a meeting with the north korean dictator, kim jong-un. the president took part in a wreath laying ceremony to pay his respects to fallen korean soldiers who died fighting alongside u.s. forces in the korean war. cnn white house correspondent jeremy diamond in seoul with the president. jeremy, this announcement about joint military exercises, this is yet another example of president biden reversing what president donald trump had done. reporter: yeah, no doubt about it, alex. what we re seeing from president biden on this trip to seoul is a return to foreign policy in tis region and attempt to deepen and tighten the cooperation between the u.s. and allies in the region, south korea and japan where the president heads next. this move announced in a joint statement between president biden and the south korean president yun indicates they are going to enter discussions to expand the joint military exercises. that is steep reversal from what we saw under president trump who down
cultural center. that s the ex-motion you saw a few moments ago actually seeing it right now. president zelenskyy calling this absolute evil. also, ukraine s last stand in mariupol appears to be over. the remaining fighters at the steal steel plant surrendered. it would be putin s biggest win yet in this brutal war. russians dropped insend dare munitions on a village near kharkiv. reporter: putin would choke the light and life out of here. we are driving into the smoke of an incendiary munitions attack, we re told here, against this civilian village. homes, fields, even the air itself torched. vera says she saw it staurling from the sky and her neighbor hit. reporter: the incendiary munition which burns hot through everything in its path came after heavy normal shelling which makes you question, like so much here, exactly why russia needed to heat fire on top of heavy explosive. it hit just ten minutes ago, this man said, pointing the way. some left bewildered. others i
giuliani was working on these efforts right up to january 6. now he has taken a different route than other people close to the president like steve bannon. they are face ing a contempt of congress charge. what does the committee do with the information giuliani presented to them? they have a series of high-stakes public hearings that will take place in the month of june. and we ll have to see if what giuliani toad ld them this week will be part of that report. and we re learning that ginny thomas urged lawmakers to overturn biden s win. she asked two states to unilaterally choose the electors. critics have questioned justice clarence thomas involvement
route than other souts of the former president, including steve bannon and mark meadows who have defied the committee s request to appear. they re facing a criminal contempt charge. what does the committee do with the information giuliani provided to them? they have a series of high-stakes public hearings that will take place in the month of june. we ll have to see if what giuliani told them this week will be any part of that report. ryan nobles, cnn, washington. coming up, actress ellen bar kin taking the stand in johnny depp s defamation case against amber heard. he s just a jealous man, controlling. where are you going? who are you going with? what did you do last night? yeah, you llll get used to it. this mom s depositing money with tools on-handnd. cha ching. and this mom, , well, she s setting an appointment here, so her son can get set up there
friday. giuliani is an important player for a number of reasons. the most principle one being that he was at the center 06 this effort to undermine the 2020 election results, serving as the president s personal attorney. he worked with a team of lawyers from all over the country to try to undermine election results in several swing states. he also was behind some of the plots that involved trying to get the former vice president, mike pence, to prevent the certification of the election results, issuing a fake set of electors that senators could perhaps vote on as well as other attempts at the state level to convince legislators to toss out election results. it s important because the committee truly believes that activity, the time between the election in november and what happened on january 6th are definitively linked, that you don t have one without the other. giuliani was working on these efforts to undermine the election results right up until january 6th. giuliani has taken a dif