it is now highly lookly the united states won t be able to pay its bills by early june. also tonight, trump accuser e. jean carroll is seeking further damages from the former president for disparaging comments he made about her during a cnn town hall. and in ukraine after months of brutal fighting, it now appears bakhmut has finally fallen to russia, but ukrainian forces say they still hold a small portion of the totally ruined city. i ll get reaction from the former ukrainian defense minister. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get straight to our top story right now. the speaker mccarthy and president biden, they are diving into another round of debt limit negotiations as the treasury secretary issues her starkest warning yet, that default is now just a few days away. we re covering the story from every angle over at the white house up on capitol hill. let s begin over at the w
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robertson and he s joining us live from the war zone. where does the battle go from here if russia has indeed captured buck mute? bakhmut? i can tell you standing here right now you can hear the shelling going on the front lines of bakhmut, picking up with intensity and it doesn t mean it is getting closer to us. i don t think so. where the russians are and where the ukrainians are, the russians have all, but perhaps the last tiny bit of bakhmut and the ukrainians have the fields and the villages and nearby towns all around it and they ve been pushing forward recently and maybe a mile and a half here forward and two miles somewhere else and they ve become pinned down even with those advances and they ve made those advances when the russians were rotating troops in a moment of weakness and the russians regrouped and they came back in force and shelling more heavily. where does it stand?
relying on ex-convicts to make a breakthrough while keep russia s new,less experienced troops to the front line the city now largely reduced to rubble has become hugely symbolic to both sides victory there could provide a massive morale boost, potentially reshaping the battle lines that have remained static for the winter and opening the door for a much anticipated spring offensive nbc s matt bradley is following this for us all from kyiv. he s joining us now. good to talk you you ve got russian mercenaries claiming that they have, quote, unquote, legally taken the city, even raising the russian flag from city hall ukraine s saying, though, they re not giving up. where does this battle go from here well, we just heard from the ukrainians today, they say they re still fighting in back maut i bakhmut. why are you allowing moscow to drag you into this war of attrition as you mentioned in a
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