reporter: tonight russian president vladimir putin declaring victory over the besieged port city of mariupol, telling russia s defense minister congratulations. russia controls nearly all of what s left of the city, but not this massive steel mill, where the last ukrainian troops are still holed up putin ordering russian forces to seal it off so, quote, not even a fly can pass through until those ukrainian troops run out of food and surrender. but inside the plant a ukrainian fighter sent us this video, insisting putin s victory declaration is a lie. we re still fighting we destroyed one tank today, two armored fighting vehicles and one armored personnel carrier. reporter: he tells us hundreds of civilians are also trapped inside the rest of the city is now under russian control, where ukrainian officials say the situation grows more catastrophic by the day, saying these new satellite images show graves dug by russians to bury mariupol residents who have
liberal democracy sort of weak. it s feckless, it s rule bound, it s not viral and powerful like these other forms of governance. you, say for me the most revealing text here is the victory declaration, which russian press agency accidentally published on february 26th. this was an article that had gone up when they thought they were gonna roll it to kyiv. but this is the west is just one more push to fall into total disarray. elaborate more on that. i think this leaks to your great monologue because one of the things which is wrong after 1989 which is we told ourselves that there is no alternative to democracy. we imagine that it was just gonna be brought about by history or by capitalism, or by some larger force. of course, if you do, that you re basically putting yourself to sleep. if you imagine that freedom is going to be delivered by some larger force, you are making yourself on free. if you imagine there are no alternatives, you will not see those alternatives. so i think we h
a well-known republican says bad idea. and an enormous win for the trump white house. the details of how he got it done. who it affects and lives that will change because of it. the white house winner has our reporting beginning now. reporting starts with a jolting announcement from the white house. the u.s. will pull troops out of syria rapidly. all 2,000 of them out. president trump today declared victory in the war against isis there and said u.s. troops are no longer needed there. critics are standing firmly against that victory declaration. more on that in a moment. u.s. officials tell fox news a couple of thousand isis fighter dos remain in the eastern part of syria. the pentagon reports isis controls but 1% of the territory
weapons and the means to deliver them. it s almost a victory declaration. i ve got the button. now that i have the button, i may be willing to talk, and what he s proposed is talking not to the u.s. initially but to south korea. he s again being opportunistic and taking the olympic games which will focus the world s attention on korean peninsula, and looking for an opening in which kim, it seems, from what s come out in the last 24 hours will try to be the good guy. there will be meetings between north and south on the border. i don t think the u.s. can stop that now or even necessarily would want to. there may be some sort of effort to get a joint korean team or at least a representation for north korean athletes at the games so that kim is seen as a figure who is helping this korean national moment of celebration happen. i think the question for