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thank you for joining us on this tuesday. today an extraordinary moment. just days from the one-year mark of russia's brutal war on ukraine, two world leaders, two cups kwngsal speeches, president biden in poland, reiterating america's support for ukraine and president putin in moscow blaming western nations for the escalating war. >> we will not tire. president putin's craving lust for land and power will fail and the ukrainian people's love for their country will prevail. ukraine will 1/never be a victo for russia, never. >> translator: the elite of the west do not conceal their ambition which is to defeat russia, finish us off once and for all. let me be frank, it is they who unleashed this war and we use

force to stop them. >> happening as russian bombs continue to drop. a warning to viewers these next images out of ukraine are graphic. this was the scene in kherson this morning. russian shelling killing at least five people and this time it was a market that was targeted. people killed in the middle of the street as they shopped. cnn's alex mar quez is in dnipro. kaitlan collins is traveling with president biden in poland. this was very much a triumphant speech on the fpart of presiden biden nearly a day to the start of the war and his message seemed to be clearly, ukraine will prevail. what more did he say today? >> reporter: yeah. he said ukraine will prevail and that putin has been wrong. basically everything he said the russian leader believed was going to happen a year ago when he invaded ukraine has proven

not to happen, talking about how united nato is and saying the united states will not falter in the support for ukraine. also saying that a year ago putin thought that, you know, autocracies would get stronger and they've gotten weaker and democracies have been the ones that have grown in the year as you've seen the coalition come together and build to support ukraine. that was really a main part of his speech, saying essentially this support is not going to go away. what putin thought was going to happen just has not materialized. it was a forceful speech but what is the most remarkable about what we've seen today is the dramatically two different world views from two different world leaders with putin going first, obviously, in his speech he spent considerable amount of time blaming the west saying they started the war in ukraine, that they essentially want to destroy russia, and even though aides said president biden wasn't going to go tit for tat and rebut putin he kind of did saying the russian leader is wrong saying the west is to blame for this, speaking

directly to the russian people at one point and saying this is a war of choice, that it is not of ness tu, it is a tragedy that putin has chosen here and saying putin could really make it all go away with just one simple word and noting, obviously, he has not done that. giving a shout-out to poland talking about what they have done since russia invaded crane, not only serving as a logistics hub, but also taking in over a million refugees and praising president duda and the polish first lady there. his message was saying that autocrats and people like putin only understand no. they are not going to take away people's freedoms or redraw borders like they are trying to do with ukraine. that's really the overarching message, is saying everything that putin was saying in his speech about who is responsible for this is wrong and that u.s. support for it, nato support for ukraine, is not going to change or go away. >> yeah.

it was striking, he said that autocrats and the implication was clearly he was talking about putin, cannot ever be appeased and kaitlan, you've been in poland a couple days now, he also -- president biden met with the polish president duda. do you know anything more about that meeting? poland is receiving all of these refugees from ukraine and the tip of the spear really for the eastern flank of nato. >> they've shielded a burden when it comes to the refugee crisis caused by that invasion. 9 million came through poland, not all stayed a million and a have stayed. i spoke with the warsaw mayor talking about how people have welcomed them in to their homes, but it's not easy to absorb that many people talking about when it comes to the health care system and teaching and what that has been like for poland. to see president biden and president duda as they were across from the table at each other earlier gushing

essentially talking about their support with duda saying that america is so critical to keeping the world order and maintaining it as it is, is remarkable in and of itself. on the campaign trail before president biden was president biden when he was candidate biden, he was essentially twh warning that poland was going down a road of totalitarian regime and the war in ukraine has changed that dynamic and president biden has visited here twice in warsaw in a year given two forceful speeches, pushing back on putin with the support of the polish president behind him. >> yeah. absolutely. and poland has been i think one of the loudest voices calling for nato to stand strongly behind ukraine and this conflict. kaitlan collins, always great to have you with us. thank you for that. for his part today, vladimir putin insisted the situation in ukraine is the west's fault. in a long speech putin also said that russia is suspending its

participation in the nuclear start treaty with the united states. here's that moment. >> translator: they want to inflict strategic defeat on us and climb all over our nuclear facilities. i would like to make the anumts today that russia is suspending its participation in the start treaty. >> under that both the u.s. and russia were permitted to inspect each other's weapons sites through the year 2026, but u.s. officials sayah has refused to allow those inspections of its nuclear facilities. live to ukraine where alex is in dnipro. president biden and putin both with messages for ukraine and for the world today. what is your sense of how the people of ukraine are taking this all in at such a pivotal moment, when, by the way, i think that there's been the

expectation that russia could be trying to escalate things in these coming days to make a point about this one-year anniversary. >> there will be a rejection of putin's speech and it is likely that president biden speech will go over very well, that this was what ukrainians wanted to hear. there hasn't been much official reaction yet. that will trick until. we did hear from the chief of staff who called this a powerful and inspiring speech and said together we'll win. this was a twcontinuation of wh they heard yesterday during his visit to kyiv praising ukrainians for their strength and resilience, how the u.s. will support ukraine, nato will support ukraine and taking aim at vladimir putin and president biden is saying all this with the credibility of spending 24 hours in a war zone. this is a country attacked every day and president biden was not

just in the capital city for several hours, but traveling to and from on a train. there were lots of parts of that speech that are going to resonate with ukrainians. kyiv standing tall and free. ukrainians love for their country that will prevail. you travel across the country, when speaking with troops they recognize the fact they are fighting against a bigger and better equipped enemy and president zelenskyy talks about this being a david and goliath fight and they will win because they're fighting for their country's existence. president biden talking about what's happening on the ground that makes it sound like he understands the atrocities the people are facing, the crimes against humanity and that, of course, as you and i have discussed the recent escalation of the way that the u.s. is looking at what is going on here

legally. the other thing is to offer more in the way of material support. this was a strong speech, forcefully delivered, but wasn't much news in it. the news did come yesterday with a $500 million military aid package announced by president biden, so these words of support are certainly welcomed. very welcomed by the ukrainian people. what they do want at the end of the day are the tools that they can use to push russian forces out of their country. >> it's a very good point. the asks are still on the table and as of right now the biden administration doesn't seem to be moving forward on them. alex, great to have you on the ground for us there. let's continue the conversation with former u.s. ambassador to nato kurt volker, the u.s. special representative for ukraine negotiations. ambassador, what is your reaction to president biden's speech today? what stood out to you?

>> well several things. first off, i'm very pleased he went to ukraine and then went to poland and delivered this speech because what he's doing is laying out the case, why ukrainian's fight for freedom is america's fight as well. that it is important to the united states that ukraine be victorious in this war. the follow on from this should be that we accelerate our support for ukraine. we've been a bit slow in the way we provided support over the past year. we need to help the ukrainians win more quickly. it's too early for a victory lap but great he's out there saying that we are committed. >> i want to talk to you more about that in a moment, but president putin also gave his speech this morning, and he made a pointed announcement about suspending participation in the start nuclear treaty. do you think there's any significance to that at this moment? >> not really. they weren't full implementing

the treaty anyway and they pulled out other treaties anyway, suspended the cfe, pulled out a long time ago. there's no surprise here. it doesn't mean that we're embarking on a new arms race because russia doesn't necessarily have the means or desire to invest in more nuclear weapons anyway. i think what they are trying to do is get the attention of the biden administration and get people worried so that maybe we won't support ukraine so much, but that's not going to work. >> in addition to, frankly, a lot of falsehoods that putin expressed this morning in the speech about why the war started and who was responsible for it, when clearly russia was the one who amassed troops on the border of ukraine and practically enkirkled that country, he already sees the united states as player in this war. are you concerned he could use any pretext at this point to expand this conflict? we've heard the polish prime minister saying over the weekend they're worried about moldova. the moldovan leader was in

warsaw today for president biden's speech. >> yeah. i think putin has to be bluffing here because he's having a hard time just fighting in ukraine. he doesn't have the manpower or the equipment, he doesn't have the means to win there. the russian forces are at a massive casualty and getting pushed back. the last thing russia wants to do is expand the war to go to other countries that would draw them in, especially not to go after nato countries, and even nuclear weapons. i think he knows if he did that, it would draw a direct response against the russian military, something they would not stand. i think he's bluffing that he would escalate elsewhere. >> and look, you just mentioned the united states needs to do more. you said previously that the u.s. must send everything that ukraine needs to end this and end it quickly. a big part of that on the table is the issue of the f-16 planes

and also attacks as well. the f-16s people have said have the one-year training lead time. do you think that the united states should start that training now, even if they haven't made a decision about whether to provide the planes down the road? >> of course we should. before russia invaded ukraine in february of last year, we were already working closely with the ukrainian military and trained some of their pilots on a different aircraft, the a-10, and if you remember one year ago, march of last year when president biden was in warsaw, when he was in poland, there was talk about providing mig 29 aircraft ones that ukrainians knew how to fly. we didn't do that then and didn't start the training on pilots then and didn't get a decision forward on f-16s then and we're a year late now. we should still do it and get started now so that at some point when it's possible, we will be able to give them aircraft that will help them protect their skies and protect their people.

>> and look, the elephant in the room for a lot of this week, the munich security conference over the weekend president biden's speech today, his appearance in kyiv, is how does this conflict come to an end? the president said he'll stand with ukraine as long as it takes, but you've also said that there is no vision for how the fighting stops. what do you think the vision ought to be for how the fighting ends? >> yeah. thank you. i think it is important. first off, ukraine has to recover all of its territory. we have to get back to respecting international borders. that means russia is going to be defeated here because putin is not going to stop fighting. you heard his speech today. he's making things up and claiming a false history and he's justifying continued attacks against ukraine. so he has to be defeated. and then once russian forces are defeated, no one is talking about attacking russia or going in to moscow or into russia at all, but once the russian forces are defeated trying to take

ukraine we need two things from russia. we need an acknowledgement of responsibility for the crimes that they committed, aggression and crimes against humanity, and we need russia to i a gre in the future to live within its own borders. they occupy parts of ukraine, georgia and moldova. russia needs to stop trying to be an empire and be a normal country like everybody else. >> that seems like a basic thing you're describing but if you heard putin this morning he does not believe that russia should abandon its old imperial borders and that's a huge sticking point as we go forward. ambassador volker, thank you for all of that context. >> thank you. coming up next, house speaker kevin mccarthy is handing over every security tape from the january 6th attack on capitol hill to one of the biggest spreaders of conspiracy theories about that day, tucker carlson. why the democrats say this is a

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any friendly outlet, an outlet in tucker carlson who has a history of spreading lies about january 6th. why is this happening? >> reporter: right. that is a huge concern. tucker carlson has been one of the most prominent spreaders of some of these january 6th conspiracy theories, including the false claims that liberal partisans within the fbi were helping orchestrate the insurrection at the capitol in order to help or undermine i should say former president donald trump. but his producers were on capitol hill last week, digging through footage, multiple camera angles showing what happened that day on january 6th and some of that footage is expected to air in the coming weeks. former committee member of the january 6th committee zoe lofgren, a democrat, told cnn they're concerned about the security concerns. they had an agreement with the

u.s. capitol police on what footage they could release when they had shown some of the footage during their hearings over the past year, but much of that was really debated and agreed to upon what they thought was safe for members of the capitol including not showing them evacuating the u.s. capitol or things like that that they think could be damaging to future security concerns and lawmakers here. >> yeah. it's a real concern in part because we don't know what purpose is that these producers from tucker carlson's show are going to have these tapes for. but the other part of this is the u.s. capitol police. what are they and law enforcement officials saying about all of this? >> reporter: well, we just heard from u.s. capitol police chief mentioner who told cnn that he turned over this footage to kevin mccarthy and said when a member of congressional leadership or oversight committee asks for this footage, they must turn it over.

again, the concerns here are about, you know, potentially bad actors having a blueprint to the capitol or how this footage, whether edited or shows parts of the capitol they don't want much of the public seeing and having it in the hands of what zoe lofgren told us could be bad actors looking at this. really, a lot of concerns about how this footage will be used. again, 41,000 hours of this footage, a lot that fox news has its hands on and unclear how they're going to portray it in the coming weeks. >> yeah. and i think if the concern here is about transparency, why not release it publicly to everyone at the same time? thank you so much for all of that reporting. and still to come for us, is it safe to drink the sfwhwater? the ohio epa chief and governor try to reassure residents who have questions about that toxic train derailment. our dellll technologies advisors

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it's a case that could reshape the internet as we know it. moments ago the supreme court heard arguments in a lawsuit over extremist content on youtube. it was brought by the family of the only american killed in the 2015 paris terror attack. they sued google saying it promotes and profits from terrorist content, so for the

first time the justices are reviewing the law known as section 230 that shields platforms like google being held liable from the content they recommend. jessica schneider has been tracking this. these oral arguments have been pretty fascinating and sounds like the plaintiffs, individuals who brought this suit, are having a tough time in this court. >> yeah. we heard abby throughout these three hours of arguments the justices here on both sides liberal and conservative really repeatedly acknowledging how consequential a ruling it in this case would be if they side with the family of the terror victim. all nine seemed to struggle with whether the court should step in here because in doing so, they would be chipping away at some of the protections that section 230 provides and that would result in a flood of lawsuits and really turn the internet into a wild, wild west atmosphere. you know this is such a big case because courts, they've

repeatedly found that section 230 broadly protects internet providers from liability that stems from content third parties post on their platforms which you the crux of social media. what the family in this case is asking the supreme court to do is to hold youtube responsible for the death of their 23-year-old daughter who was killed in the paris terrorist attack in 2015 because this family says that not only did youtube allow isis videos to be posted on their site, but also, that youtube used its algorithms to recommend those isis videos to certain viewers and that aided and abetted terrorism. the family has lost in the lower courts, largely because of the protection of section 230, and in particular, justice kagan expressed a lot of concern about wiping away the protections that section 230 does provide. take a listen. >> every other industry has to internalize the cost of this conduct. why is it the tech industry gets

a pass? a little bit unclear. on the other hand, we're a court, we really don't know about these things. you know these are not like the nine greatest experts on the internet. isn't that something for congress to do, not the court? >> so the justices really struggled here to understand the issues in this case and to decide what to do here. abby, this won't be the last that they'll here on the issue. this is the first of two cases they'll hear the other one tomorrow. all of these cases will determine should social media companies be held liable for terrorist content posted on their sites. the big er question will be in the case tomorrow. big tech has been arguing here that they can't possibly patrol everything that's posted. they say they have these algorithms that recommend certain content and those are necessary to help users sort through a vast universe of content in all subject areas, not just terrorism. and the justices did take to

that argument here, so we'll get a decision in this case likely the end of june, but if they were to side with the terror victims here, it would create possibly a lot of problems with the internet and change it as we know it. that's what big tech companies are warning. >> it would be consequential one way or another how this would affect how we deal with the internet that we deal with every single day. jessica schneider thank you for off that. and the top u.s. environmental official is in east palestine right now. people there are worried about their health more than two weeks after a train that was loaded with toxic chemicals derailed. michael regan and mike dewine visited homes and drank tap water to try to assuage people's fears. some have complained about rashes, headaches, nausea and other symptoms that they're worried are linked to that train crash and the chemicals that they've been emitted in a

controlled explosion. cnn's miguel marquez is in east palestine where the epa has just completed a news conference, so miguel, fill us in on what was learned after that news conference? >> yeah. we're still in the middle of a news conference. the governor of ohio still talking to members of the press here. it was the governor of ohio, pennsylvania, and the epa administrator here to announce two things essentially, that they want to hold norfolk southern responsible for all costs in cleaning up this mess and assure the people of east palestine and the surrounding area also into beaver county in pennsylvania that brtsdss this area, that the water, their air, is safe to both breathe and to drink and they say they will do that for months, itch not years ahead. they publicly committed to ensure that norfolk southern clean this up to their standards.

to that the epa administrator has signed an order to force norfolk southern to come up with a plan that epa and the two states have to sign off on and include cleaning up all the soil and water to their specifications and carting it away and then continuing to pay for testing, health concerns, a new clinic set up here in east palestine that people have health concerns like nausea and rashes and sore throat that some people have reported they can go there if they don't have insurance and need more assistance they can get it at the clinic. the governor of pennsylvania saying he has already made a criminal referral in this case as well. ohio saying that they are considering that. the national transportation safety board is also conducting an investigation into why this crash happened and once those results are out, they'll have a better sense of anybody held

criminally responsible. back to you. >> yeah. so much more to unfold there in that story. miguel marquez, thank you for being there for us. to los angeles where a man is in custody over the death of a catholic bishop. david o'connell found in his bed over the weekend, fatally shot. cnn's josh campbell in los angeles for us. josh, the bishop, it seems, knew the man who has been arrested? >> reporter: that's right. that is key because it does not appear that this was random. i'll walk you through the timeline. on saturday deacon goes to the bishop's home because he has missed a meeting, and he finds him unresponsive and pronounced dead. the sheriff says it was a tipster who helped them solve the case. the unidentified person told police a mn in his 60s named carlos medina had made comments about the bishop owing him money. they say me dine na was married to the housekeeper.

detectives reportedly sound footage sh shoeg the suspect's car around the home. authorities tried to arrested medina yesterday. in a standoff him taken into custody by a tactical team. robert luna told us the motive is unclear although reports of some type of financial dispute between the suspect and the bishop. the sheriff says his investigators have not drawn any conclusions. >> i'm not standing here in front of you telling you it's a dispute over money yet. it's something we've heard to this point and that is something that the detectives will go out and validate and see if it's true or not. based on what i know at this time, the suspect had been at the bishop's house before, doing work, so there was some kind of a maybe a working relationship, but we're still trying to figure out what that relationship was. >> reporter: now medina has not been charged and cnn is

attempting to identify whether he has an attorney. he is held according to court records on $2 million bond as investigators work to piece together what happened here and why community members of all faiths here in los angeles and around the country have been expressing anger and grief over the brutal killing of this bishop. >> josh campbell in los angeles thank you for that. and up next for us, the 2024 matchup that isn't even official yet is defining the republican primary so far. we'll tell you why trump versus desantis is about to get ugly. s will calculate themselves. right? uhh...nonope. intuit quickbooks helps you manage your payroll taxes, cheersrs! with 100% accurate tax calclculations guaranteed.

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are heading to the polls and one candidate is on the cusp of history. today's special election is to fill the seat that was held by the late congressman donald mceachin, a democratic state senator mcclellan is facing off against republican leon benjamin in the heavily blue district that includes the city of richmond. but if mcclellan wins she would be the first black woman to represent the commonwealth of virginia in the united states congress, an extraordinary realization in the year 2023, but let's go to cnn's melanie in zazona on capitol hill for us. what should we be watching tonight in this race? >> reporter: it could be a historic election as you mentioned. the late congressman mceachin passed away following a battle with cancer and the two candidates running to replace him are state senator jennifer mcclellan who served in the legislature before, the democrat

in the race, the republican is leon benjamin, a conservative pastor, both of these candidates have run for office before. mcclellan in addition to serving in the legislature ran for governor in the primary, and benjamin ran for this seat before losing by double digits. mcclellan if elected would become the first black woman to represent congress in virginia. it would take this long to get to that point. she's talked about the importance of bringing diverse perspectives to the table. she's talked about her family's own experiences growing up in the segregated south and why that pushed her to become a champion for voting rights and other issues that she's made a hallmark of her congressional campaign. now this is a democratic stronghold. it went for president biden by over 35 points. so the special election likely isn't going to change the margins in congress, but as we said, it could have historical

implications. >> she's outspent her opponent by a significant amount. maybe not too much of a surprise expected here for us tonight. melanie on capitol hill, thank you very much. and trump versus desantis, it's still a hypothetical matchup but it has republicans bracing for a bitter primary. the florida governor and former president have stayed out of each other's way but that could change soon. "the washington post" zoomed in on the tensions between the two camps writing, as some republicans loudly pin their hopes on desantis to overtake trump, as the party's new standard barrier, years of grudges are coming to a head as potentially defining dynamic -- as a potentially defining dynamic of the gop primary the co-author of the story is joining us now. josh, thanks for being here. i want to highlight another part of your piece, where it says, quote, trump advisors say he wants to make it painful for

desantis to enter the race. so desantis has been basically trying to ignore trump for the most part, going and doing his stops all over the place. trump is starting to dip his toe into some counter attacks, just a few minutes ago, attacking him over his stewardship over the state of florida. how bad could this get and how quickly? >> right. well, it's not quite counter attacks. desantis isn't doing anything. he's made implicit criticisms of him saying we'll get a margin of victory. he's been extraordinarily careful not to say the former president's name. you have trump who is ratcheting up all sorts of vicious attacks, a lot false we're not going to repeat on air. some of them looking at his covid record, personality, saying made this guy, he would be nothing without me. he's testing out all sorts of

things. if you look at his truth social page it's often what he's focused on and posting about, and the last couple weeks a relentless attack regiment on ron desantis. >> yeah. i mean, even just a few minutes ago, yet another attack on him. i mean this is happening in the context of there really being only one declared candidate in the race right now, nikki haley. you have others like former vice president mike pence tiptoeing around running and around trump. none of them seem to be willing to criticize him. what did you -- look at the desantis-trump relationship. do you believe desantis plans at some point to be a lot more direct about dealing with trump and really taking him on directly? >> well, it's hard to know. he's played his cards close to the vest. i don't report to have insider knowledge on what his strategy is going to be on trump. if you look back at previous had

elections, races, folks have said i'll let someone else attack trump, wait and attack trump, and you've covered this, what has happened really is trump has emerged victorious. too late or the attacks didn't land. there's a little bit of dynamic here. if you look at 2016, the last time trump was in a contested gop primary, he had wall-to-wall media coverage of his rallies, twitter microphone, he had a personality that was new to the american public in a lot of ways and his image was a lot different. it remains unseen to me yet if his attacks will land the same way that they did in the past. i think that's one of the things we're watching, how much do republican voters actually respond to his personal insults, attacks, and that sort of thing? i think nikki haley and pompeo and pence and desantis and others are watching as well, because the reality is trump has a lower, you know, floor maybe than he used to, but he still has higher numbers than any of the rest of the other candidates

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