lesser extent in the south down here. they ve gained even more ground in offensives. president zelenskyy claims they have recaptured some 6,000 square kilometers of territory. it s about 2,300 square miles since the beginning of the month. this is impossible to verify, but it is even more ground than the russians actually gained in the last several months and it happened fast. i want to show you this animation here, if we can zoom in. you can see the yellow there, how quickly ukrainian troops have recaptured territory that had been occupied by the russians. now russia is responding. ukrainian officials say russian strikes knocked out power in the region. in donetsk ukrainian forces also recaptured a town there after forces crossed the donetsk river. this here is the aftermath. the capture will further complicate any attempt by the remaining russian-backed forces to withdraw, and last night secretary of state tony blinken called the recent gains by ukrainians encouraging.
well, i mean, there s constitutional duty. what he has, he s the commander in chief. that was my biggest issue with him, as national security adviser. white house advisers to former president trump understood the constitutional oath of the presidency. trump apparently did not. mika, as we have gone through the testimonies, as we ve talked through this the past several hours, one thing really does keep sticking out to me, and that is the testimony of cipollone, where he was asked who else in the white house agreed with the president that the riot should continue. who in the white house did not want him to stop the riots, did not want him to speak out and tell them to stop. he said nobody. nobody. he said nobody. nobody inside the white house wanted the riots to continue. let me put it a different way. everybody in the white house wanted the president to act affirmatively to stop the riots. they told him that. he refused. his family members, his children, told him tha
on the u.s. capitol. instead, for 187 minutes, between leaving the ellipse and telling the mob to go home, the 45th president of the united states first argued with secret service agents who refused to take him to the capitol. then after returning to the white house, sat in a small, private dining room off the oval office, transfixed by the violence he saw playing out on fox news. which showed the capitol under siege. trump learned just 11 minutes after returning that the protest had turned violent, but he did not make any calls to intervene. failing to reach out to the secretary of defense, the attorney general, or the department of homeland security. instead, he demanded a list of senators phone numbers, calling and encouraging them to delay or object to the certification of the electoral college count. while the president s official call log from the white house that afternoon is empty, trump placed at least two other calls that day. not to the military or the police but
in the capitol and being targeted by the mob. during all those hours refusing to call the pentagon or any law enforcement for reinforcements. in fact according to aides even refusing to take a call from pentagon officials offering their help. are you aware of any phone call by the president of the united states to the secretary of defense that day? not that i m aware of, no. are you aware of any phone call by the president of the united states to the attorney general of the united states that day? no. are you aware of any phone call by the president of the united states to the secretary of homeland security that day? i m not aware of that, no. did you hear the president ask for law enforcement response? no. as the men and women in charge of protecting vice president mike pence became more and more desperate about their ability to get him to safety or even save their own lives. and we ll replay in that context an insight to every key moment from last night
capitol riot. the focus of tonight s hearing, those critical 187 minutes during the riot when trump refused to take any action to call off that mob. more now from cnn s ryan nobles in washington. reporter: one text exchange is the sum total of what the secret service handed over to the january 6 committee leaving more questions about what the agency is up to. we re trying to determine where the texts are and whether they can be recovered. reporter: the secret service says their agents don t texas p job. messages that the dhs inspector general believes were deleted during a dwight upgrade program. there is a lot more questions to answer. but we have a responsibility to tell the truth and to chase the facts and that is what we man do in this regard as well as our general oversight over the executive department. reporter: meanwhile secret service has started complying with the committee subpoena handing over thousands of documents, including radio traffic and emails.