>> announcer: don lemon tonight, next on cnn. stay with withineno cnn for the latest from ukraine. the news continues. i want to hand it over to don lemon. >> hard to believe so much atrocity with the sky behind you gorgeous as morning approaches there, at least dlalt daylight. i have to talk to you about the incredible reporting from bucha. what was your take away of the images and the work of the war crimes prosecutor? >> you know, it's really interesting. i spoke to the international

criminal courts prosecutor over the course of the last several weeks and again tonight. but this was the local prosecutor in bucha who is building -- trying to gather evidence. i was surprised at the volume of evidence he has already been able to gather. he showed us these images taken by an eye witness who lived on one particular street who documented over the course of several days at great risk to himself -- i mean if the russian soldiers had seen him video taping on the cell phone camera they would have killed him no doubt. but he documented over several days people being shot and bodies left out. any neighbor who tried to move the bodies would be shot at as well. one person according to the eye witness was wounded trying to do that. they've gotten also traffic surveillance camera video images of russian forces. they're trying to identify russian troops. to build -- 80s difficult thing

to build a war crime case. that's what they are trying to do step by step and continuing to gather evidence as we speak. >> it's no surprise, anderson, that putin lies, right. he lied about the atrocities in bucha today. what did he say? >> you know, he -- the russian lie -- the big russian lie is that -- that this was all -- this was all false, gnat satellite images we have seen of bodies in the streets while the russians were in control of bucha, those are fake. the byrdsodies we saw sceneo sey international journalists, those were killed by the ukrainians during the conflict and left where they were killed. all of that is part of the russian lie. and they deny they are killing civilians, deny that they are hitting residential areas, you know, the huge -- there is overwhelming evidence already that that is simply not the case. but what's significant about the

images that the prosecutor has found out from an eye witness is that this -- this means that there is not just the satellite image when russia was occupying there is now the cell phone camera image taken over successive days in which you see on march 5th, for instance, there is two people killed laying in the street outside this person's house, this eye witness's house. the next dau he takes another video on march 6th, there is another person who has been shot and that's why he recorded a second day of video. on the 7th when more people are shot he recorded more. you actually see -- and there is meta data in the camera which prosecutors have control of now that can prove what day the photos were actually taken. >> all evidence. all evidence. anderson cooper doing an incredible job. thank you so much. see you tomorrow night. get some rest. thank you so much. this is don lemon tonight. and the new photoing that anderson shows yous the dead in the streets of bucha. shared by the war crimes

property. those are the latest evidence of did he paragraphty of vladimir putin war on yearning ukraine. evidence he tries to sweepa with denials. and we have new satellite images tonight, new evidence of russian brutality. reportedly forcing starving civilians to dig graves in exchange for food. so many graves you can see them from space. as the u.s. ramps up aid, pressure and rhetoric on russia's war. it's not solely about ukraine defending itself any more. now it's about vladimir putin's threat to the whole international order. chairman of the joint chiefs saying this in an exclusive cnn interview. watch. >> if russia gets away with this cost-free, then so goes the so-called international order. abif that happens we enter an era of seriously increased instability. so right now it's -- now is the time and right now is the opportunity here to stop

aggression and to restore peace and security to the european continent. >> and ukraine fights to defend itself. russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov adds talks of nuclear weapons into the mix saying of the nuclear threat and i quote here, the dangerous is serious. it is real. it cannot be underestimated. and president volodymyr zelenskyy bluntly slams what he calls russia's blackmail. >> translator: given the level of the threat, we believe russia has no right to turn nuclear energy into weapons and blackmail the world with the use of nuclear weapons. >> the u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin calling the nuclear saber rattling dangerous. >> it's dangerous. and any kind of rhetoric like that, you know, i think is unhelpful. you know, we said over and over again that a nuclear war cannot won by either side.

and so i think saber rattling, and -- and rhetoric like that is just unhelpful. and so, again, hard to say what's motivating mr. lavrov. but, again, i think that kind of talk should be avoided. >> also tonight we have major new developments in the january 6th investigation. a cnn exclusive as a matter of fact. newly obtained texts reveal what a little-known congressman was doing behind the scenes to advance the scene to overturn our freon a fair election. and never before heard sound from kevin mccarthy just days after the insurrection, how he was worried the rhetoric from far-right republicans was dangerous. we've got more to come on all of this tonight. make sure you stay tuned. but i want to begin though with cnn's phil black, live for us in kyiv. phil, hello to you. first question, mariupol mayor says a third mass grave has been found around the city.

we see the satellite images. and what is worse, civilians being forced to dig the graves in exchange for food. tell us more about what's happening there, please. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, don. so this is from the mayor who is an official who isn't in the city but throughout the war he has been -- he has been a strong source of information for what's going on within it as it has been under siege. he makes the point that this third new mass grave that's been detected on the outskirts of the city has been detected through assessment commercial satellite imagery as you touched on there. and what it shows is the trenches that have gotten bigger over time big are as they've been filled in over time. you're right, he makes the point that without necessarily attributing the information but he size that people on the ground were made to help with the mass burial, made to work in order to receive food and water. this is at a time where there was no other aid going into mariupol, going into the settlements and communities.

they wanted help from the russians. they had to dig and bury those bodies. now if this is true, while it adds to the overall picture that has been developing in mariupol for so long now of absolute destruction and extraordinary human loss of life we still don't know how many people died there. the best estimate is still around 20,000 according to the ukrainian government. and russia does now control pretty much all the city. but fighting continues because there is still a holdout, a last stand taking place in a sprawling steelworks there where there are said to be thousand of yurk ukrainian soldiers and civilians under constant daily bombardment live in fear that the russian could storm the side. even though vladimir putin said that shouldn't happen, don. >> let's talk more phil, because eastern ukraine. ukrainian official says there is shelling almost along the entire front line. what's the latest? >> reporter: so this is almost a

daily message we hear across the east and the south. what we hear from ukrainian officials is that there is this constant large escalation in russia's efforts in bombardment. so, yes, shelling, rocket attacks. but also in efforts to actually physically take ground. the key point is though that every day ukraine says we were able to repell these attempted offenses. we were able to stop them from taking the territory. we inflicted losses on them instead there is now very much in fairly upbeat assessment i think that you hear from ukrainian officials at all levels including president zelenskyy that ukraine is ready for whatever russia lass. part of that is because they are getting the weapons they need to stop russia on the battle fronts but we don't know what russia lass planned next. for the moment whatever ukraine is doing seems to be working. >> phil black in kyiv. we appreciate your reporting. now we return to the west. ramping up press on vladimir putin. william cohen, former secretary

of defense. thank you for joining us. between general millie warning of a threat to the entire let's is he there in secretary cohen, can you hear me? apparently we don't have secretary cohen. do we have peter zawak pmt we'll get back to the next guest. technical issue there. i want to dig into the military side of this. here to discuss now brigadier generality peter zwak attache to russia pvrp i appreciate you joining us on short notice. you're going to be a little bit later on. thank you very much. listen to this i want you to listen to this. this is defense secretary austin after meeting with counterparts in germany. >> ukraine clearly believes it can win, and so do does everyone here. i know we are all determined to do everything we can to meet ukraine's needs as the fight evolves. and that includes talking today about a framework for continuing

to work together and look ahead. we have much more to do. ukraine needs our help to win today. and they will still need our help when the war is over. >> he says that ukraine can win this war. civilians are being targeted. cities are getting flattened. so how do they win? >> the ukrainians have an x factor. and that is the will and the spirit to toil on, to fight on against an occupying force that has no business to be there. and the deeper that occupying force gets into ukraine, the harder it is for their soldiers, the bulk of which that don't want to be there. it's going to be a grind. it's going to be ugly. there are going to be a lot of losses. still the russians are working their way in on four different

axes. the donbas. you've got the epic siege battle in mariupol. you've got the south and kherson. and you have kharkiv. all of these take a lot of forces to fight and reduce for the russians. they've got a lot of fire power. i think they are making up some of their deefficiencies in ground combat. it's still very, very dangerous. but the staying power of the ukrainians, i believe, is something that the russians don't have in an increasingly unparallel, bloody endeavor. >> general, how significant -- let's talk about the drone video showing russian military vehicles enforce a scene on a bucha street near civilian bodies. russia's repeated denials they were responsible for cartridge carnage there. how significant is the video? >> what i find grotesque about

it is that -- apparently the -- the forensics, if you will, of this goes on over days and weeks, the bodies have been out there. the russians have been there and they didn't have the dignity or allow the civilians to pick the bodies up. i find that grotesque. and then of course today vladimir putin straight to the sec gen, the united nations secretary general face. said this is a ukrainian provocation. it's ghastly. the evidence is there. and i think history will judge. and that may be sooner than later. >> general zwauk, when you hear the u.s. defense secretary, millie and austin, right, both talking about weakeneding russia, what does that mean? does that go beyond the u.s. providing weapons to ukraine?

>> i think right now the focus is to ensure the russian conventional offensive power is -- is atrited enough where they can't reach out on the ground and launch photographsive, aggressions or whatever. i was in moscow in 2014. we saw it the first time. that was big but minor compared to what's going on. and then there is georgia. every nation is allowed -- entitled to defensive forces. but the offensive forces of -- following aaggression and all that, i think that's probably what it means. and, again, we're just going to have to see what happens. >> thank you, general. i appreciate you joining us. we'll see you soon

>> my pleasure. >> i want to bring in now the former defense secretary that is william cohen. loud and clear now, right? >> right. thank you. >> good to have you on. so between general milley warning of a threat to the entire world order, general austin exhorting the west to have ukraine's back and germany pledging heavy arms, is there a shift here in the sense of urgency? >> oh, i think so. we have seen the level of destruction that the russians have leveled against the people of ukraine. and i think there is genuine concern that they are trying to annihilate the country, the people, and just erase it from the planet. so i think there is a sense of urgency to get these weapons into their hands. and i was curious about your examination of the general about the use of the word weakeneding. we are certainly not helping the ukrainianings to help strengthen the russians. we are there to make sure that the ukrainians have the capability of weaking the

russians with defeating them, beating them up and killing their soldiers. we're witnessing also i think the nazification of the russian soldiers. the clip you ran about forcing the people to dig graves for their own food and water. you would expect the nazis to do that. and that's what's happening in terms of this particular war. when general austin -- i should say secretary austin says that we want to weakened the russians in terms of their capacity to inflict that kind of pain and suffering upon the ukrainian people, i'm with him. >> yeah. you're right. and they're claiming they're denazifying ukraine. and they're actually the ones behaving as nazis. speaking of secretary austin as you said, he is denying the war in ukraine is becoming a proxy fight between the u.s. and russia. a lot of folks say this is a proxy fight. when questioned about that he defies it. but you know when you have billions pouring into ukraine to

fight. and they're talking about a weakened russia to make sure it can't do this to in any other country, is that true? he is defying it but isn't this indeed a proxy war? no. >> i don't think number one he said to any other country that may have been the implication. but i don't know if he used those words that they couldn't do it again, meaning they couldn't reconstitute and come back and attack -- not only mariupol but kyiv and other cities. but in any event i think there is an implied warning there. that russia has its eyes on odesa, on moldova, has its eyes on the baltic states. and so i think it's a -- a message to say, wait a minute, you've gone too far, way too far. you've initiated this. by the way, talking about a proxy war. this is something the russians initiated against a country posing no threat to them and now for putin or lavrov to say it's

a proxy war pap because they never in combat face-to-face they are shelling and bombing individual innocent people. that's hardly a combat in the traditional sense. it's a war of slaughter on the part of the russians. but in any event what nato is doing is saying we are going to do our level best to give the ukrainians the best weapons we can to help -- to help defeat the russians. this is not simply holding a stalemate now. there is no stalemate, no peace agreement that can be had at this time as long as the russians continue to slaughter innocent civilians. i think we're going to give them what they need. and the reason that lavrov uses the word nuclear is because the russians are losing on the ground. they are actually afraid of losing. >> let me ask you this next question because it goes to what you said and what you're talking about. president zelenskyy gives his nightly message, in his address. he says tonight that russia has no right to blackmail the world

with nuclear threats. >> right. >> but the reality is putin does have nuclear weapons. no one knows if he will use them or not. is there a real risk to the u.s. turning up in rhetoric. >> there is a risk to not turning up the rhetoric as well. the rhetoric has been elevated because the threat is so dangerous. you talked about depravity on the part of the russians. we'd have to go to the devil's dictionary to find a word that's adequately describe what's taking place. but what he lavrov uses cavalierly or intentionally with intent to invite fear, he is using a -- what i would call an extension level event, nuclear weapons use is an extinction level event that will alter the countries, the planet on a level that we have only contemplated in the worst extreme level. so it's important that he not be allowed to get away with this, to say we might go to nuclear.

if you go to nuclear you can't predict the consequences. but they could be an extinction level event that we have not seen before. certainly since the end of world war ii. it mass to be condemned i'm glad secretary austin condemned it and also general milley. . it has to be condemned roe punitively. >> i want to get this in before we're done. and democratic senator joe manchin predicting the u.s. will get further pulled into the war saying it could be engagements. do you see that happening, secretary? >> potentially we could become more involved, surely if the russiao russians use a nuclear weapon that could pull the entire nato countries and others -- this is not -- we can't have countries sitting on the sidelines any more when they think they are acing in self-interest wherever they are, the middle east, china, india, there are no sidelines in a nuclear weapons environment. everybody is on the front lines. and so they need to get involved

and get off the sidelines and say, mr. president, president putin don't even think about using nuclear weapons we are prepared to take action and join the west and helping to prevent that in if necessary. >> always a pleasure, secretary, thank you so much. >> good to be with you donald sorry about the disruption. >> wasn't you. it happens. thank you very much. next a cnn inclusive. newly obtained texts revealed the little-known gop congressman involved in efforts to overturn the election, plus "the new york times" releases new audio of kevin mccarthy after january 6th worrying the rhetoric of some members of his own party could incite violence. we will tell you who he is talking about. he is threatening people in jeopardy. and he doesn't need to be doing this .

breaking news now on the january 6th investigation. "the new york times" obtaining audio of house minority leader kevin mccarthy worrying the rhetoric of some far-right house members could encourage violence against other lawmakers in the days following the insurrection. on a january 10th call he urged

gop leaders to monitor public statements from some members, including matt gaetz. >> well, he is putting people in jeopardy. and he doesn't need to be doing this. we saw what people would do in the capitol. you know, and these people came prepared with rope, everything else. >> joining me now cnn political correspondent dana bash and cnn senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor elly hoenig. good evening to both of pu. dana -- kevin mccarthy says one thing in public and then -- it's crazy. and i just want to start by saying, if you remember what it was like immediately after the attack on the capital there is real concern in his voice on the new tapes. what do these recordings reveal, dana about what was happening in the gop leadership after the insurrection? >> it revealed that they understood the gravity of what

they witnessed, of what they were victims of. and that was the -- an attack on the u.s. capitol. and it was jarring. it was a very human response. it was a very important response and the kind of response you would expect from a leader. and that is a non-partisan statement, no matter who you are. >> right. >> and what is very telling is not only the way kevin mccarthy changed his public statements but apparently his private statements or at least with a small group. today our reporting is that what he said to his leadership following these revelations is, don't let things like this divide us. and what it does is it really puts the focus right where it needs to be on this story for kevin mccarthy. which is that he almost became

speaker once, and then he -- he lost it for various reasons. he didn't get the vote. and he doesn't want that to happen again. and all of the moves he has made politically since that time are -- or since donald trump became president and since he became republican leader again was to make sure that didn't happen again. and it is incredibly, incredibly tricky terrain inside a republican party where donald trump is there and the people who are in his caucus who are spewing lies all the time. and this is such the ultimate example of that, don. >> well, listen, along the same lines -- and i think this carb shall did we may be saying the same thing here. not that this is excuse for what kevin mccarthy and others are doing. but dana is it as simple as autism as it was that kevin mccarthy and others knew and know that this would have been the unraveling of the party and

the unraveling of trumpism had they agreed that what happened on january 6th was the ultimate in basically treason-like behavior from members of the republican party? >> well, there are a lot of republicans i talked to who argue that those two questions are very, very different. and the fact that they didn't diverge, the question of the end of trumpism and the end of the republican party, that that could have been something that kevin mccarthy helped push along. yes, if kevin mccarthy and mitch mcconnell and most of the other republican leaders stood up and stayed with the fact that that was wrong and that trump did -- was part of the reason why that happened, which we now know he has said in private and he said in private realtime, then that could have helped to cut off the oxygen, not all of it, but some of the oxygen to trump and

trumpism. and it could have a lot of republicans i talked to think that it could have helped the republican party and the ideals wsh the traditional ideals, the conservative ideals to flourish once again and not be overtaken by conspiracies. and that hasn't happened because that's not the path he took. >> a chance to change the direction of the republican -- steer it back into the right direction, rather than this. >> yeah. >> awful -- >> in the direction that it was, you know, born to do, the ideals, the policies, not the fealty to one man. >> and the cult of personality. thank you for that dana. elly mccarthy imploring others not to attack members of the party they disgrood with every oh the outcome of the election. listen to this we'll talk. >> the tension is too high. the country is too crazy. i do not want to look back and think we caused something or missed something and someone got

hurt. i don't want to play politics with any of that. >> so, you know, elle, it is ynzingly clear that top republicans were horrified by the insurrection. pu it's become sadly fliktle at times. but for investigators, what does this signify. >> yeah, don, such a compelling look at kevin kpaergt's state of mind back then when it mattered on january 10th. it's a reminder kevin mccarthy is not dumb. he is at dishonest as heck but not dumb. he recognized back then the crucial equation if you take a bunch of wild conspiracies combined with inflammatory rhetoric and deeply loyal followers who will do anything that could lead to violence. you can hear kevin mccarthy is legitimately unnerved, legitimately worried back then. this is why investigators, prosecutors are always asking what were you doing and saying at the time of the events? everyone has spin, cover story

after the fact, but nothing tells the score quite like what a person was doing in saying back at the time -- and now we have mccarthy on tape. >> um-hum. ryan nobel under uncovered the texts between scott perry to mark med ohos after the 2020 election that show him pushing to have the nay nation's top intel official investigate the conspiracy claims. including this text on november 12th and i quote here. it says, from an intel friend dni needs to task nsa to immediately seize and begin looking for international comms related to kmin onwas china malware involved. everything he proposed in the texts is wrong or illegal. why. tell us more. >> yeah, scott perry doesn't have the profile of a kevin mccarthy. but boy, oh boy, the things he is asking people to do are really extreme here. he is asking to seize voting machines. he is floating the crazy theory

about dominion which has been did he bunked. ha new one i've never seen about the brits interfering. that's a new one and most damaging he is trying to get d.o.j involved. trying to skeletal jeffrey clark, the loyalist who is going to abuse and use the power of d.o.j. to lend heft to election fraud narratives. let's keep in mind, the committee seemly made a decision, they are not subpoenaing their own fellow members of congress, kevin mccarthy, jim jordan, marjorie taylor greene down the line. that's a political decision they made. . the consequence of that is we're never hearing testimony in the committee from any of these folks. and they're free to do exactly what they've done thus far which is to shrug off subpoena -- any haven't been subpoenaed, shrug op off the informal requests and go about business. that's a political decision but at the cost of truth. >> more still to come. stay tuned. thank you both. i appreciate it. endless shelling, buildings

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ukraine reporting intense and constant shelling by russian forces on cities and towns in the east and south. people in ukraine's serkd largest city kharkiv in the northeast they know the bombardment all too well. they have been shelled on a daily basis since russian forces invaded two months ago. now much of kharkiv destroyed. clarissa ward gives as you look. >> reporter: there is no rest at night for the people of kharkiv. flares light up the sky as artillery thunders through the air. for nearly nine weeks ukraine's second largest city has been shelled relentlessly. only by day do you see the full scale of the destruction. the neighborhood of pavlopel was hit raeptedly as russian forces tried to push into the city.

no site was spared, not even the local nursery school. so it looks like this was some kind of a dormitory. you can see children's beds here all around. and then in the next store over there was the classroom. their shoes still litter the locker room. meresfully, the school had been evacuated, so no children were killed in the strikes. >> the mayor of kharkiv says that 67 schools and 54 kindergartens have been hit here since the war began. and what's so striking when you look around is that it's so clearly not a military target. this is a residential neighborhood. just a few blocks away, the bare skeleton of an apartment building. authorities say more than 2,000 houses have been hit here. sounds of war are never far

away. >> so you can see this is what's left of the bedroom here. it's just astonishing. two doors down we see a figure peeking out. 73-year-old llarisa is still living there alone. >> reporter: she is saying she has a sister she could stay with but also lives in an area being heavily hit and living in a shelter at the moment. it's from all sides, she says, from there a and there they can shell. with her fresh lipstick she is a picture of pride and resilience. much like this city, still standing tall in the face of a ruthless enemy. don, the governor of kharkiv says that three people were

killed as a result of shelling today. seven injured. this is what it's like in the city day in and day out. many residents say they are fearful that kharkiv could become the country's next mariupol. this happening as we are seeing those images, satellite images from maxar, what appears to be three mass graves on the outskirts of the city. and harrowing reports come from people who say that they were forced to dig those graves in exchange for just lab of food and water to survive. you can imagine why it is that kharkiv residents are so full of fear that their city could be next. don. >> clarissa wordwarard thank yo more politics madsen cawthorn in more hot wart after bringing a loaded gun through a tsa checkpoint. not the first time he has been stopped at an airport with a firearm.

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new tonight, gop congressman madison cawthorn stopped for bringing a loaded handgun into a tsa checkpoint. and it's the second time in just over a year that airport authorities have stopped cawthorn with a gun. he is avoiding cnn's questions tonight when we tried to ask him about the incident. jessica dean with the details on that. jess qua ka, good evening. walk us through what happened. how did cawthorn get caught with a loaded handgun. >> let's go back to earlier this morning, about 9o 9:00 a.m. eastern' charlotte april. tsa officials say that's when they discovered a loaded handgun in congressman cawthorn's luggage. he did say it was his. he claimed responsibility for it. and that he was cited for bringing that handgun through tsa. that is standard operating procedure for them to offer a citation. but as you mentioned, he had no comment to us earlier today when

we tried to ask him about it. and it's not the first time this happened. just over a year ago back in february of 2021 it was an unloaded hong and a loaded magazine that he brought in his carry-on. that went through the asheville airport in north carolina, don. at the time, again, he claimed responsibility and they took it to the side. but, again, two times in just over a year. >> so the question is, is he -- does he know better or is he doing it for publicity because he thinks it galvanized his base because they are second amendment folks. one would think one would learn the lesson from the first time you bring a gun to the airport. i mean, no? >> right, well and keep midmind, don, like he has a primary coming up next month. and there are republicans running against him in his home state. and you have house minority leader kevin mccarthy who says he lost his trust. you'll remember a few weeks ago

that cawthorn said that people in washington invited him in orgies. and he had seen them do cocaine and he admitted that wasn't true. a lot of republican leadership and even republicans in the senate are really tired of this. they see this as distraction in a yoor where they want to take back the house and senate. and in fact senator from his home state tom tillis has endorsed one of his opponents in the primary. it's going to be interesting to see the interparty dynamics especially within -- >> that begs my question, then, is this a cry for attention because he needs it because this is coming up? but let me move on ask you because apparently -- there is unrelated charges he has to go to court for next month. what's that about? >> that's about a revokeds license, driving with a revoked license. that happened a little -- a few months ago. he has a court date set for may 6th. that's a misdemeanor charge. so we should see him settling that. again, that's the second time he has been charged with that since 2017. he must say that 2017 charge was

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this is don lemon tonight, a new warning from the joint chiefs chairman general mark milley, top u.s. general bluntly laying out what is at stake in russia's war against ukraine. >> if russia gets away with this cost-free, then so goes the so-called international order, and if that happens, we're entering into an era of seriously increased instability. plus, new recordings, the new york times taped of minority house leader kevin mccarthy just days after the insurrection we'll play those for you, and the lockdown unlike any you've seen before, fences that look like steel cages, doors taped, on guard, inside chanshanghai, inside the lockdown. good evening, morning there, getting disturbing images of dead odds in the streets of bucha.