before. we are told that some clerks are so alarmed, they re exploring seeking counsel. let s bring in cnn s joan biscupic with the exclusive reporting. joan, tell us what you re learning. sure. first of all, remember, this is the most important case of this term, in many years, potential to roll back a half century of abortion rights, privacy rights. midway through negotiations of this case a draft document was leaked, as we all know, it was leaked from last february. so not only did the public see where the court was headed to roll back roe v. wade but seriously disrupted negotiations in terms of justice where is they were going to head by june. chief justice john roberts launched an unprecedented investigation four weeks ago today. apparently that has made absolutely insufficient progress, i would say. and they have taken this new step to have clerks sign affidavits. i m not sure exactly of the wording. but there would be denial of any responsibility. and also starting
this time a massive grave outside of mariupol. officials are pointing to these satellite images showing the ground in one part of the city that s recently been disturbed, and there are claims from a credible source indicating the site has been used to dispose bodies. cnn is still working to independently verify those claims. now, it s estimated more than 100,000 people are trapped there in mariupol, including soldiers and civilians. the deputy prime minister mentioned a short time ago a humanitarian corridor is reopened after a brief delay. officials are trying to evacuate women, children, and the elderly from mariupol. in the meantime the plan now is to take full control of southern ukraine and the eastern donbas region to establish a land corridor to crimea, that area in the southern part of the country that russia annexed in 2014. take a look at this. it s new drone video showing just a scene of utter destruction there in the small village north of kyiv. house after
the assignment which, you know, they re trying to get this right. this could take a while. chloe, we talked a lot about this. this case is actually important for people to see because it shines a light on violent and toxic relationships but something odd has happened here also which does seem to be a papalable public support for johnny depp, in the courtroom, social media and elsewhere. how do you see this playing out outside of the court of public opinion? well, okay. this is above anything else i ve ever experienced in my court of journalist in 14 years. the age of social media and tiktok. when it comes to the court of public opinion, it s heavy tipped in depp s favor. he has so many movies. and people are unfortunately having fun with things that are distracting. whether johnny depp s outfits. demeanor, the jelly beans on the table. him coloring and being harsh on amber. i did a piece over the weekend for cnn that i spoke to casting
directors and publicists who all say it s going to be difficult for both of them to bounce back in hollywood. although hollywood is a forgiving place. big movie theaters, like ones that do pirates of the caribbean are they going to want to align themselves. she s in the next aquaman movie, she said on the stand her role was consult back. there s a petition with millions of signatures to cut her out of the franchise altogether. something i want to point there were people in film studios worked with depp for decades who said it wasn t amber heard s op-ed that kept him from getting work it was the fact that he was allegedly late to set. he had to have his lines fed to him through an ear piece. so maybe it is that the jury does come out and actually rules in amber s favor. or gives us something where they don t award anybody anything. and they re both losers. the problem there is damages.
it s about an op-ed she wrote about in 2018, and whether or not she died about being a victim of domestic violence. she would says she has a first amendment right to speak out. d depp s lawyers say she doesn t have a right to lie about it. if she can convince that jury there s one snenincident of domc violence. that s always a defense. even if she engaged in things problematic, the text messages and placing of the finger. all of that is true, if he did anything violent to her, what she said is true, he should lose his case. defamation usually long deliberations, short deliberations? it kind of depends on the case. look. they have all of the pages jury instructions to sort through. it s dense. it s thick. they re going through terms. they have a lot of work to do if they choose to actually follow