here. [ chants ] officials in washington brace for more protests following the leaked draft supreme court opinion that would strike down roe versus wade. the security concerns and how a vote to codify the legislation is expected to play out next week. i don t want anybody turning on the faucet and not have water. mandatory water restrictions coming for millions in the west. the dire warnings from officials and why they say waiting to act isn t an option. and it s derby day. the first leg of the triple crown kicks off today. we re at churchill downs with you. newsroom starts right now. want to wish you a good saturday morning. it is may 7th. we are so grateful for your company. i m christi paul. and i m in more boris sanchez. are you in the cnn newsroom. we are beginning with the race to rescue civilians from the battered steel plant in southeastern ukraine in the city of mariupol. we have learned that within the last half hour there have been evacuations resum
that ruling came down hours after new york s attorney general hit the former president with a lawsuit accusing him, his family, their firm of years of fraud. now, in the mar-a-lago documents case the appeals court ruled the doj can now resume its review of classified documents seized from trump s home, and that overturns an earlier ruling that had paused the criminal investigation. let s go to cnn s jessica schneider. jessica, the appellate court, they had problems, several problems with arguments from the trump attorneys. yeah, they did. and this is a unanimous three-judge panel including two trump appointees. and they really did, victor, seem to take down the arguments from trump s legal team on every level. so the first thing they did is they said that by not allowing doj to incorporate these 100 classified documents into the criminal review the court said in their words it would impose real and significant harm on the united states and on the public since as the doj sai
The international community will be outraged. and as president biden himself said, there will be consequences. and those consequences cannot, cannot result in vladimir putin still being in office. he knows it will probably cost him his government. as the president, president biden has said, that no one wins a nuclear war. evelyn farkas, retired major mike lyons, thank you both. more buses filled with dozens of migrants arrived in new york city today. how the city is handling the influx. and promising news in the fight against cancer. deaths are declining, and more people are surviving than ever before.
Were drafted, were drafted immediately. that is raising fears that this mobilization order will go beyond just the people who have experience fighting, with combat experience, people in the military, reservists, which is what putin had said initially in his speech, and that this mobilization could in fact be broadened out to include many more russians. victor. alex marquardt with the reporting for us. i m going to start right there with our next two guests. thank you, alex. evelyn farkas, she s the former deputy assistant secretary of defense for russia, ukraine and eurasia. evelyn is also the executive director of the mccain institute. also with me retired u.s. army major mike lyons. good to have you both. major, let me start with you on what alex just reported there, that some of these 1300 protesters have been conscripted directly into the army. now, there was obviously a morale problem, a training problem before. but if you add people who oppose this war in the army now, that obv
Retired major mike lyons. thank you so much for being with us. i want to pick up where scott left off there. even if all of the civilian who s are in the plant are able to get out safely, able to evacuate, you re still going to have hundreds of ukrainian troops there in a facility that has been under attack by russian forces for weeks. what is your sense of what may happen to those ukrainian forces? good morning, alex, and thanks for having me. they re going to continue to fight. they re in a location that s about six or seven stories deep into that steel factory, and they ve got supplies and got equipment. they re not going to surrender. and perhaps the ukraine government can come up with something in order to get them out. and if they re going to escape, they ve got to go the other direction. there s no way they re going to surrender to russian forces and, frankly, survive it. the tunnel system they have there is extensive. it would make the north koreans and the viet cong blush in