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as russia's brutal assault from the sky intensifies. on the front lines ukrainian forces claim five cylvillages h been liberated. no response from russia on this but it's what's happening in the air that has ukraine on high alert. fighter jets today patrolling kyiv after news of more russian missile strikes. at a market, suburbs near a nuclear plant, both among putin's latest targets. also today reports of arrests now being made after putin's prize bridge to crimea was severely damaged a few days ago. matthew chance is with us now and has more on all of this. tell us about these ar...

Discussions you often seen on the political trail. justice thomas talking about the 17-year-olds, not needing or deserving to bear the weight of the sins of the past. so you do have the infusion of these points that are coming up again. ariana, as you rightly pointed out, time and time again the composition of the court, we often speak of the so-called conservative bench, the liberal bench. americans are paying taking to how the decisions come down. they are reading a kid of tea leaf, or maybe the rob of the justice to determine, was this a predetermined conclusion? or was it really the result...

Rather quickly on a case like this. >> in this case it's alito who we know is more conservative on these issues, but usually something that would happen is he would kick it to the entire bench and they could put in an emergency stay that would stop it until they have the opportunity to hear more. that didn't happen in this case, but we could still hear more because they have that pending emergency application before them. so it's certainly something to watch, but it could really tee up what it means for roe v. wade in this new environment of a more conservative bench. >> and in the case of tex...

Then suddenly it's not okay. that's just not how fairness works. >> you mentioned earlier court cases. you mentioned the supreme court in 2020, but this is a new supreme court. you have a 6-3 conservative bench. are you confident that if these cases get to the supreme court again that there will be similar rulings, similar findings? >> well, the bostock decision is extremely important in setting precedent and the reason behind treating transgender identity as already included in protections against sex discrimination. the same reasoning is going to apply to title 9. the ncaa opposes this legis...