latest piece of exclusive evidence from cnn. ukrainian authorities today acknowledged the loss of several towns in the east part of the country. how significant are those losses? yeah, i think when you re listening to what the ukrainians are saying, they are admitting they have lost these towns, but it s certainly not the significance of losing a major city like mariupol, for example, which still hasn t fallen or kharkiv, which is constantly under russian shelling in the second largest city in ukraine. but it is significant in the sense that it does show incremental progress on the part of the russians. remember what the russian army is trying to do here. they re trying to capture the eastern part of the country by moving from the south up, from the north down, and from the east inward. they re trying to capture that entire region. by capturing these three towns they get that much closer to not only doing that but also encircling the ukrainian troops in that part of the c
ex-president accountable for trying to end american democracy as we know it on january 6, a moment mccarthy desperately denies took place at all is at tape. release of audio obtained by msnbc reported originally by the new york times. journalist martin and burns, it is a snippet of a 2021 phone call during which mccarthy tills the house republican caucus that trump admitted responsibility for the attack on the capitol. let me be clear to all of you and i am very clear to the president. he bears responsibilities for his words and actions. i asked him personally today, does he hold responsibility for what happened. does he feel bad about what happened? he told me does have some responsibility for what happened. and he needed to acknowledge that. the gulf between the republican party s 24/7 disinformation fueled whitewash campaign of the insurrection. remember the reasons calling it legitimate political discourse and tourists? what republican officials actually thought and
media headwind is strong for some. it s lonely and odds are, you won t win it. any group with less than 50 members, is hard to join. most of us don t have the desire to run for president, and even if we did have the desire, we still wouldn t. i offer those caveats, there is a sdfrns in critiquing and evaluating. evaluating how someone performs as a candidate. that is a fair critique, but we should be mindful how difficult running for the highest office is, especially in a challenging time for our country and in a very toxic political environment. governor ron desantis started his campaign with momentum, with energy, with excitement and campaigning numbers have been impressive, yet he s not taken off like some believed he would. will he regain his footing, will someone else surplant him as the challenger. or president trump on glide path to renomination. here with the latest on the state of the primary is politico reporter olivia beavers. olivia, thank you for joining us tonig
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