in kyiv insist the battle is not over yet. we have a live report from ukraine and i ll talk to the ukrainian ambassador to the united states about the state of the war. also tonight, president biden faces a growing crisis right now. with a special counsel now in place to investigate his handling of classified records. we re learning more about documents that were found as the white house fails to explain its delay in revealing key details. and new scenes of devastation in the southeast. the death toll rising after dozens of tornados including a powerful twister that pounded selma, alabama. we re getting official updates on this disaster and the rescue and recovery operations that are now underway. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. and we begin this hour in ukraine. and the stunning video just into cnn. a huge explosion in the eastern town of soledar at a building apparently occupie
major developments as russia attempts to notch the first significant battlefield win in months. ukraine forces vowing the fight is not over. in the small eastern town of soledar. which is emerged as a flash point in the war, now approaching the one-year mark. fighting has raged for weeks in this desolate landscape where 10,000 people used to live. russia s defense ministry on friday claimed victory saying that the town had been liberated. kraerpss were quick to deny. the captain, a ukrainian special forces soldier who was around soledar on thursday told cnn that the town had little strategic value. so it is safe to say that the ukrainians have a tow hold in the town but just barely? it would be fair to say that we are still holding. i would say some minor parts of
know, i heard the president and senior officials say we want to make sure that a reconstituted isis cannot take control of these oil facilities. that doesn t really make sense. the mission should be and was we want to make sure that isis cannot reconstitute. not that once they do they can t retake control of oil facilities. i think they re trying to hold a tow hold in syria. it s remote. not reliable in the coming months and over longer term. i think they re making this up as we go along. we ve already given up territory that would be territory in which our special forces with the syrian kurds would be following up and information gleaned from the raid last night on the baghdadi compound and we re not going to be able to do that. that s unfortunate. brett mcguirk, thank you for joining us. appreciate it. democratic congressman bennie thompson of mississippi, chairman of the committee on homeland security. i want to get you to react to
and the emotional moment everybody is still talking about. tonight, the astonishing, unexpected return of gabby giffords. i ll ask her best friend in congress what s next. gabby melted everybody s heart last night. and glenn beck said he also could be assassinated because of what he wrote in his last book. so what s he written now? i ll ask him. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. president obama signs the debt deal. the country dodges a bullet avoiding the frightening specter of a national default. so why is nobody in washington or wall street or anywhere else for that matter happy about all of this? has battle made compromise a dirty word on capitol hill? here to explain, john king. john, i ve never it seen a more miserable reaction from almost everybody in the world to what is supposed to be a good deal. well, piers, i like to use the goldy locks rule of politics. is it too hot, too cold or just right? we have this compromise. is it just right because nobod
allowed to raise the debt ceiling without being held accountable for it by the american people. the tea party direction of this congress the last few months has been very, very disconcerting and very unfair to the american people. is the tea party really calling the shots? i ll ask the people who started it. and the emotional moment everybody is still talking about. tonight the astonishing, unexpected return of gabby giffords. i ll ask her best friend in congress what s next. gabby melted everybody s heart last night. and glenn beck said this also could be assassinated of what he wrote in his last book. so what s he written now? i ll ask him. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. president obama signs the debt deal. the country dodges a bullet avoiding the frightening specter of a national default. so why is nobody in washington or wall street or anywhere else for that matter happy about all of this? it has battle made compromise a dirty word on capitol