it is thursday. i m off tomorrow for my daughter s first play. this is very exciting. you re looking particularly beautiful this morning. oh, gosh. you are so sweet. it s true. we have a lot going on this morning. let s get started with five things to know for this thursday, june 1st. also i had mom s birthday. happy birthday, mom. really significant news here first on cnn. caught on tape. federal prosecutors have donald trump in his own words acknowledging he held on to a classified pentagon document after he left the white house. and told people he couldn t share it with them. this is first on cnn reporting. what does it mean for the investigation? and speaking of trump, his former number two mike pence about to take him on for the white house. pence will announce his run next week as will former new jersey governor chris christie. the house overwhelmingly passing that debt limit deal in a move to avert a national and global economic crisis. the fate of the bill w
And another woman. ukraine s minister of internal affairs says all three deaths were tied all three tried to enter a bomb shelter that was closed. russian president putin said he launched this invasion to stop nato from getting closer to the russian border. now nato s secretary-general said that is exactly what will happen. so, last year, one agreed that ukraine will become a mechanic of this alliance. and we are making concrete steps because ukraine is moving towards nato. meaning, that they re coming closer and closer. they re moving from the soviet standards to nato standards equipment doctrines and we re helping them do that as we speak. cnn sam kiley joining us in eastern ukraine with more on this. so, first, sam, let s talk about the attacks overnight on kyiv. what more are we learning?
According to soviet standards at the time, could withstand a direct nuclear strike. all people, if they were injured during the bombing and shelling, could come to us. we thought it was possible we d be shelled, but we did not expect such a genocide and such an inhumane war. for weeks, women and children lived in these maze like tunnels they used them as a refuge. appeals to get them out of the plant were ignored until now. yesterday, for the first time in more than 60 days, they clambered out of their dark refuge and were led through the rubble out of what many have described as hell. this is where they will come. others have made it out of mariupol today after scrambling for parts to rebuild their wrecked car. daniel was living on a tug boat. translation: we were bringing food from the tug boat. - the russians had been assaulting the port for ten days and we had been sheltering. we couldn t even raise our heads.
Two months of war. homes, play parks, cafes are now charred in blasted ruins. tens of thousands of people are thought to have died. many of the survivors came here, the azovstal steel plant. as the city fell, pounded into smouldering ashes, ukrainian fighters used the underground chambers to stay and fight. translation: there were five very powerful bomb shelters that, according to soviet standards at the time, could withstand a direct nuclear strike. all people, if they were injured during the bombing and shelling, could come to us. we thought it was possible we d be shelled, but we did not expect such a genocide and such an inhumane war. for weeks, women and children lived in these maze like tunnels they used them as a refuge. appeals to get them out of the plant were ignored until now. yesterday, for the first time
Translation: there were five very powerful bomb shelters that, according to soviet standards at the time, could withstand a direct nuclear strike. all people, if they were injured during the bombing and shelling, could come to us. we thought it was possible we d be shelled, but we did not expect such a genocide and such an inhumane war. for weeks, women and children lived in these maze like tunnels they used them as a refuge. appeals to get them out of the plant were ignored until now. yesterday, for the first time in more than 60 days, they clambered out of their dark refuge and were led through the rubble out of what many have described as hell. this is where they will come. others have made it out of mariupol today after scrambling for parts to rebuild their wrecked car. daniel was living on a tug boat.