you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with remarkable new insights into ukraine s president and the desire to hit russia on home soil. the washington post said president zelenskyy has suggested bold attacks behind closed doors including blowing up a pipeline and attempting to occupy russian border villages to gain over moscow. zelenskyy made such suggestions months ago. still, the pentagon did not dispute the authenticity of the leaked materials. this comes as we re getting new signs that the long-awaited ukrainian counter offensive could be getting underway soon. sources tell cnn, ukraine has begun shaping operations and cnn s sam kyly has more details on that. reporter: there have been signs, i think, very clearly now, that there are shaping operations going on ahead of a summer offensive by ukraine to try to recapture this territory that was taken by the russians. both in 2014 and more recently last year. what we ve seen is psychologi
the state of our politics at this moment. even though some republican leaders have condemned the attack, news has been flooded with a what about and conspiracy theories and disinformation from a whole host of right-winged media figures. all of this happening while he s still in intensive care. and while an active investigation is underway, a little more than an hour ago, federal prosecutors filed two charges, attempting to challenge a federal official. federal officials allege the attacker broke into the home intending to kidnap and hurt speaker pelosi and he came armed with a hammer and brought a rope, white tape, and zip ties. he told paul pelosi, he wanted to speaker to, quote, tell the truth. political reports that the attacker had, quote, inhabited a vifd and resentment-fueled world of conspiracy while living a fringed existence, even by the standards of the san francisco bay area, that he appears to embrace falsehoods about the without outcome of the 2020 election. the
reporter: beware of bunny. once upon a time there lived a rabbit. reporter: no, not peter rabbit. we re talking about a menacing rabbit that lives in the small city of perry, iowa. a black bunny, a bad bunny, a bunny caught lunging hey. whoa! reporter: at someone who was perhaps expecting the cuddly kind of rabbit. ramona ralston also encountered it. it just jumps up and bites me. i m like oh, my gosh. i just got bit by a bunny. reporter: a perry police report shows it also bit a 13-year-old, who then had to have rabies shots. it chased another resident from her car to her door. no wonder it s been compared to the dracula of bunnies, bunnicula. a vampire rabbit with fangs. bunnies have long been badmouthed in movies, depicted as mutant rabbits, able to
Prince William has no intention of talking to his brother at the coronation after Harry badmouthed him in his memoir and Netflix documentary earlier this year.
Didn t want all the votes counted. if that s not a dictatorial mindset on tape, i don t know what is. so a, respond to that if you choose. b, do you think that judges current approaches works or do you think there has to be some adjustment within the rule of law to deal with what you describe as a changed landscape for efforts to overthrow democracy? yeah. i think it is just that. it is an effort to overthrow democracy. what we saw in 2020 had three phases. the first was before the election donald trump badmouthed democracy and tried to vilify voting. then as you point out after it was clear he lost the election he went to court 65 times, lost 64 of them, in an effort to use the courts to overturn the will of the electorate. and here s the key, ari, to sow doubts and create the big lie. to create the ground that was fertile for what we saw third,