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activity in the kherson region and they note russia is having manpower problems with its military. and we begin our coverage in kyiv with melissa bell. what are ukrainian officials saying about this counteroffensive in the south? >> reporter: what we're hearing from regional officials is that day two of that counteroffensive is seeing more fighting in a number of towns along the front line. clearly this is a counteroffensive long anticipated and long prepared for. what we're seeing for the time being are warnings from senior ukrainian officials that while it is under way, people need...

From the president trump today? >> reporter: we can expect him to talk up the crime prevention plans. and this is in pennsylvania which is a battleground state and both parties are trying to gain ground. and so the white house says that biden will be playing up the contrasts between the two parties. we will hear him kind of go after republicans for their insistence to seeing that the assaults ban a supported. he wants to see is it back and we've heard him talk about it a lot after the really high profile mass shootings across the country that we saw the last few months including texas, illinoi...

They simply say the government cannot impose unreasonable restrictions. >> there are many gun owners, responsible gun owners, who favor measures that you would certainly support and that democrats support, things like background checks or, you know, limiting high capacity magazines. do you have any concerns that you're going to alienate them with a measure like this? >> no. look, we've been waiting for congress to enact many sensible reforms like, for example, reinstituting assaults weapons ban that hasn't existed at least federally for nearly two decades. we can't continue to wait for congres...

Earlier we heard from the former assistant secretary. she called the ar a mass murder weapon. it's the go-to firearm for mass shooters. do you think an assault-style weapons ban could help prevent these tragedies? >> i will tell you, i think that as many folks have said today, there's not really any one thing that we can do to ensure that these mass shootings won't happen again. there are many things we can do to try to reduce the odds or effectiveness of the shooter. an assaults weapons ban we can take had we the political will to do so. i was an agent on the streets of while the assault weap...

Exercise like bruce babbits that may have prevailed in a more sober era, but not in ours. he went back to his state, won re-election by 35%. in 2006, the year of the big democracy takeover in both houses of congress, democrats didn't even bother to field a candidate against dick luger, so he won re-election with really, 87% of the vote, 87%, with the other 13% going to libertarian, through all the time, he was a really reliable republican, not the most conservative guy in the world, he supports assaults weapons ban, but he supports stimulus and dodd frank and science and votes against tax incr...