all russian oil imports by the end of this year. earlier than planned and remove the biggest bank from the s.w.i.f.t. network, a big impact for financial transactions. all this as russia says it will destroy, attack nato convoys of weapons headed into ukraine. let s begin this morning though with cnn international security editor nick paton walsh in ukraine. this is remarkable. so you met with some of the people, really, a handful of people able to escape the steel plant on buses. there were many more buses. they re not being used. what does that tell us about all this? reporter: look, this is according to a source i spoke to close to the evacuation effort. we saw for the world s five buses emerging with just over 100 evacuees from the azovstal steel plant and 50 others according to the ukrainian presidency that didn t get out. i understand that there were another 50 that were part or close to that evacuation effort that did not end up having people upon them. remember, jim
marjorie taylor greene s. that is explain exchanged at least 80 to text with sean hannity, many of which involved coordinating messages on election day. even jimmy thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas, has been exposed in this batch of new text messages. in multiple text messages thomas raised the issue with meadows of various efforts of conspiracy theories that involved overturning the results of the election. and these are only the text messages that meadows willingly provided to the committee last year, before he stopped cooperating. and is still locked in a legal battle with the january six committee, by the way. in a court filing this just yesterday, meadows lawyers a cool used to the january six committee of leaking the text messages, to quote, vilified him publicly. it is against his attempts to compel him against this investigation. there is a good chance that the communications between trump allies may become key exhibits of the january six commi
i don t think walter would appreciate what is going on in this company right now, i m sorry. then, the january six committee looks at marjorie taylor greene s martial law remarks. new fallout from tapes. it s potentially illegal, what he is doing. well, he is putting people in jeopardy. plus, whatever when needs to know about the covid treatment the vice president is taking, and what we know about the state of russia s military as the pentagon gets bullish on victory for ukraine. ukraine clearly believes that it can win. and so does everyone here. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. there is almost no more contested phrase in america than free speech. in fact, freedom of speech has been, well, contested for millennia, since the ancient greek s first introduce the concepts 2500 years ago, at least to the western canon. and of course our first amendment protects freedom of speech, freedom of the press and, in practice, it get
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on a train station has risen to 57. 114 others injured. also tonight, new reporting suggests a major strategy shift coming out of moscow. newly released satellite images show this large military convoy stretching about eight miles. it is actually making its way south. that is passed a small town that lies 50 miles east of kharkiv. the images are captured by a satellite suggesting that russia is refocussing, if not doubling its efforts in the donbas region. that s not moscow s only big move today. russian general has been named the new ground commander in ukraine. and that certainly raises questions as to what he might do. he is the general who was actually commanding russia s troops in the southern district of ukraine and he actually has a reputation for scorched earth tactics. he led russian troops in syria. we all know what happened there. they brutally the russians brutally and indiscriminately bombed civilian neighborhoods and hospitals under his command. nearly 25,000