crises on his first visit to the region as president. putin s invasion, china s rise, and threats of a north korean missile threat casting a shadow over his trip. here in the united states, the baby formula shortage throws the white house into crisis mode. the supply crunch is worsening tonight, raising serious questions over when parents will finally see relief. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, president biden confronting multiple challenges on the world stage, as he makes his first presidential trip to asia. cnn s melissa bell is tracking the latest battlefield developments from kyiv, our chief white house correspondent, kaitlan collins is traveling with the president in south korea. and cnn s barbara starr is watching the north korean missile threat from the pentagon. first, let s go to melissa and the ukrainian capital for us. melissa, it appears russia is about
an accomplice of this. they may not have pulled the trigger, but wolf blitzer, they did load that gun for this young, sick, deprived individual. attorney ben crump, thanks as usual for joining us. appreciate it very, very much. and yes. coming up, a u.s. official visits wnba star brittaney grinr in russian detention, while trevor reed reveals chilling details of the conditions he faced. we ll detail jake tapppper s chilling new interview with him. ththat s next. bath fitter doesn t just fit your bath. we fit your life. when you re tired of looking at your tired old bath, we fit your style, with hundreds of design options. when a normal day is anything but normal, we fit your schedule, with our unique tub over tub process, installed in as little as a day.
crap everywhere all over the floor, on the walls. there s people in there also that walk around that look like zombies. were you afraid for your life? i mean, i did not veep there for a couple of days. so i was too worried about, you know, who was in the cell with me to actually sleep. you thought they might kill you? yeah, i thought that was a possibility. jake, did u.s. officials and reed s own family for that matter, know the full extent of this horror? i don t think they did, and in fact trevor said he kept a lot of things from his family, until he was out, because he didn t want them to worry. he would downplay what he was going through. i don t think anybody knew how bad it was. they knew it was bad, i mean trevor went on two different hunger strikes, he got really sick, they feared he had tuberculosis, he was hospitalized and put in just the worst, most unsanitary conditions, fed food that even a
tonight, the state department says that a u.s. official has visited wnba star brittney griner in russia, where she s being detained. griner, who s been held since february, was described as doing, quote, as well as could be expected under these exceedingly challenging circumstances. meanwhile, former detainee trevor reed, who was released in a prisoner exchange after being held by russia for almost three years, is speaking out about the brutal conditions he faced. he spoke exclusively to cnn s jake tapper. any prison is brutal. russian prisons are notoriously awful and tough. did you have a strategy for surviving? i did. i tried to to kind of compartmentalize and focus not on being in prison, kind of, you know, distract myself, think about future plans, what
sunday night for a cnn special report. finally home. the trevor reid interview. a i sit down with trevor and his family for his first interview since being freed from captivity in russia. i m also going to be joined by the loved ones of other americans detained around the world. 8:00 p.m. eastern, sunday night, only on cnn. our coverage continues now with one mr. wolf blitzer in the situation room. i will see you sunday night. happening now, russia says the long and very bloody pallet for the asav steel plant is over. now nearing moscow s biggest victory of the war. this as ukraine s president declare s russia s quote, splut evil missile strike, which leveled a cultural center in kharkiv. in asia right now, president biden is confronting multiple