jens stoltenberg. thank you so much, sir, for joinings me. start with the news out of bucha in ukraine, a suburb of kyiv and i want viewers to be warned that the images we ll show are disturbing. journalists report finding bodies of civilians strewn throughout the town. some of whom appear to have been deliberately executed by russians. the ukrainian foreign minister says that these are russians trying to eliminate as many ukrainians as they can. so my question for you, sir, is is this genocide? it is a brutality against civilians we haven t seen in europe for decades, and it s horrific and it s absolutely unacceptable that soocivilians targeted and killed, and it
two nights ago, they made clear that their assessment was that there was the vehicle that was the target also had explosives in it and those explosives may have also led to an impact on the ground but there s an investigation that s ongoing. laura: well, we don t believe that, even with the hand gesture. time and again, on issue after issue, this administration and our pentagon has misled the american public, who can trust them on anything they say? they have the audacity, though, to think they deserve our trust. but our trust is in retreat. here s another biden lie. his administration vehemently denies giving the taliban lists of americans that need to be evacuated. my next guest played an instrumental role in exposing the truth in the administration s distortions. joinings me is tennessee congressman mark green afghanistan war vet. congressman, what have you learned? laura thanks for just pointing out the dishonesty of
the first shots fired 10:05 p.m. 10:15 the shooting stops. ten minutes of deadly violence. our kyung lah joinings me now. just a short time ago sheriff lombardo talked about the possibility of accomplices. let s listen to that. you said that you re still trying to figure out whether he had in accomplices. we re obviously going through that. it s troublesome that this individual was able to move this amount of gear into a hotel room unassisted. it s troublesome for the amount of stuff he had at both residents unassisted. so there s people that know this individual. have we found out any more about that? you can hear the frustration in the sheriff s voice because if you think about what was inside that hotel room, not just of the electronics, the cameras, the ten suit occasions, 23 guns, that s just what we know. there may be additional stuff that they still haven t yet released.
several world leaders are voicing their concerns about the promises made by trump during the election. our andrew stevens joinings me live from hong kong, former u.s. secretary of commerce and ambassador to china under president obama gary locke is with us. and cnn political commentator lonny chen. thank you very much for being here. let s talk about the big picture when it comes to especially u.s. and china relations going forward, that bilateral meeting between president xi of china and president obama. president obama has said we have more to fear from a weakened china than a rising, successful china. th is donald trump s view of china in line with that? one would believe that donald trump would engage china much more aggressively when it comes to trade. that s not necessarily a good thing in terms of the way it s
year for him. at least in the presidential sweep stakes. there s more to be seen. we ll see what the other investigations on this bridge gait turns out. the presidential sweep take stakes. thank you. let s turn to a story we covered when it made headlines. rolling stone s article detailing an alleged gang rape on the university of virginia campus. the magazine backtracking from the reporting. there s new fallout this morning. peter alexander joinings me now with more on the story. hey, peter. good morning. this morning we re now hearing from the alleged victim jackie s freshman year suite mate at uva. she s coming to jackie s defense. she penned the letter to the uva student newspaper today. her name is emily clark. she was one of the few people that jackie told about experiencing that assault. she said she witnessed jackie s intense depression and withdrawal from her social life. clark writes specifically this story is not a hoax, a lie, or a