they re trying to hold every inch of territory in that city. how has that changed the way they re fighting this side? reporter: it s made it on the russian side, dirtier. on the ukrainian, more desperate. the last few days as the offensive gains in intensity, as the conditions on the ground worsen, those images geolocated by cnn that showed the conditions around bakhmut pretty grim with mud, making the roads pretty much impassable. what ukrainian authorities and president sens has said tonight is things are getting more and more challengichallenging. what we re seeing are a series of intense attacks, but it is the battle for the town of bakhmut that gets worse and more intense by the day with ukrainian officials describing it as the epicenter. there have been today hundreds of artillery barrages and rocket strikes by the russians as they try and encircle the town, and specifically the areas of settlements to the west of it. desperate pleas on the part of the ukrainians once
vladimir putin when he gives a especially to the fsp t intelligence service. joining us to discuss is evelyn barker, the executive director of the mccain institute, former deputy secretary of defense for russia, ukraine and eurasia. i want to get your take on things. i guess this has been going on for a while on the scenes, but really burst to the fore more recently. prigozhin seemed to get what he wanted by talking to president putin. it seems that now he has to speak to the public and to the cameras. the defense minister and the head of the armed voices, they re quite close and have closed ranks against prigozhin.
leadership there seems out of step from the rest of the populous. by simply voter registration should be leaning republican. but kari lake, who is a gubernatorial candidate, she s an election denier and that is why she has donald trump s support. and that is just one of her radical views. and what we ve seen in arizona, it just says we ve seen a couple of other states, georgia among them, where the rest of the republican party tries to get behind a more conventional candidate, one still conservative but not as trumpy and that is setting up the showdown here with with the split screen, it captures the dynamic. and sp-t speaks to mike pence being able to break with his former boss. that he is someone on january 6 said he was doing his constitutional duty. trump has never for given him. and now pence has stepped back in the political stage into the spotlight and carried the mantle of traditional republicans who
reporter: the secret service investigating this. it appears that overnight someone took red paint and sp t splattered a sign bearing the trump name. it is not clear who did this. the president not at all in danger, though. we should point out the congressional spanish caucuses saying, quote, on easter it is more important to remember that jesus, nora and joseph as immigrants and refugees sought a place to live and work hoping for a compassionate human response. brian, the president tweeting this morning, no more daca deal. from your point of view, do you think negotiations on this are over, or can democrats somehow get this discussion back on the
she would not apologize. i should have used two accounts. one for personal and one for work-related e-mails. that was a mistake. i m sorry about that. i take responsibility and i m trying to be as transparent as i possibly can. dana perino is co-host of the five. so i will not apologize. i m sorry. that was yesterday morning. there was a poll. i really do think the more they poll test this. they said in the new york times story they have been focus grouping and talking about hillary and what can be done. i think on the e-mail side of things and the broader strategy they poll tested it to death. now she will have scripted sp t spontanei spontaneity. just as preplanned as it can be. absolutely. including this. you tell me whether this is