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ruhle starts now. r with stephanie ruhle starts now >> tonight, president bidens surprise visit to ukraine, meeting with president zelenskyy while announcing more military aid. what this historic trip means for the future of the war. meanwhile, some far-right republicans criticize the presidents trip to ukraine. what we are hearing from a small but loud minority. then, ron desantis visits new york city to talk policing and crime. is this the unofficial start to a presidential run? as t...

word. >> there is a significant agreement on this important -- so much larger than just ukraine. its about freedom and democracy -- >> president biden gets tonight s last word from kyiv. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. >> tonight, president bidens surprise visit to ukraine, meeting with president zelenskyy while announcing more military aid. what this historic trip means for the future of the war. meanwhile, some far-right republicans criticize the presidents trip to ukr...

select committee. many of us went into the hearings thinking that we knew what happened. a u.s. president wanted to overturn the election, spurred a mob to attack the capitol. forcing the lawmakers there to flee for their lives. but these hearings are showing us so much more than that. for more of what happened that day, and how close we came to losing our democracy. so, how goes? heres how congressman pete aguilar described it. >> approximately 40 feet, thats all there was. 40 feet be...

outlawing -- the bill borrows a page from texas, by putting enforcement in the page of individuals who can sue anyone who helps a person get an abortion. oklahoma is just the latest state to pass an abortion ban, ahead of the supreme court ruling that could strike down roe v. wade. the bands are getting more and more extreme. justifications by antiabortion activists are getting more unhinged. this leader open anti abortion group, who republican honors of congress called as an expert wi...

See, its really not about ukraine. its about the west and the west is out to get us. they call it natos system, trying to merge nato and nazism there, make it as though we are the aggressors instead of them. its a neat trick propaganda wise. i dont know how many people will it fool. it will fool lot of russians, i think, and thats what president putin means to do. >> clint, lets talk about where we are right now in this war. we talk about the number of casualties, millions of refugees have fleed...

In the east in particular, simone, the battle has already begun. its many weeks into unfolding. the key location is a city known as bakhmut, that area right around there. the wagner militia groups, mercenaries, the prisoners have taken massive casualties. the russians continue to push just north of there along an access that goes straight north all the way up to the russian border, using four or five different efforts to really advance with the observe of russian forces saying behind it. but the...

Trapped inside one of the deadliest battles of the war so far. here to discuss and help us understand the latest as michael mcfaul, former u.s. ambassador to russia and national security analyst clint. i will start with you. give us a sense of what is happening on the ground right now. >> selina, the russians are fighting more like we thought that they would when the war kicked off. several things have happened. one, they integrated and concentrated their forces, rather than doing a very disastr...

Providing military aid, they passed 40 billion dollars in more military and humanitarian aid on thursday. that is triple the action that we passed in march. as you are seeing on the ground and what we laid out, understand why congress felt they needed to increase discover the packages dramatically? is this because, as you laid it out, it would help in this moment and stop some of russias progress that they are making in the region? >> two pieces. one, it allows, particularly in the eastern area,...

Pockets? the big unknown, and i think the thing the pentagon was talking about yesterday and you saw from the british military assessment, is will the russian ground troops fight? will the armor formations be able to fight? remember, this is spare parts essentially at this point. you have some battalion tactical groups fighting for a while and are essentially put together, but a lot have been whittled down, are coming back from kyiv, have not fought together, have a new chain of command and a ne...

Back from mariupol, to donetsk. so they are creating a delay in action, creating more time for the ukrainian military to get here in the donbas region. >> clint, what exactly is indirect fires m. >> indirect fires, when we talk about them, youll hear people talk about russian fires. were talking about artillery, missiles, and aircraft, essentially, air strikes. theyll use a combination of those three to very devastating effects. this is, one, to suppress ukrainian military. two, to try to atrite...