would like to take this opportunity to speak directly to the american people. inflation is much too high, and we understand the hardship it is causing, and we're moving expeditiously to bring it back down. we have both the tools we need and the resolve that it will take to restore price stability on behalf of american families and businesses. >> also today, president biden is touting a record reduction in the federal budget deficit. he also promised to keep paying down long-term government debt. cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins joining us. so inflation is a concern for this administration. why the focus on the deficit today? >> because really the president wants to push back on the criticism of his handling of the economy, and so he believes that today he can showcase his plan to address these concerns about inflation by talking about paying down the national debt something the president says is happening for the first time in six years. he knows that inflation is the number one concern for so many americans, and so the president was saying today that basically they can make this argument. they can try to reduce the national deficit, and he believes that is going to help address those inflationary pressures, which of course, victor, we know have been building for months but the president today largely attributing to the war in ukraine, driving up gas prices, as well as grocery prices. the president said this is going to be a way, the plan going forward is going to look like, and how that's going to affect americans, and pushing back on criticism he's getting from republicans. >> all the talk about the deficit from my republican friends, i love it. i reduced it $350 billion in my first year in office. and we're on track to reduce it by the end of september by another $1,500,000,000,000. the largest drop ever. i don't want to hear republicans talk about deficits and their ultra maga agenda. i want to hear about fairness. i want to hear about decency. i want to hear about helping ordinary people. the bottom line is that for decades, the trickle down economics has failed. >> reporter: and of course, victor, as you know, we have seen such an emphasis on the leaked opinion from the supreme court talking about what this is going to do to animate voters, democratic voters ahead of the midterms. you did hear from joe manchin today saying he believes inflation is going to be the number one thing driving people to the polls and helping them make their decisions, which party they're going to be voting for this fall. still a major concern obviously at the white house with president biden addressing that today. of course this comes, the president was speaking just hours before the federal reserve announced that they were going to be raising these interest rates half a point, half a percentage point. of course the biggest raise they have seen since the year 2000 in 22 years, victor. >> senator manchin says follow the money. kaitlan collins at the white house. let's move to the war in ukraine. ukrainian forces seem to have retaken another village in the northern region. troops are plant ago flag in the village of moldova, 13 miles from the russian border. cnn's sam kiley is nearby in eastern ukraine. ukrainian counter offensive appears to be getting closer to the russian border. >> reporter: well, victor, i think that a counter offensive in one area is matched by an offensive by the russians in another. where i am in kramatorsk, relatively close to here, about 20 kilometers, 25 kilometers north of here, there's a ferocious fight going on. this is a back and forward fight in the east, and mostly involving the use of long range and relatively long range artillery. it's a vicious and bloody fight, one that rarely sees the infantry engagement in and around kharkiv. there have been ukrainian successes there, possibly because the russians are focusing their attention on trying to push to this city where i am in kramatorsk and also of course they're also concentrating their efforts more to the east. today suffering some catastrophic levels of civilian casualties. we're not exactly sure of the numbers but across the region, local authorities say 21 civilians have been killed, victor, so it's a very complex and daily ebb and flow of this fight continues, victor. >> there's a new convoy of buses of civilians from mariupol, on its way to zaporizhzhia, what do you know about the evacuations specifically at the steel plant? >> well, still to understand, not least because the russians have been accused of a very intensive campaign to try to dislodge the remaining azof battalion and other marines, alongside what the ukrainians are saying is several hundred, they says civilians trapped among them, 30 children according to the ukrainian authorities. they have been heavily bombarded from the air, from the sea, and of course from land. and there have been attempts to assault it. now, the ukrainians are saying that after a sustained period in which they were unable to communicate with the forces in that steel plant, they have now renewed communications but the commander there desperately calling for more civilian evacu evacuations, which as we all know have been extremely fraught and slow, and difficult to pull off from mariupol city, let alone from the steel plant. the ukrainians accusing the russians of moving civilians into their own territory, subjecting them to filtration, the removal of the men folk, and moving them deep inside russian terr territory. that's something that's difficult to verify. >> that's an important update that the ukrainians have been able to reestablish communications with that steel plant. also getting reports of russians targeting the infrastructure there in ukraine, specifically railways, just talk about the effectiveness of that strategy as they try to keep these nato weapons from reaching ukrainian fi fighters. >> that's absolutely key to the russian campaign. and if you look at it, really, the ukrainians have held the russians at bay. yes, they've enjoyed some incremental successes here and there and the massacre effectively and destruction of cities like mariupol, and large areas of kharkiv. the russians have been held up, as far as the ukrainians are concerned, they are desperate for these long range artillery pieces in particular, coming from the united states, from germany, and from the united kingdom, and elsewhere because they believe particularly with the radar that they come with, that can intercept incoming artillery, they can turn the battle against the russians. how are they going to get all of this equipment here. that is principally by train and road, and that is why the russians have been hitting these targets in particular, the train lines but also the electrical supplies to those lines, victor. >> sam kiley with the latest reporting from kramatorsk, thank you so much. meanwhile, the european union is proposing a 6th round of sanctions against the kremlin, including a ban on all russian oil imports by the end of the year. let's sucdiscuss now with richa haass, the propose from the eu commission president, and can they get there. we have discussed how heavily europe relies on russian energy imports. that may even be as rnic robertson tells us a cut out, a get out for slovakia and hungary. >> the question of whether authentic do it, some will find it more difficult than others. they have to find alternative sources that can sometimes be expensive on the so-called spot market. the real question is what significance it will have not necessarily vis-a-vis europe but russia. will this inflict real pain and the short answer is probably not. the russians can and will find other places to sell their oil to. india has been buying a lot of russian oil, potentially china, lots of the rest of the world needs it. oil and coal can be substituted. the wonky word is fungible. the significant energy source is gas, and that's much more limited in your ability to substitute. and europe is not willing to do anything meaningful there. that means hundreds of millions of dollars go to russia every day. >> the proposal extends beyond just the ban on oil. the eu commission president xi also suggests removing russia's largest banks, the swift system, the international payment system we have discussed. is this a bigger deal than the oil ban? >> again, this is incrementalism. all going in the right direction. we shouldn't kid yourselves. none of these sanctions is going to make a fundamental difference in russian behavior, in russian capacity. it's not a criticism. it's simply an observation. but it's not going to in any way determine the trajectory of this conflict. >> yeah. so when the president said today that he is open to more sanctions, and you talk about incr incrementalism, i'm sure there's people that wonder why are there sanctions available if we've watched for the last several months the atrocities in bucha, in mariupol, across the country, why hasn't the whole kitchen sink been thrown in. >> the biggest thing left in the kitchen sink to strain the metaphor, victor, is gas. if russia can't sell gas to europe, it would lose hundreds and hundreds of millions a day, and that gas can't go anywhere else because the pipelines don't exist to anywhere else so that's the area that would really make an appreciable measurable difference but europe is not willing to do it for the simple reason they don't have substitutes and if they were to shut off russian gas, european economies, in particular, germany's economy, the largest in europe would contract significantly, maybe between 5 and 10%. that is the one big remaining sanction that would make a difference. it's not yet on the table. >> let's talk about may 9th, coming up on monday, victory day, important day certainly on the russian calendar, the day they celebrate defeating the nazis in 1945, u.s. western analysts have said there's an expectation on that day that russia could declare war on ukraine. the kremlin now says that is not going to happen on victory day, on may 9th. are you expecting any moment, any punctuation on that day from russia related to ukraine? >> it's a bit of a dilemma for the russians, if they highlight things, you know, you have to highlight the reality that the situation on the ground is not going terribly well from russia's point of view, but i think your word punctuation is about right. i would be surprised if we didn't see certain kinds of rhetoric in a package that russia is being threatened here. russia against nato, against the united states, against the west, what mr. putin wants to do is have the average russian essentially get on board, and see this as a necessary war rather than a war of choice. so i expect at a minimum, the rhetoric will go in that direction, and once again, try to paint russia as the victim rather than the aggressor. >> speaking of rhetoric, there's something you tweeted out that i have been waiting to ask you about. you say that it's time for the administration, calm down, i'm not coming for you, it's something that the administration needs to walk back that the defense secretary said that the goal is to see russia weakened militarily. you think it's time for the administration to walk that back, why? >> russia is being weakened as a result of the war. don't get me wrong. to set that up as a goal, that's not the goal that nato signed up for. certainly not germany, not a lot of other countries. they signed up to defend ukraine, to basically deal with this as a limited problem. to say your goal is to weaken russia, that expands your war range significantly, and that's also the kind of war range that potentially puts mr. putin in a corner where he could lash out against nato or conceivably escalate the chemical and nuclear weapons. that's a unilateral statement by the secretary of defense. i'm not even sure victor represents the administration. this was not a carefully orchestrated change in u.s. strategy, but it's part and parcel a more aggressive use of rhetoric by this administration, at times by the president, here by the secretary of defense, and i don't think it's been carefully calibrated, let me put it that way. >> we have seen some inconsistency in the administration. the use of war crimes, genocide, whether it's personal or official. this may be one of them. richard haass, always good to have you, sir. thank you. it's not just abortion, president biden is warning other rights will be at risk if this leaked supreme court opinion holds up. and vice president harris has a message for republican leaders, how dare you. what do democrats plan to do? 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what are the next things that are going to be attacked? because this maga crowd is really the most extreme political organization that's existed in american history. in recent american history. >> joining me now, cnn supreme court reporter ariane de vogue, so the issue now is abortion because of this leaked draft but you've spoken with advocates for other rights who are concerned similar to what we heard from the president. >> that's right. because alito in this draft opinion, he tries to wall off overruling roe from other decisions that may share some of the same legal reasonings, may be based in privacy, base instead liberty. as alito says roe is different because abortion has to do with taking potential life, but the experts that i've talked to, they say that you can't wall it off reading this draft opinion, and they think that other opinions are? y jeopardy, opinions, for instance, having to do with the right to contraception, the right to marry somebody of a different race, the right to marry a same-sex partner. they think that those decisions would be in jeopardy with this draft opinion, and they point to what alito says because at one point he says, look, abortion isn't in the constitution, roe v. wade, that's one reason it has to be overturned, and at another point, he puts through this kind of test to suggest that for a right to be sustained, it has to be rooted in text or history. well, if you look at some of these cases i mentioned, there would be an argument that maybe they weren't, so lower court judges are going to look at whatever the final opinion is and it might be this draft opinion, and they will be able to pull out words that are written in it that could go toward bringing down these decisions. and you know that these challenges are coming because even in this particular case, there's a friend of the court brief written by a lawyer. he urged the supreme court to overturn roe and, he said, once you do that, you should over turn obegerfelt, he called that as lawless as roe and that's why the leaked draft decision has shown powerful implications. >> ariane de vogue with the latest reporting. let's take that to democratic senator tina smith of minnesota who once worked at planned parenthood. senator, thanks for being back with me. i want to pick up where ariane left off. do you believe genuinely that this court will overturn, let's say, loving v. virginia, and outlaw interracial marriage. do you believe that's possible in this court? >> thank you, victor, it's great to be with you again, and i think the question that everyone is asking themselves and the reason why people are so angry right now is that the fundamentals of how we thought about the supreme court seem to be a bit thrown out by the window that the draft opinion that justice alito has written. as we just heard, if abortion isn't mentioned in the constitution, then it isn't a fundamental right. it isn't guaranteed by the constitution, but you could say that about a lot of what we deal with and live with in modern life. there's certainly nothing in the constitution that says, you know, has anything to say about whether people of different races can marry one another. the thing about it is that this is a story that we have heard before in our country's history where you say, no, we're not going to protect these rights at the federal level. we're going to send it back for states to figure out. it's the old states rights argument which meant that here at the federal level we were ignoring abrogating our responsibility to protect fundamental civil rights, and i think that's why it's so concerning and why people are so angry right now. >> the question is what do you do next. you tweeted the supreme court is going to overturn roe, it's time to organize. obviously the goal for pro choice democrats and some republicans is to protect a woman's right to choose. but organized to do what, to do get there. what's this middle act, middle change, that you are organizing or want to organize, to protect those rights. >> there's two things, i'm a progressive, i'm a realist, and i can count, and i understand that we do not have the votes in the united states senate right now, particularly with the 60 vote super majority to pass a law making roe v. wade, the law of the land, that the supreme court is going to refuse to uphold the constitutional protection. what do we do, we do what we always do, go back out, organize voters, turn people out to vote. we know that a majority of americans agree. a majority of americans do not want to see roe v. wade overturned and it becomes a galvanizing issue, i believe, and the midterm elections just coming coming up, and that's the work we have to do. that's how a democracy has to work. >> you said it would be galvanizing the head of the house campaign committee, the central choice of the 2022 elections. we heard from the majority leader there in the senate, chuck schumer who says republicans will pay consequences. i want you to listen to your colleague, joe manchin on what he thinks will be the top issue in 2022 in november. >> inflation is the number one driving factor, i believe, in my state. r right now it's hurting everybody. >> do you think this roe v. wade issue will be an issue, do you think it will be the main issue in the election. >> it's always been, follow the money. >> where do you think, do you think inflation will lead as the driving issue or a woman's right to choose? >> what i think is voters are not, you have to look at the whole person, you have to talk to all of the issues people have in their minds, if you want to communicate with them effectively, not only during an election but all of the time you're in elected office. of course inflation is a really important issue. of course the cost of precipitation drugs is a big issue. of course access to health care is a big issue, and i believe also that choice is a very important issue, and it comes down to the most american of ideas, freedom and autonomy over our own bodies, so i think that people risk making a mistake if they only think about voters as being a single issue. they've got a lot of things on their plate, and i think this is going to be a very big one as we approach these elections, and an issue that is going to really have a galvanizing turnout, impact. and that's what we need, right, we need as many people as possible to turn out and vote. >> senator, let me ask you about the corporate response. we saw disney, the ceo there spoke out against the don't say gay bill in florida. delt delta opposed the voting rights, and restriction law in georgia. you supported the milwaukee bucks in 2020 when they demanded a special session in minnesota for policing reform, supported their boycott. do you want to see corporations step out, speak out on this issue? >> well, this is an interesting and complicated question, right, because corporations are acting in their enlightened self-interest if they know what they're customers and their employees, and even when their shareholders want, then they're going to be speaking out in favor of those issues. i think the actions of these big corporations speaking out in favor of guy rights, for example, shows that they are in touch with what matters to americans, and what people have on their minds, and i have to also say let's understand that the path that we have been on with overturning roe v. wade is the result of a decade's long strategy, fueled by big dark money organizations. order to overturn roe and pack the court with extreme right wing justices. you have to look at what people say, big corporations say, and where they put their money, and what impact that has on the policies that we see coming out of the congress and what we see coming out of the supreme court. >> tina smith, always good to have you on. thank you for your time. >> thank you, thanks, victor. right in the middle of his last or his set last night, dave chappelle was rushed on stage by a man armed with a knife and a fake gun. cnn's rachel crane was near the front row when it happened, and she's going to tell us all about it. your shipping manager left to “find themself.” leaving you lost. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. indeed instant match instantly delivers quality cdidates matching your job description. visit indeed.com/he (vo) when it comes to safety, who has more iihs top safety pick plus awards— the highest level of safety you can earn? 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>> well, i think that's what russia is attempting to do, victor, but so far they haven't been very successful in doing that. if you were again to overlay a map of all the major roads, the minor road, and some of the railroad intersections in the western part of ukraine, there's certainly a lot more of those than there are in the eastern part of ukraine, so once they get through those various transfer point, they can get to the ukrainian forces. but the critical point is, yeah, russia is attempting to target them. it's a lot easier to target stationary buildings or railroad lines than it is to target moving convoys of supplies and equipment. they have not been very successful, and in fact, the defense minister of ukraine recently said that no nato supply lines, supplies, not supply lines, have been hit yet. >> makes sense to go after what is stationary than what is moving. that's simple physics. let's talk about ukrainian advances potentially maybe pushing back some russian forces in a town south of yuzum, showing which part of the country we're focusing on. newly released video of ukrainian strikes military vehicles in that town. we don't know exactly when this attack happened, general, but what does this signal to you? this is one of the videos, let me play the other one here. >> well, victor, truthfully i have been watching a lot of these kinds of video being given by the people and some of the folks from within ukraine, and this is frequent. the ukrainian effectiveness in firing artillery and firing javelin missiles and anti-tank systems at these kind of convoys has been ubiquitous since the start of the campaign. but in the east, where we're seeing the fight now, in critical junctures, the russians are attempting to conduct reconnaissance and force with some types of large maneuver companies or units, not so much the battalion tactical groups we have heard so much about, but smaller units than that. and what we have seen is ukrainian artillery, and anti-tank strikes have been highly effective, extremely effective in terms of their capability, and their precision, which reflects the training the ukraini ukra ukrainian forces have gone through. the russians on the other hand, have been horrible in terms of hitting precision targets with their artillery and their missile. they certainly are covering wide areas burt they're not hitting lot of targets. i give the advantage once again to the ukrainians based on their training and leadership and their ability to know their home turf which they're fighting on. >> lieutenant general mark hurtling, thank you for the insight, sir. actress amber heard is testifying in the defamation trial against her ex-husband, her emotional testimony, next. we need to reduce plastic waste in the environment. that's why at america's beverage companies, our bottles are made to be re-made. not all astic is the same. we're carefully designing our bottles to be 100% recyclable, including e caps. they're collected d separated from other plastics, so they can be turned back into material that we use to make new bottles. that completes the circle and reduces plastic waste. please help us get every bottle back. godaddy payments offers fast and secure payments for customers at the lowest transaction fees. so you can keep more of the money you make and continue to grow your business. if you've got it, we've got you. start today at godaddy.com/payments re-entering data that employees could enter themselves? 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>> we listened to him for four days in which he said he has never struck a woman, amber heard, for her part, she's been speaking for two hours and she paints a very different picture. she describes it as a flirty friendship that quickly escalated into what she describes as a whirlwind romance, marked by velvety sort of sickly sweet romantic gestures, as she describes them, and then she says it turned dark and violent. on the stand, she describes the first time she says johnny depp hit her. >> that simple. i just laughed because i thought he was joking. and he slapped me across the face. and i laughed. i laughed because i -- i didn't know what else to do. i thought this must be a joke. this must be a joke. because i'm -- i didn't know what was going on. i just stared at him. kind of laughing still. thinking that he was going to start laughing too, to tell me it was a joke, but he didn't. he said, you think it's so funny. you think it's funny, bitch. you think you're a funny bitch and he slapped me again. like, it was clear it wasn't a joke anymore. i didn't want to leave him. i didn't want this to be the reality. i didn't want to have the man i was in love with, i know you don't come back from that. you know, i'm not dumb. i know you can't hit a woman. you can't hit a man. you can't hit anyone. you can't just hit somebody because they -- i knew there was -- i knew it was wrong. and i knew that i had to leave him. and that's what broke my heart. because i didn't want to leave him. i thought if i could get out of that room, that would be the best thing that ever happened to me. >> heard said the two did reconcile soon after that but the violent episodes only escalated and continued. >> compelling testimony. is this expected to go on for as long as depp's testimony? 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