to. we re not going so you can. a sitting president will not only attend the dinner, he will tell jokes and allow himself to be roasted in front of the country by daily show host trevor noah. primary season heating up before the midterms. we ll bring you the event as soon as it begins. first, we do begin with some breaking news out of ukraine where civilian evacuations have begun at the steel plant in ma mariupol. 20 women and children have made it out. the hope is that they will get out safely. hundreds more remain trapped a t this hour. many of them injured during intense russian bombardments in recent days and weeks. food, medicine and time running out. there s not much left of what used to be sprawling industrial complex. these are images that show much of the plant flattened beyond recognition by repeated russian attacks. the same can be said for much of the city. the black sea city of odesa reports of multiple explosions in the last 24 hours in and around the airp
or this young couple, marina and her boyfriend, fedora, rushing to the hospital after her 18-month-old son was killed by shelling in mariupol. their grief is palpable through the photographs. mourning the loss of a life that had only begun. of course, we know this will not be the end of the grief here in ukraine. earlier today, i asked ukraine s president volodymyr zelenskyy about the emotional toll this has all taken ukrainians and on him. we ll get to more of that interview in a moment. but ukrainian officials are clear, russia is now seeking revenge after moscow s key warship, the moskva, sank. now the kremlin is claiming russian forces hit a military facility on the outskirts of kyiv, where i m standing. one that produces anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles. it is seen as retaliation for what happened to the moskva. in other parts of the country, shelling. mariupol is in a, quote, dire position. the secretary of state antony blinken is telling european allies is saying h
it s not only that he was involved in some of the key disputes that we ve heard about within the administration, apparently, but also that is decision to testify saw something about the privilege claims of other people off that they wouldn t. that is a very good point. and he appears and scenes and robert costa s book about this period in the very dramatic scenes and the white house. that the committee already knows about. they ve already read the book, they rarely spoken to other people who are in and around those moments. and so, a lot of this could just be confirming information. but also, a certain amount of this testimony could be trying to make sure that he is not included on the suspect list of people who are committing crimes at the time. yeah, i mean, it s one thing to have anonymous sources or third-party source, or an anonymous narrator in your book describe your behavior in a confrontation over whether or not a crime could be committed, right? it s another
knows about. they ve already read the book, they rarely spoken to other people who are in and around those moments. and so, a lot of this could just be confirming information. but also, a certain amount of this testimony could be trying to make sure that he is not included on the suspect list of people who are committing crimes at the time. yeah, i mean, it s one thing to have anonymous sources or third-party source, or an anonymous narrator in your book describe your behavior in a confrontation over whether or not a crime could be committed, right? it s another thing for you to be able to speak on your own terms about that. with all of these, you always want to be a fly on a wall, but pat sublot me testifying as the one i m most want to be in. this would be in a good one. we will see. thank you rachel. thank you. in what could be the most important recent poll about the future of american politics and the future of american democracy, we have the strongest evidence ye
know this will be a different fight in the east. it will be a more consolidated russian forceful one where they have more fire power, more raw strength focused into a specific geographic area. but they ll be going up against ukrainians, the most experienced ukrainian troops. and they are confident they can hold out if they get the support they need from western allies. the military weapons and such. today putin met with the austrian chancellor, carl, for 75 minutes in moscow. he says it was not a friendly visit. he is not particularly optimistic from the talks. what do you make of the face to face meeting? he is the first to meet since the start of the war. austria is militarily neutral. but as the chancellor says, not morally neutral. this is a chancellor only yesterday was talking with streets of bucha, seeing for himself the aftermath of russia s occupation. so his messages to putin were blunt. effectively, this is on you. there must be accountability for war crime. th