world. it is friday, april 22nd. i'm brianna keilar in washington with jim sciutto in lviv, ukraine. we are beginning with breaking news. mariupol is close to a catastrophe. that is how the owner of the azovstal steel plant is describing the situation on the ground now. food, water, ammunition growing more scarce by the hour. men, women, and children, hundreds of them, still hide inside the battered and burned out fortress. there is no agreement on evacuation corridors out of mariupol for the thousands upon thousands of others. they fear the routes will be attacked by russian forces because they have been. this morning, these disturbing satellite images revealing rows of mass graves. russian soldiers accused of dumping the body of countless women, children, and men in ditches to cover their crimes. there are over 200 new graves in these set of photos. >> think of that in the 21st century. mass killing and mass graves. that's where we are. the mayor of mariupol calls all of this evidence of war crimes. i spoke to him early this morning, and he told me more than 20,000 people have died in his city. 20,000. and u.n. human rights officers just announced they have documented the unlawful killing of approximately 50 people in bucha, a suburb of kyiv, including some by summary execution. meantime, president biden says the war is entering a critical window. he has announced an $800 million weapons package, the second in just over a week. the focus, heavy artillery and drones. that is to prepare for what is expected to be a bloody, bloody fight in the east. president zelenskyy tells the world bank his hcountry will ned $7 billion a month to make up for the losses. russian troops are making an attempt to advance. evacuation attempts disrupted once again by russian shelling. this has happened before. they attack the humanitarian corridors. that stopped a bus from leaving the town safely. in new intercepted audio released by the ukrainian military, russian soldiers are heard to kill ukrainian prisoners of war. it is shocking. matt rivers is here with me in lviv this morning. every day we are chronicling, witnessing alleged war crimes in the prosecution of this war. >> reporter: no question about that, jim. and lateest coming in the satellite imagery you mentioned which really, in speaking to people in mariupol, there's fear. there are 200 mass graves. you are hreupg at what could be the tip of the iceberg. 20,000 civilians were killed, the mayor said. there is a distinct fear amongst people that graves like that could just be the beginning, especially given what we have seen, what the russians did in northern ukraine, for example, in places like bucha. in mariupol today, unfortunately, yet another day where there will not be evacuation corridors set up. we have seen just a trickle of people be able to leave over mariupol. i'm here at the lviv train station where in just a little while we are expecting a train with some of the people who managed to get out of mariupol to arrive. it's a little bit delayed, but we are expecting people on that train. i can tell you officials are not nearly as many people on the train as there should be. evacuation corridors were set up and the day before. they didn't work as planned. yesterday some 200 people queued up to leave. and yet the deputy prime minister said the buses could not leave because of shelling by the russians near by where the bus was getting ready to leave. it is not getting any better, even though it desperately needs to. >> yeah. listen, and the fact is if russia wanted those civilians to leave safely, it can make that happen. it could allow it to happen. auto its not allowing it to happen. and oftentimes attacking those people as they leave. matt rivers in lviv, with some of the many ukrainians displaced by this war. as russia intensifies its war in ukraine, the u.s. is stepping up to help ukrainians defend their total. in total, how much is the biden administration spending with the security assistance, weapons, et cetera, coming here into ukraine. barbara starr is live at the pentagon to break it down. it's been a remarkable couple of weeks, right? in the span of two weeks, two $800 million packages loaded with forms of aid. where do we stand now? >> reporter: well, right now it's $3.4 billion in u.s. weapons and military assistance that's gone to ukraine. the latest, as you say, announced yesterday. you see it there. but right off the top, the president says it will not be enough. he will go back to congress to seek more financial authority for additional weapons shipments to ukraine. and right now what they are also doing, of course, is scouring europe, talking to the allies, talking to countries on that nato eastern flank, to see what they have in their inventory that they can contribute. the shipments are beginning to change character a little bit. in the beginning, as we know, it was largely anti-tank javelin systems, anti-air stinger systems. and that's still going. but the latest group of weapons announced yesterday, and let's take a deeper dive look into that, focused a lot, continuing to focus on this towed artillery they hope to get into eastern ukraine. right now in the weapons packages just announced in the last few days is going to be enough towed artillery to equip five aboubattalions. they are hope that will really be able to challenge the russians in the east. but there are very fundamental things that are going to be needed to make that work. what fuels an army? spare parts, maintenance, command and control, communications, good training. all of these things are going to be necessary to keep the ukraine forces going. as much as they are fighting on sheer will, they're going to need these additional elements to make it all work, according to u.s. officials. and let me just add one last thing, jim. what we are not seeing on that list may be very important. there is increased intelligence sharing by all accounts giving the ukrainians a better idea of how and where the russians may be maneuvering. jim? >> and you make a good point. because the change in weapons speaks to the change in the character of the battle. the stingers, the javelins, that speaks to ambushes we saw in the north. these artillery pieces, the tanks and so on, this is for like a big armored formation, kind of world war ii grinding battle. and the weapons speak to it. barbara starr at the pentagon, thanks so much. >> reporter: sure. coming up, we will be joined by the pentagon with more on those weapons going in and how the next phase of the war is shaping up. speaking to john kirby there. it will be an important interview. brianna. we also have that, ukraine's military intelligence. >> sorry, jim. you go on. this is what happens when you're anchoring things from a few thousand miles away. ukrainian intelligence released what they say are communications intercepted of russian armed forces referring to orders, orders to kill ukrainian prisoners of war. this in the city of papasana in the eastern region of luhansk. having a listen to one of these. >> translator: what can i tell you, damn it. you keep the most senior among them and left the rest go forever. let them go forever, damn it, so no one will ever see them again, including relatives. >> let them go forever so no one will ever see them again. cnn has not been able to independently vouch for the authenticity. we know russian forces have been using unsecured lines, often just a local cell phone network to communicate. and that allows for relatively easy interception for intelligence services. steve hall is a national security analyst and former cia chief of russian operations. he knows a thing or two how the russians operate. it's good to have you on, steve. your knowledge always helps us understand. one big picture question i want to is what the russian goals are now and can they achieve them? the russians are publicly saying this morning that their goal really is this. they want to basically chap sure the entire coastline of ukraine, including odesa and then connect to moldova. is that achievable for russia? >> jim, i think it will be a tough row to hoe. it looks like the russians, of course, control quite a bit, as well as the separatists so-called that are also cooperating with them. they also have a large swath of this. as of today, you're absolutely right. we heard they will look even further to connect up further over here. so they have already got all of this. they are looking into get into this area right here, moldova. and there is already russian troops in this part of the country. so what they are trying to do is push all the way through. now, to do that, though, what they've got to do is they have to get to odesa. this is a key tactical and strategic point. if they get all of this, you will see what happens pretty quickly. you have a country, ukraine, which is entirely cut off from the sea. if they take all of this and are able to link up with russian troops already in moldova, that will be a significant challenge. it will not be an easy thing for the russians to do. >> yeah. the hit to the economy, we cannot overstate what that would mean to ukraine. we want to talk to you about the recordings you're hearing. they are talking about killing pows. . >> first, with regard to the believability of these recordings, the sbu, intelligence service in ukraine, is very good at intercepting these things. they are good at what we are doing now, getting the intelligence out there quickly to show people what's going on. it is unconfirmed. there is a possibility, although i think it is relatively low, that the ukrainians are making all of this stuff up. i think these conversations are actually going on. even more disturbing is what's going on in the conversations. you have russian soldiers and their immediate commanders, go ahead and kill people, go ahead and kill civilians. it shouldn't be that much of surprise because we have seen the leveling of mariupol, including the killing of innocents, and the destruction of non-military targets. when you hear this stuff in black approximate white about orders being given, go ahead and kill whoever you need to, it's pretty chilling. . >> yeah. listen. echoes of nor 'em burg. >> investigators looking into the polssibility of a murder-suicide. in my experience of covering russia, when for instance journalists fall off balconies or opposition leaders are poisoned or things like that, it's not by accident. when you see these deaths, what do you think? >> you know, it's easy for those of us in the west to say perhaps these are big conspiracy theories. perhaps they died natural deaths. the problem is whenever you get somebody who speaks out against the russian government, whether it's an oligarch or someone inside russia like navalny, or any of the people the russians have try to kill outside russia, you begin to see this pattern of the russian government going after critics regardless of whether they're inside russia, which makes it easier, or even outside. we remember the man living in great britain and the subject of an assassination attempt. they are uncomfortable with what's going on. they start speaking out against russia. then these things start to happen, which serves putin's cause, which is to put a damper on these types of people. >> yeah. look at the list. skip ol', yushchenko poisoned, former prison, navalny. steve hall, thank you for helping us connect the dots. >> sure. the u.s. pledges another round of military aid. american trained fighter pilot who goes by the name "juice" will join "new day" to tell us about his fight, there he is, about the russians. back in the u.s., house minority leader kevin mccarthy is caughlling it a lie. but listen to the tape. >> the discussion i had with him is i think this will pass, and it would be my recommendation you resign. um, she's eating the rocketet. ♪ lunchables! built to be eaten. obviously, we got termites. well, first thing is, you gotta know what they're bitin' on. whoa, yeah! this aged birchwood is perfect for the big ones this time of year. ho-ho! they gobble it up like a cdy bar. nice. woman: what's going on? 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>> yeah. it's the numbers. that's why we need something more, something new. we are just trying to hold the line, just to defend our cities and at the jets during strike missions, et cetera. >> have you had encounters in recent days with russian military jets, encounters in the air? >> we have several a day, intercepting them, trying to engage them. unfortunately it's almost unreal to engage them effectively at the moment because -- still because of technology. so we are just trying to push them from our areas, from our front line, their bombers from their attack aircraft and helicopters. (inaudible). it's very difficult and very dangerous. . >> yeah. there's been a lot of debate, as you know, and hesitation by the u.s. and nato to send more aircraft directly to ukraine. they have sent now more spare parts, which we're told gets 20 more aircraft up into the sky there. but do you have enough care craft? do you need more? >> unfortunately, it is not enough to change the game in the air. actually, it's -- of course it's helpful to maintain more soviet jets here. but as i mentioned earlier, it is just prevention of some number of strikes. it is not real air superiority. we have some jets fixed by spares. it could be some damaged aircraft after some operations here. it's not a great number. it is just something to maintain our resistance in the air. but not to win, absolutely not to win. that's why we need much more jets. and now i can tell you that not only is the number of soviet jets, we need some advanced technologies. we need some advanced western jets to win this battle in the air. >> you know, early on at the beginning of this the prediction was that russia would own the airspace immediately. that no ukrainian jets would be able to fly. are you amazed, proud, that two months in you're still flying? >> yeah, absolutely. and i just am happy that i'm alive. so i think it's great that our air force and our ground air defense stim keeping almost all areas of our peaceful regions and front line safe. unfortunately, we couldn't tell the same about our eastern region and south regions. we are not able to to help these people, to help citizens of mariupol and other cities like kharkiv and mykolaiv. >> i know. it must be difficult to watch. ukrainian air force pilot that goes by the name "juice." thank you and be safe. >> thank you. amazing to be able to speak to someone like that in the midst of this war. back in the u.s., what new audio further reveals about house minority leader kevin mccarthy's plans to ask then president trump to resign following the capitol attack. he said it was a lie. the audio makes that a lie plus, just in congressman liz cheney responds to the tape. i don't just play someone brainy on tv - i'm an actual neuroscientist. and i love the science behind neuriva plus. unlike ordinary memory supplements, neuriva plus fuels six key indicatotors of brain performan. more brain performance? yes, please! neuriva. think bigger. ♪ baby got back by sir mix-a-lot ♪ unlimited cashback match... only from discover. if your moderate to severe crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis symptoms are stopping you in your tracks... choose stelara® from the start... and move toward relief after the first dose... with injections every two months. stelara® may increase your risk of infections, some serious, and cancer. before treatment, get tested for tb. tell your doctor if you have an infection, flu-like symptoms, sores, new skin growths, have had cancer, or if you need a vaccine. pres, a rare, potentially fatal brain condition, may be possible. some serious allergic reactions and lung inflammation can occur. feel unstoppable. ask your doctor how lasting remission can start with stelara®. janssen can help you explore cost support options. i brought in ensure max protein, with thirty grams of protein. those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks! 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pwhaeupbg i'm going to do is i'm going to call him. the only discussion i had with him is i think this will pass, and it would be my recommendation you should resign. that would be my take, but i don't think he will take it. but i don't know. cnn has reached out for comment, has not heard back at this point in time. let's talk about this now with kasie hunt, chief national affairs analyst and jeffrey tooker, cnn chief legal analyst. here he is pretty much caught in a lie. >> i am very interested to see how kevin mccarthy responds. to my knowledge, he still has not. and i think that will determine kind of what happens next here. he denied this when it was written in the book and published and now we have the receipts. we have the audio. we heard him on tape saying it. look, i covered these events in realtime. brianna, you know how conversations work here in washington. you have to make commitments to your sources how you will handle your material. i don't think this audio comes as any surprise to anyone who covered this in a contemporaneous way. we all saw what kevin mccarthy was saying in public initially. and now we are able to hear one of the times he was talking about this in private. i imagine there are a lot of people around town who heard similar things from kevin mccarthy in that particular moment. and i think there's a lot of nuance and texture added by jonathan martin and alex burns to this account of history. >> jeffrey, what do you think? >> well, i guess my interest is in the big picture here, which is look at what has happened to the republican party. kevin mccarthy's view at the time was very widely shared that this was a terrible even and president trump was responsible for it. now kevin mccarthy and the entire republican party is willing to gravel in front of president trump, begging for his endorsement, begging for his forgiveness for saying how outrageous january 6th was. just look at how different the republican party is today and look at how powerful donald trump is. that is the real message to me out of this whole controversy. >> also, liz cheney's office has responded to this mccarthy tape saying the select committee asked mick mccarthy to speak with us about these events but so far declined. representative cheney did not record or leak the tape and does not know how the reporters got it. i think the reason is because he would get himself in trouble. or he doesn't want to be caught telling the truth. >> well, again, the january 6th committee has gone from something all of congress wanted to do to something that all trump supporters are basic live boycotting in one way or another, with a few important exceptions. there is no political costs as far as i can tell within the republican party to telling the january 6th committee to go to hell. and that's what kevin mccarthy is doing. i assume he will continue to stonewall the committee. this is what donald trump wants. donald trump is back in charge of the republican party now. and the committee is viewed as his opposition. so mccarthy is going to continue to do trump's bidding, as he has almost since the day of that tape. >> kevin mccarthy, more than anything in the world, wants to be the speaker of the house. and everything he does can be explained through that lens of trying to maintain power. that's why he tried to put his finger in the wind and go where where he thought things were going in the wake of january 6th. that's also why he changed his tune. there is also a big difference between the kevin mccarthy that talks to corporate donors behind the scenes where he basically makes arguments saying i will stand up to the trump wing. but he is saying he will be marjorie taylor greene back on committees if he becomes speaker. i think this is going to help determine what happens next and whether he does in fact, become speaker of the house. big question who if not kevin mccarthy. if trump were to pull his support for kevin somic kaerbgt as speaker, that would be a huge impact on mccarthy's future. >> he has an odd wrens of one. but many people who follow that one. totally separate, i do want to ask you about an interview you had yesterday with anthony fauci at a time where i think a lot of people of parents with children under 5 and cannot get a vaccine. what's the delay. . >> pfizer was thinking that it was going to be a two-dose vaccine for the children. two-dose vaccine may be okay in the delta variant. but omicron, as it continues to evolve, at least at the dose pfizer uses, will be a three-dose virus for a vaccine. now, you have moderna, which comes in with a bit of a higher dose who are looking at two doses there. and what the fda wants to do is to get it so we don't confuse people to say this is the dose, this is the dose regimen for children within that age group 6 months to 5 years. >> if it was approved, why can't we have it in may? 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>> it's unclear. and you've got to take mr. putin's words, you know, skeptically, brianna. they made this big show yesterday of him saying he wasn't going to go into that plant and try to eradicate the people that are there. actions, not words. i think we have to watch and see what the russians actually do here. what we would tell you this morning, we still assess mariupol is contested, that it hasn't been taking by the russians and there is still an active ukraine yann resistance. so they continue to fight for that city. . >> we are hearing, john, of these audio recordings that the ukrainians have intercepted of russian troops talking how they are killing prisoners of war. are you confident they are authentic and is the u.s. working with ukraine to verify them? . >> we have not been able to verify those recordings. certainly we are aware of that. i would just tell you broadly speaking, brianna, we continue to get indications through information channels as well as intelligence that the russians have not solved their leadership challenges. they have not solved their command and control challenges. they have not been able to get unit cohesion even down at the tactical level. they are still struggling with a force almost half conscripts. they weren't properly trained for the kind of missions the russian military is trying to make them do. clearly we continue to see intelligence that they continue to commit atrocities and war crimes on the ukrainian people. >> so the new leadership has not affected change in your view? >> we have not seen demonstrable changes by the new general they have put in charge. we think they did this because they wanted to address command and control and operational maneuver challenges. it remains to be seen. it is too soon. we have not assessed they have fixed all of those problems. as a matter of fact, brianna, we continue to see them struggling with logistics and sustainment even as they try to improve that in the donbas. we continue to see them try to address their integration of air and ground forces, which was dismal in the early weeks of this campaign. they appear to be trying to fix that kind of integration going forward. but, again, we wouldn't assess they have solved all their problems. . >> do you know how many russian troops right now are in eastern ukraine in the donbas and thereabouts? >> we have a sense. it's easily in the tens of thousands. probably more than about 80 battalion tactical groups are phau in the east and in the south. we have a bit of a sense of where they are had he and what they're doing. but, again, the ukrainians have a much better view of that than we do. >> we have talked a bit about the "moskva". "the times" of london is now reporting that an american p-8 poseidon told the ukrainians where the "moskva" was. we asked about this yesterday. you noticeably did not deny this at the press briefing yesterday. are there concerns that the russians will not distinguish between targeting information and direct involvement? >> i very clearly denied that the p8 gave information on that ship. . >> you are saying it did not provide targeting information? . >> that aircraft is one of many american aircraft continue to go nato air policing missions. that includes in the black sea region. i were won't get into more operational details what the aircraft are doing exactly. i can tell you that aircraft was not providing intelligence data to the ukrainians to help them in any sort of attack they might be doing in the maritime environment. . >> were any u.s. planes or other assets? >> i know of no other aircraft other than the one we're talking about operating in the southern black sea. all part of missions we have been doing for several weeks. >> i did not fully understand that from the briefing. so thank you so much for clearing that up for us, john. we do appreciate you being with us. thank you. >> you bet, brianna. we have breaking news this morning. we're getting word that a suspect has been declared in the case of british toddler madeleine mccann. she went missing 15 years ago from her plus, it is a midterm race that could decide the balance of the senate. the three democrats hoping to flip pennsylvania's republican seat are facing off. see what happened. but first, president biden marking earth day today by signing a new executive order aimed at protecting m ing ameri forests. adopting new policies to protect old growth forests and trees against threats like wildfires. ready to style in just one step? introducing new tresemme one step stylers. five professional benefits. one simple step. totally effortless. styling has never been easier. tresemme. do it with style. 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"new day" continues right now. good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. it is friday, april 22nd. i'm brianna keilar in washington, with jim sciutto in lviv, ukraine. we're beginning with breaking news. mariupol is close to a catastrophe. that is how the owner of the azovstal steel plant is describing the situation on the ground right now. food, water, ammunition growing more scarce by the hour. men, women and children, hundreds of them, still hiding inside of the plant, with no agreement on evacuation corridors out of mariupol. that is mostly because the ukrainians fear and rightfully so that those routes will be attacked by russian forces. they have so many times before. this morning, these disturbing satellite images revealing rows of mass graves. russian soldiers accused of dumping the bodies of countless victims into ditches to cover their crimes. there are more than 200 new graves that we're seeing in these new pictures. >> the mayor of mariupol, he tells us it is evidence of war crimes. he told me earlier this morning the death toll now in mariupol by his estimates, 20,000 people. you will hear that interview in just a moment. it is a remarkable eyewitness account. and u.n. human rights officers just announced they have documented the unlawful killing now of approximately 50 people in bucha, including some by summary execution. meanwhile, president biden says the war is now entering a critical window. he announced a new $800 million ukraine weapons package. that's the second $800 million package in just over a week. this new one includes heavy artillery, howitzers, and drones, gives you a sense of what kind of war they're expecting in the east. president zelenskyy told the world bank his country will need $7 billion a month just to make up for the economic losses of this war. that's, of course, beyond all the human losses. in eastern ukraine, the russian military trying to make advances overnight. there was heavy fighting

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