prosecutors probing witnesses about a heated oval office meeting just weeks after donald trump s loss, during which the former president considered desperate measures to stay in power. tonight, trump on the campaign trail. once geagain trying to spin his legal problems in his favor. he is going after the justice department and his main republican rival, governor ron desantis. president biden is speaking to cnn on his decision to send cluster munitions to ukraine. the president voicing his concerns with the controversial weapons but ultimately deciding they are crucial to kyiv s counteroffensive. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. first up tonight, cnn s exclusive new reporting on that chaotic oval office meeting now at the center of special counsel jack smith s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. our political correspondent sara murray is joining us. she
outside of bakhmut. as soon as they fire, they prepare to fire again. it appears that the ukrainians are pulling out all the stops around bakhmut. over the months i have been covering the battle, i have heard ukrainians complain about a shortage of ammunition. we didn t hear that today. they seem to have more than enough. one of the batteries told us that they are firing 50, 60, 100 rounds a day. it really does appear that bakhmut is at the moment the focus of this ukrainian counteroffensive. wolf? very interesting, ben wee wedeman, stay safe over there. let s bring in jill doherty and colonel layton. now that ukraine will be receiving the cluster bombs, how will they leverage those in their counteroffensive right now
which fell to the russians this year. ben wedeman has the latest from eastern ukraine. reporter: as soon as one artillery round blasts toward bakhmut, the crew rushes to prepare for another. ukrainian officials report gains. this gun commander has been in the area for months. the task of taking down coordinates and barking orders now routine. he says he is half deaf from the blasts. yet he has sensed a change. it feels like they are off and running, he says, referring to the russians. then the order to fire. there s barely a letup in the distant thud of shelling. the russians, says this gunner,