plus a look ahead at what is expected to be one of the key political storylines of 2023. trump versus desantis. more on that ahead. we are going to start with some breaking news. kevin mccarthy set to hold a call with a gop conference in about an hour s time. he s facing some tough numbers in his fight for the house speaker. abc s ali roth joins me now from capitol hill. ali, what more can you tell us about your scoop. just about an hour from now, this big gop meeting. yeah, lindsay, my colleague haley talbot and i getting the scoop about an hour ago that really explains what kevin mccarthy is doing in these last two days before that make-or-break moment, the speaker s election on tuesday. sources are telling us that in less than an hour at 4 pm he s going to hold this call with members of the house gop caucus, really trying to solidify every last gop vote, every ounce of support he can be for that critical vote on tuesday. the last thing he wants to happen is for, is to no
him. ohio needs an ass kicker not an ass kisser. the sedition trial is back in trial for the oath keepers today. a live report from the d.c. courthouse. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. the war in ukraine appears to be at a turning point. russia continues to hammer cities, knocking out power across the country. richard engel is in ukraine. ukraine s foreign minister says the russians are focusing against the country s energy infrastructure. what s the impact having across ukraine with that? reporter: it is having an impact, even in cities where the war hasn t really had much of a day-to-day consequence so far. in the city of lviv, for example, close to the polish border, now there s large sections of the city that are without power. there have been air strikes in kyiv. there s this city of kyiv, since the early days of the war, has been spared the daily violence. it s far away from the front lines. a sense of normalcy had returned to the city of ky
explosions seen across russia s capital from the russian kamikaze drone strike. at least four people were killed in kyiv, including a pregnant woman. a ukrainian official says they were able to shoot down most of the drones. like this one. caught on dramatic police body cam video. the words for beldograv written on the drone. here s what she saw there. reporter: i think you can see behind me, this is an ongoing rescue effort, this is quite clearly a residential building. we have already seen one body being removed from the air. we also saw another elderly woman being rescued from the rubble, actually from the balcony on the neighbors building. if we sort of look around at just how chaotic this scene is. there are dozens and dozens of paramedics, firemen, rescue workers. officials say at least 19 people were rescued from that building alone. let s start our coverage with fred pleitgen in ukraine. fred, earlier, you were at a power plant that was targeted by the russians.
fentanyl deaths at an all time high. democrats want you to forget all about this and focus on only 3 main distractions. their game plan for the next 57 days. they are tempting to divide the country on the basis of race and gender and age. their election year playbook or lie. republicans are racist and sexist and xenophobia. democrats will scare voters by claiming abortion is illegal. that s not true. abortion is still legal in the vast majority of states. i have it on good authorities in that republicans in the senate will bring up a national abortion law this week that would have a mandate ever time of 15 weeks which is what the mississippi law called for and the third distraction. democrats are trying to vilify the maga republicans and donald trump supporters to rally their base. according to biden and other democrats, half of america is a threat to democracy because they now support or once supported donald trump. instead of trying to fix the economy or talk about it or
violent actions. you ll also hear from stephen ayres who was directly influenced by president trump s tweet to travel to washington for a day he said would be wild. and there is immense pressure on the committee today in what could be a put up or shut up moment to prove to the nation that there is a direct link between former president donald trump and those extremists responsible for the chaos at the capitol. there s a lot of expectation on new video clips of former white house counsel pat cipollone from his nearly eight-hour deposition last week. what did he tell the committee about what he advised the president on and around january 6th, and what did he corroborate from the testimony of others, specifically cassidy hutchinson. ladies, listen, just to get us up to speed on what we have seen so far, there s been a number of hearings, a number of weeks between them, just to catch us all up. remember the first one started with him knowing that he lost, being told that he los