satellite images appear to show mass graves outside of mariupol. an adviser to the mayor there says they do in fact show mass graves. but cnn cannot independently verify those claims. the discovery happening as the heavy fighting continues in the long besieged port city. an estimated 100,000 people, soldiers and civilians, still trapped. one small boy praying for a miracle. >> translator: i want to see the sun so when our houses are rebuilt, we can live in peace, we can live in ukraine, because this is our native home. and another humanitarian corridor opening in mariupol as civilians desperately try to escape the fighting. russia capturing dozens of small towns in the east. but uk officials say russians have not made any major gains in the last 24 hours. this as russia reveals its end game in the invasion. top military officials saying they plan to take full control over southern ukraine and the eastern donbas region. let's bring in scott mcclain who is in lviv. what can you tell us about these photos that appear to show mass graves? >> reporter: yeah, these pictures were taken in a village far to the east of mariupol. about 10 miles or so. and they show -- this is an existing cemetery. they show trenches that have been freshly dug. the earth has been freshly moved and there are 40, 45 yards in width and several rows of them. as you mentioned, cnn can't confirm what these are, but the mayor's office is saying that these are, in fact, mass graves and it is not the first time that we've seen this. just a few days ago, there were separate set of satellite images. these were to the west of the city this time, again, in a cemetery. but very freshly dug graves in very long rows. these about 80, 90 yards long. individual graves had been dug out. perhaps 200 of them. officials in mariupol, they say that the death toll is -- could number 20,000, though, in reality, there's no way to tally the scale of the human cost of this siege on that city just yet. frederica? >> scott, there's an evacuation corridor that is supposed to be open today. what are you learning about those possibilities? >> reporter: yeah, keyword "supposed to." these things are hit and miss when it comes to the corridors. this particular corridor was announced by the ukrainians. it was supposed to head to zaporizhzhia. but ukrainian officials are warning that the russians may try to push people in the opposite direction. they have not had very much success as of late in terms of getting people out of the city. the starting point for this humanitarian corridor, if people do manage to find it, is at a mall on the western edge of the city. that is a long way from the steel plant where the ukrainian troops are having their last stand and where there are women and children sherltering underneath that facility and new video showing just how deep people are underground. the children there, who as you played in that clip earlier, haven't seen the sunshine in two months now. it's a desire situation. the russians are waiting for them to run out of food and people will eventually have to come to the surface. the difficulty, frederica, for the people who may want to get on these humanitarian corridors, they're only allowing women and children, is that they're difficult to find because there's no communications in the city. i've spoken to people who managed to get out of mariupol but they went through russia and the reason that they said they did that is because, well, they had no other choice. they went with what they had heard in terms of rumors, their instincts, just trying to find any way of the city. at the end of the day beggars could not be choosers. >> and there was more shelling overnight. how is this reflecting this new phase of this war that's targeting the southern portion of the country? >> no casualties in mykolayiv. there have been injuries reported over the last 48 hours in that city. there's been strikes elsewhere many in the eastern part of the country and the missile strikes in odesa as well. officials locally are saying they hit residential infrastructure saying that one person was burned alive in their car. and so you mentioned this new phase of the war. phase two that the russians say began a few days ago. the goal, according to a military commander is to fully be in control of the eastern part of the country, the donbas region, and also the southern part of ukraine, along the black sea as well. that's significant because that would extend the land bridge that russia already has which connects russia to crimea and it would go all the way to moldova. they would like to link up with the separatist part of moldova. that's not going over well with the moldova people. they said that they're a neutral country, independent country, and their borders ought to be respected. >> all right, scott mcclain, thank you so much, from lviv. many civilians have been forced to flee as russia intensifies its campaign in eastern ukraine and for those desperate to escape, it's almost impossible to avoid coming under fire. but one brave ukrainian is willing to face that danger and risk his life to help them evacuate. more now from cnn's clarissa ward. >> it's a road few are willing to take anymore. every day, this volunteer makes the dangerous drive towards russian forces in his hometown to rescue fellow residents from the heavy fighting. they shell everything, he tells us. school buses, the red cross, anything that moves. >> reporter: why do you do this work? i love my town and i can't leave it, he says. i can't leave the people here. somebody needs to help people. he's hoping the rain provides some letup in the relentless artillery. it's better for us, but it's worse for the road, he says. you can't see the potholes and the shrapnel from the shells. he arrives on the outskirts of the city. in the last few days it has come under heavy shelling. this man is being evacuated with his son. the neighbor shouts at us to show what the russians have done. those who stay here are now completely cut off from basic services. there's no electricity here, no water at all and you can see they're actually collecting rain water. it's time for these two to go. their entire life now packed into the trunk of alexander's car. leaving the village, we spot a house destroyed by shelling. as we get out to take a closer look, a tearful person emerges. she tells us it happened two days earlier. the first hit was at 5:50 and there was a second hit, she says, and that hit my garage. she takes us around what remains of her home. the steady thuds of artillery can still be heard. the roof is completely destroyed. this is where the first shell hit, she says. she had just woken up and lying in her bed when it happened. we have nothing left, she says. in the living room, she takes down the drapes that were hung to hide any light. this is how we tried to mask ourselves, she tells us. there's no need for them anymore. she and her husband still don't want to leave their home, but she understands that russia's offensive here has only just begun and it's going to get much worse. i lived until 60 and now i have lost everything, she says. honestly, i have no words. for those like the people who do leave, there are few good options. alexander takes them to a dormitory in a nearby town. they can stay five days for free. after that, it's up to them. in the next door bed, another couple rescued by alexander tell us there is nothing left of their home. but they don't blame president putin. thank you, america, she says. it's a horror. it's a nightmare. it's interesting, she's saying that she thinks russia actually wanted to negotiate here and she blames america, primarily, for this war. putin wants to find a peaceful solution, her husband tells us. please don't tell this bullshit to the whole world, alexander says. it's not an uncommon view in these parts of eastern ukraine, making the situation here all the more complex. alexander says he evacuates anyone, whatever their political views. he knows there are still so many out there who need his help. clarissa ward, cnn, ukraine. >> and for more information about how you can help humanitarian efforts in ukraine, go to cnn.com/impact. still ahead, new court documents reveal former president trump's chief of staff mark meadows was warned that january 6th could turn violent. those details next. plus, florida governor ron desantis going after disney, signing a bill into law that strips the company of their special tax status. but the financial impact may fall on the residents of neighboring cities. we'll discuss, straight ahead. lactaid is 100% real milk, just without the lactose. tastes great in our iced coffees too. which makes waking up at 5 a.m. to milk thcows a little easier. 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did anyone know this was going to get out of hand? did anyone plan for any violence and now as you mentioned there is testimony from a former meadows aide. she sat down with the committee twice in february and march and she testified two big things that meadows was warned about potential violence and that meadows was told that that wild, ridiculous plan to have mike pence throw the election to donald trump at the last minute, that it wasn't legally sound. yet they went ahead and did it anyway. they tried at least. >> potentially incriminating. >> well, there's a long way to go before that. but this is not helpful to the trump white house. >> not helpful at all. you're in town. so glad that you're here. also in town, congresswoman marjorie taylor greene who was testifying. you were helping to cover that. you were sitting right in earshot distance of it all. how striking is this? >> it's a big deal. it felt like a circus yesterday. over eight hours in a courtroom just down the street here in atlanta. but this is about january 6th and accountability. some groups have tried to throw marjorie taylor greene off the ballot, remove here from the ballot based off the argument that she's ineligible to run because of her role in the insurrection. the big question, again, did she know about plans for violence? that was one of the first questions that she was asked under oath on the witness stand. take a listen at what she had to say. >> prior to january 6th, representative greene, did anyone ever mention to you the possibility that there might be violence in washington on january 6th, 2021? >> i don't remember. >> so it's possible that folks told you, things could get violent in washington on january 6th, right? >> i was a brand-new member of congress. i don't remember those conversations. but i would hope nancy pelosi and those in charge of the capitol were taking the capitol security very seriously. >> my question is just about whether anybody at all ever mentioned to you the possibility of violence. >> so a lot of i don't knows -- >> her amnesia is striking. >> right. especially about some of her own things. they kept showing her videos and posts that she posted on facebook and twitter and she said, i don't know, i have no idea. but it was part of a theme yesterday, fred, about trying to distance herself from what happened on january 6th while also amazingly still pushing some of the same conspiracy theories that fueled january 6th. stuff about alleged fraud in 2020 which we know did not change the outcome. listen to what she said still holding tight to some of those pro-trump conspiracies. >> you believed that joe biden had lost the election to mr. trump, right? >> well, yes. we saw tremendous amount of voter fraud. we have investigations going on right now in the state of georgia. there's investigations going on in multiple states. >> do you believe the fbi was behind the january 6th violence at the capitol? >> i don't know. i certainly think there's a lot to be investigated. >> yeah. she thinks -- you know, it's ridi ridiculous. obviously, the fbi didn't do it. now we're all just going to have to sit and wait for the judge. he will issue a recommendation on the question of whether she's an insurrectionist and whether she should be disfqualified. >> there are other members of congress who will be watching this very closely because they have to also exam what their level of participation may have been before during and after january 6th as well as the former president, in terms of whether they would be able to run again. >> absolutely. there's a challenge in north carolina against madison cawthorn. there are other things pending in arizona against a few members there. but, of course, these liberal groups and constitutional scholars who have funded this, they've got their eye on the big prize, donald trump, you can expect a challenge. and they'll have more evidence against someone like donald trump than they did against congresswoman greene who kind of was on the sides where donald trump was right in the white house calling the shots. >> we'll see if amnesia is contagious. >> we'll see. good to see you. >> thank you. >> and especially in person. welcome to atlanta. florida governor ron desantis is stripping disney of its special tax status. what this means not only for disney but for taxpayers in the community surrounding the park next. life... doesn't stop for diabetes. be ready for every moment, with glucerna. it's the number one doctor recommended brand that is scientifically designed to help manage your blood sugar. live every moment. glucerna. we hit the bike trails every weekend shinges doesn't care. i grow all my own vegetables shingles doesn't care. we've still got the best moves you've ever seen good for you, but shingles doesn't care. because 1 in 3 people will get shingles, you need protection. but, no matter how healthy you feel, your immune system declines as you age increasing your risk for getting shingles. so, what can protect you? 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democratic lawmakers have said that that money would be passed onto taxpayers. the other bill that dealt with disney did away with an exception that the company had on people who might be suing big tech companies. the governor was in south florida on friday to sign all of these measures into law and he kept up his criticism of disney. >> you're a corporation based in burbank, california, and you're going to attack the parents of my state? we view that as a provocation and we're going to fight back against that. >> reporter: so the move to end disney's special district doesn't go into effect until june of 2023, meaning there is some time for both sides to hammer out a new agreement, including just how the debt is going to be handled. the governor also signed another bill that deals with new restrictions being put in place for businesses and schools when it comes to talking about the issues of race and gender and a lawsuit against that measure was also filed on friday. >> all right, carlos suarez, thank you so much for that. let's talk more about the disney effect here. here with us now, the tax collector for orange county, florida, which encompasses most of the disney world properties, scott randolph. so good to see you. so this is pretty complicated. thank you so much. so this is pretty complicated, isn't it? this move to strip disney of its special tax designation happened very quickly. but now we're learning it could shift a tax burden into local governments. so how will orange county make up for that? >> well, that's a good question. look, normally disney is a huge contributor to the republican party here in florida. if tallahassee and disney want to get into a fight, i would sit back and pop some popcorn and watch them go at it. i represent 1.4 million people in orange county who might be stuck with $163 million a year tax bill. on day one, when that special taxing district gets resolved, one side of the ledger is going to say zero and the other side is going to say negative 163 million. orange county residents are going to have to find a way to make that up. >> do you think the governor overlooked that little detail? >> well, that's what happens when you change, you know, a massive regulatory structure in 72 hours. >> so help us understand what costs or services did disney pick up with this self-governing status? >> disney gets a special tax break or they're not paying their property taxes. disney pays the same property taxes that everybody else does in orange county. they pay their school taxes, they paid $40 million a year to orange county government last year, and then on top of that, they paid property taxes to that special district in order to provide services around the disney properties, like firefighting services. every time somebody had a car accident or a medical incident, think about the millions of people who visit disney every year, road maintenance, flood control. they have their own power plant, waste water, drinking water facilities. all of that debt and obligation goes over to orange county the minute that it is dissolved. there's no extra tax money that comes with that. one side of the ledger will say zero and the other side is going to say negative 163 million. >> two things, will the services, residents, can they expect those services change and the second to that is, how much more are they going to have to shell out in order to receive those services that disney used to be paying for? >> well, exactly. look, orange county government only has a few cards to be able to play to make that money up, right? they can't do a new taxing district because most of that land is in an incorporated part of the county, they can't do special taxes or special fees on disney to make that money up. so orange county, you know, we have a great mayor, a great team over there, i'm sure they'll do everything they can, but at the end of the day, you know, again, it's going to be zero versus 163 million. orange county residents, if that gets passed along as property tax increases, you're probably looking at a 20 to 25% property tax increase for the average resident. >> wow. that's huge. >> if you're a business in orange county -- it could be 250, $300 a year, every year. this is an annual, ongoing cost. that's for a homeowner. if you run a business in orange county, you could be looking at thousands of dollars. the irony is, we have universal parks and sea world and ironically, they could be paying tens of thousands of dollars more per year to pay off disney debt. >> let's talk about that disney outstanding debt. it's substantial, right? somewhere around a billion dollars. how will that be absorbed into all of this? >> exactly. i've seen anywhere from a billion to 2 billion. i don't think anybody knows the actual amount. it operates just like a municipal. they bond it out to build roads, to build the drinking water facility, to build fire stations, those types of things, typical government bonds. all that comes over to orange county. all that is really known for sure is they -- it requires about $58 million a year in bond payments. that's what they collect in order to service that debt. so orange county would immediately have to find $58 million a year in order just to service that debt. >> so we just reported, you know, we have -- when i say we, i mean floridians. you have until, what, june of 2023 to work out any potential new agreement that may have come as a result of the signing of this. what kind of changes do you see are likely to happen before this were to take effect? especially now that people may be hearing this for the first time in this conversation from you. >> yeah. i mean, again, orange county's hands are tied. there's only so many -- they have just a few cards to play. so any changes that would come would have to come from tallahassee. so, you know, tallahassee, just sort of gave -- >> not from orange county -- >> not really from orange county. orange county's options are to try to find maybe some revenue from obviously selling water or -- back to disney or power back to disney. that's not going to cover 163 million, right? their only other card is property taxes which they would have to do across the board. so significant changes would have to come from tallahassee which is where all of this began at. so will tallahassee fix it? the implementation date is a year away. what has this done for the business climate? even if they undo this, why if you are a fortune 500 company thinking about investing somewhere, why would you come to a state that changed the regulatory instruction in a 72-hour time period. >> scott, i'm no psychologist, but i'm detecting in your occasional snickering, it's not that it's funny, it's almost like exs aasperation that i'm seeing from you? >> that's right. again, it's like, you can't make policy like this in 27 hours. maybe reedy creek had outlived its usefulness. but you need to look at the -- at the ledger that says zero on one side and negative 163 million before you start making these big changes like that. and now you've stuck orange county with really an impossible task of making that money up. >> the last thing anybody wants to do right now is spend more money, right? or get a bigger bill for anything. >> that's exactly right. yeah. >> all right -- >> and disney -- >> go ahead. sorry. we got a delay. sorry. i sometimes step on you. >> sorry. and disney was talking about moving 2,000 more jobs here from california. i've got to think disney may reconsider that initiative. >> i bet a lot of rethinking is going on. scott randolph, thank you so much. we'll be right back. rofessional. a cfp® professional can help you build a complete financial plan. visit letsmamakeaplan.org to find your cfp® professional. ♪ let's go on the open road with a safe stay! now get double best western rewards points on every stay. and with rewards points that never expire, now get double best western reyou get free nights fast!y. book now at bestwestern.com. 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>> well, putin has been surrounded for years now by nationalistic, right-wing figures and clerics and priests in the russian orthodox church, including the patriarch who has a long history -- to put it gently, being comfortable with the security services and state power. was this the putin of 20 years ago? hard to say. i think he misses the soviet union, but that nostalgia for the soviet period has translated into this notion goated on by the people around him that he can restore something bigger than the soviet union. he can put the russian world back together under orthodox christianity. and i think he genuinely believes it now. >> and how did we get here? how did he get to this point? he didn't appear to publicly strengthen his ties until his third term in office. what was the catalyst for this change that you just, you know, stated which really does solidify his power base? >> yeah, that's a great question, frederica, and i'm not sure. i think part of it dovetailed with his personal interests of staying in power forever. once he decided to go for that third term, like any gangster boss, he decided he was safer in power. guys like him don't retire, they end up in jail or dead. and i think that was a decision that was made easier by having the church say, your rule is a miracle of god and you deserve to stay in power. but i also think when the soviet dream finally ebbed away and it took years, there was a vacuum in both putin's regime and russian society that had to be filled with something else. and i think this has reared its head in this kind of horrific synergy with soviet imperialism and what i on a personal level consider to be the hijacking and utter grievance maligning of orthodoxy as the source of a war. >> is it less about his belief and more about the rhetoric and how this is part of the brainwashing mechanism to lead people to believe that his intentions are all, you know, based in religion and that he's carrying out god's work. >> you know, at some point, it doesn't matter anymore. one of my favorite lines from a great writer, we are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. and i think that after enough years with enough people around you, in the bubble that putin lives in, and that public has only gotten worse during covid where he's been in isolation, i think it's easy to believe that your interests, the interests of the state and the interests of god himself are in unison and you're doing the right think. and the inability of the people around him to sway him on any of this, if they tried at all, really i think testified to that. >> and then what's the explanation of the head of the russian orthodox church who is willing to call putin a miracle of god? what's behind that? >> yeah. you know, it's always been ambition. he likes the good life. the russian orthodox church had to walk back that he walks around wearing $30,000 watches. this is an appetite for power and an internal feud in the orthodox church. a few years ago, the ukrainian orthodox church split away from the moscow's control and he was furious about that. and so he's acting like any other member of the russian imperialist leadership. the fact that he happens to be a pooe priest doesn't change the fact that he's part of the leadership team that literally has blessed this war. >> willing to be bought, willing to be prefersuaded by gifts or money. >> it's not just being bought. it's that he's a powerful man. he enjoys being a powerful man. he doesn't like that the other orthodox in ukraine have broken away from moscow's control. and i think he believes what putin believes, that the russians have a destiny to control the orthodox world. there's no tension between opportunism and deeply held beliefs in this case. both of those things are at work here. >> if putin is able to use religious has, you know, an aspect in starting the war, might that also be the gateway of potentially ending it? >> one would hope. but i think it actually makes it more difficult to end it without some sense of a victory. if you begin a war believing that you are actually doing something that has existential importance, i mean it would almost be easier to end this war if putin was making a land grab or trying to control gas and oil or coal. you can negotiate with someone like that. i think it's going to make it more difficult for him to climb down after all of this soaring rhetoric about, you know, the slovic world, it's happening. the russians have been toning down the rhetoric even while they're amping up the violence. but i think part of the reason that world leaders have found him difficult to talk to about this and several have -- the austrian chancellor has come away saying you can't talk to this guy. that's part of the reason. this kind of existential belief in his mission is partly what is making this war so difficult to negotiate russia's way out of. >> all right. tom nichols, thank you so much. good to talk to you. >> thank you. still ahead, police found multiple guns inside the apartment of the shooting suspect who wounded four people in what they're calling a sniper-type shooting in d.c. details next. you're probably thinking that these two are in some sort of lover's quarrel. no, no, no. ey're both invested... in green energy. and also eacother. digitatools so impressive, you just can't stop. what wld you like the power to do? 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