one-year mark. cnn is on the ground in kyiv and moscow. the bodies said to be piling up. also tonight, five former memphis police officers plead not guilty to second-degree murder and other charges in the fatal beating of tieyre nichols. his mother at the hearing and said they could not look her in the eye. i ll speak to ben crump this hour. rick scott backing down from a controversial plan dropping social security and medicare provisions after bipartisan backlash including president biden s direct attack during the state of the union address. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is on assignment today. i m pamela brown and you re the situation room . and we begin this hour on the front lines in ukraine. a new round of russian shelling adding to the mounting toll of death and destruction after nearly a full year of war. cnn senior national security correspondent alex march alex marquardt is there. reporter: it is a critical
and thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this tuesday morning. morning joe starts right now. the media suggests they are not paying attention to the concerns of every day voters. you want to sweep it under the rugment i don t want to talk about this any more than anyone else. when the barbarians were at the gate, you were happy to let them in. they were people that behaved badly on that day. i m not one of them. ms. abrams is going to lie about my record because she doesn t want to talk about her own. i don t have the luxury of being part of a good old boys club. debate night in ohio, utah, and georgia with the midterms exactly three weeks away, things are getting a little heated. steve kornacki is standing by at the big board. did you see that guy beforehand, he s going into the whole rage thing. out of hand. this guy s crazy. the state of the race, which is what we really want from him. republicans claim to care so much ab
this is according to volodymyr zelenskyy the toughest fight in ukraine right now in the eastern city of bkakhmut called a meat grinder, convicts continue to be ce sent in wave after wave to their deaths. men he plucked out of prison and threw on the battle field with no training, no equipment, no organizational command, 98% killed were conflicts. we think they rely heavily on the convicts in the background fighting. reporter: the battle laying bare. the stark division on the russian side. with vagner openly blasting russia s official military leadership saying they manage soldiers from beauty salons and country clubs arguing if there were more of his private troops,
because nothing unites us except in an assent, an agreement with that idea. and how unbelievable, jon says that lincoln got it done, but he got it done just barely. i mean, he got it done appamatox courthouse, less than a week later, abraham lincoln is dead, a 30-year fight, and it was a 30-year fight, michael beschloss. and this doesn t just apply to lincoln. you look at, for instance, lbj, who actually chided richard nixon for being too self-righteous on civil rights in 1957 when he was vice president, who did not have a great background fighting for civil rights, and yet what he did in 64 and 65 absolutely
done. but he got it done just barely. he got it done, courthouse, april 9th, 1865. less than a week later, abraham lincoln is dead a 30-year fight, and it was a 30-year fight, michael beschloss. and this doesn t just apply to lincoln. you look at, for instance, lbj who actually chided richard nixon for being too self-righteous on civil rights in 1957 when he was vice president. who did not have a great background fighting for civil rights, and yet what he did in 64 and 65, absolutely extraordinary. with lincoln, you had somebody who represented a run away slave