the president also wants a legislative package to seize property from russian oligarchs and putin's enablers. >> this could ensure when the oligarchs' assets are sold out of, funds can be used directly helping with the harm russia caused in ukraine. >> a short time ago nato's secretary general predicted this war could go on for months or years. for people living in the area, the attacks seem relentless. >> basement. let's get into the basement. >> a cnn crew scrambles for safety as russian forces intensify their attacks in eastern and southern ukraine. this morning the u.n. secretary general visited a mass grave. this is in bucha. and then he had meetings with ukrainian president zelenskyy. let's go straight to cnn's scott mclain in lviv. what can you tell us about that meeting? >> hey, we understand that president zelenskyy did meet with the u.n. secretary general, and they are holding a press conference that's either happening now or due to begin soon. and we're just waiting for any kind of meaningful information to come from that press conference. so far we have gotten very little information. but something to watch for, of course, is that the u.n. secretary general would like to come out of this meeting with something tangible. he left moscow on tuesday with at least an agreement in principle from the russian president to try to work with the united nations and the red cross and the ukrainians to facilitate evacuations of civilians trapped in mariupol, including those trapped under the steel plant. troops in mariupol have been warning about the situation, saying that some 600 troops are wounded. and then, of course, there are hundreds of civilians they say trapped there as well. and they're warning that people will die. simple as that, if something isn't brokered, if things don't change. and change in a hurry. the mariupol mayor says conditions in his city are medieval. so medieval that he's worried about the spread of diseases like cholera, dysentery, e. coli because of the awful sanitation conditions and because of the bodies that have been uncollected and now the rising temperatures in the city as well. and so gutierrez said previously he would like to have a situation between the russians and the ukrainians where neither side can blame the other for what happens. we'll see if he can make that happen. >> and yet, this is not an equal footing that we're talking about in terms of who is at fault here. we all know that it was an unprovoked invasion. scott, i understand you also have new reporting out of the southern city of kherson. what have you learned? >> that's right. the ukrainians have acknowledged that around the city of kherson, this important southern city, that the russians have made some modest territorial gains in the direction of mykolaiv. it's a strategic city in the southern part of the country if the russians were able to control that city, then they could finally move west toward odesa or potentially they could move back up toward kyiv where they have, of course, previously retreated from. what's most interesting is what's happening with the local government. the russians have taken over control to the point where they announced starting this sunday, they'll begin a transition phase to start using the russian ruble and start to phase out the ukrainian currency that is obviously in use for a long time there. there's also been the strikes, russian state media is blaming these overnight strikes on ukraine, saying that they were aim at the tv broadcast facility. that makes sense, considering that russian channels are the only ones available. now, in that city, and it seems like the russians are doing everything they can to wipe out the ukrainian identity and turn this city effectively into a part of russia. so much so that they're even, according to ukrainian officials there, they're even threatening educators in that city. essentially, demanding that they turn over educational equipment, educational materials to russian troops. this is something that the american ambassador to the ose warned about earlier, saying that the united states believes that this kind of thing that we've -- that we've seeing happen in kherson is going to happen in other cities. also warning of the sham referendums we've seen back in 2014 of citizens supposedly voting to join russia. >> scott mclain, thank you for your courageous reporting. stay safe there. joining us now is matt miller, the special adviser for the white house national security council. thank you for taking the time. president bide announced he's asking congress for another $33 billion in funding for ukraine. how does this move the needle in the battle? >> well, as you knoted, we have been floating security assistance to ukraine that started before the invasion and we've accelerated it to account for the shifting front and the battle that we expect to dominate in the weeks and months to come, the battle in the east as russia as failed in kyiv and prepared to launch an attack in the donbas. what this ask, the president is sending to congress today is for the next set of equipment, for the next set of armor, the next set of artillery, the next set of defenses we can get in the ukrainians hands so they can continue to defend their country and try to repel the russian attack across the border. >> how long do you expect that to last? once it does get into ukraine? >> well, i will say that this request is to cover the next five months. it's through the end of the fiscal year. there was a $3 billion bill congress passed a couple months ago, and we got that assistance into the country as quickly as we possibly could. the pentagon moved it really at a record pace. and if congress acts quickly to grant us this new tranche of funding, we will do the same thing to get security assistance into ukraine, into the hands of the ukrainian military as quickly as we can. but this funding package is also designed to set them up for the long hall. this is to supply the ukrainian military for the next several months in a fight we believe could go on for a long time. >> months, years even. today the u.n. secretary general is meeting with president zelenskyy in ukraine. yesterday he said the war in ukraine will continue until russia decides to end it. and that this war will not end with meetings. at this point, do you think these meetings are actually accomplishing anything? >> look, we are supportive of any of our allies and partners trying to reach a diplomatic solution as long as it's a diplomatic solution that's coordinated with the ukrainians. we made clear it's the ukrainians fighting to defend their country. they need to be at the forefront of any diplomatic negotiations. they've had talks -- it seems clear today that russia is not interested in a diplomatic solution. while they do carry on talks from time to time, those seem to be a fig leaf to give cover to renewed military offenses. what we will do is continue to pursue the strategy we put in place from the beginning. number one, to get security assistance into the hands of the ukrainians to repel the russian army. and number two, to enact severe economic measures, sanctions, export controls, to put pressure on the russian economy, and weaken their ability to project power into ukraine and abroad. we believe that that two-part strategy is the best thing we can do to strengthen the ukrainian's hands on the battle field and. >> now we're learning germany and austria, some of russia's biggest natural gas customers in europe may accept putin's payment terms. so isn't this a win now for putin? did his strategy to get europe to sort of fall into line work? >> you know, i think we'll wait to see what actually happens. the bulgarians and the poland have both been firm in rejecting russian demands. we've seen the european union say they're not going to pay in rubles either. i think we'll wait and see how this develops. what i'll say is the united states has been clear. we've been a leader in this forefront in banning the imports of russian oil and russian gas. at the same time, we recognize our partners in europe are in a different situation. they're much more again dependent on foreign imports. we've tried to accelerate the delivery of liquid natural gas from the united states to europe to lessen their dependence on russian oil and gas in the short-term while we try to break their dependence over the long-teem. that's not something that can happen overnight. >> some territories in eastern ukraine have fallen to russian forces in recent days. we heard about how kherson is running into russian currency. we've seen the atrocities in places like bucha, the horrific reporting out of mariupol. what's the administration's assessment right now of how this war is going for ukraine? >> so i will say that russia has failed in its overall objectives. you've seen them retreat because they failed. let's not forget two months ago the russian objective was clear. their plan was to rush into ukraine, take control of the country possibly as quickly as within a month to topple the zelenskyy government, and to control, if not all, most of ukrainian territory. they've failed in that objective and withdrawn. clearly they are preparing for a new offensive. what we should expect to see is that the russians will win tactical battles. they may move the line of contact forward and it may move back as the ukrainian's counterattack. this holds the potential to be a war that goes on for some time. what we can do is couldn't to support the ukrainian people and couldn't to support the ukrainian military. we're confident russia will fail long-term, and we're going to support the ukraine yans for as long as it takes. >> there was a discussion on russian state tv around the possibility that this war ends with a nuclear strike. and one of the hosts basically said that is likely, but that russians, quote, will go to heaven while others, quote, croak. matt, it sounds like they are preparing russians for the possibility of nuclear war. and trying to convince russians that that is acceptable. what do you make of this? >> look, from the beginning you've seen extremely hiyper pollic rhetoric. i'll speak to the statements that have come of the of the russian government. they have made what we consider to be dangerous and unacceptable statements about the possibility of nuclear war. we have continued to encourage them to deescalate their rhetoric and speak as a responsible nuclear power. what i will say is we have made clear from the beginning when russia takes -- we have been clear from the beginning that there will be consequences for all of russia's actions. president biden made clear if russia did launch this war, we would respond and respond forcefully. we've made clear if they launched an attack on nato territory, we would defend nato territory. we hope the russians will deescalate their rhetoric and stop behaving ir responsefully, but we'll prepare for every scenario and defend the united states and our allies and partners as is required. >> quickly, if you will, if the russian state tv is considered putin's puppet, is that what he's thinking? 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>> it might not be. another thing dr. fauci said recently is he wants pfizer and moderna possibly to be reviewed together. pfizer hasn't officially filed, applied for an eua. that might take time. >> elizabeth cohen, as always, thank you. >> thanks. the u.s. economy just took a bigger than expected hit. for the first three months of this year, economic activity declined at an annual rate of 1.4%. that is worse than what analysts predicted. it is the weakst showing since the pandemic started pummelling the economy two years ago. let's get to matt eagan. matt, worse than expected but it's not like anyone was expecting a really great first quarter. right? >> that's right. we knew a slowdown was coming. this block buster growth from last year, 6 % plus, that was just not sustainable. what we didn't anticipate was an outright contraction, but that's what we got. this was an ugly report. no doubt. the headline. but i think when you two under the hood, you can see it was driven by temporary factors that masked underlying strength. a couple factors here. omicron shut down. bids and covid relief expired. businesses didn't build as much inventory. government spending declined. the big one is trade. imports spiked, and that actually was the biggest decline, the biggest negativeof gdp, but consumer spending, the biggest driver of the u.s. economy. it accelerated. in business investment, up 9.2 %. that is a very strong number. so that's why we shouldn't panic about this. it likely does not signal an imminent recession. >> so important perspective. context there. and it sounds like there's still optimism for spring and summer. >> absolutely. there is an expectation that the economy is going to resume growing. the spring and summer the next couple quarters, there's a couple positive factors. we're learning to live with covid each successive wave of the virus is doing less damage to the economy. that means more traveling which is expected to pick up consumer spending. it's also healthy. we have to see if it continues because of high inflation, but we do expect the unemployment rate to keep coming down. look at this. 3 .6% today. that is down dramatically from 15 % two years ago. actually, if we go much lower, we'll take out the precovid lows. that is a really big positive. and i think that the big question is what is the economy look like a year from now? 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>> look, we've got to get it in there. it's needed and is going to be. more is going to be needed later. this battle in donbas is -- it may be slow, and uneven progress by the russians, but they've got tremendous mass behind what they're doing. they have reorganized their forces. there's about 120 kilometer gap between the north and south ventures. as that closes at the rate of three, four, five clkilometers day, at any point there could be a breakthrough, and you're going to have a terrible dilemma. ukrainians are going to have to pull out of the prepared positions at the nose of the salient and race for the bridges, or they're going to get encircled. and then that's its own problem. so we've got significant military challenge facing us within the next few days. maybe get two weeks. that equipment that was announced last week, it's not going to be there by then. this is a really critical time. >> we were watching closely. thank you for laying it out and painting the picture. the u.n. secretary general said the war will only end when russia decides to end it. do you agree? >> well, i would defer all the military issues to general clark who is also a great diplomacy everything. my concern is the humanitarian assistance going into ukraine. i know the secretary of the u.n. is there, or has been there. and that's really important. that's really important. to food assistance, refugee assistance, and this, ana, is where the u.n. is good. the u.n. has not been responsive on the security council because of the veto power of china and russia, but where the u.n., humanitarian assistance, especially if this is going to drag on militarily for a while, and that's what the secretary general of the nato is saying, and i think wes is saying, general clark, so my main concern is humanitarian assistance. effectively going in to the ukraine. >> we can all appreciate that. ambassador, nobody seems to be swaying putin, and you do have so much experience with high level talks. so i wonder, do you think anyone has the power to get russia to stop? >> well, look, i think that what is needed is some kind of intervention, diplomatic intervention. china can make a difference. india can make a difference. i would like to see the pope with his moral influence. i would like to see a special envoy by the united nations. somebody that can come in and talk to both sides. it's obvious that the u.s. and nato, ukraine and russia, are right now in enormous differences. but i was hopeful, ana, when we were able to get trevor reed out, private efforts like my foundation, the biden administration. russia is talking at least on humanitarian grounds, on a very deserving american marine that needs to get out, that got out, that's home. so that's a little ray of hope, a little good news that happened yesterday. >> so how do you explain the attacks on the evacuation routes for innocent civilians in ukraine when it comes to russia's willingness to do good on this one level of negotiating over the release of trevor reed, for example, but then there seem, you know, cut throat when it comes to the slightest bit of kindness to the ukrainian people? >> this is the u.n. can make a difference, the humanitarian corridors are desperately needed, and you're right, it hasn't happened. but this is where u.n. intervention can help. the general assembly, the various entities that the u.n., the refugee agencies. the humanitarian agencies, the world food program. i think moral authority is where the international community at the u.n. and the u.n. secretary general, the most pressing humanitarian need are these opening of the humanitarian corridors. and that's not happening. what i'm saying is that the u.n. can make a difference to make this happen. and the secretary general of the u.n. is a very able guy, and i'm hoping that that's his main agenda as he's meeting with the ukrainian government. >> general clark, u.s. intelligence -- please, go ahead. >> yes. i was going to come in on what the question was, because i was -- i have greatest respect for the secretary general of u.n. i know him. but the statement he's released is actually a very dangerous thing for him to be wishing. if you could stop russia right now and say freeze, a lot of people would be very happy. but you would be rewarding aggression. this is a country who has threatened nuclear war, done an unprovoked attack, taken half the territory of ukraine including the most valuable part of ukraine in the south, and if the war would simply stop and stop everything right now, and let's just talk about it, unless russia pulls out, we've accepted a great breach of the entire rules-based international system which we've lived under for 70 years. so we need to give support to ukraine. they need to drive russia out and then we get a peace agreement that maybe we can live with. >> there's also the war crimes issue. right? general clark, u.s. intel leaders say they have evidence that ukrainians were killed execution style, tortured, raped. today a ukraine yan prosecutor named ten russian soldiers, named them, suspected of crimes like this in bucha. the soldiers named were of various ranks, four privates, four corporals, two privates. your thoughts on ukraine now identifying the soldiers and their various ranks? >> i think it's very important they do to identified and publicized. this is what i'm saying. it's not just about -- as much as we all want to stop the killing, it's not just about stopping the killing. this is an attack on the global system as general milley said a couple days ago on cnn. there are huge issues at stake here, including the war crimes issue. if you just stop the killing, do we really think that russia is going to say okay, you can have the soldiers and bring the trial? of course not. they're going to deny it. so this is all wrapped up in this enormously complex problem. in the whole post war era, we've never had a nuclear armed state deliberately, unprovoked launch an attack on a neighbor like this with the intent of eradicating the country. so we've got to do more than stop the killing. we've got to stop the process that enables a nuclear arms state to invade a neighbor and try to destroy it. >> ambassador, final thought? >> well, look, i think the general has been very accurate. now, again, i think there's more we can do to help the people of ukraine. humanitarian-wise. the corridors. food. medical assistance. refugees. and here's where i think the international community through the united nations can make a difference. i know the situation is very dire. but i also think it's important that we focus on paul whalen, an american marine still in detention in russia, and brittney griner who is there also, the basketball player, and you can't forget those issues too. we have to bring our hostages home, and that requires a discussion, a negotiation with the russians as we did with trevor reed. that's what i'm concentrating on. so that's a reason i'm not expounding on the expertise of my good friend, general clark. because i have to deal with the russians on some of these issues, and so there's many other entities that are trying to get these two individuals released. >> i can appreciate that. and i think we can all rejoice on the release of trevor reed and the good work you did as well as others who were involved in that. thank you so much for what you did there. your efforts and for joining us today. ambassador and general, as always, i appreciate you both. since putin's invasion began, countries around the world have been going after super rich russians. sanctioning their yachts, their homes, vast fortunes. but something else is mysterious going on here. some of these high level citizens have been found dead. this is... ♪ thiss iowa. we just haven't been properly introduced. say hello to the place where lling hills meets low bills. where our fields, inside and out, are always growing. and where the fun is just getting started. this is iowa. so, when are you coming to see us? 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[ speaking foreign language ] >> this is a true vietnamese family style meal. >> and joining us now is the host of "nomad" carlton mccoy. >> thank you for having me. >> that looks delicious. it looks like you were having fun, and i'm looking forward to seeing more. people get to know you more. you grew up in southeast washington d.c., and you learned to cook at your grandmother's house, and straight out of high school you got a scholarship to the culinary institute of america, and then you've since become only the second african american to get this prestigious title of master samolia. how did that prepare you? >> i think i was raised with a deep admiration, respect for food culture, and as my career allowed me the resources to travel, that became a really easy way to enter people's culture and open people up to explore the way they lived. and coming from southeast d.c., a pretty impoverishes part of our culture in our country, this is all new to me, and it's sort of within me built an appetite for learning how people lived in the world, and how different it was from the world that i grew up in. and since then i've just been doing that. just trying to explore these sort of cultural pillars in the way in which people interact. >> i always think about food being a source of comfort. >> yeah. >> you know, something that's nurturing, and something that connects. even though there's such vast differences in vultures and types of food. right? >> it's one of these things, if you go to a place and people see that you admire and respect their food culture and you know enough about it, they open their doors up to you and their hearts. and they'll connect to you like family. i mean, how many meals i've had in people's homes at their table when i don't even speak the same language, but we connect over the meal because it's something that i think on the human level, we can all connect to and understand. >> so we showed that clip out of paris. >> yeah. >> a little outside of paris. tell us a little bit more about what we might see in that episode or what you want people to take away from it. >> that scene i was just watching, it made me smile. it was unexpectedly, it's a pure story of that family. that family is multigenerational. she came as a refugee from vietnam and built this home for a family in the outskirts of paris. and that's what we want to explore. i've spent a lot of time in paris. we started to realize that the demographic makeup of paris has changed dramatically over the last 20 years and it doesn't discount what currently exists there. people still walk around with gaggettes and braids, but there's another part of the culture that we wanted to explore, and to put on the stage for people to see. a lot of that, that culture is being brought in from a lot of immigrant groups that are now parisians. >> you're opening our minds and our stomachs. thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> catch the series premier of "nomad" sunday night at 10:00 p.m. medicare s supplement insurane plan from unitedhealthcare and get help protecting yourself from the out-of-pocket costs medicacare doesn't pay. because the time to prepare is before you go on medicare. don't wait. get started today. call unitedhealthcare for your free decision guide. .. those other hotels. i'm what you call "boutique". i'm into intimate conversations, leather lounge chairs and soaking up the cities atmosphere. i'm looking to pvide a more unique experience. do you like single origin coffee over a game of chess? 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