>> that's just breakfast. the new season of stanley tucci, searching for italy, airs this sunday night 9:00 p.m. eastern and pacific here on cnn. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room" thanks for watching, erin burnett starts right now. "outfront" next, breaking news, missile strikes targeting the heart of the ukrainian capitol tonight, u.n. secretary-general in kyiv at the time of the attacks, tensions high tonight as russia is making more gains in the east. plus, russian tanks with a major defect, their tops blowing off because of a so-called jack in the box flaw. can the ukrainians use it to amplify an advantage? and congressman madison cawthorn speaking out about being caught with the loaded gun in the airport, a string of controversies for the youngest

member of congress, but is he still all but certain to get reelected? let's go "outfront." i'm erin burnett, "outfront" tonight, the breaking news, kyiv under attack and another potential warning shot from russia to the west, missile attack on ukraine's capitol while united nations secretary-general antonio guiterrez finishing a visit there, fire breaks out in 25 story residential building, ukraine says at least 10 people were wounded and no ings didn't the u.s. secretary-general was there and russia did fire those missiles. earlier this week, defense secretary lloyd austin didn't rule out that russian forces were targeting him and the u.s. secretary of state antony blinken by striking rail lines only a few hours after the two left kyiv by train. this comes as russia ramps up its warnings to the west to stop helping ukraine. here's russia's foreign ministry spokesperson today.

>> translator: they are openly calling on kyiv to attack rigs ah including the use of weapons from nato country. i don't advise you to test our patience further. >> a threat to the west that russian president vladimir putin and his top diplomat, sergei lavrov seem to take further this week, putin saying, and i quote him, we have all the tools and will use them as needed. lavrov saying the danger of nuclear war is real. and here's what the editor in chief of russian news channel rt said when asked where the war could be headed. >> translator: the most unbelievable outcome that all of this will end in a nuclear strike seems more probable to me than other course of events. >> today, though, president biden standing firm in his support for ukraine, pledging an extraordinary $33 billion more in immediate support, and taking aim at russia's nuclear threats to the west. >> this shows the desperation that russia is feeling about

their abject failure in being able to do what they set out to do in the first instance. and so, i think it's more of a reflection not of the truth, but of their failure. no one should be making idled comments about the use of nuclear weapons or the possibility of being used. it's irresponsible. >> of course, it's unclear whether it will be a failure. tonight, putin still causing enormous damage and making some gains in the east. ukrainian official in mariupol telling cnn that the last hold-out of ukrainian forces there in that asovstal steel complex hit by the heaviest russian air strikes yet. chief of the mariupol police saying there was a massive air strike using seven tu-22 m 3 aircraft followed by more than 50 aircrafts, and said a makeshift hospital at that steel plant was bombed. unable to independently confirm this, but we do know to the west of the mariupol, along the

southern coast of ukraine are explosions in kherson where ukraine acknowledges losses and russia moving to install its own government. nick payton walsh "outfront" in ukraine, and nick, what is the latest on the ground? i extraordinary scenes in kyiv, around about 8:00 tonight, in the kyivsky district, hitting a residential block there, president volodomyr zelenskyy essentially says this is aimed at humiliating the united nations whose secretary-general guiterrez was there at the time, indeed a ukrainian prime minister said they heard the explosions in a meeting with the u.n. head there, a fast-moving head here, erin, with the head of military saying there have been some signs of russian progress in the east and also in the south where i'm standing. we saw, ourselves, how some positions are changing along the

strategic river that runs through ukraine. if moscow had any surprises left in this war, it is along here, the other side of the river has been russia's for weeks, but here, the western side is caught in the fast-changing landscape of this week's push. that's the prize, over there, the dnipro river, up past which on the left side bank here the russians are trying to push, wanting control of both sides of that vital part of ukraine. here, in novaranska, we are told there are a handful of russian tanks just over a kilometer away on its outskirts pushing, probing, but ultimately kept at bay by ukrainian forces that still hold the town. resilience here embodied, under the threat of rocket fire, planting onions. i'm here until victory, she

said. the children have gone, just her and her mother. 80-year-old mother and her are staying here. her mother says she's not going anywhere and not going to leave her alone. all her windows are blown out, she says. ukrainian forces who don't want their positions filmed are dotted around the town. as too, are signs of innocent lives lost here. rockets peaking out from under the water and this boat in which 14 civilians tried to flee russian occupation on april the 7th fell and died moscow's troops opened fire when it was 70 meters out. yet still, the desperate keep fleeing. this morning, these women left behind their men to defend their

homes near novavoronskova. we ran, ran early in the morning, said luda. they didn't let us out. we were shields for them. they don't let us out and by foot, by bicycle we go, in the fields we ran. our soldiers were two kilometers around, nadejya adds, and we ran to them. they need the russians, tanks, they draw zeds on everything. as new unwanted guests demanded milk and food at gunpoint, they had a glimpse of their warped mindset. they say they've come to liberate us, luda said's, these aggressors, they say america is fighting here but using the hands of ukrainians to do it. that's what they say. another claimed to be fueled by the violence of a long war, with separatists in the east. in general, the donetsk

militants say you've been bombing us for eight years, now we bomb you. across the fields, loathing and artillery swallow once whole, happy worlds. >> we have been hearing that in the important strategic city of kherson to the south of where we reported, that recently installed pro-russian officials in that occupied town, going to introduce the ruble as the currency there from a matter of days from now, it will entirely be the only currency used, although within a matter of months. those recently installed officials saying how they seek to stop that area going, back, quote, to its nazi past, the ludicrous rhetoric justifying the unprovoked invasion here to de-nazify all of ukraine and those officials saying too there will not be a referendum in kherson as many thought there had been the case, they will focus on what they call economic

development for a city, they've unprovokably invaded and caused immense turmoil in, erin. >> incredible damage, economic damage. thank you nick payton walsh, now to retired u.s. major general james "spider" marks and phil bryan, university st. andrews, glad to have both of you back. general marks, let me start with you with the strikes tonight in kyiv. it seems obvious, no coincidence but what do you make of it? do it while the u.n. secretary-general is on the ground, five strikes, doesn't appear to be a clear reason why they struck where they struck but did include residential areas. what do you read into it. >> well what it tells you is look, president putin is not going to do an about face and depart ukraine, going to remind the ukrainians, like they need to be reminded, that russia is still very much an occupier and has designs on ukraine that go

well beyond what we're seeing just now. and they have the capacity. they've got the longarrange strike capacity, can do it with fighters, cruise missiles, different types of artillery shell and see can go after stationary targets. look, these are not difficult target to see hit, right, and that's what they've been doing as a matter of routine so it's simply look, we're here, we know what you're up to and don't forget about us. >> so, a must-follow person in terms of everything happening with the troop movement and see what's being used, what's being destroyed so in that context, 60% of the howitzers the united states committed to sending to ukraine are now there, now in ukraine. russia is also upping up so much as it can, you know, its battalion groups, got 92 tactical battalion groups in ukraine, up from 85 last week, obviously, a lot of the battalion groups became inoperable after what happened

in kyiv, so not clear what it means, something you've pointed out. so when you look at th the equipment there, the soldiers that are there, which side is in a better position right now? >> well the russian advise actually, sent, seems most of the kyiv forces or a great number of the kyiv forces all the way around back into ukraine to fight at donbas, now they did that quite quickly. in one hand you ksz they got a lot of force there, certainly much more force in ukraine, in the donbas, fighting now than they did two weeks ago, the issue they have is these troops already fought in kyiv, they've been exhausted in kyiv. and what the pentagon said today and what we seem to see is they are moving very, very slowly, but they get to the frontline. they don't like to get too far from their supplies. the pentagon said, you know, logisticsly they're being very cautious. they can't actually advance too slowly, incrementally so they seem to be blasting away and

trying to advance subtly if they can. the problem they are going to face is that the russian forces in ukraine in a sense aren't going to improve, aren't going to get better equipment. the ukrainians are getting better equipment, now it's going to take time to integrate it and take time to use it, but the longer the ukrainians hold, the better their ability to resist will improve. >> general marks can you put specificity around this, biden pledges 33 billion to ukraine today and that's for five months, an extraordinary amount of money compared to anything so i'm not trying to question that but to the point that phillips just made, how quickly does that transform into weaponry, getting where it needs to go, being used by people who know how to use it and able to effectively deploy it? >> right, work on both sides. we got a narrow window where the continual flow of logistics that goes directly into the hands of

the war fighters needs to increase its pace. and that's happening, that, you know, the procedures are in place, and they are going to continue to move those in a facilitated way. the handoff to the ukrainian forces has been in place a while so we know where to go, where to hand them off and then there's some immediate training as necessary. on the russian side, as dr. o 'brian indicated they have numbers but it's about readiness levels, cobbling them together to be prepared to engage and as you said, staying close to logistics because they demonstrated that when they separate themselves from their logistics finds, even though they have material lines at this point in the donbas, they really get slaughtered by the ukrainians in a whole bunch of very creative ways. so it's a matter of ukrainian readiness, ukrainian capabilities, these to be what the russians are capable of doing and not able to do. >> so professor ryan, it is clear from what president biden is saying that he does not, at

this moment, take the very loud and clear and now repeated russians threats of nuclear action from the foreign minister from putin himself, from television hoests who are, you know, puppets from the government, he doesn't take that seriously now, the u.s. government doesn't, i heard that from a former secretary of defense, they believe that is sa saber rattling, do you believe that's right? >> it is certainly astonishing because russian language became apocalyptic in the last few days. russian tv and government talking about nuclear war as a likelihood. they never did that during the cold war, soviet union didn't talk about that so the russian language has really become quite frightening and what's interesting is when they do that the biden administration said, you know, we're going to make a historic package of military weapons to ukraine, deal with it. so one hopes they have pretty good intelligence that the russian government is saber-rattling but it's a sign of their confidence and it's also a sign that they believe

that russian forces in ukraine are not in the best of shape and the more you can get to ukraine the more you will give the ukrainians a chance to get a very positive result. >> thank you both -- go ahead. >> quickly, exactly what dr. o'brien said is if the russian forces do not achieve success now in the donbas, you now increase the risk of a likelihood of the use of a theater level nuke because putin is not going to accept that defeat and theater level nukes are part of his arrows in the kwif quiver as opposed to how we view the use of nukes. >> and i know they have more than 2,000 of those tactical warheads. thank you very much. next, the russians fighting a war with defective tanks. turrets exploding and sometimes flying multiple stories high, it's been called the jack-in-the-box effect and has had devastating consequences on the equipment and troop toll,

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u.s. officials accident nau na acknowledging the russians making progress in eastern ukraine, are, though, set backs for putin's forces, new images surfacing of russian tanks and one thing in common between all of them is the turrets, the tops are blown off, some of them blasted as far as a two story building, an effect that has been called the jack in the box effect and has been deadly for the russian crews inside, oren liebermann in front. >> a tank laid bear, turret separated from the bottom of the tank, a problem seen in other destroyed tanks as well. it's a design flaw in russian tanks that ukrainian forces have exploited. >> if the turret is penetrated, and all our weapons penetrate the russian turrets without problems, particularly the javelin from top where the armor is thinnest but that exposed ammunition will cook off

immediately, go highwater and the whole exposed ammunition program inside the turret will blow. >> reporter: russia's invasion of ukraine revealed to the u.s. and the world one of the problems within one of the world' largest military, trying to hide the losses from he is own people, but the messaging since the war began cranked out videos of russian armor being destroyed. estimated russia lost as many as 580 tanks since the fighting began. >> they have significant mechanized capability but when you look at the tactic and see procedures they use, were not very effective. so you question the training, the leadership at the noncommission level, not commission officer level, and their ability to provide basic logistics to a force that size. >> reporter: russian forces no focusing on the donbas region in eastern ukraine where a senior defense official says they've

made some progress, trying to fix some of the problems that plagued the early invasion using their advantage in firepower and trying to coordinate air and ground attacks but officials say they don't appear to have learned those lessons yet, the performance of vladimir putin's military has surprised the u.s. >> we did not do as well in terms of predicting the military challenges that he has encountered with his own military. >> reporter: with the war in its now third month, nobody's talking anymore about this ending quickly. russia's attempting to regroup with a new goal in mind in southeast ukraine. with u.s. and western support, ukraine bracing for a long, brutal fight. the biden administration frames this as much bigger than about one country. >> and oren, you know, watching those defense officials, they've talked at length about some of the serious problems the russians faced as the invasion began, these tanks at the heart of that, but is there any way to measure, at this point, to what extent russia has been able to

solve any of these problems? >> reporter: so the u.s. is very careful with its wording here, the pentagon included in that. the u.s. has seen some evidence they're trying to better integrate air and ground attacks, that wasn't integrated or coordinated at all, suffering from a lack of communication, a lack of logistics and sustainment, but a lot of those problems still exist. the ou.s. still seeing those issues in southeast ukraine and many think they can't really be fixed this quickly with the turn around in kyiv, northern ukraine, and southeastern ukraine, one of the hardest issues to fix is morale where they still see russian forces suffering greatly. >> as we talk about those forces from the north already redeployed to the south, nothing that can change that situation. thank you so much, oren. next, hundreds of russian oligarchs and officials sanctioned about the war in ukraine and more coming, but is any of it impacting putin? my next guest explains why the answer is no and says he's tough

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tonight, president biden ramping up efforts to ensure that russian oligarchs and other top putin allies pay the price over putin's invasion of ukraine. >> we're going to ease their yachts, their luxury homes and other ill-begotten gains, these are bad guys. >> biden vowing the money from those assets will go to ukraine, that is not we'll keep the money for later, that is sorry, they're gone and using for something else. so far, over 140 russian a oligarchs sanctioned, hundreds of millions of dollars currently frozen, dozens of yachts seized by u.s. and allies and these are people really sophisticated so the fact they still have hundreds of millions easily

seizable should say something to you right there. could they view these as escalation or white house doesn't have that concern at all. >> reporter: the white house made the decision that the outcomes out weigh the risk and see today, president biden saying the u.s. is prepared for any scenario if russian president vladimir putin does try to create a more direct confrontation between russia with the u.s. and its allies, but today, president biden making clear they are looking for more ways to punish those russian oligarchs that he described as bad guys and he is asking congress to pass legislation that would essentially expand the federal government's authority for seizing the assets of these sanctioned oligarchs, things like yachts, planes and luxury homes. the u.s., of course, has been working with allies on those efforts but there are some gaps in current u.s. law and he is hoping that something passed through congress would essentially allow that process to be a bit more streamlined. the ultimate goal here, the

white house is hoping they can liquidate these assets and then give those proceeds directly to ukraine as they are preparing for a long drawn-out war that will require much more in military assistance, humanitarian and economic assistance as well so there is certainly these logistical aspects of this trying to get more aid to ukraine but also symbolic of this move the president is trying to make targeting those assets of russian oligarch and see using them in turn to help ukrainians. >> thank you very much, and interesting to see how this will go, everybody thinks about this precedent-wise, remember the pallets of cash given to the iranians, because it was their money, the u.s. had it, not for something else, that is what will happen here. now, lena, just on the face of it appears significant, on the face of it, that they're going to take these assets, liquidate

them and use the money, not just freeze it and maybe you get it back later. this a whole other level, now significant is that? >> well it's significant in a sense that this takes u.s. policy one step further in our ability to not just hold on to these assets but to actually be able to liquidate them and return the money to ukraine and help support ukraine's reconstruction, hopefully, after the war is over. i think what this really signals is that the administration doesn't see a moment anywhere in the future where there could be some sanctions relief because obviously once you liquidate the assets there's no return from that so they're seeing this very much as a long-term endeavor they're in a long time. >> that appears what's so significant about it, back to iran, a long time, they still kept the money so this is very different. some of the statistics, lina, i went through, the 140 oligarchs

sanctioned, 400 government officials, hundreds of millions of dollars in u.s. bank accounts, just a drop in the bucket, they won that money is discoverable, dozens of yachts seized around the world, has any of this had an impact on those individuals, caused anybody to change loyalty to putin? >> no, unfortunately, mr. putin shielded himself incredibly well from any sort of dissent among those that are close to him, these very closely-connected oligarchs who are now being affected by some of these seizures and the reason i say that is because mr. putin hold as huge amount of leverage over these people. they owe everything they have to him and they know what the consequences will be if they turn against him. it could be imprisonment, certainly mr. putin has done that, it could be something far worse, in fact the last couple of weeks seen a lot of mysterious circumstances under which some less-known but very

wealthy people in russia have committed suicide, died from heart attacks, under very strange and mysterious consequences and many suspect, of course, you know, this is really the hand of the kremlin. and this is a signal to these people, you turn against putin and this is how you're going to end up. >> well if past is precedent, i mean those examples you provide could indeed be something incredibly sinister so obviously been all this talk this week, the wall street journal reporting the u.s. was ready to hit kabaeva, but at the last minute the u.s. backed off saying it would be incredibly escalatory and needlessly punitive in that it wouldn't actually impact anything. due do you agree with that logic or is it at this point, time to sanction her? >> you know, it's long overdo you we hit putin where it hurts. look at the tratrocities the

russian military is committing on a daily basis in ukraine, women, children, innocent civilians being targeted, murdered, raped, you name it, i'm sorry, but alina kabaeva living in luxury in switzerland with putin's own children, is enjoying things many ukrainians have never had access to and certainly no longer have access to now. so the idea that somehow sanctioning her would be an escalation, i find a little surprising. >> all right. thank you very much, not mincing words, alina, appreciate your time. and biden administration under fire from its own party. president biden's border policies. >> it's clear to me that the federal government is not prepared. not even close. and republican congressman madison cawthorn speaking out about being caught with a loaded gun at an airport, not the only thing he's explaining to voters but will they let him keep his

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grilled on capitol hill among fears the record surge of migrants on the southern border will worsen. >> this administration did not create the problem. but managing it effectively is your responsible. it's clear to me the federal government is not prepared. not even close. >> my constituents want you imimpeached because they believe you committed treason. >> you got 1 minute 17 seconds to say it. >> what you just said is so profoundly offensive on so many different levels in so many different regards. >> i won't ask you for an apology. >> don't. >> i won't. i am incredibly proud of my service to this country. >> taking advantage of this heated rhetoric is texas governor greg abbott as he campaigns for re-election but some of abbott's hardline policies at the border appear to

be backfiring, rustsell flores s "outfront." >> reporter: republican governor greg abbott been touring texas this election year. >> number one. >> reporter: his platform includes being easy on business and tough on immigration. >> texas is stepping up to do the federal government's job. >> by complete and total endorsement. >> reporter: but abbott's latest hardline immigration policies along with some political theater could be back firing. that's texas agriculture commissioner syd miller, a republican. >> he's caused a second crisis on top of the crisis we already have at the border. >> reporter: talking about abbott ordering enhanced inspections on commercial trucks coming in from mexico earlier this month, all part of abbott's operation loan star, flooded the border with thousands of state troopers and texas national

guard members, the price tag so far, $3 billion. >> a zero tolerance policy. >> reporter: abbott said the added truck inspections would crack down on human smuggling and drug and weapons trafficking, the truck association which normally endorsed him for governor said it was unnecessary and hurts consumers. >> any delay is going to be something that a motor carrier has to account for. >> reporter: the inspections, which only lasted one week, practically paralyzed trade between texas and mexico. the estimated loss? nearly $9 billion in us gdp. >> it doesn't fix the immigration problem at all. >> reporter: cnn checked, of the more than 6,400 vehicles suspected at the border, texas department of public safety found defective brakes and tires but no drugs, no weapons, no human smuggling.

while abbott blames president biden for the crisis, he's been a political victory lap for bussing migrants to dc. >> texas taking unprecedented action. >> reporter: the reality is migrants are thanking him. >> there is a free government bus that goes to washington dc. >> reporter: tiffany burl, the director of this respite center in the past two weeks, estimated 200 people who voluntarily hopped on abbott's buses choose to do so because it's free. >> because it's just free. >> reporter: and it gets them closer to their final destination, courtesy of the texas taxpayer. and while abbott touts that under operation loan star he's arrested thousands of of migrants for criminal trespassing, he hasn't shared this. what is happening with clients arrested under operation loan star, migrants arrested, is rather than being expelled immediately by federal immigration authorities, they're

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the latest controversy for the youngest member of congress, diane gallagher "outfront." >> re. >> reporter: cawthorn on instagram making light of his latest charge. >> went through tsa no ladies and gentlemen of the jury, no major alarms, nothing bad happened. >> reporter: just early this week, cawthorn stopped from carrying a gun by security, agents at the douglas international airport detected this loaded pistol at a check point, charlotte police seized the handgun and cited the freshman congressman who they said was cooperative with a misdemeanor charge of dangerous weapon on city property and can face up to $14,000 of tsa fines as a repeat offender, cawthorn called it a flat-out mistake in instagram caption. the republican representative was not charged in february,

2021, when ashville regional airport agents found a different gun in his carry-on bag, cawthorn's team told last year that he brought gun by mistake. his run-ins with law enforcement not limited to air travel, set to appear before a dash cam video obtained by a coalition of north carolina showed the march 3 stop for driving left of center and expired tag. a trooper tells the youngest member of congress -- his license is revoked. though the reason is unclear. the record that has republicans on the hill riled up isn't his legal one. it's his pattern of controversial comments. >> he's wrong. >> calling ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy a thug. >> remember ukrainian government is incredibly corrupt. and evil. >> claiming he's been invited to k cocaine filled orgies in dc.

>> what did you just ask me to come to? and you realize and watch them cocaine in front of you. >> that landed him a closed door meeting with party leadership. >> he lost my trust. and earn it back. i laid out everything that i find is unbecoming. >> members of his own party are seeking to stop him from getting a second term. >> we're starting to see this coordinated drip campaign. >> next months primary has a crowded field of gop candidates. backed by state republicans. >> they call it instagram famous. >> and leaning heavily on his slate of scandal. >> will any of this actually matter may 17? north carolina eleventh district is very red. he had plenty of baggage the first time they elected him. he's not a newcomer this time. seven republicans are running against him and most of the state republicans support is concentrated.

u.s. senator is campaigning for one of his challengers. the key is get 30% plus one to avoid a run off. may 17 a long way away. early in person voting started today here. >> thank you very much. i want to bring in our senior data reporter. to talk about this. you go through the numbers. you have republicans coming out in mass in the party -- they don't want him to stay in office. what are his chances to win in the primary? >> when was the last time you saw someone a senator from your home state endorsing the non-incumbent in a house race of your own party? that never happens. donald trump is of course backing him. we should keep that in mind. if you at the odds and betting markets. you see the kau thorn that has a two in three chance of winning. chuck edwards one in third chance. 35%. one in third things happen a lot. a good baseball hitter gets on base one in three times.

more than that if you look at the betting odds history over the last month. what do you see? you see his chances have dropped about 20 points from 85% to about 65%. so the question is have the scandals had an impact? certainly in the eyes of the people betting. >> the district is so red, so republican. when they're all against him, if he wins the primary does he end up just that's it, he's done? he'll be reelected. >> yeah. i think the short answer is yes. she was talking about how deep red the district is. if you look essentially at the race. inside elections what do you see. solid republican. safe republican. those are the types of districts when you have a safe solid. they never go the other way. even at this point. more than that, look at the district and how it voted. back in 2020. this was a district that voted

for donald trump by 10% points. if you look at basically all the house democrats, none of them, zero, zero, zero represented a district that is republican as that. basically, if you want to beat him, he has to be beat in the primary. it will have to be edwards. if he gets to the general election. forget about it. he's getting elected. >> trump behind him and tom till is is not. >> trump vs. the gop. we'll see what happens. >> all right. early voting starts today. and next, inside the palace kitchen of president macron. theyyyy're loooaded! turns out, michael buffer speaks like e that all the tim. and it turns out the general is a quality insurance company that's been saving people money for nearly 60 years. and in this corner, coconuuuut shriiiiiimp!

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finally tonight, the new cnn original series. given an inside look at the people and places shaping the food, art and culture of paris. mccoy follows a first generation immigrant from west africa. who cooks for the president of france. a classically trained chef himself takes you inside the palace kitchen.

>> this isn't like a tour or anything like that. i'm here to meet with someone super special. chef francis. a chef here at the palace kitchen. >> the house doesn't work like a regular restaurant or hotel. this is the first house of france. and we are like a display for the world. >> he is a first generation immigrant. he grew up in the suburbs but now cooks for the president and his wife. >> first of all it's a pleasure to meet you. i'll be honest, i was fan boying on your instagram. i love very unique, classical french cuisine. stuff people don't now how to cook anymore. >> he's preparing an old school french dish we both love. >> a thousand leaves. >> yeah. >> staring at the food.

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