now day after day, of people bury being peburied in their backyards, front yards, wherever it s possible, in shallow graves and we have heard that repeatedly about people afraid that the dogs will come, and so they try to cover the grave with with something. it s just so um it s just so friggin brutal. it is brutal. it s brutal and honestly, anderson, it s just absolutely haunting. i mean, seeing that man, nikolai, imagining him under heavy fire. and i should add, one thing that we weren t able to get into the piece today but he actually lost his hearing entirely almost as a result of just nights and nights, weeks on end, of heavy bombardment, explosions going off all around him. and you can imagine him trying to bury his nephew in a shallow grave, um, not having any real assistance around him. he said that basically, he was one of the only people who decided to tough it out and
surrogate for his father, traveling the country on his behalf. in the days leading up to the election he told trump supporters that if trump lost, it would be because the radical left cheated. make sure everyone gets out and votes because if you don t, they are going to steal it from you. reporter: but while he publicly warned, even teasing the showdown in congress on january 6th two months before it happened. we either have a vote we control and we win or it gets kicked to congress, 6 january 2021. this text part of a traunch of thousands of texts from meadow the committee has in its possession and has used as part of its investigation. what else was in those texts from donald trump jr.? it s fascinating to hear this? reporter: yeah, anderson, there were so many interesting things about what this text message lays out. i found one of the most
and and stay where he was. and you see that a lot in this conflict, particularly with elderly people. they tend to be more reluctant to leave their homes even in the most extreme situations, anderson, they are the ones who decide that they don t care essentially or they are willing to cope with the very real possibility that they might die because they don t want to leave their homes and they feel simply that it s too late for them to try to start a new life, anderson. yeah. i mean, you hear from so many people. you know, what are they going to do? flee to warsaw and, you know, at age in their 70s? i mean, and try to find work? i mean, it s it s not fleeing is not easy. staying i mean, it s impossible choice. it s a choiceless choice. um, i know in a number of places, ukrainian forces have actually taken down some of the bridges to or in the past, took down some bridges to stop the russian advance. i think we saw that at the bridge you were at in irpin, as well. how hard
and all these essentials that most of us take for granted are only just starting now to get through to some of these hard-hit areas. so, it is going to be a very long climb ahead for these people, indeed, anderson. and all of that with the sort of sense of dread, and even frankly expectation that they could find themselves, once again, facing russian soldiers in their own backyards. yeah. i mean, there is nothing to to to stop vladimir putin from deciding once the donbas has been dealt with in whatever way they are going to try to do that if they want to try to move back on on kyiv or chernihiv, clarissa, appreciate it. thank you. coming up, disturbing radio communications released by ukraine said to be of russian soldiers talking frankly about killing, raping civilians. those clips when we return. weathertech is the ultimate protection for your r vehicle.
those are your words. and i stand by that exact statement as i said it. okay. do you agree or disagree with the officers who spent four or five hours battling that medieval mob that had baseball bats and lead pipes and so on, do you stand by the statement that the people they were fighting were tourists? or would you agree with them that they are terrorists? that statement did not say those people were tourists. there s your answer. despite gut wrenching testimony from four police officers yesterday, he apparently still believes it. the news continues. let s hand it over to chris for cuomo prime time. chris? he just wants certain people who he wants to influence to believe he can tell them what he believe he can tell them what he wants they want to hear. captions by vitac www.vitac.com anderson, always good to see you. i am chris cuomo. welcome to prime time.