erected days later. now senate democrats are planning a vote next week to codify abortion rights into a federal law. here s what you may have missed in the leaked opinion. in a footnote, justice samuel alito notes that supporters of abortion rights really just want to suppress the size of the african american population. justice samuel alito goes on to suggest that because of roe v. wade a disproportionate percentage of fetuses is black. the man who helped get a voting rights and uphold white racial innocence is now moved to protect a black lives. he offers no context here because while brevity is the soul of what it is also clearly the soul of the dim-witted. we will offer context and a second. shout to the republican voters who paved the way for this very thing to happen. do not mind us. we are still here cleaning up this mess. the mess on our hands now is the trump appointed judges who helped create the conservative majority. now, they are empowered and emboldened at a tim
about 200 civilians remain traps inside the sprawling azovstaal plant. ukraine s president says authorities are doing everything they can to get people out. translator: russian shelling and assault on as-zovstal does t stop. but civilians need to be taken out. women, children. many children who are still there. just imagine this hell and there are children. more than two months of constant shelling. bombing. and constant death nearby. mr. zelenskyy said evacuations from the southern part city are ongoing, but he didn t say how many people left mariupol on thursday. the red cross says more than 300 people are believed to be from mariupol and other nearby areas arrived in zaporizhzhia on wednesday. a ukrainian commander says wounded soldiers inside the azovstal steelworks are dying in terrible agony but those who are able are fighting to defend the plant. more now from cnn s isa soares. reporter: ukrainian soldiers trapped in the azovstal plant sing the army s battle hy
russia of breaking it promise to allow evacuations. still ukraine s president says authorities are doing everything they can to get people out. translator: russian shelling and assault on azovstal does not stop. but civilians still need to be taken out. women, children, many children who are still wthere. just imagine this hell. and there are children. horn two months of constant shelling, bombing, and constant death nearby. mr. zelenskyy didn t say how many people left mariupol on thursday, only that evacuations from the southern party is are ongoing. the red cross says more than 300 people believed to be from mariupol and surrounding areas arrived in zaporizhzhia on wednesday. sources tell cnn that ukraine had some help from the u.s. in targeting russia s flagship destroyer last month. the warship sank april 14 after missile strikes. sources say the ukrainians spotted the ship and asked the americans for confirmation that it was in fact that ship. the u.s. provided in
right there on the screen. but not as much as the kremlin clearly expected or hoped. nick paton walsh joins us now live from southern ukraine. nick, what progress, if any, have the russians made in this second phase of their campaign? well, certainly it is unclear if they are seeing that dramatic change in pace and territorial gains that they had advertised ahead of this regrouping and pushing to the donbas. ukraine seems to be on the counteroffensive in some areas and still in this city of mariupol, predominantly under russian control, azovstal steel plant is holding out relentless bombardment, civilians caught inside and i think a sense of this being so symbolic now for ukraine s tenacity here. we spoke to a ukrainian marine who served in the same city, in a different steel plant, taken by the russians and he talked to us about what he endured in the fight there and after he was taken prisoner, injured there. this is how the war ends. but if you told him he was lucky, he
rachel s excellent team of journalists, however, is producing this hour all week every week. and as always, we are glad to have you with us. it s always a powerful image when a group of people gather together to champion something they believe in. to stand up for their rights. but when people do it on the steps of the most powerful court in the land, life gives you goose bumps. i m thinking of when there were celebrations in front of the supreme court in 2015, after the court of from the right for same-sex couples to get married. it happened in 2012, when people gathered in that same spot to champion the court s decision not to take health care away from millions of people in this country. and it doesn t take a big crowd to pack unemotionally bunch. this was 1954. a mom and her little girl sitting on the steps off to the court ruled that it was unconstitutional desegregate schools. this week again, there were demonstrations in front of the high court, although this time, and