after writing a best-selling memoir called hillbilly ellergy, he feared donald trump, and j.d. vance told a slate reporter that donald trump was, quote, leading the white working class to a very dark place. again, those are direct quotes from a man named jd vance. now jd vance is now after last night the republican candidate for senate in ohio thanks almost entirely to an endorsement from the ex-president that propelled him from also-ran third place in some polls to the top of of a very crowded field as the bull work told me in the ohio times, at this time, there s no moving past trump. he s re-made the republican party in his image and many republican voters now crave his particular brand of combative politics described again by j.d. vance, as, quote, cultural heroin by, quote, america s hitler. that particular brand of combative politics fueled by disinformation and paranoia and now best embodied by one jd vance has nothing but contempt for our democracy. vance has peddle
january 6th select committee, how her hours of testimony may actually end up being key to the investigation. let s go outfront. good evening, i m kaerin burnet the breaking news, russia intensifying assault on a sprawling steel plant where thousands of ukrainians are holed up. i just spoke to a commander there who said the strikes have been literally nonstop over the past few hours yet despite the attacks ukrainian fighters say they still hope to evacuate several hundred people which includes still in that plant, commander tells me, 20 children. as you can see, though, there is heavy black smoke rising over the area where the plant is located. it is, of course, in the area of mariupol, and tonight, russia is cla claiming putin s forces reached the outskirts of the plant and carrying out a step-by-step clearing operation. well captain pladomar at the plant pushed back against russia s claims. translator: all of the buildings that they re showing or might be showing, they a
journey. nick paton walsh live in zaporizhzhia waiting, i guess. reporter: at this stage, we do not have evacuees from the azovstat plant. workers from red cross are coming here, where they would come in. you can see areas here being used over the past hours to welcome other evacuees from some, actually, the past days who have got out of mariupol are held in russian-held territory and slowly moved their way here. all eyes are on these two separate moves out of mariupol. i say two separate because we re talking about the steel plant where a cease-fire allowed the first batch of individuals to get out. i have to quote russian media here for some of the clearest numbers but their suggestion was that 46 got out in the first 24-hour-period. now, we ve seen another 80 in the second. the fate of those split, according to russian military defense, 11 choosing to stay in separatist territory, and 69 headed in this direction towards zaporizhzhia. they are not headed here, if we get a
good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this monday, may 2nd. i m jonathan lemire. house speaker nancy pelosi visited ukraine over the weekend, becoming the highest-ranking u.s. official to do so since russia invaded more than two months ago. leading a congressional delegation, pelosi met with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy in kyiv on saturday. her visit came weeks after russian forces reportedly withdrew from the city, following a failed attempt to capture the ukrainian capital. after departing for neighboring poland, poland discussed with zelenskyy, and talked about the united states response to russia s aggression. do not be bullied by bullies. if they re making threats, you cannot back down. that s my view of it. that you were there for the, we re there for the fight, and you cannot, you cannot fold to a bully. the conversation with president zelenskyy is no surprise, not only his courage, and his leadership, but his detailed knowledge of every subje
will the may primaries be a defining test of trump s influence? this time we put somebody in washington to break the brokenness down. i m going to washington to be reenforcements for fighters, fighters like donald trump. journalists, politicians and celebrities together in one room for the white house correspondents dinner. great to be here again. i told my grand kids and pete buttigieg, they could stay up late and watch the show tonight. is it a sign of a new people normal, or was it a superspreader event? hello, and welcome to inside picts sunday, i m abby philip. we begin with breaking news, house speaker nancy pelosi made an unannounced visit to ukraine s capital this morning. pelosi is now the highest ranking u.s. official to travel there since the war began. she and a group of u.s. lawmakers met with president volodymyr zelenskyy in kyiv with a message of support from the american people and in a news conference in poland after their visit hay had strong wor