like other ukrainian cities from bucha to mariupol, another enormous mass grave has been discovered. this time in a forest near the city of izium. authorities continue to exhumed the bodies of which there are reportedly more than 450, including civilians, children and soldiers a. like many of the bodies show signs of, quote, violent. death while several have their hands bound and show signs of torture. it is now day 207 of russia s invasion, with putin s plan to take all of three days to capture the capital of kyiv. right now ukraine continues to gain ground with a successful counteroffensive in the northeast, reclaiming several thousand square miles of territory. ukraine also continues to have success with a counteroffensive in the south. at the same, time russia is making small gains in some towns in donetsk. one of the regions that make up the donbas. to say that russian soldiers are making those gains might be misleading. as the new york times reports, the frontline ukrai
lost data was due to a planned tech migration and that the texts investigators wanted were not actually among those that disappeared. let s bring in former federal prosecutor and lead counsel in the first trump impeachment trial daniel goldman, he is now running for congress in new york. daniel, what do you see here? what we know is that a homeland security inspector general asked for these text messages and now we are learning from this homeland security inspector general, it s a letter from this person, saying that they were destroyed according to them after this request. what does that tell you? well, first of all, let s remember these letters are not written lightly to congress. i am sure that the inspector general notified the secret service that they would have to send this letter if they did not get better compliance and they didn t, but more importantly and to the point, there are a lot of questions that this raises. they claim that it was a phone migration system
want change. on the right we see growing evidence of a republican establishment souring on donald trump. two of rupert murdoch s flagship publications, the new york post and wall street journal published articles, including a brutal takedown head lined the president who stood still on january 6th. and he s rapidly losing ground to florida governor ron desantis who in speeches is sounding a lot more like he s running. i can tell you this, i ll be standing my ground. i ll be walking that line. we ve accomplished an awful lot in the state of florida, but we have only begun to fight because we are on a mission to keep the state of florida free and to save our great country! we re seeing a similar pattern on the left, too, with a party base that polls suggests is looking past president biden in favor of a new face for the party. and a number of politicians are clearly making moves to set up a run, either just in case biden doesn t or maybe whether he does or not. for more in
leahy is the longest serving senator who is currently still in office. he was first elected in 1974 and took office in 1975, and was only 34 years old at the time. becoming the youngest u.s. senator to ever be elected from vermont. he was elected in the post watergate midterms following nixon s resignation. he has worked with nine presidents sense. presently is currently the president pro tem of the senate and chairman of the senate appropriation committee. he announced he would not be running for reelection this november. closing at a very eventful 48 years in office and somehow after all of that the senator found the ability to write a brand-new mom are called the road to take. in january now is the aforementioned senator from a vermont. patrick leahy. senator, thank you very. mchugh been a great friend to our show over the year. and you often get up particularly early to join us on a weekday morning. so i appreciate you being here no, i am happy to be with you watching your commen
and entered a plea of not guilty to both counts with me is shaquille brewster and dr. mchugh. shaq, let s start with more on how the indiana general assembly is considering these new restrictions during this special session and at the same time the vice president is there as well. for sure. it s a very busy day in indianapolis. let start with that session session. indiana is the first state to launch a special session in the wake of that dobbs ruling overturning roe v. wade. it would lead to a near total ban of abortion in the state of indiana there are some exception, rape, incest and fetal abnormality. it would dramatically reduce the access that women in indiana