in florida. but the states gop looking to restrict voting rights. tonight, the efforts on the way to fight back. we will start this hour for you with a ukrainian commander confirming right now that about 20 women and children successfully made it out of mariupol s embattled steel plant. united nations have been leading efforts to rescue up to 8000 civilians who have been bunkering underneath that berry structure. russian troops have destroyed mariupol, where an estimated 100,000 ukrainians remain. russia s destruction of the port city is part of the strategy to overtake the donbas region. but, the pentagon says that fierce pushback from the ukrainian troops have set russia several days behind schedule. that is rj thing too heavy weapons that the west has been sending to ukraine in recent days. president biden requested for even more military aid to be sent. earlier this week, he asked congress to authorize 33 billion dollars of artillery, anti tank weapons and funds for econo
tonight, the efforts on the way to fight back. we will start this hour for you with a ukrainian commander confirming right now that about 20 women and children successfully made it out of mariupol s embattled steel plant. united nations have been leading efforts to rescue up to 8000 civilians who have been bunkering underneath that berry structure. russian troops have destroyed mariupol, where an estimated 100,000 ukrainians remain. russia s destruction of the port city is part of the strategy to overtake the donbas region. but, the pentagon says that fierce pushback from the ukrainian troops have set russia several days behind schedule. that is rj thing too heavy weapons that the west has been sending to ukraine in recent days. president biden requested for even more military aid to be sent. earlier this week, he asked congress to authorize 33 billion dollars of artillery, anti tank weapons and funds for economic and humanitarian relief. meanwhile, actress angelina jolie was
ukrainian government says russia s new attacks on kyiv are futile. we have made clear in the fighting in and around kyiv they will not be successful. as we have defeated them around kyiv they will be more individual vindictive and battling as you seen tonight. again, the battle in the east the russians are trying to bring victory to their people. before today russia had been refocussing its defensive efforts in eastern ukraine where russia is still expected to step up attacks in coming day. ukrainian president zelenskyy said the irany of russia s plans to intensify violence amid easter season is not lost on him. saying this hurricanes ying this hurricanes this is not christian behavior at all, as i understand i on easter they will kill and they will be killed. our correspondent joins us from lviv, ukraine, thank you for joining us. the in addition to new attacks around kyiv there was reports of air raids launched on kyiv what can you tell us what s happening on the gr
i would rather lose by telling the truth than lie in order to win. chris christie drops out with no endorsement. anyone who is unwilling to say that he is unfit to be president of the united states is unfit themselves to be president of the united states. as the rest of the field panders to maga. don t just build the wall. bill both walls. anthony, you are fired. tonight, what christie s departure means to the race in our party led by an indicted front runner. sits here with a smug look on his face and runs away when it s my turn to talk. how the tent collapsed on the margaret circus, with congresswoman jasmine crockett, and george conway on how trump attorneys walk into a trap at a d.c. courtroom. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. a major development tonight in the race for the republican nomination. chris christie, the only candidate telling the truth about trump from the republican side and his attempted coup was
vladimir putin knows that. when he was president, donald trump was not smart enough to know that. but mitch mcconnell knew it. and so, this steady stream of trump appointed judges to federal courts, from top to bottom, from district courts through the appeals courts, all the way up to the united states supreme court, we re all certified by a right-wing organization that calls itself the federalist society, had rushed through senate confirmation by mitch mcconnell. at the trump judges have now so infected the federal judiciary that the department of justice, for the first time in its history, doesn t know what to do. they don t know what to do next in a criminal investigation. a trump judge who was confirmed in the last weeks of the trump presidency, a lean mercedes cannon, has issued an order and she did it to help donald trump delay a criminal investigation of don trump by the justice department. judge cannon is ordering the appointment of a so-called special master to stu