world. wolf blitzer is off today, i m brianna keilar, and you are in the the situation room. let s go right to ukraine, as we follow the pivotal ballots for bakhmut, and growing concerns it could fall to the russians very soon. melissa bell has our report from the war zone. reporter: bakhmut still stands, says the ukrainian military out of sight any sign of life driven underground. what is like life for the civilians, for the soldiers? what life? what, what life? you know, the soldiers are doing their work, which is quite and civilians are trying to survive. there s no water, there is no electricity. reporter: this was bakhmut in august when the siege had just begun. this is bakhmut seven months on. the city is empty, people are afraid to go . empty, people are afraid to go out. every day new destruction. it s better not to go outside writing dr. elena from inside the town. cnn met her and other nurses on christmas eve, not quite happier times, but certain l
contenders who many republicans see as the future had other plans. last year florida governor desantis took to the stage as a rising star, but as he inches closer to a presidential bid, he met an antitax group. several rivals also headed to florida, including former vice president mike pence, tim scott, south dakota governor christi gnome, and new hampshire chris sununu. there was a resolute desk against the backdrop of a faux on the floor offensively. reporter: she wore a desantis hat. she said she s torn, but believes trump is the stronger choice. i really love this hat,
politics. my guess is he ll stay out. i have to go through fight for democrats, fight for independence and hopefully there is enough enlightened disenchanted republicans that don t like what is going on, we ll win. my bet is people don t want to hear the truth and i ll tell the truth. michael steele, you re the former head of the republican party. the party as it exists now boasts people like matt gaetz who is accused of sex trafficking a child, ken paxton under investigation as we mentioned before by the texas state bar for filing the election lawsuit and also for abuse of his office. christi gnome who allegedly strong armed a state official into giving her daughter a real estate license deal and the south carolina a.g. who is investigating gnome killed a man while driving and pleaded guilty and tried to deny he did it even though his glasses were found in his car. ronny jackson. we can go on and on and on. he was found to be drunk while