clean slate of actors is chosen. she did not respond very comment. she is under scrutiny for similar text as she said to chief of staff mark meadows around the same time. this has renewed questions about potential conflicts of interest for justice thomas. also, remember this? i also intend to see that those members of congress are embedded. those members who had groups coming through the capitol that i saw on january 5th, our common sense for the next day, those members of congress that incited this violent crowd, those members of congress that attempted to help the president undermine our democracy. i m going to see that they are held accountable, and if necessary, ensure that they do not serve in congress. republicans on the house administration committee, then allegedly reviewed security footage and denied that there was any tours in the days before the attack. in a new letter, loudermilk calls a claim into quote that this contradicts it. they ask for meeting with hi
this comes as russia continues its assault in eastern ukraine, nbc s erin mclaughlin joins me now from kharkiv with the latest. hello, aaron harry? doing he catie. well here in kharkiv, they have been facing yet another russian assault in the over night hours on a market. starting a big fire here near the center of the city. meanwhile, the this morning there has been heavy shelling in a suburb northwest of the city, towards the russian border, killing at least one civilian and wounding 20 others. ukrainian officials tell us that they have actually moved the u.s. supplies to howitzer into that area, and russian forces are in the process of trying to take those howitzers out. so while military analysts say that ukraine has won the battle for kharkiv, it is very clear from what we are seeing here on
meeting, thanking both men for coming, personally thanking president biden for what he called the united states unprecedented support for ukraine and also thanking, quote, the american people as well as congress for their bipartisan support. he says we see it and we feel it. so, ukrainian officials clearly very happy that this meeting took place. and a meeting that, frankly, they wanted to have happen for a long time now after a series of other leaders from uk prime minister boris johnson to the leaders of other eastern europe came. also what we heard from u.s. officials, including u.s. secretary of defense lloyd austin who said they believe ukraine can win and the united states is going to do everything they can to get them the kind of weapons they need in order to be able to do so with the point of trying to avoid hapgs in the east to what happened in certain towns around kyiv. we can show you video of a suburb northwest of kyiv where russian forces got very close.
say is a russian pontoon bridge coming across the irpin river. that s the irpin suburb northwest of kyiv. trying to bring tanks or ground forces in, you d come across the river. what is the significance of this and other developments around the capital? this is, i think, very significant, john. it shows what the ukrainians how successful they have been in interdicting the supply lines for the russians. the russians and vladimir putin hoped for a blitzkrieg. what he got instead was a sitskrieg. he s only been able to make modest movements into the ukraine area. he is coming down into kyiv. he is probably setting up for a siege. the incredible will of the ukrainian people, as manifested in their abilities to countcounteract and essentially cut off sup ply lines from moving faster. blitzkrieg, 25, 30, 50 miles a day. that s not happened, not anything close. now we re into a siege, and it is going to get, i think, pretty
all right. no, no, no. medic! medic! medic! incredible to see those ukrainian soldiers rush to that family s aid trying to help them yelling medic knowing they re putting their own life right there in harm s way not knowing if another bomb is going to drop right where they re standing. that russian shelling instantly killed a mother, father and two children. this is also a suburb northwest of kyiv where clarissa ward was reporting. we just brougt you her story yesterday on the show and all eight people in the town were killed by shelling today, civilians just trying to escape the violence, trying to go