family. jesse: that s in addition to the federal charges that came down earlier today for kidnapping and assault. depape could see maximum sentences of up to 50 years in prison just on the federal charges alone. fbi special agent stephanie minor is the one leading the investigation. and exactly what happened on the early morning night of that attack. today she released a criminal complaint. that s really left us with a lot of questions. according to that complaint, police received a call at 2:23 a.m. paul pelosi was allegedly speaking in code. saying there was a male inside his home. police scanners show that paul referred to depape and his friend was david. stated there is a male in the home and that he is going to wait for his wife. he doesn t know who the male is but he advises that his name is david. he is his friend. sounded somewhat confused. jesse: was that paul speaking in code? perhaps. 8 minutes later police show up to the pelosi s house. police know pelosi s
intelligence believed they placed an explosive on two of the nuclear reactors of the power units and that was to simulate an attack and blame ukraine, and went on to say perhaps the russians had been emboldened after the explosion at the dam last month, saying there was no timely large scale response to the dam being blown up and this may incite the kremlin to commit new evil. the kremlin said it s the responsibility of everyone in the world to stop it. no one can stand aside, radiation affects everyone. russia has responded to these games a couple of times now. a few days ago they said these were pure lies, today hitting back and accusing ukraine of planning some sort of attack at that plant. the united nations nuclear watchdog, the iaea says they were actually at the plant a couple of weeks ago. they said they saw no sign of any sort of sabotage there on
we are getting more information as that counteroffensive begins. we had president zelensky yesterday confirm that the counteroffensive had gotten under way and of course, the epicentre of that is in the east and the south of the country. and as you say, the south continues to remain devastated as a result of that dam being breached and the evacuations continue. we did get some reports from the head of the kherson region who said that while people were being evacuated from the flooded area, they are reporting that three people have been killed as well as several others injured. and in the reports that we ve been receiving, they ve also said the ukrainian authorities that 21 people barely made it out of that area alive as the security forces went there to get them out. they claim that they came under attack from russian forces. so there is still a lot of development as this counteroffensive continues and the focus really is on the east of the country, in the donetsk region, where we are
in the southern part of the country. you can see the streets flooded, water up over some of the houses here. let me show people where that is. that s right here. the dnipro river of course is here. talk to me about how the existence of this flooding, this dam being gone now, how that might impact the fighting. it s going to close this gap of where the counter offensive can take place. i ve always said that the counter offensive has got to come in this way to try to threaten crimea and to fight russian troops gag g.ing in this direction here. now with this dam being exploded here this has become completely unpassable, there is no way that the ukraine military can navigate the dnipro river at that point. it pushes this fight further to the north and further to the east. this is why russia from their perspective thinks it s a good thing because they have abandoned those positions. had the ukraine military dropped that dam let s say eight months ago they could have trapped a bunch of rus
in ukraine, and now we find ourselves witnessing a massively destructive war in europe. so the ukrainians are fighting bravely, they are innovating on the battlefield. we have been extraordinarily generous ending assistance we provide. there are things we could provide that would not impact our ability to fight or do weapons to the time when he is like cluster ammunition. we can t be deterred by vladimir putin. but the stakes are extremely, extremely high right now. and i think that the lesson that stretches from ukraine all the way back to world war ii is that you have to stand up in the face of totalitarian aggression. weakness invites further aggression, only strength provides a path to peace. martha: what do you make of this dam being blown up? do you think it was blown up by the russians in order to buy them some time to hold off this offensive from the ukraine side? the honest answer is we don t know, the ukrainians are of course blaming the russians, the russians are bizarre