reporter: this isn t fascinating. this is the chief of staff of russia s military. it s a very high up official, and according to the u.s. defense official, he in the beginning part of last week, he was toward the front lines. there was some reports that he was injured, a u.s. official telling cnn they can t confirm that. they also can t confirm exactly why he made that visit. does it signal for example that he has not a lot of confidence in the russian general running this war, but what we do know is this isn t happening in a vacuum, and russia has had lots of command and control issues throughout this war. does a top russian general coming to the front line, putting himself at risk signal that he does not have faith of the generals on the ground. it s certainly a hypothesis, and one the u.s. is looking into. appreciate it. one of the many problems with the russian forces, a number of russian generals, high ranking russian generals have been killed in this conflict as they move to
a grand jury, a special grand jury is now in place in the investigation into whether former president trump and his allies committed a crime in their efforts to overturn the 2020 election. cnn political correspondent sara murray joins us now. sarah, what happens next? well, look, they have chosen their grand jurors, they have 23 of them. they had three alternates. these are people who were going to be solely focused on this trump investigation. they are going to convene and deliberate in secret. they are going to do this once a week, a couple of times a week starting in june and they have wide investigative powers, they are going to be able to witness testimony and subpoena documents. they will be able to subpoena phone records and they ll have a year to do their work. the district attorney has told
one of the series of text messages that mark meadows handed over to that committee that came out in a court filing shows a georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger in this tense phone call. he s telling mark me dadows, ne to end this call. i don t think this will be productive much longer. meadows says okay. fuchs says, thank you, wow. stuff like this shows you how tense this was in realtime. we don t know if it will be pertinent to the dp.a. s investigation. plenty to get through. thank you for all of that reporting. let s bring in cnn legal analyst, elie honig, the former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. great to have you here. what potential crimes is the district attorney looking at? alisyn, the d.a. has given us pretty clear clues as to where she s focused. in her letter asking judges to appoint this special grand jury,
balancing act they have been trying to keep up. this is what the foreign minister tweeted. foreign minister lavrov s remarks about an unforgivable statement jews did not murder themselves in the holocaust, the lowest level of racism against jews is to accuse jews of anti-semitism, and summoned the ambassador to israel over these comments. something that has put a strain on the relationship something that neither side would have wanted. germany has agreed to support a embargo on russian oil. if germany is going to support it, that means we have serious momentum toward an embargo on russian oil. this could be part of a package of sanctions the european union is discussing. i want you to listen to what the german finance minister said to cnn earlier today about this. now, we are ready. we have prepared ourselves to be
a commander inside the steel factory where hundreds of civilians are still sheltering says the constant relentless shelling has prevented evacuations today. when i see five or six people die every day under bombs and the wounded die because they cannot get necessary medical care, and when i see what the soldiers eat, they re already starting to faint because of hunger. i think it is necessary to address the world community, end quote. and this just in, ukrainian soldiers are reporting that they killed five russians in an attempted assault on that plant. now, over the weekend, about 100 people made it out. one of them described living in two months of darkness. these images exclusive to cnn show how russian strikes pulverized the compound. russian state tv broadcasted that troops on the outskirts are engaged in what they call a step by step clearing operation. translator: we are finally here, establishing ourselves,