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share one of their son s most outstanding requests. and cnn exclusive, fox in the white house. text messages revealing sean hannity telling trump s chief of staff he was, quote, fed up with maga, quote, lunatics in the days before the insurrection. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our world lead and a desperate renewed attempt to evacuate ukrainian civilians from the besieged steel plant in mariupol, ukraine, now blocked by the russians. that s according to ukrainian officials who had announced plans for a rescue operation early this morning. the need to evacuate made even more urgent after russian forces dropped bombs on a makeshift hospital inside that steel plant complex. injured more than 400 people according to the mayor of mariupol. while fighting intensifies in the east and south, a reminder from russia it can strike anywhere in ukraine. this is the damage after russian missiles hit residential buildings in the capital of kyiv. cnn has al ....
equipment that is being promised and indeed delivered from nato and from the united states and other nato countries coming to this arguably the most important battlefront in terms of the ukrainian defense against the russian invaders. so they re going after those very important railway lines with these bombardments. i have to say on top of that, though, the railway bridge that links leman to the other side of the donetsk river was also blown today. it s not clear, though, jake, whether it was the ukrainians or the russians that blew it because we do know that the ukrainians do have a tactic of blowing bridges in order to slow russian advances. they are going to use in all probability the donetsk river as a line of defense if it comes to that. there have been very substantial troop movements among the ukrainians on the ukrainian side throughout this region over the last 24 hours. and clearly an effort at least at re-enforcement is under way. a lot of movement of troops. ....
that s how democrats feel right now because in fact, everything is at stake. joe biden cannot continue toau controlse this country if you have free access to information, it s that simpleif bidenin certainly is not improving your life. he s not even trying to improve your life. an so the best he can do is lie to you and demand that you believen it. butd too do that , he needs tod make certain that nobody else and talk because if you were toe hear the truth, you might not obey. how is biden going to pull that off? it s not easy. well,to one option would be to get men with guns to tell youou to shut up. a most americans probably haven tt thought of that because this isn t africa or eastern europe. othis is america and we don t p things like that here and never havee. we more precisely we hat until now. buthave. more now joe biden is t and everything is different. so today to herald the coming of the new soviet america, the administration announced its own ministry of trut ....
them back and the deal that it s offering on housing. let us start with the war in ukraine. joining me now is kelly cobiella, ali vitali is on capitol hill, and kelly, i want to start with you. a lot of news out of ukraine today, and also news from the russian defense ministry. we have not independently confirmed this, but they are saying that they have hit some strategic targets in ukraine, and they say they destroyed power substations, an aerospace base with assets and military equipment concentrations in ukraine. what you have been able to confirm or figure out there on the ground? katy, that seems to refer to the strikes in kyiv late yesterday. that appeared to be the target as we were reporting late last night. we were not able to confirm what exactly was hit. now it looks this morning as though an apartment building was struck along with some sort of aerospace facility outside kyiv. that would match that. the ukrainians are usually a little hesitant to talk abou ....
and a new online craze, daredevil pilots on a mission for social media clicks. but now the feds are cracking down. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with our world lead and a massive request from joe biden who asked congress for $33 billion to support ukraine. a clear sign as he sees this war as existential to democracies beyond ukraine. cost of this fight is not cheap, but it will be most costly to allow this to happen. we either back the ukrainian people as they defend their country, or we stand by as the russians continue their atrocities and aggression in ukraine. this proposal is now in the hands of congress, where already some republicans are raising concerns about the size and scope of the package. the proposal includes more than $20 billion in military and security aid. $8.5 billion in economic health for the ukrainian government and civilians. and $3 billion for humanitarian assistance. ukrainian leaders say more aid and weapons can n ....