power grid across ukraine today. the strike such as this one which nearly hit a pedestrian bridge also in kyiv came during the morning commute. that bridge, by the way, is clearly not a military target. i've been there. it's a tourist attraction, the place you might go for a stroll on a weekend with friends. this isn't a military target either. it is a playground in a city park. several missiles landed here and nearby at a busy intersection outside a museum. authorities say at least five people were killed in the city and 11 nationwide. lvil was also hit so was kharkiv and cities running south where this video was taken . >> the attack, the largest since the beginning of the invasion came days after a massive explosion damaged the bridge connecting russia to occupied crimea. something ukraine welcomed but did not claim responsibility for. president biden condemned the russian strikes promising continued support. using what they've got on hand ukrainian forces say they shot down 43 cruise missiles and 13 of the 24 russian attack drones also fired at them. [ speaking non-english ] >> in a moment my conversation with alana gnas who spent the early weeks of the war in a shelter and back there again tonight. what are things like in the capital, fred? >> reporter: hi there, anderson. it's eerily quiet but i think it's pretty tense as well. one of the things that we've been hearing is that the authorities here do fear there could be additional strikes happening possibly in the overnight hours, and, of course, as you said possibly in the morning hours of tomorrow once again, certainly there's very few people here in ukraine who believe this was it as far as those massive russian strikes were concerned and, you know, if you look at this morning, for instance, it really was a rude awakening for the ukrainian capital. they haven't seen strikes on this scale and of this magnitude for a very long time, several months now and we were on the street in one location where we were reporting on a strike that had just happened, there were a bunch of cars on fire, bodies in the street and as we were doing that we were hearing additional explosions taking place from more rockets fired by the russians and that were landing in the ukrainian capital and it really was an eerie feeling for us and everybody on the ground there and one of the things that the authorities kept telling us is they say that the people here in kyiv and, of course, in other big cities, as well, this was a nationwide thing that took place, they urged them to stay indoors, to shelter in place. it was a beautiful day here, today in kyiv. there was sunshine, there was absolutely no one out on the streets, people are heeding those warnings. people obviously going into metro stations to shelter there and, you know, it's something where i think that the people here, they're not necessarily in panic but certainly are very concerned that you could see a big escalation on the part of the russians that could take a heavy toll on the ukrainian capital as well, anderson. >> what have ukrainian officials been saying about the attacks? >> reporter: well, the ukrainian officials have been -- i spoke to many today and they said they are absolutely defiant in the face of all this. i spoke to the mayor of kyiv, vitali klitschko. he said people will band together and will want to become stronger in defending ukraine. he doesn't think people will be brought down by this. it was quite interesting because the ukrainian president, volodymyr zelenskyy, visited one of the sites that was hit earlier today and he did that in the evening hours, really just a couple of hours before we went to air here right now and he said that the ukrainians are working on getting services back up and going. power failures this a lot of cities but said that he believes the russians are doing this not just because they were humiliated by the bridge to crimea, but also because they're losing on the battlefield and says he believes that the only answer that ukraine can give at this point in time is by making it more difficult for the russians on the battlefield so certainly the ukrainians are saying they're not going to let up. if anything, they're going to become stronger because of this. >> fred pleitgen, thank you. today's reminder what vladimir putin can inflict on civilians even as russian troops flee their counterparts on the battlefield. that said it is hard to imagine what today was like for people who had managed to fashion at least a measure of normal life in wartime over the last several months only to have it taken away. alana gnas and her three children who come on the broadcast often documents her life on youtube. her channel is called what is ukraine and posted this earlier today. >> there was an air raid siren in the morning which basically i ignored because every day, every night and no attacks on kyiv for a long time, for months, and i even had this awful feeling of fear, hands trembling. when your mouth is dry, when it's hard to breathe but it's here again because just like an hour ago something -- there were explosions in kyiv and the missiles hit the very center of the city and there were dead people and injured. and people who are driving to work, who were driving to school, taking their kids to school who had taken their kids to the dentist, which i planned to do but i had to drive a little bit later, thank god we were not riding at this time in this place. >> that was alana shortly after the attack. we spoke before air time tonight. alana, thank you so much for joining us. i'm so glad you and your family are safe. i know you're joining us from the basement of a building. can you talk about what's going on? what you've been seeing and hearing and where you are? >> well, i woke up in the morning. they said good morning and explosions followed. we heard them clearly even though they were in and out of the neighborhood. i was about to take my kids to the dentist. the same road that was bombed actually but we didn't. this is why we are safe in life. that's the main thing for us personally. we are in the bomb shelter right now in the basement, we will stay here overnight till morning just in case, but most of people are back home sleeping in their apartment. >> the last time we spoke you talked about how you moved back into your apartment and you talked about how the extra fear as you called it was not with you anymore. you described that extra fear as being kind of with you when you're breathing, made you feel thirsty all the time back when the war was in kyiv itself every single day that you sort of regained the illusion of a normal life. do you still feel that? >> it can be lost easily when you hear how missile falls near you, yeah, everything is back but what is also back, i'm angry. i'm angry with what is -- because it's still happening to me. the destruction which were caused to kyiv, in fact and to ukraine today, let's be honest, not that many people died, even eight is a big tragedy, yes, not lots of infrastructure was damaged. this will not influence a lot, you know, our life. i don't know, buildings were ruined or whatever, everything will be fixed faster. this is just the terror to provoke maybe panic to scare you guys over the air in other countries or to show to his own people that he is still a bloody tyrant. he will still powerful and look how many people i can -- look at what fireworks we can arrange so i feel very angry with this and many other ukrainians too. we do not feel desperate. yeah, we are angry and we donate more to the army. more people go to the army and we are more sure even than before that ukraine will win and we need it as fast as possible because before and only after we win in this war only after russia is defeated we will have our peace back here. >> you know, the russian bridge the other day that was hit was a bridge that was an important link to crimea for russia, for russian troops, for getting supplies, it was a military target. a number of these bombs, missiles that were fired at ukraine, i understand your favorite playground where your kids play in the center of kyiv was hit. i know a bridge i had been to, a pedestrian bridge, kind of a bicycle bridge, kind of a tourist attraction in central kyiv was also hit. it's kind of remarkable that that is what russia now is striking at as if those are comparable targets in any way. >> yes, yes. it's like -- it could be funny but i mean we bombed a military bridge with which the army was supplied and they bombed -- this is just tourist bridge. i mean, we are romantic couples who used to kiss each other and me with children out for a walk and this is the level of this terrorist and i think the time has come finally to tell that we are not afraid of him, everyone to say that you are a terrorist, yes, to recognize russia as a terrorist state because what russia is doing today is obvious, has nothing to do with success on the battlefield. it's not the war. this is terrorism. this is pure terrorism. the park is especially, you know, personal for me because in this park there is next to the park there is my university where i was a student when i started journalism and this is the place next in the center of the park, the monument and this is the place where my husband told me 15 years ago that he is in love with me and we named our son after that so this is a very personal thing for me so he's just in my heart, you know. >> if my memory serves me correct he told you -- he asked to take a walk with you, didn't he? >> and after the walk basically i took a walk with him to this monument and he said actually he is in love. and he asked can i kiss you and i said, yes. you see, i have three children now. >> and we should say your husband has volunteered to serve. he was defending kyiv and now he's elsewhere. i saw -- i know it's the middle of the night but i know i saw your video, one of the videos you posted on youtube today. you said you wish we would call you not when something terrible always happens but if something beautiful is happening and not just because there's war and you're right and we will try to be better about that, so let me just leave you with something, ask you about something beautiful which is your children and your family and how are they? >> in fact, we are very much looking forward for our daddy to come back home, because one week ago the parliament voted for that fathers, parents of three children can like thank you for your service, you can go home, so we wait for this day. the president already signed. you know, it's funny in russia they mobilize everyone, in ukraine they, you know, set free some people for moral reasons, three children, that is a reason enough to go home, so we are looking forward. one more thing has happened. a week ago my girl who is 8 years old, she has high functioning autism and it became really visible like obvious right now because she is overstressed with everything that's happening around so i'm really looking forward for my husband to come back to the family and i wish all ukrainian soldiers to come back home to their families as soon as possible. >> olena gnes, i wish you and your family the best. thank you for talking to us. >> thank you, anderson. >> coming up next tonight a sitting u.s. senator compares reparations for slavery to money for criminals, kanye west's twitter outburst and a los angeles politician's racist remarks. what is going on? 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if you're a jewish person who is already seeing the rise of anti-semitic incidents, the hate has been heightened. the number of hate crimes against jews and others have reached record highs. when someone with 31 million followers says defcon 3, that is anti-semitism. that is incitement and it's got to go. >> van, what do you make of what kanye west has said and done in just this past week? >> well, it's disgusting, it's embarrassing. it has to be called out, denounced by everybody, black, white and otherwise. you know, this -- it's amazing. black people and jewish people came together in the '60s and linked arms and put, you know, bodies in the ground. people died both black and jewish for the rights that we have right now. and people who don't appreciate that and who want to play to the cheap seats on some of the worst stereotypes against jewish people have to be called out and denounced. it's embarrassing. it's embarrassing. from my -- you don't have to be jewish to call this out. you don't have to be part of the adl to call this out. every single person should say it's wrong. kanye did the white lives matter stunt and offended much of the african americans. there is a standard that we're going to have here and we're not going to put -- you won't have white alabama senators saying all black people are criminals who want reparations on the cheap and nobody says anything. you're not going to have african american celebrities coming out here and attacking jewish people. nobody says anything. you're not going to have latinos in los angeles dividing the black community. all that stuff is just wrong. >> yeah, i mean it shouldn't be up to jewish people to have to speak out about -- everyone -- >>, not, anti-black racism, it's my problem as a white jewish person just as anti-semitic isn't just my problem it's van's problem too as a black christian man. we're all in this together. we've all got to speak out. we've all got to stand up and say this isn't acceptable. social media is a big part of the problem, anderson. i'm someone who has been cautiously optimistic about what elon musk could possibly do, but when he welcomes back, quote, unquote kanye west after he got kicked off instagram for hate and incitement, what message does that send? what is he trying to suggest he's going to do with the company? look, i think what we're seeing today is our society is afflicted with a sickness of hate. you see it in all three of these threads. that's where they come together and as van said we've got to join, lock arms and push back on this once and for all. >> jonathan greenblatt and van jones, thank you. up next how newly released emails blame a government agency for classified documents being in his estate. michael fanone and his outrage directed at kevin mccarthy. my conversation with fanone about his new book coming out. innovation electrified. with apple music seamlessly i integrated. the all-new, all-electric eqs suv from mercedes-benz. hi, susan. honey. yeah. i respect that. but that cough looks pretty bad. try this robitussin honey. the real honey you love, plus the powerful cough relief you need. mind if i root through your trash? robitussin. the only brand with real honeyand elderberry. we desperately need more affordable housing, but san francisco takes longer than anywhere to issue new housing permits. proposition d is the only measure that speeds up construction of affordable new homes by removing bureaucratic roadblocks. while prop e makes it nearly impossible to build more housing. and the supervisors who sponsored e know it. join me, habitat for humanity and the carpenters union in rejecting prop e and supporting prop d to build more affordable housing new evidence that undercuts the claim by the former president that boxes holding classified items at mar-a-lago were packed by government agencies somehow absolving him of any responsibility. so what else do you know about communications between the government services administration which is the government agency we're talking about and the former president's aides. >> reporter: of course, we've seen this claim from trump and his former aides saying gsa packed the boxes so he can't be held accountable for any classified documents in it but what we're seeing in the emails is that gsa officials are clearly relying on trump aides to sort of assess and describe what is in the pallets being shipped to mar-a-lago so, you know, in july 2021 there is an exchange between gsa officials and a trump aide bo harrison where they're asking him to affirm what's in the pallets and in another series of exchanges, gsa officials are outlining, you know, what is and is not allowed to be shipped through them back to florida. now, when we were asking the former president's spokesperson for a comment on this he did not address any of these emails that seemed to refute the explanation the former president put forward. instead he slammed the biden administration saying the democrats are coming up with a new witch-hunt to go after the former president. >> they would need special handling even if they were allowed to be moved, they wouldn't just be packed up like this. what do the emails show about the chaos surrounding the unusual transition? >> well, right, we should note you're still not allowed to take them with you. you're allowed to take up a number of things, but classified documents are not one of them. in this case when the former president was leaving it was obviously very chaotic. he was more focused on trying to overturn the last election than plan for his post-presidency. that planning didn't start until nine days before joe biden's inauguration and these emails show even into july 2021 they're in sort of the last night they can use these transition funds to send boxes to mar-a-lago. there's a flurry of emails to try to make that happen. ultimately it's unsuccessful. they have to find other resources or other resources to do it. that's sort of one example of how chaotic the sort of post-presidency and final hours of the trump presidency were. >> sara murray, i appreciate the update. former d.c. metropolitan police officer michael fanone secretly recorded a meeting with kevin mccarthy six months after the january 6th insurrection. he attended it with u.s. capitol police officer harry dunn who defended the capitol that day and mother of late capitol police officer brian sicknick. they press mccarthy on claims the former president didn't know there was any violence inside the capitol on that day but as you likely remember, testimony to the january 6th committee revealed he did know because he was watching hours of coverage on the violence from the white house. here's what officer fanone recorded from his meeting with mccarthy. >> wasn't watching tv. >> he knew what was going on. he knew what was going on. he knows they were fighting for hours and hours and hours. you know, just doesn't make any sense to me. >> i don't know that he did know that. >> that audio and other moments from that meeting are detailed in michael fanone's new book titled "hold the line: the insurrection and one cop's battle for america's soul" and michael fanone joins us now. i got to say reading in your book the account of this meeting with mccarthy, it was hard not to get very upset just listening to what you were saying, what officer sicknick's mom was saying and the way that kevin mccarthy was trying to essentially eat up the time that he had promised to actually meet with you. did you feel he was being genuine with you? >> no, not at all and i think that, you know, that compounded how angry i was in that meeting, you know, watching him interact with gladys sicknick in such an u unempathetic way. i mean, he really had or displayed no compassion whatsoever for, you know, this woman who had lost her son as a result of the attack on the capitol on january 6th. >> i want to play something else that mccarthy had said in that meeting. >> i was getting the shit kicked out of me almost losing my life. the way that he, you know, saying this is what happens when you steal an election, go home, i love you, what the [ bleep ] is that? that came from the president of the united states. >> obviously you talking to mccarthy. how did he respond to that? >> well, at first i thought it was shocking that, you know, what he was saying was that he was taking credit for having convinced the president to release that and i mean -- >> the i love you video. >> the i love you video. the most disingenuous and i mean that's i think, you know, putting it lightly effort to quell the violence that day by donald trump, and he seemed to think that or at least he was trying to convince us that that was in some way significant and that he was in some way responsible for that. but i mean the meeting itself, there was very little substance, you know, like you said, he was making efforts to kind of run out the clock, he knew that the optics at that point had become so bad that it was, you know, politically disadvantageous for him to continue to, you know, kind of kick the can down the road, so to speak, with regards to a meeting with myself or mrs. sicknick. >> you and mrs. sicknick and -- you were hoping to essentially just and -- you were hoping to get him to agree to really have an investigation into what happened on that day. it's not like you were asking for -- you were asking for just an actual investigation and cooperation from them. >> i mean, i had some pretty clear things i laid out for him in the meeting. i wanted him to take the investigation seriously. i wanted him to appoint serious members, republicans to participate in that investigation, which obviously he did not do. he appointed jim jordan and jim banks who are, you know, what i would refer to as insurrectionist members of the party and he also -- i also asked him to denounce the 21 house republicans that voted against a congressional gold medal acknowledging the efforts of the metropolitan police department, u.s. capitol police that day, he said that he would -- he would, you know, he would do those things privately. i later learned that he had made no efforts whatsoever to contact any of those members, and then i also asked him to denounce the, you know, at that point emerging conspiracy theory regarding the fbi and them somehow having participated in or even orchestrated the january 6th attack as a false flag operation and we saw how that rhetoric later led to violence against the fbi. >> it's interesting, because in the book you write about how -- i mean, by the way, what i hadn't realized is you -- you went to the capitol on your own that day. you heard over your radio, you were on another case, you heard over the radio officers in need and what made you decide to go? >> you're right. i was a metropolitan police officer. this is a different department from the u.s. capitol police. the assignment that i had at the time was a specialized unit. i was working on a narcotics case. i heard the 1033 or calls for assistance coming from many of the officers that were there and also an agency 1033 which is, you know, a call for assistance from the u.s. capitol police. i went there because there were officers that were in need of assistance. there were officers that needed help. that was my, you know, sole function that day was to go and respond to help protect officers and to, you know, fight against this violent onslaught of individuals, americans who were attacking police. >> one of the things you write about in the book is the body camera footage and -- that you were shooting on your body camera and the impact it had on the people who watched it. you said i held on to that video like a security blanket. what was it about watching that footage for you afterward and this is that footage that we're showing. >> i mean i recognize the significance of it. i felt as though, you know, based on the reaction of some -- a few people that had seen it early on, i felt that it was compelling and that it was indisputable evidence of the reality of january 6th. and i felt that if the public had access to this and if these lawmakers who were saying things that were, you know, devoid of reality had access to this maybe at least in some instances it would quell some of those conspiracy theories. >> the thing that is so disturbing to me, i mean, one of the many things so disturbing about your footage and pictures i've seen of you completely surrounded in that mob, people who hate you, not that they know you, just hate you for what you represent is the personal nature of it. i mean, you're all alone in this crowd of people who are free to do and we're seeing the video now, are free to do whatever they want to try to do to you and tase you in the back of the neck. i mean, it is -- it's reprehensible and just stunning and i do think -- i understand you wanting people to see that footage. >> yeah, i mean, i talked about it in my congressional testimony. i was not an impediment to daniel rodriguez or to kyle young or, you know, albuquerque head or thomas sibic. those individuals who took it upon themselves to assault me that day. i wasn't preventing them from doing anything. >> those are the names of the people that assaulted you that day. >> yeah, some of them. and, you know, they did so maliciously and, again, i wasn't preventing them at that point from doing anything. >> michael fanone, i really appreciate you being with us. thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. >> the book, once again is out tomorrow. it's called "hold the line: the insurrection and one cop's battle for america's soul." it is a great read. up next, why georgia republican senate candidate herschel walker is receiving strong support from conservative republicans despite allegations that his behavior is diametrically opposed to what they say they stand for. we'll be right back. i say, “so are they.” ♪ aleve - who do you take it for? 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>> well, it's the field they've got. that's who the voters chose in georgia despite lots of warnings from myself included that walker was the weakest candidate the gop could pick. the republicans really want control of the senate in the same way democrats do. this is a power play, not a play for an endorsement but they're going to go the distance they can to go. >> kristen, is this the reality, just simply the reality of politics in america? i mean, is this something that the democrats would do as well? is it just a faustian bargain to regain power or hold on to power. >> i think you have to ask how somebody like this even ends up being the candidate, right? so do i think democratic voters would choose somebody like this, no. i don't see a lot of evidence that they would. the same way i don't see a lot of evidence they would choose somebody like donald trump. and so erick is right, it's a zero sum gain, between him and a democrat and the control of the senate hangs in the balance. that doesn't merrin we shouldn't talk about the fact that we have sat here and listened over the last many months to very many republicans claiming that to abort a baby is to murder a baby. i can't tell you how many types i've sat here and heard that and heard republicans say that. so when you consider that, what he's been accused of is paying to murder a baby. if we are to believe what we hear all the time, so either they don't actually believe that or they're willing to look the other way? it doesn't really make sense to me and secret just doesn't feel on the up and up about it and i would suggest they don't really believe that. but highlights this issue of, yes, everybody makes compromises, but we all have a line we don't cross, right? what's the line for republicans? >> erick, do you think -- i mean to kirsten's point do you think it weakens the argument that some in georgia have made against, you know, in their concern about abortion. >> a hear this a lot. herschel walker may or may not have paid for an abortion 13 years ago, raphael warnock is on record that he wants taxpayer funded abortions until the moment of birth tomorrow so republicans would rather say, yeah, we'll go with the guy that might have done this 13 years ago than the guy who wants me to pay for it tomorrow. i wouldn't hold democrats to some level of they won't do this. republicans have pointed out john fetterman and raphael warnock have lots of problems too, both sides look at each other's candidates as morally repugnant. democrats, of course, tend to have a greater cultural platform to say the republicans are. republicans would disagree. >> actually, no, but erick -- >> let him finish. >> hold on. democrats don't -- democrats don't think it's morally repugnant to get an abortion. republicans do. >> you're right. democrats don't. but i mean what i'm trying to say -- >> i'm not saying -- >> let kirsten respond. >> i'm not saying that's morally repugnant. i do think holding a gun to your wife's head is morally repugnant but i don't think that getting an abortion is morally repugnant. i'm saying that's what i hear republicans saying all the time and it's far more than morally repugnant. we're repeatedly told it's murder, that it's murdering a baby, so the accusation is that he paid to murder a baby, according to republicans. i'm just saying -- >> kirsten, if the choice is a binary choice, you know, on a ballot box of somebody who has allegedly paid for somebody to have an abortion, which many people in georgia would consider paying for the murder of a baby and a democrat who they believe would, you know, change laws that would allow abortions -- more abortions to take place, is it fair for somebody to make just a decision based on that binary choice and not step back and kind of look at it from a different angle? >> you know, i think every person has to decide that for themselves. but i do think that you have to step back and say, wait, hold on. but if i'm really willing to make this compromise, do i really believe this, because i personally no matter what they were promising me if somebody said that they paid to have a baby killed, i would not vote for them. so, you know, i think that -- it's an opportunity to kind of look at this and say, what is this really about and please stop using this rhetoric because you clearly don't even believe it or you wouldn't be going along with this guy. you just simply wouldn't. if he paid to have anybody murdered. >> i disagree with that. look, i disagree. it's 13 years ago and he's denied it. look, i find both candidates here terrible candidates. i'm appalled that both parties have the candidates they have but when you're a voter and you've got the binary choice of a guy may have done this 13 years ago versus a guy wants you as a taxpayer to pay for it tomorrow i think voters have a right to say, you know, i don't like either of these candidates but i don't want to pay for this and raphael warnock wants me to. >> erick erickson and kirsten powers, thank you. >> thank you. new details on the police shooting of a 17-year-old while he was eating in mcdonald's parking lot. the latest on his condition next. td ameritrade, this is anna. hi anna, this position is all over the place. subscriptions are down, but that's only an estimated 15% of their valuation. how'd you know that? 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