explosions seen across russia s capital from the russian kamikaze drone strike. at least four people were killed in kyiv, including a pregnant woman. a ukrainian official says they were able to shoot down most of the drones. like this one. caught on dramatic police body cam video. the words for beldograv written on the drone. here s what she saw there. reporter: i think you can see behind me, this is an ongoing rescue effort, this is quite clearly a residential building. we have already seen one body being removed from the air. we also saw another elderly woman being rescued from the rubble, actually from the balcony on the neighbors building. if we sort of look around at just how chaotic this scene is. there are dozens and dozens of paramedics, firemen, rescue workers. officials say at least 19 people were rescued from that building alone. let s start our coverage with fred pleitgen in ukraine. fred, earlier, you were at a power plant that was targeted by the russians.
well, of course they did. so let s connect these puzzle pieces. what is it all pointing to ? what does it all showing, sean? i believe that it is showing the single greatest, most sophisticated, far-reaching election interference effort really not just in the history of our country, but in the history of our developed peer nations. the scope and scale of this gets larger every single day. what you are talking about here is a handful of hardened left activists at a major global social media platform secretly manipulating, altering and changing the dialog, making unpopular ideas appear popular ,making very popular, very important, potentially life saving ideas seem unpopular and inaccessible to alter to change, to redirect the whole course of american history in secret. and i want to pick up on a point the claim made about criminal liability. let s remember, sean, the department of justice put
feel to it that he wakes up and he s going to buy it. it s true, he s talking about parler more than we ever have. there may be people attracted by his statements by his notoriety and fame to move over there but they re going to bump up against it s not pretty noxious behavior and platform, it s is not just talking about art and music and culture. it is there to thrive in what they call a world that can t be cancelled. i call that a world that is afraid to be criticized. and essentially not that it is, it s not that they re hiding from cancel culture, they don t like the fact that their criticized and this is exactly where kanye is. we re seeing more and more of this. money equals power when it comes to social media and being able to control a message. i take it there s a message at the top, these people with money
value of parler. we don t know quite what it is. they ve only been able to raise less than $100 million. that seems like a lot to people. it is not a lot if you re talking about a global social media platform. so there s going to be market controls. and the third is, of course, lawsuits. these social media platforms are looking at vulnerability. they have for allowing the organization by letting people get together and hate as much they want, but organizing of violence. and probably one lawsuit away from being already filed against the social media platform. so, they re going to be more cautious about what they allow on them and i should say, for the record, google and apple store should look at what apps they re allowing on the platform. i mean, they have free agency. they re not the government. and if those are if those are apps that make them vulnerable
the news of the deal goes after the rapper now goes legally by ye was blocked by instagram over a post. ye posting on parler in a world where conservative opinions are considered to be controversial, we have to make sure we have the right to freely express ourselves. so where could all of this lead? let s discuss with cnn national security analyst juliette kayyem. first, juliette, talk to us about parler, why is it so controversial? as i say, let me say, it advertising itself as a conservative platform, ana, is a nice way of putting it. it s a bit of a cesspool and incitement with the proud boys and took off after google store and alphabet store after january 6. it claims it has better moderation procedures on this platform. but no one goes there for a