a very raw figure, it's going to be very explosive. >> okay, thanks, i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room," i'll be back in a half an hour on our new streaming service cnn plus with my new show called the newscast, catch me here 9:00 p.m. eastern tonight as well. erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. >> "outfront" next, the breaking news, putin's attacks intensifying, we'll take you to one of the most contested battle grounds in the entire country in a report you'll see first "outfront,". plus, ukraine using a powerful weapon, kamikaze drones, cheap to make, hard to detect and destructive. oscar producer speaks out, that the lapd was ready to arrest will smith after slapping

chris rock. attacks, air strikes on which i have been, chirnihiv and donbas region according to senior defense official. ukraine's president acknowledging tonight, the situation there is dire. >> translator: the situation in the southern direction and in the donbas remains extremely difficult. russian troops are accumulating the potential for strikes, powerful blows. >> he's talking about the south, just moments ago the governor of luhansk of course in the donbas region told "outfront" he is bracing for the worst. >> translator: all the territory is being constantly shelled by heavy artillery. they use any possible means of heavy bombardment, they use cruise missiles, grab rocket launchers, they attack us from the air with air bombs and war planes.

>> so what he's dealing with right now as we speak, in the city of chirnihiv which has come under intense shelling, an aid volunteer there told "outfront" people can't even do basic things like brush their teeth, just basics of life because they have no running water and as for food? >> we don't have any places to buy, i think for these weeks, people forgot what it means to eat meet. all the time, what we eat, we have potato, you know, like any kind of, potato, we have it. yesterday my father went to the store and stood for four hours to get bread. >> four hours to get bread. also telling us it's nearly impossible to get supplies into the city because russia has taken out the crucial infrastructure, roads. >> we don't have any roads. the only road that we have here

is actually in very bad condition and it's not worth to like to be used to gather humanitarian help or even, there's nothing, it's just ruins. and it's happening everyday with new buildings. the apartment where, my, the area where my apartment is, we hardly have like, an apartment with normal windows because most of the windows are blasted out, broken. >> just imagine that. the situation is deteriorating in much of the eastern part of the country, as president biden suggests tonight that putin himself is now detached from reality. >> he seems to be self isolating and there's some indication that

he has fired or put under house arrest, some of his advisers. >> you know, pretty significant because there's been a lot of talk about that but he actually came out and said it today and his comments come on the heels of u.s. and british officials saying putin is being misled by his advisers on what's happening in ukraine and the uk says some russian soldiers are new refusing to carry out orders, some sabotaging their own equipment. let's begin with fred pleitgen tonight in kyiv and fred, what are you seeing on the ground tonight? >> hi there, erin, certainly doesn't seem to us as though the situation here is deescalating, in fact were two missile strikes pretty close to the center of kyiv, it's unclear what exactly was hit in those missile strikes or whether they were successful, certainly have heard a lot of air raid sirens here tonight and antimissile defense activated as well. so in any case, certainly appears and you can see the video there that plume of smoke so clearly something was hit, unclear whether the russians actually hit the target they wanted to hit but there are

attacks on the capitol city that are on going. so there is certainly not any sort of deesqcalation, at the same time, in the area northwest of kyiv earlier today and ukrainian forces had managed to beat some of the russian forces back and they seemed quite confident they're going to be able to continue doing that. the big question there is whether or not russian forces are actually pulling back or whether or not they're pulling back at any sort of significant form, and those front line troops, they said they're not sure, they haven't seen a major pushback just yet but one of the things they're certainly seeing, erin, is a lot of artillery fire from russian positions, says that is not something that has stopped, on the contrary, something that has drastically increased over the past couple of days, unclear whether that is coming from the fact the rugs tried to cover some sort of withdraw or whether or not it's some kind of scorched earth policy and i can tell you one of the things we saw a lot unfortunately there was scorched

earth. there's an enormous amount of artillery shells there and damage done there as well, erin. >> i mean the words, we hear scorched earth, you're talking literally that's what you're seeing. fred pleitgen as you mentioned, he had gone to the north that suburb of irpin incredible footage and access there never before seen. in the mean times, retired colonel james "spider" marks and jill doherty, in russia at the start of the war, so general marks, you know, biden says today he's sceptical putin will withdraw forces from kyiv. you hear fred talking about an escalation, although he said it's unclear whether that's a scorched earth withdrawal or something else. it's difficult, he says, to tell. can you show us where russia is foc focusing its fire power as you see it now? >> i sure can, erin, what has

been reported is there have been a number of air strikes certainly in kharkiv, chirnihiv and in the donbas area. what fred's describing is as forces withdraw as a result of contact and being forced to withdraw, you want to cover that with fire. but in addition to that, there is no reason to believe why the russians would want to withdraw their artillery and rocket capability. they've been using that very extensively, done weapon systems going after, using them as terror tactics, going after stationary targets. that will continue, even as the russian forces on the ground are being pushed back. in fact, there's a map here that really describes where the ukrainians have had some successes, but in the aggregate, you can see, the russian forces still maintain an awful lot of penetration into ukraine. they are being pushed back and

if there is a relocation down to the donbas area, it will be back into belarus or back into russia and this is sanctuary. nobody is firing into russia so the russian forces can regroup here and then over the course of, probably a week or so, they can maneuver those forces down there if in fact that's the priority as they've stated. >> so jill, you know, you heard president biden say, again people have been talking about this but he actually came out and said it, so he said there's been a lot of speculation, i'm quoting him, but i'm not saying this with a certainty. he seems to be self-isolating and he's referring to putin and there's some indication he has fired or put under house arrest some of his advisers. you know, a reference to what they're going to talk about but had not been confirmed, president of the united states saying it is significant. what are your sources inside russia tell you? >> you know, it's pretty much the same thing. these stories have been out there but nobody can actually

confirm that that is the case. you know, it appears the president is talking about raw intel, so whatever it is i do think that it's significant, because what is happening right now is it's a very obvious that putin was told something that didn't happen. especially militarily. and so now, he has to, you know, regroup and i would have to think that he's pretty unhappy about the fact that it didn't turn out the way he expected. so heads are going to have to roll and i think it makes utter sense that you would have apparently some intel people, you know, security people who might be held under house arrest, and who knows what will happen to them because this is really bad, it's extremely embarrassing for the president of russia, and, as we're seeing now, they're going to have to regroup and refigure out these strategy. >> so general marks, you know,

there's evidence that putin is beefing up at the donbas, president of the united states says that, that, of course, is what the minister of defense for putin said they are going to do and it appears they are beefing up in donbas. now we spoke earlier with the governor of luhansk obviously part of donbas and want to play something else he told me. >> translator: people are being bussed from russia itself, pretending to be local population and pretending also to make important decisions and i wouldn't be surprised if there will be some kind of fake referendum. >> obviously, general, he's referring to the idea there would be some kind of a referendum in the donbas where the population would know, quote-unquote democratically choose to join russia, obviously not at all democratic, however this is something, general, you predicted on this show at the

beginning of the conflict, the referendum itself and the specific focus. so show us what is happening in donbas since it may be the crux of this whole thing. >> right, absolutely, as we described, this is the donbas region and clearly the objective being to create what has been described as a land bridge from crimea up into russia so they don't have to just use the straights of asov. but getting into donbas very specifically, this is the area we're talking about and what has been happening specifically with mariupol has been the destruction of a city and cnn has done a magnificent job of just covering this utter destruction and brutality, it's certainly not, this is not combat. this is the use of weapon systems to go after civilians and civilian targets and buildings, et cetera.. so there is very little that the that's going to be reclaimed in mariupol, and what would happen is this would be the first pin

to drop. if this was annexed as it was by declaration in advance of the use of forces, this would be the next one. that would be necessary before the russians could then move further in this direction to create that land bridge, but we've already seen if that's the case, this is going, this area is going to be ripe for insurgent activity. the russians are never going to own this terrain and be able to do with it what they want at will. it's going to be contested for the long haul. >> and of course, perhaps they thought it would be very different, that it would be much more like crimea. so jill, you know, you're also i know focusing very much on that kind of connection, right, that connecter between the donbas and crimea, being mariupol, how else are you seeing russia prepare to take that? what are you seeing? >> you know, this is so classic, erin. russia has done this, obviously in the donbas region before, in 2014 and it has done it in georgia, it's done it in moldova

and here we go again, so what they're doing, a couple of new data points. one is if you look at that mariupol, that spider was just talking about, the so-called head of one of those break-away republicans in the donbas is now ordering that they have an administrative entity of some type for the city of mariupol which is not even under russian control at this point, but they're already bringing in that kind of civilian hardware that's, for, say, taking it over legally and the other part of it, not to get too in the weeds but the russian parliament, the lower house of russian parliament is now working on a bill that would declare russian speakers globally, regardless of where they are as compatriots and if you call them compatriots then the russian speakers in that region around mariupol would have to be protected, in

quotes, by russia, which would give them the perfect excuse to go in there and just take it over and have all, what they think is legal justification. >> those two data points are crucial to add to this. thank you, both, very much. and as i promised, i want to go back to fred pleitgen because he was the first u.s. reporter to go into the war-torn suburb of irpin and to film it with his team and his photo journalists. it became one of the hardest hit areas since the start of the wa war. >> reporter: you're absolutely right erin, one of the hardest hit areas and an area where the russians tried to really blast their way into the capitol of kyiv but confronted and held up by ukrainian forces, nevertheless, the place still under ex-ttreme and intense shelling we did manage to get in there today, it was very difficult, let's have a look. there is no safe way to get into irpin, the only feasible route

is on the back of a police special forces pick-up truck on dirt paths. but even here, the earth is scorched after russian troops shelled the trail. ukrainian forces are taking us into this area on backroads because they say taking the main roads is simply much too dangerous. they want to show us the damage done when russian forces tried to enter kyiv. ukrainian authorities say this is still one of the most dangerous places in this war-torn country, and we immediately see why. we are driving right towards an area engulfed in smoke from artillery shelling. this is where russian forces tried to push into ukraine's capitol but were stopped and beaten back by the underdog ukrainians. the battles here are fierce. authorities say 50% of the city has been destroyed. to us, that number seems like an understatement. >> have to be moving quickly

because this place can be shelled anytime. >> reporter: ukraine's national police now patrols irpin again but forces quickly come under fire, the chief tells me. just yesterday, our officers who were searching for dead bodies, they were shot at with mortars, he says. they had to lay under the bridge and wait for it to stop. but the greatave task of findin and taking the many dead continues some were laying in the streets for weeks and can only now be removed. when russian forces invaded ukraine, they quickly advanced on the capitol, kyiv, all the way to irpin. here, the ukrainians stood and fought back. vladimir putin's army controlled a large parts of irpin and the battle laid waste to much of the formerly wealthy suburb. and this was the epicenter where we find burnt-out russian trucks and armored vehicles.

so this is the area where some of the heaviest fighting took place in irpin and as you can see, that there was a russian armored vehicle which was completely annihilated. we do have to be very careful around here, there could still be unexploded munitions around. we meet a local respond who remained up in arms when the russians invaded. always, not a single day when i left town he says even during the heaviest fighting. it must have been difficult, i ask, just so you understand, he says, once, there were 348 impacts in one area in one single hour. and the battle here is not over. suddenly, irpin's mayor shows up with a group of special forces saying they're looking for russians possibly still hiding here. i ask him how it's going. we're working, he says. there's information that there are two russian soldiers dressed

in civilian clothes. with our group, we're going to clean them up. ukrainian forces say they will continue the fight and further push russian forces away from their capitol. the deputy interior minister saying they need the u.s.'s support to succeed. what do you need from the united states? >> everything. military support. >> reporter: weapon to see help the ukrainians expel the invade is army, they hope, and finally bring this suburb out of the reach of vladimir putin's cannons. >> fred, just incredible to see that. and i'm interested, you talk about the mayor showing up and they're looking for those two russians. to, his words, to clean them up, with the special forces. how is the morale of the ukrainian troops? you've seen that destruction up close, killing people, and still having to fight in their own destroyed towns. >> reporter: yeah, having to fight in their own destroyed towns and having been in that destroyed town such a long

period of time we were surprised to see the morale is extremely high and i think one of the main reasons for that is they just feel they have this gigantic goliath army trying to punch through the defenses and managed to push them back and that is something that has given them a big morale boost, i think they realize they know how to fight against the russian army, capable of fighting against the russian army but, you know, the ukrainians also taken pretty big casualties especially in that fight north of kyiv as well and there are no illusions, it's something that will go on. still a lot of russian forces there and the shelling is tough to deal with but the morale was really high and those soldiers certainly seem to be in good spirits, erin. >> incredible to see that, came across through your video but also that feeling of just not knowing, there could be shelling even while you're there, there could be people hiding in buildings that will shoot at you. that level of existence. fred, thank you so much.

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secretary saying uk and allies will send ukraine more lethal aid including long-range artillery and other weapons to defend the coast line as ukraine tells the u.s. biggest priority is getting more attack and reconnaissance drones as ukrainian and russian militaries turning toward more kinds of deadly drone strikes in this war, tom foreman is out front. >> reporter: beneath the war of missile strikes and artillery blasts, evidence of another deadly blast appeared, so called loiterring munitions or so calle called kamikaze drones to hit behind enemy lines. >> the aspect of these weapons is a significant psychological factor on the battle field. >> reporter: unlike massive military drones which fly

hundreds of miles an hour over vast distances often to drop missiles and return home, loiter loit loitering munition drones are small and portable, can be carried in a backpack, can cruise about 60 miles an hour for 15 minutes while on board cameras and gps hunt for nearby enemy assets, once a target is spotted and command is given, drone can sprint up to 100 miles an hour, dive and explode on impact but as the battle has raged military analysts say the ukrainians who have such drones, too, have turned the tables on the russians, using them to much more deadly effect. >> my personal guess is that probably about 20 to 30% of the kills that the ukrainians are registering against russian

armor and russian entities is probably due to their very successful employment of these drones. >> reporter: according to analysts, kamikaze drones fit perfectly with the small, fast-moving squads favored by the ukrainians. the weapons are hard to detect, and can penetrate positions miles away. several systems of varying size, speed and capability appear to be in use, and the united states is committing to boost the ukrainian effort with 100 of those switch blade systems. >> which demonstrates our commitment to sending our most cutting edge systems to ukraine for its defense. >> it's fascinating to watch this, tom, and to see, you know, kamikaze drones and all of a sudden find the importance of them in this war. yesterday i was talking to a ukrainian soldier, it was fascinating, he was on the front lines in an intel unit saying we use drones to go out and spot rugs and be able to find out where they are, but they use drones to find us and have to be able to escape and use the

drones to kill, but this kamikaze drones you're talking about, they're deadly, but also it seems from your reporting, very inexpensive and easy to operate. that combination is pretty incredible. >> yeah, it absolutely is. what we are watching, erin is no less than the real-time evolution of warfare. this is a huge change as we move forward. think about this. these things are really doing what has not been possible before which is essentially to send the munition in and wait until you're ready to drop it on an opportunistic target there, this is a big deal, a step toward robotic warfare which we talked about and doesn't bring up the possibility that we discussed, what happens when you coordinate 20 or 30 or 40 of these flying in formation as a swarm or constellation what you can do with that? this is something to keep an eye on not just for this battle and

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machine with sanctions, sanction machine, sanctions today, sorry, prominent russian news anchor sergei rilev is on that list so individuals, not just institutions. what more can you tell me? >> reporter: well sergei berlov, for instance, someone i've known quite well many years in russia is one of russia's top news anchors, works for the first channel, channel one in russia, obviously a state-controlled news channel. and in fact, britain has sanctioned him will be i think both personal to him because he sees himself very much as an englophile, fluent english speaker, has property in britain, prides himself on having interviewed several british prime ministers, but, of course, the british government in its action against russia understands this is not just a war being fought in ukraine but it's an information war as well.

and the british authorities have moved decisively to crack down on the flow of false information that comes from russia, just a couple of weeks ago, they withdrew the license, the broadcast that russia's rt, the english language state broadcaster in this country because of its coverage of the war in ukraine and of course, you know, today, this other raft of sanctions focused on, primarily, media organizations and on media individuals like sergei brilov came into force as well. you know, to send a powerful message that if you are involved in the flow of false narratives or disinformation from russia, to the rest of the world, then you will be hit where it hurts, erin. >> it's interesting, you know, when you hear about the sanctions on the one hand how brutal and devastating they've been but on the other that there's still a lot of air in the room, that there's still a lot more to be done so these are

just examples of that, the new media sanctions also in the uk i know they sanctioned a top russian military general that they called and i quote, the butcher of mariupol what are they saying about him and his role? >> reporter: yeah, that's right. this colonel general which is very high ranking military figure in russia, he's believed to have been the individual who orchestrated the siege and the attack on mariupol in southern ukraine, on the sea of asov, that battle of course still underway, a battle in which thousands of people have been killed, potentially civilians, predominantly, inside mariupol. awful scenes we've been seeing from that city on the sea of asov in southern ukraine. of the utter devastation that's been wrought by the russian military advance on it but you're right, the british along with other countries are

sanctioning these military figures, media figures as well. big question, of course, will these sanctions have an actual impact and get the kremlin to step back? >> thank you very much, matthew, and raises the question on the one hand, it's good you're doing this, on the other thinking wow, they didn't sanction the general in charge of mariupol until now? it depends how you look at it. i want to go now to maria, she knows more about who is and should be on the lists than anyone, she's the investigative department head of anticorruption foundation founded by top putin critic alexei navalny, so talking today about one of the people sajzed by the uk, sergei brulev, russian television anchor, you and navalny centered on him in one of your investigations, what more can you tell us about him? >> sergei brulov is one of the

most famous propaganda personalities in russia. he has a weekly show that comes out on saturdays i think and it's meant to be about just events over the week but if you actually started closer, it's a very strange take on the events, essentially just covers how great everything in russia is, just everything is brilliant and outstanding, really lights things up then the second part of his show is always how bad about things are in the west and kind of, you know, keeps reminding and comparing things in russia and always, of course, is connected to putin, that's always, you know, putin's big victory. and the funny thing about him, that investigation about him was focused on the fact that we have found that he is a british

citizen, that he voted once or twice in the uk, it was quite easy to figure out and suggest the hypocrisy of this was quite funny actually, you know, that he would take, you know, he would have this huge show about how great russia is compared to the west and actually live in the west. >> it's incredible. so, you know, and we talked about the butcher of mariupol, matthew was talking about him and said okay, well the uk is doing that now, but why did it take so long? so this is where you have been through exhaustively for so long. who should be sanctioned but has not yet been? who needs to be on the list? >> i think you're going to need to expand your show for another couple of hours to give you the entire list because the list is long. but if you think about, i don't know, the most obvious people, well, putin's wives haven't been

sanctioned so there is an official wife, also two unofficial wives, one, the famous, has two children and she is the head of -- chairwoman, or head of board or something like that of the largest media corporation in russia that owns the majority of tv channels and newspapers and all of that called national media group. so elina gabiba, girlfriend, fiancé, whatever you call her the head of that, she has personal connection to putin not only through family, but very strong connection to propaganda and somehow, weirdly, she has been overlooked by pretty much every country and she is a very, very rich woman and i'm sure she has lots of assets abroad. >> yeah, that's fascinating because obviously, they know who she is yet not doing it. so, you know, one person sanctioned by the uk but not the

u.s. is a name so far, widely gaining recognition around the world, football teams involved in the negotiations for peace thus far, but it appears both sides, both russian side and ukrainian side have sort of said hold off on roman abromovich, what do you think should happen to him? >> well i don't entirely understand what's happening with ro roman abramovich, he seems to have suddenly charmed the world or the nation, roman abromavich has been loyal to putin all this

time, he bought putin's first super yacht called olympia, contributes to putin's palace, yi mean the list is endless of just bribes essentially abromovich has given to putin and now, seen as negotiator and as a valid person to be in, while the whole time his alliances have been very clear. i think what still needs to happen to him is needs to be sanctioned in every jurisdiction and people need to get real about him and look at his actions and not at his, you know, not at some sort of hypothetical scenarios of what might be going on. if abromovich was against the war, he would have said it and he didn't say it. he would have acted in a certain way and didn't. >> we at cnn confirmed your reporting on the yacht, but i know you have done so much work

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city of chirnihiv under attack tonight, completely cut off by russian troops, mayor telling cnn seeing massive increase in the intensity of shelling and mortar attacks, we spoke to someone there, she's a volunteer in chirnihiv and tells us there's a feeling of hopelessness for those who remain and could not lead. . >> we didn't have any way out. we don't have the way out for the last week, i believe, like eight days. so we just out here. >> for those who were able to escape before the eight days being stuck, the journey has been such a harrowing one across the country all the way to

poland. out front tonight, in warsaw. >> reporter: born just hours ago in poland, baby adelina is already a survivor of the war in ukraine. >> is it hard to be happy? >> reporter: it is. she says. adelina is her first child. you feel guilty? why? because i left, she says. left her moment in western ukraine. the war had begun, the bombing neared their city. povlichenko escaped on bus, then escaped on foot near the border. medics rushed her to the hospital, delivering adelina a month early, separated from her family. my mother, sister, grand parents still in ukraine. he's killing our people, she

says, of vladimir putin. how could anyone be so cruel? >> i'm terrified, that something like this can happen, that you can leave your everyday life and all of a sudden, because of decisions that you have no influence upon, there is a war and you have to flee. it's unbelievable, it's terrifying. >> reporter: dr. magda dutsch is a psychiatrist at the specialty hospital in warsaw, delivered 11 babies, and treated cancer patients like tatyana -- i ran with my grand daughter in my arms, she says, missiles already broke out the windows in their building, as they fled, something exploded next to their car, city now occupied by russians. she's grateful for her doctors at the hospital and great healthcare in poland treating her cervical cancer. christina is one of the doctors. we're not using her last name, because she herself is also a

refugee from ukraine. a mother of a five-year-old and the wife of a ukrainian military man. your husband -- my husband has been in the military since 2014, at the moment, in lviv. you had to leave your husband behind? yes, she says. now in warsaw, i can't sit and do nothing, she says. i have this opportunity here to help women who fled the country. with each breath, baby adelina offers her mother a respite from the war. what will you tell your daughter about her birth? the truth, she says. we will tell her everything as it was. she should know the truth. now those ukrainian patients you see in that story, their healthcare, their hospital stay is being covered by the country of poland. their healthcare is free because they are refugees and they're not the only ones. ministry of health, erin, tells

us 197 babies have been born here who came from ukraine. erin. >> unbelievable. wow, incredible number and something to keep in mind for the u.s. and those who want to help. those countries taking the incredible burden and thus far doing with such grace and generosity where so much help is needed, thank you. "outfront" next for the first time january 6th select committee speaks to a member of trump's family, was he forth coming? what did he say, we know a lot. plus breaking news from the oscars, what lapd said to chris rock after he wawas slapped by will smith. lalavender baths always calmed him. so we turned bath time into a business. ♪ and building it with my son has been my dream job. ♪ at northwestern mutual, our version of financial planning helps you live your dreams today. find a northwestern mutual advisor at nm.com

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january 6th committee talks for the first time today to a member of donald trump's family, son in law jared kushner, comes as justice department is expanding investigation into january 6th, paula reid out front tonight in washington, and you've been doing so much reporting on this. so jared kushner, the context here you're talking about is fascinating, he wasn't in the country on january 6th so what exactly did the committee want to learn from him and did they get what they were looking for? >> reporter: that's right, kushner was out of the country on january 6th, but of course, the committee is also focused on the events leading up to that day and the overall efforts to undermine the election. it's important to note, kushner appeared voluntarily and as of now, the committee will not get into specifics about what he

shared during the lengthily deposition but will say he provided some information. now erin, as we know, it's rare for lawmakers to be so tight-lipped, but clearly, the committee wants to encourage voluntary participation from people in trump's inner circle and we know from the reporting the committee wants to also speak to jared's wife, ivanka and she is engaging with the committee, a possible appearance. now while lawmakers are investigating january 6th, they don't have the power to prosecute people, that of course, falls to the justice department and so far the justice department to our knowledge focused on people who actually stormed the capitol but cnn learned the justice department, erin, expanded investigation to begin gathering information about funding and organizing for that political rally that preceded the attack on the capitol as well as efforts that subvert the electoral college vote. this is a big development in this investigation as we have

learned that subpoenas issue thed by a grand jury in recent weeks, calls to do more and at a new stage of the investigation confirms federal prosecutors are at least looking at a more well-connected political circle. >> paula, thank you very much. next, new information into cnn about what will smith did after he slapped chris rock, at the oscars.

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are prepared, prepared to get him right now, you can press charges, we can arrest him. >> chloe out front, and chloe, pretty incredible to hear all this. what more are you learning? >> reporter: well will packer also says in this interview, erin, that he did not actually speak to will smith himself the night at the oscars remember he was directing the entire show. i just learned moments ago that earlier this week, will smith met with academy leadership for 38 minutes via zoom, apologize the once again, first time during his academy awards acceptance speech, listened, heard him out but then told him his actions, the slap against chris rock would have consequences, we know the academy, 15 days on april 15th we expect another decision could they suspend him, expulsion perhaps from the academy not allowed next year to come back. many people wondering is will smith going to speak out, give

another statement, will chris rock say more at his show tonight, i'm standing in boston in front of the wilbur theater where chris rock will take the stage yet again, i went to both shows last night erin and in second show, he said he and will smith have not spoken which is shocking to know he has not apologized directly to chris rock. >> thank you so much for your reporting, and thanks to all of you, "ac 360" starts now. good evening from ukraine, john burman here, significant day at the start of what could become a critical point in the war, we will certainly ask military analysts tonight but some of the sides playing to even civilian eyes. ukrainian troops defending kyiv, continue pushing russian forces away from the capitol, even as a portion of the pentagon says, about 20% leaving on their own, some withdrawn from the