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welker and michael crowley and barry mccaffrey. thanks for joining us. molly, let me start with you. we see russians make key advances, especially as they are being more concentrated in the eastern part of ukraine. they are hammering the area of severodonetsk. talk me through what you are hearing when it comes to the battlefield in ukraine. >> reporter: that's exactly right. they are hammering severodonetsk and all of the villages surrounding it. there's been a pocket, a horseshoe-like area, a-in-law fighting area, but that's where all of the russian aggression for the last week has ...

yesterday. the fear for democrats, that voters frankly have had enough. >> the price of gas is just outrageous. >> these gas prices are crazy. luckily i'm close to my business, so i don't have to spend as much. i used to fill up with 60, and now it's like 100. >> we'll have fresh reporting from the white house in just moments. in uvalde, texas, we're hearing from the school district's police chief in several days. he says, in spite of reports to the contrary, he is in touch with state investigators. also live this hour, we are keeping tabs on a briefing at the pentagon. we will c...

changed again today. texas dps now says the door the killer used to enter the school was not propped open as police officials first claimed, that in fact the teacher closed the door as the gunman approached but the door did not lock behind her. meanwhile chief pete arredondo made the call alone to hold officers back is not responding to follow-up interview requests according to the texas department of public safety. investigators with the texas dps said they requested a follow-up interview days ago but have not heard from him. nbc news has also reached out to him but we have not rece...

[crowd murmuring] - a crucial supreme court ruling on affirmative action could come tomorrow, as colleges and universities grapple with the possibility that race might no longer be a factor in admissions. - the central question being decided this time: is should affirmative action continue forever in the name of diversity, and are the gains achieved worth the harms allegedly inflicted on asian american students? this is the most important civil rights case of our era. i don't think it's an overstatement to say they're freaking out right now. one admissions official told me, some coll...