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the russians are accused of breaking their promises for evacuations. still, they re doing everything they can to get people out. translator: russian shelling does not stop. but civilians still need to be taken out. women, children, many children who are still there. just imagine this hell. and there are children. more than two months of constant shelling, bombing, and constant death nearby. reporter: meanwhile, sources tell cnn, ukrainian had some help from the u.s. in targeting russia s flagship last month. the warship sank on april 14th after ukrainian missile strikes. the sources say the ukrainians spotted the ship. then asked the americans for confirmation that it was in market the moskva. the u.s. provided intelligence about the ship and its location but wasn t involved in ukraine s decision to launch missiles. a ukrainian commander says wounded soldiers inside the azovstal steel works are dying in terrible agony. those who are able are fighting to defend the p ....
russia of breaking it promise to allow evacuations. still ukraine s president says authorities are doing everything they can to get people out. translator: russian shelling and assault on azovstal does not stop. but civilians still need to be taken out. women, children, many children who are still wthere. just imagine this hell. and there are children. horn two months of constant shelling, bombing, and constant death nearby. mr. zelenskyy didn t say how many people left mariupol on thursday, only that evacuations from the southern party is are ongoing. the red cross says more than 300 people believed to be from mariupol and surrounding areas arrived in zaporizhzhia on wednesday. sources tell cnn that ukraine had some help from the u.s. in targeting russia s flagship destroyer last month. the warship sank april 14 after missile strikes. sources say the ukrainians spotted the ship and asked the americans for confirmation that it was in fact that ship. the u.s. provi ....
targeting the ship beyond that or simply intel here being shared? reporter: so those same sources that you mentioned said that it is not clear whether the u.s. knew that the ukrainians were planning to bomb the ship, but either way the americans were not involved with the decision making there. the pentagon is pushing back on this, and they put out a very carefully worded statement, the spokesman john kirpby saying tht we didn t provide ukraine with specific targeting information for the moskva. the russians of course have been accusing the americans of engaging in a proxy war and this event raises all kinds of legitimate questions about where the u.s. draws the line in terms of intelligence sharing and helping ukraine more broadly. those sources say that the u.s. will not share intelligence on any locations or any potential targets within russia, on russian territory, nor will they share the location of any senior military officials as well. now, the other big event ....
we re going to get an update as the markets close out a roller coaster week. i m hallie jackson in washington on this friday afternoon with our nbc news team, carole lee covering the white house, matt bradley in ukraine, courtney at the pentagon, also joined by jason beardsley, national executive director of the advocacy group the association of the u.s. navy. carole, start with you, with the first lady s first day in east europe, it s a busy and significant stretch for her overseas now. it is. the first of a four-day trip and she started in romania where she visited with u.s. troops serving them dinner and bringing them ketchup, learning there was a ketchup shortage there and so she brought gallons of ketchup to them, apparently very well received, and she also read to some children of service members there. there was a moment where she was reading with a service member and her son. i think we have that if we can take a listen. the end. and nathan, thank you for yo ....
bracing for an influx of women from neighboring states with fewer access. fewer access good friday to you. welcome to meet the press daily. i am chuck todd. the biden administration faces difficult questions from voters which continues to be the economy. how does it slow inflation without slowing down the economy? how does the administration sell a cooler economy when it struggled to sell the hot one that it began with. this morning the labor department reported that 428,000 new jobs were created last month, beating economists estimates with the rate, and this is a robust jobs market, folks, and right now president biden is on his way to the cincinnati area to sell his economic agenda, and the fed took a major step raising interest rates by half a point. it s the largest engel increase in two decades, and efforts to slow down the economy could trigger a recession. it s leaving the party in a perilous position, as they face the prospect of a cooler economy and voters ....