warship, go f yourself. now sources are telling cnn when ukraine successfully targeted the ship on april 14th, they had some help from the u.s. as they spotted a russian warship in the black sea, they called the american contacts to con confirm. the u.s. said it was and give them intel about the location. the sources say it s not clear whether the u.s. knew ukraine would strike the ship and the u.s. was not involved in that decision. that s happening as president zelenskyy says russian shelling of the steel plant is not stostop i ing. some 200 desperate civilians sheltering there while food and water running out. a new evacuation convoy they hope can reach the plapt in the morning. ukrainian forces inside the plant singing a battle hymn. it s better the die in battle than to live in chains as slaves. new tonight, the chief justice john roberts making his first appearance since the bomb shell draft opinion that would over turn roe v wade. speaking at a meeting of lawyers a
critics and has now come the other and embraced some of the craziest part of the former president s platform. and all of this right here is alarming more mainstream republicans. you mentioned mitch mcconnell and he s far from ahome and heartening some democrats. more they are center stage, marjorie taylor green, madison cawthorn, that is the guy, that is good fock democrats and i have a new story out though morning how the white house is leaning into this. president biden has not gone on the offense against republicans and frying to draw a sharp contrast between what he and his party have done and republicans and in particular these fringe elements of the republican party. that they feel like that that is their effective arg. they face head winds and democrats feel like this is the way that they could show voters particularly those independent voters, those swing voters, those suburban voters, those are voters that gave biden the white house along with african american suppor
jd mandel. he is doing great. [ laughter ] oh, my god. you know, you know, if the current occupant at 1600 pennsylvania avenue had done that, there would be headlines for, like, months. about his age. oh, he can t remember. which, of course, underlines the fact, how funny it is. you have people, right-wing trumpists attacking joe biden for his mental acuity. right before donald trump couldn t remember who even endorsed, he this is when he was going through his cognitive test. right. i aced my cognitive test. this is a water puff low. buffalo. this is a ladder. do we have jonathan lemire here? he is our cognitive test specialist. jonathan, what were the six or seven words he could remember? it was man, woman, camera, light, and then one more. it was all very water buffalo, you had that one right. water buffalo. water buffalo is essential. actually a cheat code for anyone about to take a cognitive test, water buffalo, always one of the words. but this from t
moments ago we re learning of new explosions in odesa. cnn s scott mcclain joining us live from lviv. what more could you tell us about all of this? reporter: hey, fredricka. so as you mentioned, this is news out of mariupol. that we are getting from russian state media who say that 25 people have been allowed to leave that sprawling steel plant and get out. sixm them are under the age of 14, they say. now we re not in a position to verify that information because we re not in mariupol. but the mayor s office had said previously that there was reason for optimism because the russians were allowing some people to move from one neighborhood nearby to the steel plant to the other side of the river to potentially link up with a humanitarian corridor. now it wasn t clear whether that would include the people from the steel plant, but it seems based on this reporting if it is true, that may be the case. and if it does turn out to be the case, that would be a major breakthrough in
lie, the other searches for a message that would stick. as the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. good evening, i m christiane stepping in for stephanie ruhle. on tonight, and your bunch of text messages between mark meadows and sean hannity revealing just how closely they work together to push trump s big lie. cnn reports they exchanged more than 80 messages between election day in 2020, and joe biden s inauguration. they suggest hannity was at times louis a fox news host, and more a white house advisor. even a researcher. on november 20, ninth 2020, he wrote, i ve had my team digging into the numbers. there s no way biden got those numbers. just mathematically impossible. it s so sad for this country that they can pull this off in 2020. we need a major breakthrough. meadows replied, you re exactly right. working on a breakthrough. but about a month later, as it became clear trump s efforts to challenge the election were going nowhere in the courts, and he began t