jeff zeleny, outside the debate hall. jeff? >> reporter: chris, people are arriving here at the debate. you can see behind me here, they've gone through security and they're filing into the debate. anticipation is building for this. of course, final republican debate of the year, stakes could not be higher. let's start with ted cruz. he probably has the most to gain, perhaps the most to lose in the debate. he's been coming on strong. he is going to, i'm told, avoid engaging donald trump, they've had a bit of a back and forth afar. face-to-face, do not look for senator cruz to engage donald trump. why? he wants to win over his supporters. if donald trump supporters peel away, ted cruz wants to be there to pick them up. one other thing for senator cruz, unused to facing conservative criticism. he will get a lot of that tonight from senator marco rubio, from chris christie, so watch the voting record. it's going to be revisited of senator cruz, his three top items. moving on to donald trump, i think there's no question here

chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins with me in washington. and we do begin with breaking news. win, win, win. it's a word appearing in u.s. official statements in new ways. and more than ever when it comes to ukraine. ukraine can win. ukraine is winning. we're hearing it in ways we did not before. including moments ago, from u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin, listen to what he just said in germany. >> ukraine clearly believes that it can win. and so does everyone here. ukraine needs our help to win today. and they will still need our help when the war is over. >> this follows secretary austin's announcement of a new goal for the united states. weakening russia's military overall going forward. this morning, we have what could very well be a reaction to that statement for the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov. he said the threat of nuclear war should not be underestimated, although he does claim russia trying to lower the risk. right now, lavrov is meeting with the u.n. secretary-general who knowingly and controversially is in moscow be

this is an enormous story that is constantly talked about in private by democrats in washington and other parts of the country, but because the right wing media has so fixated on biden and biden pro portedly having cognitive issues has made it always impossible for democrats to talk about in any public way because that's what the other side is so fixated on. >> right. >> has this perverse affect on chilling what is a real conversation by the way in private. so much of this book is the gap between private conversations and public discussions. >> right on both sides you're talk begun that. >> certainly when it comes to trump but my goodness, is that ever true with democrats and joe biden. and it's not like they're going to push for the trap door like ari fleicher suggests, more like they're looking at their watch, tapping their foot and clearing their throat waiting for biden to do or say something about whether or not he's going to run again and the clock is ticking. >> thank you very much and again, everybody, available tomorrow, "this will not pass" wonderful to see you both in person. >

not just from a viewpoint of washington or atlanta. i think i should have gotten out to the field earlier. i think what wasn't covered often is how much i was working with the governors and local mayors to really together learn from each other and improve the responses across america. that's why i wrote over 35 weekly governors reports to every single state across the country and got to 44 states because i really believe that there are solutions out there and i found them, and i wanted every other governor to see them. >> you write, quote, at no time did anyone tell us to stop this acceleration and testing and i want to ask you about this. this is what we were hearing from president trump at the time. >> i've always said testing is somewhat overrated. >> when you do testing to that extent, you're going to find more people, going to find more cases. i said to my people, slow the testing down, please. >> i don't kid. we test. we're going to have more cases. by having more cases, it sounds bad. bough but actually what it is, we're finding

back with us from the prison in georgia is david mattingly and in washington jeffrey toobin. david, seems we keep seeing police presence and cars with lights and i understand helicopters overhead. >> that's right. helicopters have been overhead for quite some time now. in the last minutes we've seen another 20 cars coming in here with their sirens going and lights flashing. and now as time's gone by, we now have over a hundred armed officers standing at the entrance of this facility here where the execution is taking place. i don't know who in the state of georgia has been watching what's been going on here and is getting so nervous about this. the crowd across the street has continued to remain orderly. they've continued to chant. they've continued to shout their support for troy davis. there's been no signs that they've been disrespectful towards officers or anything like that. but at this moment with all these officers here, this fresh arrival of the new state patrol officers to join the ranks of the people gathered across the street are probably as quiet as i've heard the

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noish officials in kyiv, moscow, and here in washington -- they are now digging in for this bloody conflict potentially to last for years. cnn's anderson cooper is standing by in the ukrainian capital for us. kai kaitlan collins is over at the white house. we will go live to them in just moments. but first, there is growing concern about the fate of the last holdouts in the besieged city of mariupol as cnn's jim sciutto reports from the war zone. >> reporter: hundreds of civilians, including children, still trapped in a mariupol steel plant tonight, after russia blocked ukraine's latest attempt to rescue them. the last ukrainian military holdout in the embattled city and potentially ahead of another attempt to storm the plant. >> there is lack of everything, lack of water, food, lack of medicine, lack of any social help. so they need to be humanitarianly evacuated as soon as possible. >> reporter: mariupol's mayor now claims more than 600 people injured no total after a bombing that hit a makeshift-military hospital. inside the complex, military commander inside the plant spoke with cnn. >>

. >> depp is suing heard for $50 million over 2018 washington post op-ed she described herself as a public figure representing domestic abuse. depp was not mentioned in the piece, though he maintains it cost him lucrative acting gigs. he referred to his marriage to heard as horrific. he also recalled a recorded conversation between the two actors after an incident in which part of dep's finger was severed off by a bottle allegedly thrown by heard. >> i thought you would do it on accident. i told you that. i said oh my god, i thought the first time. >> amber, i lost a [ bleep ] finger, man. come on. i had a [ bleep ] -- can of mineral spirits thrown at my nose. >> you can tell people that it was a fair fight. and see what the jury and judge think. tell the world, johnny. tell them johnny depp, i johnny depp, man, i'm a victim, too, of domestic violence. >> yes. >> it's a fair fight. >> what did you say in response when ms. heard said tell the world, johnny, tell them johnny depp, i johnny depp, a man -- i'm a victim, too, of domestic violence? >> i said yes. i am. >> reporter: during cr cro

want to get perspective from the co-author of that piece, "the washington post's" greg miller. >> greg, thank sow much for joining us. you make a did tinkz between russian oligarchs between the el seasonal years and those oh who feel they owe their wealth to putin. what is the tichs between the two? and two does either group have well rael power to actually influence putin' decision? >> i think the real difference is those who made their money under johnson, i don't think they ever melt quite as indebted to putin. they certainly don't feel so now. hey don't feel as invested in him as a leaderment i have think they are more inclined to spaea out. they have also had more times to move assets, their families out of russia, so perhaps they are in better -- better position to voice krit siz am of the dream lien and of the war. and the answer to your second question is you know, it's not clear that, even combined, these oligarchs now have sufficient influenc influence or power to alter the course of in war, to alter putin's calculations in thinking about ukraine and convince them to turn pac

are seeing this idea of banning russian oil imports gaining real traction on capitol hill and here in washington. as far as where the president is on this, he is undecided. this is according to white house press secretary jen psaki. she said that he hasn't made a decision on this that she is able to share but that what he is doing is consulting with his european allies on this issue, including in this meeting he had just this morning with leaders of germany, france, and the uk. what the u.s. and the administration is doing as it is considering this ban is thinking about different ways of making sure that they are able to bolster the global energy supply and basically try to get more oil from other countries. and noticeably, this is why we have seen the administration in recent days engaging with countries like venezuela, like saudi arabia, and iran on this issue. this is really interesting and notable because under normal circumstances -- so, i'm referring to before russian invasion of ukraine -- these are basically regimes that the u.s. administration would not have necessarily wanted to engage

>>> hi i'm pamela brown in washington, live in the "the situation room" this sunday, russia's unprovoked and brutal war in ukraine, genocide is now part of the conversation. jake sullivan's take. >> repor >> look, in my opinion the label is less important than the fact these acts are cruel, and evil and need to be respaonded to decisively. >> congressman liz cheney isn't shying away from the term. >> i think this clearly is genocide. i think that you asked exactly the right questions. i think that europe needs to understand and grapple with the fact that you got a genocidal campaign, the first kind of horrific genocidal campaign that we've seen certainly in recent decades. i think that also, europeans need to understand that they're funding that genocidal campaign. >> new satellite images show 8-mile long russian convoy approaching the ukrainian capitol of kharkiv, major battle expected in the donbas region in the days ahead as putin tries to come up with a win ahead of russia's may 9th victory day holiday. now, ukrainian officials urging to leave now before it's too late, nine evacuatio