indicate bolduan hosts a new cnn primetime tomorrow night. and this just in, eric garcetti seems to be on track to be confirmed as ambassador to india. manu raju is live on capitol hill for this. this vote came down to the wire. that they did not act upon accusations, now garcetti has forcefully denied those allegations over the course of the past couple years mplgts for some time. in fact it s nobody the confirmed a vital region of the rolled through biden s time as president, but he continued
it is a grim scene that s now been discovered and described in texas. officials there say they have found 50 migrants dead inside a truck in san antonio. what they now believe to be one of the deadliest smuggling incidents in u.s. history. cnn s priscilla alvarez is live in texas with the very latest on this. priscilla, what is the very late? reporter: well, kate, that death toll has gone up to 50 as you mentioned. an official tells me three more died on the way to the hospital. this may be the deadliest smuggling incident. now, yesterday, authority has received a call from someone in the area who had heard a cry for help. and that person was alerted then to the truck where they found deceased individuals. authorities responding to the scene said that the people they found had suffered from heat exhaustion. and from heatstroke. authorities said that they were hot to the touch and too weak to
kate. salma, thank you so much for that. joining me now is bill taylor, the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine. it s good to see you again, ambassador. let s start with what salma was talking about. this attack on the mall in ukraine, zelenskyy calling it an act of terror. it s nowhere near the front lines. any of the front lines and ukraine says it s nowhere near any military installations. what does an attack like this mean at this point in the war? there s been so much bloodshed and clearly it s an ongoing humanitarian crisis, but an attack like this. it s horrible, kate. it is just horrible. i was just having a conversation with ukrainians this morning about this. and they make the point that this kind of atrocity, this kind of attack on civilian targets only serves to increase their determination. their anger, but also their
zelenskyy, and the ukrainian people, are the only ones that can make any decisions about ukrainian territory. they are the only ones that can decide when to negotiate. and now is just not the time to talk about negotiations. negotiations will come when probably both sides are ready. we see that president putin is not interested in negotiations. and president zelenskyy has made it very clear that until the ukrainian military pushes their russians back, at least to the borders. to the lines, that existed on februar february 24th, that he s not ready to negotiate either. he s not ready to reward the russians for this aggression. so, i think it s a mistake to be talking about negotiations. and, by the way, kate, we remember that president biden, in his op-ed piece in the new york times said he would not put pressure on the ukrainians to negotiate a way, any
the members i m thinking of were involved during thanksgiving or if they were involved as the it progressed through december. reporter: according to the committee, hutchinson testified that meadows warned that january 6 could turn violent. hutchinson has a history in republican politics, now in her 20s she previously worked for other high-profile conservatives intucluding ted cruz and scalis. hutchinson has been compared to john dean, nixon s white house counsels who watergate testimony helped to bring down nixon. whether or not that s an accurate comparison that s something we ll find out later today. kate. kristen, stick with me, joining me is cnn legal analyst