city of mariupol itself, about 100,000 people who haven t been able to get out, because there s been no humanitarian corridor for the past several days. so incredibly dire situation that many are telling us has become the humanitarian catastrophe. thank you so much, appreciate that, turning now to cnn military analyst and retired air force colonel cedric leighton, good evening, learning tonight, forces taken control of the kherson city council, weeks since they occupied that city, what does this tell you about the state of the fight? good evening, don, this is a typical way in which the russians do business, so we ll take a map at ukraine first, right here this is the city we re talking about right on the edge of russian control versus ukrainian control right here. if we go into a detailed look right here, as kherson is right
this is don lemon tonight, the u.s. officials, top u.s. officials meeting with ukraine s president in kyiv, defense secretary austin saying russia s already failing and the hope is to see their, quote, military weaken but the fighting hasn t stopped, russia, shelling five train stations we re live on the ground there in ukraine, plus twitter takeover, the richest man in the world buying twitter for $44 billion, but what s elon musk going to do with it? an exclusive, cnn obtaining more than 2,000 text messages sent to and from chief of staff mark meadows detailing the ways trump s inner circle wanted to overturn the election. getting straight to cnn s jim exe sciutto with the very latest
ukrainian president, a mother and her baby. translator: among those killed was a three month old baby girl. how did she threaten russia? it seems killing children is a new national idea of the russian f federation. reporter: in mariupol, still snow safe way out for civilians from the steel plant, the last bastian of resistance in the city ukrainian officials continue to accuse russia of forcibly deporting mariupol residents, telling cnn russia is trying to depopulated eastern ukraine. sending a message not only to us but to other countries around the world, surrender or be erased. reporter: russian forces continually targeted ukrainian railways the chairman of the state railway system says russia has systematically destroyed infrastructure, in part to go after supply lines the u.s. and nato have used to supply weapons to ukrainian forces but u.s. and nato officials said those supply
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. so tonight, major exclusive cnn obtaining more than 2,000 text messages that mark meadows, former white house chief of staff sent or received before and after january 6th, the insurrection on that day, they reveal a treasure trove of information about the communications between members of the former president s inner circle and how they wanted to overturn joe biden s victory in the 2020 election. a lot to discuss, cnn senior legal analyst is mr. eli honig also former federal prosecutor, joins us live. good to see you. let s talk about this. these are texts to trump s chief of staff everyone went through meadows, so just look at these texts on the day of the insurrection. mick mulvaney tells mark meadows, trump needs to stop this now, can i do anything to help? congressman william timmons says the president need to see stop this asap, rience prievus quote,