an abstract exercise. this is not just one vote and then the issue goes away. you will hear a lot from us in the next months, all the way through november. no one gets to hide democrats don t have the votes for this to pass. and republican susan collins is, well, already reportedly a no. over at the white house, the president and his team are weighing their next steps. the washington post is reporting that the administration s options to guarantee abortion rights are -limited. even so, attorney general merrick garland said that the justice department was ready to act if the high court does overturn roe v. wade. the justice department has steadfastly been committed to defending the right to abortion. if the law changes, we will address appropriate next steps at that time. but what will not change is our commitment to defending the rights of women and all americans. meanwhile, first lady joe jail biden is speaking out about the draft leak opinion in an interview with si
families. what could and should be done plus, exclusive details tonight in the sinking of the russian flagship, as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. tonight, the president and his party are coming under growing pressure to launch a new fight to protect abortion rights. a leak supreme court draft signaling justices were set to overturn roe v. wade has sent americans into the streets and rocked the political landscape. the senate is now on track to vote on an abortion protections bill as early as next week. we are going to see where everyone stands. it is the first time that there is a vote like this in a very, very long time, when the actual rights are at stake, it is not an abstract exercise. this is not just one vote and then the issue goes away. you will hear a lot from us in the next months, all the way through november. no one gets to hide democrats don t have the votes for this to pass. and republic
rhetoric that is ratcheting things up from both sides, i might add. the secretary of defense, lloyd austin, with his promise to degrade the russian military tipped russia and you saw it live here, austin doubled down in the news conference a couple days ago during this hour, you saw it live. that tipped lavrov and putin on the russian side. the dictator and his foreign minister to say nukes are back on the table. this is going around in circles. money is needed for ukraine. meanwhile, russian dictator putin has a new threat. this one is lightning fast action against any nation which interferes with his war. the gruesome realities of russia s invasion, annihilation of a population continuing. a top united states official has told the united nations there are credible reports of a military russian military unit executing ukrainians who are attempting to surrender instead of taking them into custody. ukrainian authorities have filed the first war crime charges now against mosc
killed and are, to use a familiar word by now, graphic, so is the reality of what happened in bucha. these images taken in early march in the suburb north west of kyiv in what could have easily have been an american suburb, in these pictures seen for the first time, a man s body killed with his bicycle going about his business. these taken in early march, only now with a second body, as you know, some of the dead were left alive where they d fallen until bucha was finally liberated. elsewhere, another bike, another body, another civilian killed while simply trying to make the best of the horror playing out all around him, trying to go to work. again, these photos were given to us by the official conducting a war crimes investigation on the ground in bucha. all except one, this one, were taken by a local resident, this one of russian armor taken by a surveillance video, traffic camera video used by investigators now to try to identify the russian soldiers involved in killings
all around him, trying to go to work. again, these photos were given to us by the official conducting a war crimes investigation on the ground in bucha. all except one, this one, were taken by a local resident, this one of russian armor is from surveillance video, traffic camera video, that s used by investigators right now to try to identify the russian soldiers who were involved in killings in bucha, which can is a very, very difficult task. this comes as cnn obtains other exclusive images placing russian troops at the scene of some of the killings. they come from new drone video of bucha taken during russia s occupation of the town. and it is especially timely, because today, standing next to the u.n. secretary-general in moscow, vladimir putin said this about the atrocity which he blamed for scuttling peace talks with ukraine. translator: unfortunately, after reaching agreements and after our clearly demonstrated intentions to create conditions for favorable conditions