the right to abortion. the two candidates to be uk prime minister are going head to head in cardiff at the latest hustings for party members. the former health secretary sajid javid is the latest to come out saying he s backing liz truss to win. hello, and a warm welcome to the programme. we start in taiwan a historic visit from us house speaker nancy pelosi has come to a close. but the fallout from it is just beginning. in the last few hours, taiwan s defence ministry says it scrambled jets to warn off 27 chinese warplanes in its defence zone. remember, nancy pelosi is the most senior us politician in 25 years to go to taiwan. and the visit has sparked fury in beijing, which views taiwan as its own. we ll be going into why, as well as all of the reaction. first, here s a little of what ms pelosi had to say. our solidarity with you is more important than ever, as you defend taiwan and your freedom. we are supporters of the status quo, and we don t want anything to happen to
navarro s arrest and indictment and what it means for the insurrection investigation. just ahead of a pivotal public hearing next week. and destruction and defiance in ukraine. as the nation marks 100 days of russia s brutal war, president zelenskyy vowing victory even as russian forces control a fifth of the country right now and the kremlin pledges to keep fighting until its goals are achieved. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get right to the new reporting on the texas school massacre as the investigation into police failures is clearly intensifying. here s cnn s senior national correspondent ed lavendera. reporter: tonight new questions raised in the investigation of the deadly school shooting in uvalde. texas state senator roland gutierrez says pete arredondo didn t have a radio with him at the scene, something that may have hindered his ability to communicate di
approach to crime which critics say is a culture of lawlessness. we will be joined with thoughts. john: brand-new numbers, a pulse on the u.s. economy. latest jobs report beating expectations, but still head winds from the highest inflation in four decades and record high gas prices. welcome to you today. anita: happy friday to you, the u.s. economy adding 390,000 jobs for the month of may one employment rate of 3.6%. number of job openings remains near record highs, 11.4 million positions going unfilled. john: gas prices keep climbing, more expensive to top off the tank. national average for a gallon of gas increasing another $0.05 overnight to 4.76. up $0.17 from a week ago, and 1.72 higher than last year. president biden speaking on the may jobs report and acknowledging the toll inflation is taking on american families. the president putting the onous on congress. anita: karl rove in a moment, but first white house correspondent peter doocy live from the north lawn
it s hard to explain to children what s happening. taras is afraid his father will die . 40 miles northwest of kyiv, a massive russian convoy is heading toward the capital. russian forces already on the outskirts of the city are meeting fierce resistance. the russian column that has come down here has been absolutely hammered. i don t want to show you this too much, but there s a body there. that s a russian soldier that is lying there dead on this bridge. look at this. i mean what kind of munitions does it take to do that to a car, to a vehicle? you know, i know that i was speaking to the local ukrainian commanders here. they ve been saying that they were using western anti-tank missiles to attack these columns. look. so recent the battle, this vehicle is still smoking. four days after the invasion begins, i interview olena for the first time on cnn. have you thought about trying to leave? yes, many times. one is to escape and survive. another one is to stay at
survive through the night. hello, ladies and gentlemen. this is your guide to only ark and all of our family. katia, taros and over there our daddy. olena lives in kroyiv with sergei and her three children. it s days before the russian invasion and a war may be imminent. like many ukranians, olena doesn t think russia lynn said. everyone right now is following the news in ukraine because basically we don t know what is going to happen. yes, and, of course, there is a lot of anxiety in the air because like right now at this momenting right now today, everything is absolutely fine, but i don t know and nobody knows what s going to happen tomorrow. ow. ow. the routines of daily life in kyiv continue. this afternoon she takes her 4-month-old daughter dorina to pick up her other kids at school. katia is 7 and horace is 5. as night falls, they head home. my neighbors are at home. it s not like everybody left qwest sound off live because they are afraid of the russia