Bret have a good one. Thanks. Good evening. Im bret baier. First of all, an upside down flag outside the home of a u. S. Supreme Court Justice sparks controversy and a response now. Political attacks turn personal on capitol hill. Well bring you there. And the number one golfer in the world is arrested and put in jail outside a major tournament but he still makes his tee time and birdies the first hole. We begin tonight on the president ial campaign trail with the incumbent desperately trying to shore up a key voting base. According to recent polls all across the country, his support from black communities is slipping. And President Biden is trying to do something about that. White house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight live from the north lawn. Good evening, peter. Peter good evening, bret. President bidens entire week has been spent trying to court black voters. Announcing new investments to promote diversity and warning about what he thinks is going to happen if he is
right? he s going to keep pushing, but it s also not clear, don that russian forces are capable of achieving what putin wants and certainly not quickly and that adds up to sort of a depressing conclusion and that is that this war could drag on for some time, with a lot more fighting, a lot more bombing, sadly, a lot more civilian casualties, and really a world war ii-like battle in the east. this has the potential for a long, hard, and deadly slog. jim sciutto, see you get some rest. thank you for your coverage. this is don lemon tonight and we have new video which shows the brutality and indiscriminate destruction of vladimir putin s war. here it is. take a look at that. new drone video devastated town, the ukrainian forces there in nearby irpin and bucha were key to stopping putin s march to the capitol and chilling warning from the president of ukraine tonight, volodomyr zelenskyy, watch. translator: comment by russian commander shows russia wants to invade other cou
satellite images appear to show mass graves outside of mariupol. an adviser to the mayor there says they do in fact show mass graves. but cnn cannot independently verify those claims. the discovery happening as the heavy fighting continues in the long besieged port city. an estimated 100,000 people, soldiers and civilians, still trapped. one small boy praying for a miracle. translator: i want to see the sun so when our houses are rebuilt, we can live in peace, we can live in ukraine, because this is our native home. and another humanitarian corridor opening in mariupol as civilians desperately try to escape the fighting. russia capturing dozens of small towns in the east. but uk officials say russians have not made any major gains in the last 24 hours. this as russia reveals its end game in the invasion. top military officials saying they plan to take full control over southern ukraine and the eastern donbas region. let s bring in scott mcclain who is in lviv. what can yo
Were not going to issue that statement that Rudy Giuliani wanted to include burisma in the 2016 elections, there was no white house meeting. Soon became clear to them that the Security Assistance was also at risk and that took on a renewed importance for them. Following the July 25th Call, it had to include that they would do the investigations of burisma which equaled the Biden Investigation into the ukraine interference. Was their concern about doing
the investigations or what . Where they supposed to make a statement about it . Ambassador sondland very clearly testified that all he ever heard mr. Giuliani or anyone say is that they only needed the public announcement of the investigation. Without that Public Statement that there would be no white house meeting. Yes. I was struck by how clear the evidence seems to be on this point and id like to play another example. Was they were a quid pro quo . As i testified previously with regard to the requested white house call, the answer is
Mr. Eisenberg, he told me to take my concerns to him. And, theres a period of time in it wasnt that long a period of time, but it was enough time for me to enough time to talk to someone who you want i will assume it is, right . Ive been instructed not to, representative jordan. Hes what im getting. He told you not to talk to any of the people and you interpret that as not talking to your boss. But you talked to your brother, you talked to the lawyers, you talked to secretary kent, and the one guy adam schiff will let you tell us who he is. Is that right . Representative jordan, i did my job. Im not saying you didnt. All im saying is the instructions from the lawyer where that you shouldnt talk to
anybody, and you interpret that as dont talk to my boss, but im gonna go talk to someone that we cant even ask you if that individual is. That is incorrect. I just read what you said. I shouldnt talk to any of the people. The time of the gentleman has expired. Im sorry, mr. Chairman, that seq