you are watching cnn newsroom. welcome to the show everyone, it s 9:00 a.m. here in lyiv in ukraine. the russian military was seen as sporting two buses said to be carrying several evacuees to a town east of mariupol as you can see in the video there. the factory has been under bombardment, president zelenskyy is hoping to negotiate the safe evacuation of the soldiers still inside. translator: we are also working on diplomatic options to save our military who remain. mediators are involved, including influential states. meanwhile, russia is hastily putting its stand wherever it can in mariupol ahead of the victory day. a russian flag flies over a hospital, and signs have been changed to russian and they are saying, soviet statues are popping up across the city. victory day, appears this year that he may want to make a show of mariupol, or what is left of it as some sort of prize. we are in southern ukraine with the latest for you. reporter: escorted by armor,
good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this thursday, april 28th. i m jonathan lemire. president biden is expected to ask congress to fund a new aid package for ukraine today, and in scheduled remarks from the white house this morning, two sources tell nbc news, that the president will lay out the details of a quote massive request, which is intended to last through september. the u.s. has already provided ukraine with more than $3 billion in aid since the invasion began, including an $800 million package that was announced last week. following that spending, president biden said the white house had nearly run out of funding authorized by congress. prices for natural gas have increased after russia stoked tensions by cutting off exports to poland and bulgaria for refusing to pay with russian rubles. both countries are members of nato, and are heavily reliant on russian natural gas. but so far, officials in those two countries say the action taken by russia won t hav
launching a final ground assault on the factory, they should instead blockade it. so severely that, quote, not even a fly comes through. willie, we talked about it in the past couple hour, and what putin is claiming as a success is actually putin stepping back. we ll talk to clint watts in a couple minutes. we were discussing the fact that morale is so low with the russian army that the last thing they re going to do is go down in there and try to root out people in this complex well of underground tunnels in this steel factory that is really just a fortress. they will get chewed up and spit out. and you get the sense that putin and this retreat, putin understands that. absolutely. and he doesn t want to go in and tangle with these regiments that remain inside protecting civilians. the question remains houngs with can the civilians hold out, food, water, medicine still a concern. putin calling this a success, also saying he has liberated the people of mariupol. tens of th
itself in politics to taking years to investigate somis cas, while managing to wrap it up quickly in others. the fbi finds itself at a cross roads. part of addressing a problem is addressing you have one and i don t see that in the current leadership. from day one, kr krift for wray was other than warned. there is a coolade crew, never admit fault, make changes only when you have to and protect the reputation of the fbi. the fbi reputation matters more than the reality and some people convince themselves the institution is so important one must never confess error. so long as we have interstate commerce, which is forever, someone must investigate that crime. most americans want to pull for law enforcement, want to give cops the benefit of the doubt. we are closing in on eight years of fbi making one misstep after the other and never doing one thing we encourage, which is simply accept responsibility. the current burro does please reporters at the new york times, to which th
this happens in her classroom no less. she s six. she s terrified. because the person that was advocating for her got hurt. she got hurt. a very emotional town hall in virginia after a 6-year-old brings a gun to school and shoots his teacher. the family of that child speaking out this morning. first this morning, ukrainian president zelenskyy is making another desperate plea for more weapons before it s too late. there are signs russia is regrouping and preparing to launch another major offensive. cnn has learned this morning that cia director bill burns flew to kyiv in recent days for a secret meeting with president zelenskyy to brief him on what the u.s. believes putin is planning to do. this morning, defense secretary lloyd austin is in germany to huddle with others. president zelenskyy spoke at that meeting. he said thanks, but he needs tanks. terror does not allow for discussion. the terror which burns city after city, and i can thank you hundreds of times but hu