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Men, women, children, come out, you will not be harmed if you come out. the witness said that this continued for about 30 minutes, at which stage there started to be an exchange of fire, small arms fire, ak-47 started coming from the house to u.s. forces, and u.s. forces firing back that was relatively brief. then another attempt at negotiation with the negotiator again pleading with the people inside, saying you will be attacked, you will be killed if you don't come out. if you come out now, you will not be harmed. at one stage the negotiator seemed to be addressing a woman in arabic. in arab...

Affirmative action. >> the irony is that the supreme court is at the very same time hearing cases about this sort of affirmative racial discrimination, while adding someone who is the beneficiary of this sort of quota, the majority of the court may be saying, writ large, it's unconstitutional. we'll see how that irony works out. >> calling it quota. the white house firing back, pointing out that former president reagan promised as a candidate to nominate the first female justice to the supreme court and in 1981, he fulfilled that pledge by nominating sandra sandraday day o'connor. so julie, wh...

President putin making a crude, possibly sexual joke at the expense of the ukrainian president. putin used condeskremding coarse language to say that he should submit to a years old cease fire deal. here's what putin said translated to english. like it or don't like it, it is your duty my beauty. zelensky firing back saying, we are not his. the kaunt trying to take the high road in what could be the biggest land war since world war ii. now from kyiv, ukraine, why were putin's comments so insulting. and how can he do that in the middle of this armed stand-off? >> these comments were

The context that you can give us guidance of how to think about the shelling of that kindergarten in ukraine? >> i think that it is outrageous. i won't comment about the specifics, but there has been relative calm over the last few weeks on that border between where the separatists are and ukranian forces. i'm speculating, this is not based on intelligence, but the idea that the russians would take that aggressive of an action almost trying to lure the ukranians into firing back in a more major way which would be the pretext for a major russian invasion not just in the east but as intelligence...

Major cities. there has been several attempts to penetrate kyiv. there was a fierce battle for an air field not far from kyiv that involved russian helicopter assault. coming up from the south, troops are heading towards this city and there is fierce fighting as russian armor and tanks are heading towards. the first stage of the 14-hour conflict was to try to decapitate the ukrainian military and take some of its capacity away. although, that's not been entirely successful because the ukrainian military is firing back, has managed to destroy some russian tanks and capture russian soldiers. but...