Quite stunning. The president s personal attorney telling a top aide to the ukrainian president that if they want a better relationship with trump, if they want to solve their problems with trump they needed to do what giuliani was propose and have a prosecutor publicly announce an investigation into joe biden. If you do this, you could get that. I think there s a term in latin for that. Cnn s cnn international correspondent matthew chance walks us through this quite damning recording. What exactly do you mean? meaning meddling in the election. Reporter: it was the call that set events into motion. We should have on the line here america s mayor, mayor giuliani and we have andre yermak. We already know through transcripts and testimony that giuliani pressured them to announce investigations important to then president trump, but this is the first time we ve heard his actual voice. I want very much to see that our two countries are able to work together. Reporter: giuliani cajoled the u
this time in the donetsk region. the u.s. has credible information that a russian military unit executed ukrainians who were trying to surrender. russia is intensifying its bombardment in the eastern part of the country. at least 27 homes from one village were hit. for word yet on casualties. the russian-occupied city of kherson was rocked overnight. russia has installed a new government saying it will be impossible for ukrainians to return to control. the head of the united nations will be meeting with ukraine s president today after of course he met with putin just yesterday, as nato s secretary general offers a new warning that this war could last years. let s get started with cnn s scott mclean who s live in lviv, ukraine. scott, what s the very latest you re watching there on the ground? reporter: hey, kate. yeah, obviously this statement from the u.s. official to the u.n. yesterday is quite remarkable, accusing the russians of executing ukrainian troops who were tryin
to happen. as long as the assaults continue, we re going to continue to supply military assistance. and directly responding to the russian regime. he says the kremlin is desperate and the invasion is so far an abject failure. that a day after vladimir putin tries to rattle the west. putin says russia has to ability to respond lightning fast to any entefr vengs against his army. today ukraine s east facing constant russian shelling. at least four killed after russian artillery targeted a hospital. the sound of ukrainian pushback right there. a fiery blast hits near a tv tower and disrupts russian propaganda. today the united nations secretary general meets with ukraine s president. that after an up close look at bucha and irpin, two sites of russian war crimes. they call the invasion evil an an absurdity. also today s ukraine s prosecutor general naming ten of suspected war crimes. they have suspected 1100 bodies of civilians dead. bucha s coroner here is describing the ev
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Before he was the nominee for the democrats as a very real threat and as you said they were right. behind the scenes people in and around the trump campaign, they were very candid about the fact that they were worried about joe biden and this is how it was playing out in extremely nefarious ways. as you say the ukrainians for whom this is not just a foreign policy question and this is not a question about an existential threat to them because of russia s adwregs towards the ukrainians. we re hearing about this now. it s 2021. right in why wasn t why weren t charges brought dish mean, if this is at least potentially illegal, and it looks i m not a lawyer but i don t understand how that would be legal, why weren t charges brought against giuliani? does he possibly face legal exposure now? you know, i ve heard internal conversations at the justice department in the past year where, you know, bill barr who was key to all of this, you