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endorsement is shaping the party. alex mooney carrying the endorsement of the former president. as we do in these primary nights, john king and the magic wall. what are you seeing in west virginia? talk about why that is so interesting. >> two primaries in west virginia. you mentioned this. a trump versus the establishment match. alex mooney versus david mckmc mckinley. u west virginia lost a seat in the reapportionment. trump endorsed alex mooney. he is the more conservative of the tw...

Maybe they feel like they have made their point. theyve also expended a huge amount of very expensive missiles over the past few days. we know that russia is running low on precision-guided munitions. now russia has said, contrary to the ukrainian claim, that they have been striking odesa because it is a retaliation for the ukrainian strike against the kerch bridge, that bridge that is connected to crimea back on monday. but so russia is saying that they are attacking odesa because those sea dro...

Statue, a charge on the books for a long time. arguably he has the evidence to support the charge. thats the one that caught a lot of eyes from from most people. the other charges were the ones that people were discussing and anticipating might be brought. >> tom dupree, thank you for sharing your afternoon with us. >> thank you. president biden is silent on the trump case, he is selling his economic message in pennsylvania, its his 27th time there since he took office. were keeping a close ea...

Hand? >> there are major obstacles even to major or modern armies if you would like. there also some means you can trust with bridges, et cetera, et cetera. but defending along river lines and dropping bridges is a standard, um, practice when it comes to defend against an oncoming enemy. >> where do you see the biggest risk in the next couple weeks or so? we were talking how may the 9th is a key date for russia. russian generals will, no doubt, be looking for a victory for putin. where are the r...

Theyre already launching killings every single day and move more of those forces toward od odesa. >> but for now, mariupol still has not fallen. destruction from previous battles litter the citys landscape. and as ukraines remaining forces decline to surrender on monday, russia with a chilling response. its defense ministry saying in part, quote, in case of further resistance, all of them will be eliminated. matt rivers, cnn, lviv, ukraine. >> and president zelenskyy tells cnn that ukraine is no...

Inland. they have used the maritime environment to assault the mainland in terms of an amphibious assault. and they have used the maritime environment to intimidate and in some cases to try to, we think, in some cases try to pin down ukrainian ground forces near odesa. so they still have quite a bit of naval capability available to them. >> just a quick follow-up. when the embassy in kyiv was moved to lviv and then into poland, the marines moved out as well. >> correct. >> are they still with th...

Surface crews missiles into ukraine. they have a long range. the fact that some of them may have moved away from odesa and the coast doesnt mean theyre completely incapable of maneuvering to other parts of the black sea and lunching cruise missiles. i dont think wed be willing to go that far just yet. >> we hear about the airspace still being contested. the sea of azov, northern black sea, is that considered contested? in russian hands? >> the maritime environment? >> the maritime environment. >...

Some coastal defense missile capabilities. we in the latest package are offering them some coastal defense -- unmanned surface capability. and, three, the issue of mines. we know that mines have been a factor, particularly south of od odesa. some of those mines could be free floating. therefore not moored to a specific area and could affect a navys ability to freely maneuver in that maritime space. so while they certainly -- from just a purely naval perspective, the russians have superiority in ...

How big victories are these? are these symbolic? whats the significance of these? >> i mean, that russian ship, thats their largest ship in the black fleet. its a very big, political significant and a moral victory for them to take that ship out that russia thought was completely safe operating in the black sea. is it something that will turn the tide? no, but it makes it much harder to conduct an amphibious assault in odesa without this ship there. whether the ukrainians did it or if it was a f...

It is not described as an attack by the russian military. "the cause of the explosion is under investigation," he says, "the information about possible active sabotage is under consideration." this kind of explosion heightens concern that pro-russian saboteurs could be working in the city. odesa is a city with a history of pro-russian sentiment among some politicians and residents. its a mood that lives just below the surface, and its difficult to get anyone to talk about it, especially during t...