but with variants multiplying and frustrations growing, white house covid response coordinator dr. ashish jha joins me live in studio. the top republican house leader caught on tape saying what he really thinks about donald trump and the insurrection. it would be my recommendation he should be gone. will his public contradictions matter at all to republicans? hello, i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is turning its eyes towards kyiv. today the u.s. secretaries of state and defense are outside the wire. that s according to ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. the pair are on a high-stakes diplomatic trip to meet with him in kyiv. zelenskyy caught the u.s. offguard saturday when he announced the visit and warned that u.s. officials should not come, quote, with empty hands. on the battlefield fighting is disrupting the thorthodox easte holiday. in odesa, the mayor says russian shelling killed at least eight people, including a 3-month-old infa
with cnn, netflix, disney and twitter all left spinning with no stopping in sight. here at cnn, new ownership decided to shut down the cnn-plus streaming service less than a month after it was launched by the previous management team. the u-turn was front page news, stunning news and painful news for everyone involved. years of development possibly down the drain. some of the shows may never be seen. hundreds of staffers may be laid off, though the company is trying to place many of them in new jobs. amid these bruising headlines, folks are trying to make sense of it. some parts are believing the predictable points about talking points but the truth is, this was a corporate move. this cnn plus service was doomed because of the timing of the merger and clashing strategies. the new owner has plans to compline multiple streaming platform to make one big challenger for netflix. and speaking of which, this week netflix s earnings came out. incredible snag, subscriber numbers actua
situation inside as, quote, close to a catastrophe. now, not far away, the grim discovery of more suspected mass graves. mariupol officials estimate 20 thp city residents have died so far. many of those bodies now believed to have been dumped in the long trenches you see on your screen. now, despite president putin s incredible boast of, quote, liberating mariupol, despite the images you have seen, the u.s. president, joe biden, says it is questionable how much of the city russian troops actually control. ukraine, for its part, denies the city has fallen. for more, let s bring in isa soares, who is live for us in la viefb, in ukraine. good morning, to you, isa. good morning, michael. and the dire situation you were describing in the azov steel factory we have been reporting in fact for days, the ukrainian fighters remain define. surrender it seems does not appear to be in their v vocabulary. we have more now from our own matt rivers. we destroyed one tank today. two armor
world. it is friday, april 22nd. i m brianna keilar in washington with jim sciutto in lviv, ukraine. we are beginning with breaking news. mariupol is close to a catastrophe. that is how the owner of the azovstal steel plant is describing the situation on the ground now. food, water, ammunition growing more scarce by the hour. men, women, and children, hundreds of them, still hide inside the battered and burned out fortress. there is no agreement on evacuation corridors out of mariupol for the thousands upon thousands of others. they fear the routes will be attacked by russian forces because they have been. this morning, these disturbing satellite images revealing rows of mass graves. russian soldiers accused of dumping the body of countless women, children, and men in ditches to cover their crimes. there are over 200 new graves in these set of photos. think of that in the 21st century. mass killing and mass graves. that s where we are. the mayor of mariupol calls all of thi
it s close to catastrophe. water, food, ammunition, everything growing more scarce. ukraine s president can see that russian forces over much of mariupol. russian soldiers accused of dumping more than 200 bodies including women and children into ditches. let s begin our coverage with cnn s matt rivers live in lviv with these breaking details. matt, what is the latest? reporter: kate, what we re watching going on in the east is we re getting some more insight into what russian commanders have been thinking and i think what we ve heard from them is what a lot of us military analysts, journalists have been saying publicly for a long time now but we re getting publicly now from this top military commander in russia is that their goals in this second phase of the war is to connect the two areas of ukraine that they both, currently control. that would be areas in the donbas region, in the east. places that are russian controlled separatists areas, essentially, and also, they want