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a personal level. it was true that my first days in the senate when i needed help very badly and it was through my last days in the senate as well. in 2008 fritz and i became close friends and i sought his counsel many times. i was asked to join the ticket with barack obama. i was, as i usually was, on amtrak going home. i commuted every day. they later told me over 220,000 miles on amtrak they should name a station after me. he called me after it was clear he was the de facto nominee. he said he would like me to join him on the ticket or at least consider it. could he do a background check on me. would have to do that background check, and i said, no, thanks. barack. i thought he was dragging that bloody cloth through the senate like presidential nominees do to get everybody excited and involved. there s only one other person i m considering. ba barack, i don t want to be vice president. he said why? i said, basically just stand by equipment. i said what i want to do ....
freedom. your fight is a fight for everyone. and so our commitment is to be there for you until the fight is done. the visit comes as russia pounds eastern ukraine with a vicious new offensive. ukrainian officials report heavy shelling and air strikes are targeting a large swath of the country from kharkiv to the north to zaporizhzhia in the south. president zelenskyy says an airport runway in odesa was destroyed in a missile strike saturday, and he is vowing to rebuild it. and in the long besieged city of mariupol, new hope for civilians. president zelenskyy confirming that evacuations from the steel plant holdout are now underway. cnn s matt rivers and scott mclain are on the ground in ukraine. you re in kyiv where the house speaker met with zelenskyy today. this was a significant moment. why? no question. you said it off the top. the most senior u.s. official to visit in kyiv. more importantly, it kind of really tops off an entire change of narrative we ve heard ....
happen, what message do you leave behind to the russian people? come on, daniel. no, no way. it s like you re making a movie about the case of my death. again, i m ready to answer your question. but please let it be another movie, movie number two. like, let s make a thriller out of this movie. and in the case i would be killed, let s make a boring movie of memory. [ speaking foreign language ] [speaking foreign language] are you not scared, alexei? what do you expect in moscow? [speaking foreign language] unexpectedly, vladimir putin has a genuine challenger, a handsome 41-year-old lawyer, alexei navalny. one of the most dangerous occupations in the world, running against the man who controls the kremlin. more than any other opposition figure in russia, alexei navalny gets ordinary people out to protest. if i want to fight putin, if i want to be leader of a country, i have to do something practical about it. well, i have to kind of organize people. [speaking ....
steady push through ukraine s east, focusing efforts on the donetsk region. these images show the aftermath of shelling here. at least 27 homes, these are civilian homes, in one village were damaged. civilians as targets. we re also learning that a bridge in southern ukraine was just destroyed, used by russians to supply their territory in crimea, potentially impactful strike there. soon the u.n. secretary general is set to meet with president zelenskyy in kyiv. earlier he toured damage in several areas of ukraine, including just the awful scenes in bucha. this morning ukrainian officials have now named ten russian soldiers suspected of war crimes in that city. we are covering the latest across ukraine this morning as only cnn can. let s begin with scott mclean who is here in lviv. scott, the war goes on. despite ukrainian success in the north, we are seeing intense fire by the russian military in eastern ukraine. are ukrainian officials concerned by any progress they ....
supply chain, covid concerns out of china, on and on it goes. edward lawrence has the breakdown from the north lawn. let s begin there. it all plays into it. the white house actually bill knew it would be a very bad number. yesterday i had a white house official call me wanting to talk about this number today. i don t think they thought it would be a negative number. the economy is in a transition, the white house feeling. a transition from the reopening phase to a long-term sustainable growth phase is the way it is being described. there is no denying that s a bad number. two negative numbers for two quarters in a war is technically a recession. no one is talking about that at the white house but jen psaki yesterday did address this and tried to put a spin on what this number would be. listen to this. if we look at it over time how we look at data and looking under the hood, the slowdown relative to quarter four is mainly for technical reasons like the change in in ....