of choice. this as the first war crimes trial against a russian soldier begins. plus, amid the world s harshest covid lockdown, we get a glimpse of the emotional and mental toll it s having on families. and as parents in the u.s. struggle to find baby formula, we ll tell you how the white house is responding to the shortage. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy says more than a thousand towns and villages have been retaken so far from russian forces, including six more over the past 24 hours. he says the russians are paying a heavy price for their aggression. here he is. translator: russia has lost almost 27,000 soldiers, many of them young conscripts. russia has lost more than 3,000 tanks, armored combat vehicles, a large number of conventional military vehicles, helicopters, drones, and all of its prospects as a state. ukraine also says russian troops continue to retreat from around the city of
Bombshell leak, the supreme court s chief justice john roberts has two difficult challenges ahead of him. he needs to restore public faith in the high court. he needs to lead it in the wake of this unprecedented breach. paul reed has the story. we do not sit on opposite sides of an aisle. we do not caucus in separate rooms. we do not serve one party or one interest. we serve one nation. reporter: known for brokering compromises, commander in chief justice john roberts appears to be the only trout a deal save abortion! reporter: that preserves some nationwide right to abortion. sources tell cnn that roberts did not vote with fellow conservatives who signed on to a draft opinion reversing the 1973 roe v. wade decision. that and the draft s unprecedented leak suggest roberts has lost control of the court he s led for nearly 17 years.
Sure they are done in such a way it can get filibustered. we feel really good where we fare. lot of members have brought a lot of good ideas to the table and you mentioned last one. the president has said let s see if we can add to the people who are getting assistance who don t get health care from their job, who are older, maybe in their 50s or 60s to make sure they h are in a good place as well. we are doing even more assistance there, more work requirements for medicaid and able-bodied people. these are the kinds of things that get republicans in a good place. we feel very good, our members have been working really hard and we realize that this is coming to a point the president is coming to talk to us tomorrow morning to give a rally because we all promised this. we all said we would repeal and replace obamacare, if you give us a republican president, house and senate and we have that now. i have to tell you, i m really impressed with the president himself, rolling up his slee
Himself, rolling up his sleeves. getting involved, listening to members brokering compromises. getting us on the same page and getting to this place. i feel very good with where we are and we will move this to the house and get over to the senate. sean: why so much emphasis put on the cbo? it almost seems like an effort in futility to keep going back to them when they are so wrong so often. it is all about the filibuster. the senate law works with the budget act which says as scored by the cbo, it must meet what we call reconciliation instructions. to conform with the senate rules and reconcile this bill and block a chuck schumer filibuster, those are the rules we are playing by. sean: let me move on. you saw the hearings today with james comey. to me, the big news that came out of this is both comey and admiral rogers go with what