every time they come here, the police move them off. but look at this here. somebody has left a child s toy with a note on it, and it says against the war. earlier on, we had been talking to people about why they have been coming here. translator: i want to tell the ukraine kran people they are not alone. that people in moscow are also scared of the war. i wanted to show that we are like them, that we are also afraid of war. translator: we have always lived here. we are proud to be russian but this step it is a disgrace. simply, disgrace to the world, to all those people who are now dying there. translator: even now, i can t believe it. i woke up in the morning in horror. i realized it was real. it s impossible to believe, i think. it s painful. reporter: so, people being reacted and taken away. so far, in protests over the past three days, more than 2,700 people reacted across russia.
tweets in just the lawyer hour that the so-called whistle-blower, before knowing i was going to release the exact transcript said my call with the ukraine kran president was crazy, frightening and completely lacking in substance related to national security. of course, it wasn t a whistle-blower, but a white house official who said that akarding to this newly released memo. crazy and frightening is how one official is said to have described to call between president trump and the leader of ukraine in which the president asked for help investigating political rival joe biden. that s according to a newly reviewed memo written by the whistle-blower, separate from the complaint that sparked the i m impeachmentment inquiry. a congressional source with direct knowledge of the memo confirmed its contents to nbc news as reported by the new york times. the memo says the white house official who listened to the july call described the conversation as completely lacking in substance related t
and he would help his clients with their own personal campaigns. a lot of unsavory characters and help them with their public image in the united states. one of his main clients, probably his biggest client in the later years was the so-called party of regions, the party of the ukraine kran president, then ukrainian president yanukovych. this was a pro-russian party. manafort was key, officials told us, in helping yanukovych get elected to become president of the country. so, right there there s an interesting russian connection in that he s working for this pro-putin can dashgts helps the pro-putin candidate get elected in ukraine and is getting tens of millions of dollars, which are described today in this indictment. so, how did he get the money? if you look through the indictment, it s listed that this money, tens of millions of
drive from the main crash site, we re reminded in a powerful way why this is so complex, this is still an active conflict zone. on the northern end of the city, there s been ongoing fighting here between ukraine kran government forces and militants. we ve heard heavy ar tilly and smoke on the horizon and it s a reminder why everything is difficult, hard, and slow. it is the first time international experts have arrived on the ground at the crash site to actually take a look to see what they are dealing with, this is before the whole investigation process and so forth really begins. we ve got three dutch forensic experts who are here taking in these sites for the first time. it will be their job to examine the remains of the people who died in this crash. they are the ones that will take dna samples, transport those back to the netherlands where they can be compared with loved
now the new government there is vowing to take up the stakes and take the fights to insurgents. jim schuitto is in kiev with more. this has become a new flash point, true? no question. a bigger one now, particularly after the election, chris. i spoke to a senior ukraine kran official this morning who said in his words, it is now or never for ukraine to fight this mill tansy. in his words, we have been patient for far too long. what you re seeing here is that after this election, this new government, the new president, poroshenko feels they have a terrorist and go after them hard. a major assault on a major pa airport here in the east. attack helicopters, steps you would not have seen in the run-up to the election. jeffrey pilot telling me this morning that we are now entering