cnn team there saw rescuers using their bare hands to reach people trapped in the rubble there. thank you very much for watching, i'm pamela brown, join me tomorrow for cnn newsroom. erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. "outfront" next, ukrainian officials warning of increased attacks as putin looks for anything he can claim on victory day, sights set on the steel plant where ukrainian soldiers and civilians are running out of time. plus breaking news, super yacht just seized in italy and not just any yacht, it is a yacht suspected of having tie to see putin himself and police find the get-away car believed to be used by alabama corrections officer and inmate together now on the run. let's go "outfront." good evening, i'm baerin burnet warnings across ukraine,

warnings of increased attacks of russia ahead of its so-called victory day may 9th, mayor of kyiv urging to take extra precautions, everyone urged to avoid crowds as the uk ministry of defense issuing this warning linked to may 9th, saying the renewed effort by russia to secure the asovstal steel plant and complete capture of mariupol likely linked to the may 9th victory day celebration. the last hole out battle in mariupol, putin wants it in three days. victory day is a big holiday in russia, commemorates the soviet role in defeating the nazis in world war ii so i'll show you footage of what it looked like last year. it is a big deal, 191 military vehicles and people in moscow alone, do parade across russia. they say this year the event will be smaller, only 131 types of weapons, 11,000 people, but

the kremlin already confirmed, russian president vladimir putin will attend the parade in moscow's red square and make a speech and he wants that to be a victory speech and securing the steel plant in mariupol would give putin something to brag about and here's why. if he gets that plant, he gets all of mariupol formally and that completes the russian land bridge from russia to crimea, crimea, of course, what russia legally annexed in 2014. that control of mariupol and that whole stretch would also give putin control of a majority of ukraine's black sea coastline, crucial to the country's economy as a major world exporter of grain, in fact today, the u.n. said russia is preventing nearly 25 million tons of grain being exported by ukrainian so this all comes down to the steel plant and the battle is not over there yet. russia already seeking its claim elsewhere. it got the russian flag flying under the city hospital on the entrance to the city everything is in russian, adviser to the

mariupol says russia is restoring soviet-era monuments across the city. sarah sidener "outfront" in kyiv tonight, what are you learning at the situation of that steel plant right now? >> reporter: you know, we are talking to some of the family members of those who have soldiers, one of whom who is inside that plant and they say it is a living hell there. however, they have been able to get out almost 50 people from that plant today, but as you remember, just yesterday, the mayor said there were hundreds of people stuck underneath that plant listening to bombardments and strikes a ukrainian soldier in shocked silence his arm shredded and burned, vehicle hit by a shoulder fire grenade launcher, another victim in the bloody battle for mariupol. the video, a terrible reminder to those who have relatives

still fighting there, holga has a husband in the ukrainian army in mariupol, ana's brother is there as well. it's so painful for me, people can't just be silent about the horrors happening there. they don't have days there, they are counting the minutes. ana says she fears for her brother who she says is deteriorating physically as he fights the russians inside the plant. he is very skinny, he's exhausted. his eyes have black bags, she says. he's in horrible condition, but that's just physically, mentally, he's unbelievably strong. they are all so motivated to tear the russians apart. russia is attacking from the ground and the sky. the devastation immeasurable. the human suffering incalculable. under heavy fire, hundreds of civilians still cowering in fear under the steel plant, this is

the last ukrainian stronghold in mariupol, but russia is squeezing in on it, relentlessly bombing the place even after the promise of a cease fire to allow the trapped civilians to escape. >> translator: once again, the russians violated the promise of a truce and did not allow the evacuation of civilians who continue to hide from shelling in the basement of the plant. >> reporter: friday, a theirs rescue attempt under way, dozen rescued adding to the 500 people freed. 21-year-old nicole was able to stop mariupol, pictures of her formerly happy life there now devastate her. this is practically suicide. if i do, my heart shatters. i don't understand why, how, at some point. on the other side of the battle, a russian soldier nonchalantly says talks are useless for a cease fire, the war in his mind on going for 8 years, since the russians invaded and occupied

crimea. now, terror washes over another place and the bombs continue to fall. and tonight, we're hearing from ukrainian president zelenskyy who has said he is working on a diplomatic effort for the troops, for the army members who are inside at that plant. some of them, by the way, injured. erin. >> yeah, injured and been able to obviously do nothing about it getting medical care. sara, thank you so much, now to retired army brigadier general mark kim, former assistant secretary of state for political affairs and paul colby, for the central uerasian division, no warnings in central ukraine about increased attacks before may 9th, do you think the ukrainians should exercise caution and do you think putin will step up attacks? >> well of course. putin is desperate to show some

sort of victory as he walks into the may 9th parade, as you noted a moment ago, may 9th is an extraordinarily resonant holiday in russia, one of the most important because it commemorates the victory over nazi germany. the conflict that cost 27 million lives so just about every russian citizen has someone, a relative, a brother, uncle, grandfather, who died in that war and putin is now trying to appropriate that and conflate it with the war of aggression that he is waging in ukraine. the so-called de-naziification is just horrific in that the war that was actually against the nazis, he's now trying to make that a war against the naked nazis he describes in ukraine. >> so talking about the steel plant specifically, obviously, if putin is able to secure that, he has fully secured mariupol

and i just laid out how that scenario would look for them. he has his land bridge and he has the majority of the black sea close to ukraine. so what do you think he's going to do? is that plant now a crucial thing to secure in the next three days? and what would he do to get it? >> well militarily and tactically, the steel plant is not even part of a tactics at all. he has had that land bridge to crimea for some time now. this is a sideshow. it's a propaganda fight, and it's so unnecessary to see what's going on here. it has no tactical value. it has become a battle between putin, who wants to demonstrate that he is going to destroy all the nazis that are holding all the human shields there at mariupol, and the ukrainians who are having their remember the alamo moment, but in terms of military success or failure in the land bridge, this is

inconsequential . >> i mean as we point out, right, statues going up around mariupol, got a government, the russian flags, changed all the language to russian on the signs coming in. paul, there is, though, what sarah mentioned from the ukrainian president volodomyr zelenskyy, said ukraine is working on a diplomatic option to save its troops trapped in the steel plant and said, quote, influential mediators involved including influential states. what do you think he means by that? >> i honestly don't know what he means. i can it's extraordinary slim chance that put be is going to want to have anything other than a very clear victory there as the general was saying a propaganda coup to claim he has some sort of victory, salvage some of message for the russian people on the may 9th, declaration, it's very important for him to show there's something to show for the cost they've paid. >> general, if what -- is this

enough for putin? so if he has some sort of victory as he's going to call it about, you know, securing that land bridge and tries to celebrate that on monday, we don't know what he'll do but is that enough? is that where he stops or no? >> oh i don't think so. he's been having this encirclement operation he's been trying in the north to encircle the tdefenders, ukrainians aroud donbas for quite some time of i don't think he's going to stop that. i also don't think he's going to stop the initial intention of closing off the entire south to odesa so he can make ukraine a land-locked country and put his hands around the neck of the ukrainian economy so i don't think this is over. this is not enough for him. >> and paul, do you read anything to, there's been acknowledgment but not much more from the russians about these leaks that have come to new york

times, washington post, cnn, indicating that russian intelligence has been, you know, the linchpin crucial to ukraine taking out 12 russian generals and of course the russian flagship moskava ship, do you think this is a sort of silence before the storm or something else? >> look, i think today's battle field, that precision guided ammunitions need precision-guided intelligence and i think we saw the russians acknowledge this when putin's mouthpiece said that he thinks that the u.s. aid both military intelligence and economic has not contributed to a fast resolution of their operation. well that's understatement of the year. if by that he means that u.s. aid and western aid in general has prevented russia from achieving its ends of decapitating the ukrainian government, of occupying the country and creating a vassal

state or completely annexing it, he's absolutely right, u.s. aid has been critical in supporting the incredible aid and bravery of u.s. citizen and troop. >> and if u.s. aid has been critical, and it has, one could give different examples in which way, but then putin can choose to see that any way he wants. right? there are those who said he could choose at any point to say the u.s. is effectively at war with him. he hasn't done that yet. >> yeah, well, he's inferred that and lavrov has inferred that as well. not just the united states, he says that all of nato is part of this fight and whether it's the material support we've been giving or the intelligence support we've been giving, both of those have been consequential to the ability of the ukrainians to fight this battle which is really become an attrition battle more than anything else. we're able to sustain and resupply the ukrainians.

putin has nothing to add to what he is putting on the battle field. they're running out of equipment, ukraine is getting resupplied. >> but you don't think that will cause him to do anything to the u.s.? >> no, not directly, and he certainly is not going to attack nato. if he can't fight and win in ukraine, there's no way he's going to have any kind of success against the nato alliance. >> all right, thank you both very much. i appreciate your time. and next, the breaking news, italian authority seizing a super yacht with suspected ties to putin him it feel. this is putin's rumored girlfriend, may be the mother of several of his children, finally set to be sanctioned. not by the united states, the eu is leading on this. plus using the trump playbook against a trump-backed candidate, questioning dr. oz's ties to turkey as he runs for senate. >> we need to get him and his team to explain why he had time and energy and focus to devote in a turkish election. and the get away vehicle

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set to sanction putin's girlfriend alina kabaeva a step the u.s. a refused to take. >> reporter: hitting his inner most circle, eu target alaina kabaeva, believed to be given control over much of putin's wealth and property, rumored to be in romantic relationship after putin took an interest in kabaeva, 30 years his junior after winning gold olympic medal for russia in 2004. few years later, rumors began to separate putin was separating from his wife, rumors the kremlin vehemently denied but confirmed in 2014 when the couple divorced after 30 years of marriage. meanwhile, kabaeva rose steadily in russian political circles, becoming a deputy in parliament for putin's party in a post she held six years before moving on

to control of a pro putin media group, for some time now, calls from supporters of ukraine to sanction kabaeva but washington reluctant to go after someone so close to the russian president for fear of taking another step toward escalating the conflict. late last month though, the white house seemed to signal a change in approach. >> no one is safe from our sanctions. we've already, of course, sanctioned president putin but also his daughter, closest cronies and will continue to review more. >> reporter: and among the more, another close confident of putin, of the russian orthodox church said to have wealth far beyond the average church lead, strongly supported what he called in a sermon, putin's special peace keeping operation which he added was a religious cleansing operation to liberate russian speakers in ukraine. he's so close to putin in a highly unusual climate from the vatican, pope francis said the

patriarch cannot become putin's alter boy, something that threatened to put them further add odds. and erin, there are several further targets on the eu sanction list as well as a promise to ween europeans off russian gas and oil though several countries of the 27 nations of the eu already asking for exception to that because of the heavy reliance on russian energy. >> thank you so much in paris tonight. on to andre, russian investigative journalist, watch dog of russian secret services activities now, of course blocked in russia, i appreciate speaking to you. wall street journal last month of course said the biden administration said they held off on sanctioning kabaeva because they thought it was too much, would really inflame putin. what kind of reaction do you

expect from him now that the eu has gone ahead? >> well, we, of course, now that vladimir putin can be really emotional when somebody talks about his relationship with kabaeva and we know that he is known for that, but he usually is getting that emotional when he enjoys complete immunity, but like last week, this week's newspaper revealed the story about his two sons with kabaeva and nothing happened. so i think maybe the united states, the story will be slightly different. >> which is interesting, right, because in talking about those children, it has been completely off-limits. so you heard jim also talk about the leader of the orthodox church and said this week, the head of the orthodox church

shouldn't be putin's, quote, altar boy. now you wrote extensively about the relationship of the church, the powers there and the kremlin. how is the relationship between putin and karil? >> well it starts in the 2000s because karil was in charge of the foreign policy for the orthodox church and basically made the church the instrument of putin outside of the country. for instance, the church help putin to secure support among the russian diaspora in the war and later in 2010s got this crisis with crimea and annexation and invasion in donbas, karil faced a very difficult choice because the russian orthodox church used to have a huge flock in ukraine so the church was either to condemn the war and to save his people

and his flock in ukraine or to support putin and he chose putin. that is why this relationship is very, very important for putin. >> it's a choice, once you cross that, you can never go back. so and i just asked you about that yacht we mentioned, just got the news tonight, that mega yacht many believe belongs to putin himself seized today in italy. there's been extensive reporting from navalny's organization tieing every single person who work on that yacht many back to the fsb so have done all of that work. they, said to be worth $700 million. how much does something like this impact putin? >> i think it impacts him a lot because it impacts his the secrecy he introduced around himself and it's an absolutely off-limits to talk about his properties in russia, about his yachts, about his palace and see now, this conversation about his yachts while people in russia

might have a chance to actually learn something about the real face of putin. >> right, right. you know, the selfless public servant as he pushes himself to the russian people and there's that $700 million yacht, no avoiding those pictures. thank you very much, andre, appreciate it. next, new book by trump's former defense secretary, mark esper claims trump talked about launching missiles at mexico to destroy drug labs and that's not all he waited until trump was long gone to tell anybody, plus china's strict lockdown leading to suicides as president xi jinping doubles down on his zero covid policy.

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tonight using trump's playbook against him, dawnedal trump about to speak at campaign event for pennsylvania candidate, oz, trump's secretary of state is question's oz's loyalty to america after abc news reported that oz who is a dual u.s. turkish citizen voted in turkey's election. >> we need to get him and his team to explain why he has time and energy and focus to devote in a turkish election but not in a an american election. >> "outfront" now, jones, former special adviser to president biden obama and scott jennings, former senate leader to mcconnell and former assistant to george w. bush, so scott, one of trump's tactics we all remember, paint a political opponent as different and possibly unamerican. right? he did it all the time, now we're seeing that very same tactic being used by a former

trump insider against trump's preferred candidate, dr. oz, i mean that's a lot. this guy's is pampeyo turning on trump now? >> i think there are 2024 implications here, you got pompeyo who wants to run for president lining up against his former boss, you want to go down this line of attack, what better surrogate do you have to go after attack like this whether you think it's fair or valid than a former united states secretary of state so pompeyo dipping into one of the biggest races in the country in my opinion, he'd love to best trump in this race and say look at me, my endorsement matters. >> yeah this is, unfortunately, the chickens coming home to roost for donald trump. trump was famously attacking people, not american, said u.s. congresswoman should go back where they came from even though

they were u.s. citizens et cetera. created this style of politics now being used against him. my only sadness about it is the only way you can attack trump and his crew is from even further right with the same kind of trump tactics tells you something about where the republican party is going now, it's unfortunate. >> right, using the same thing, obviously this race is getting incredibly nasty as you point out, scott, but now, i want to ask you about mark asper, so new york times reports the secretary of defense, mark asper, has a book in it they said they asked asper in 2020 about launching missiles into mexico to destroy the drug labs, that was a quote, and kill cartel members, arguing that quote, no one would know it was us. okay, scott, you know, we've seen what our country does when they just throw missiles into another country. mexico is a sovereign country, is this revelation going to tarnish trump's reputation among

his loyalists or the opposite? >> no the opposite, i sit in kentucky and states like this ravaged by illegal fentanyl coming over the border. let's be honest, if joe biden proposed this, we'd have a panel now celebrating his bold leadership. the only reason people are crazy about this is because trump proposed it. we've been using u.s. military to fight the overseas drug war for years, did research before the show, saw an article in usa today, expanding drug war in latin america, in 2013 when obama and biden were in before, we used the military to fight the drug war. people in middle america are dying from this illegal fentanyl. i don't see what the big deal is and you asked me specifically do trump's people like this? heck yeah, and wish they'd already done it. >> already, there's a view on trump's base, but what about for democrats? you have yet another person who worked for trump waiting until long after they left to write a book and in this book putting all this stuff intended to show, i thought the

guy was crazy and awful and i'm now telling you that . does it do anything for anybody doing it now? >> well maybe boosts book sales, not exactly a profile encouraged to do it this late. and i do think, you know, it's unfortunate, because nobody is going to come out and say hey i misquoted, donald trump would never say that, because he used to say crazy stuff like that all the time, everyday in the white house and on twitter. i think people have forgotten how nuts things got. look, i don't agree that if biden said he was going to start bombing mexico that people would celebrate that. your party might, i don't think people in our party would. i think this is a reminder to the american people of how crazy things got for four years and how crazy they could get again. >> scott, here's the thing though in turns of some people, how do you take trump and maybe people would like that he spoke that way, but nobody actually thinks he would do those sorts

of things. i remember a conversation with trump 12 years ago he told me he wanted to bomb the oil fields in saudi arabia before he was president, now we hear this from the defense secretary. does anybody remember two months ago when the war started and trump briefly took on putin who today he called a genius again and said well, let's fly over and bomb the held out of putin and put chinese writing on the side of our planes and no one will know it was us. i mean scott, it's the same thing, does he just not mean any of it seriously? >> i mean, i never know which part he means seriously and which part, you know, he's just throwing in as an aside but i'll tell you something right now, the drug war is serious business, the drug deaths are serious business, the idea he was trying to think of something out of the box, people would have responded to that. folks i know think it sounds crazy but folks would have responded to that and not sure they throw in they'll never know it was us, look, american

presidents have been sending our military to other countries to fight the drug war since the reagan years. it's not necessarily a new idea, we do this all the time. >> we're praising iran contra? look this is really bad stuff, nobody's more antidrug than me, nobody gone to more funerals over drug stuff than i have but there's a way to do it and i don't think bombing countries and lying about it will make things better. >> thank you both very much, next, large bank withdrawals in a hotel stay. authorities tracking the movements of a corrections officer believed to have helped a murder suspect break out of prison and china's president doubling down on draconian covid policies leaving many hopeless, and feeling desperate. >> there was a fear for whether i'm going to walk out of this alive.

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foontonight u.s. marshalls focusing investigation on tennessee, for escaped officer vicky white, escaping together, suv found just two hours north of the jail, signs this escape may not have gone as planned. >> reporter: several days after authorities began searching for alabama fugitive casey white and corrects officer vicky white, investigators encountering more setbacks, located their get away car but no new leads where the pair is now. >> as far as vehicle description right now, they found the car, they were gone. >> reporter: cnn talked to the tow truck driver who moved the car last friday, said it was abandoned in the middle of the road blocking traffic, two hours north of all the detention center and only four hours after

the fugitives were last seen. >> we're assuming where it was abandoned and abandoned so quickly, they probably had mechanical problems with it. >> when police got to the tow yard seen the suv was apparently spray painted and the e empty vehicle was locked. >> now in addition to canvassing the area, looking at interviews, tips that were specific to that area so it really reinvigorates the investigation for us, and it gives us a trajectory to carry on this investigation. >> reporter: vicky and casey white who are not related took off last friday morning, video shows the pair leaving the correctional facility and patrol car under the guys of going to the courthouse for a mental health evaluation, officials looking for a so-called relationship between the officer and inmate, goes back to 2008 when white was serving prison.

white had 9,000 drawn from a number of banks. court documents show vicky white sold their home well below the current market value, and stayed at a hotel near the night of the escape, near to where her vehicle was parked. >> we know she was spotted at the quality inn. >> reporter: the day of their escape supposed to be vicky white's retirement date, until then a model employee at the prison. fugitive considered heavily armed and considering the nature of past crimes, concerns about vicky's well-being. >> anything could set him off and at any time could just lose it and decide she's a hindrance to him and, you know, hurt or harm her. >> reporter: yeah, ann, you think about this, you talk to the sheriff all this week and we've been talking to him as well, the idea he wants to find this car, it broke down in the

middle of the road and of course you can see in the corner of that car from the video we had, someone tried to spray paint it. the other part about this, they're still trying to execute the search warrant on that car but it was completely empty which means if they had any weapons or rations, they took that along with them. the big question now is whether or not they got someone else to pick them up. did they carjack somebody, something nearby? that's part of the what the investigation is focus on. the other half i found interesting, if they got tips in that area, now elevating those to the top of the list, erin, hoping to close the noose and find where these two may go off to next. >> wow, ryan, thank you very much. now to former fbi special agent, part of the search team that tracked down the olympic park bomber rudolph. so let's start with the suv he was talking b that they used to get away. found about four hours after they left the jail on friday. it was found in the middle of

the road in royals, tennessee, and looks like they actually tried to spraypaint it. what do you think happened? >> yeah, well there's two possibilities there, erin. obviously, the most likely one is that they had a mechanical failure and had to abandon the vehicle there or perhaps they came upon another mode of transportation that was available and just abandoned the car into that. you know, the spray paint thing, obviously trying to change the color of the car to try to change its appearance, you know, removing the license plates, putting other plates on or leaving it without plates, any of those things make it more difficult for the authorities in alabama to find out about the vehicle which is found in tennessee, because of the circumstances where these are different law enforcement entities in different states, all of the information that might have been gathered at the scene in tennessee might not be fully available to the investigators now in alabama and a sheriff won that. >> so the sheriff said today that vicky white crew $90,000 from multiple bank accounts

before the two went missing and the sheriff thinks she is using her law enforcement background thus far obviously successfully to stay one step ahead of them. how far do you think they could be by now. >> could be almost anywhere. it's been a solid week. i was thinking they would head for the wauter, to the gulf and south or central america because i think they'll be much more incognito down there, just look like a couple of american and see i guarantee not everyone in mexico and south of there is aware of what's going on in alabama, even though it's on the news here so that would have been my first thing, take some cash, buy a boat, get out on a river, take the gulf along the coast and go wherever you can, as far as you can. that's, obviously the easiest mode of transport because there's nobody overseeing no traffic cameras, nothing out on the open seas that would make them vulnerable. >> obviously, you know, we just don't know. and, but then a sheriff did have

a specific message for vicky white in today's press conference. i'll play this for you. >> you know we're going to find you. hopefully we find you safe. if you're safe right now, still safe, get out while you can. >> i mean, of course, she's, it's not like she can just be forgiven and go back to her normal life, that's not how this would go in any case. do you think that works? >> i do think it works, erin, and i think there's only two possibilities now how this ends for vicky and one is a very sad demise at the hands of the guy she helped free. the other is she ends up in law enforcement custody and alive and well. either way, it's going to be a sad kexistence for her. because at some point, and your reporter mentioned this, this guy is going to snap. this is not a happy camper. this is a guy who brought two guns to his girlfriends house when he thought she was dating someone else and started shooting up the neighborhood and that kind of anger is not something that dissipates.

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