this is "don lemon tonight." republicans subpoenaed. the january 6th committee issuing subpoenas to house gop leader kevin mccarthy and four other republican lawmakers. russian setbacks. a naval support ship on fire in the black sea, and russia's angry that its neighbor, finland, is moving to join nato. plus under covid lockdown for two months in shanghai. cnn's david culver finally able to leave. >> a few people you see out and about, most of them are head to toe in hazmat suits. as you look on the streets, the ropes are still blocking off a lot of the sidewalks, s. stores basically all closed.

>> he joins me ahead with his personal story of living under china's covid lockdown. but we want to get right to cnn's john avlon, charlie dent. alice stewart is here as well. i'm happy to have all of you on. good evening to you. john, let's start with the new stuff, the stuff that's breaking. hi, everyone. the fbi issuing -- investigators issuing, i should say, a subpoena to the national archives to access classified documents that trump took to mar-a-lago. are we going to find out what he took to mar-a-lago, and what does this mean for the former president, you think? >> well, we will find out what he took to mar-a-lago. we may find out the context in which he took it. was it trump cluelessness, or was there classified information that hadn't been declassified? there's also a statute having to do with these documents which might end up being material. there is a law on the books that says if you steal, spindle,

mutilate official documents, that there are punishments that go with that, and not necessarily jail time although some folks have gotten jail time. usually they try to sell documents that belong to the people, because these are the people's documents. but in some cases, not being eligible to serve in government again. that is a long ball. people should be aware it exists but not put too many eggs in that particular basket. but this is a serious deal if it's something beyond mere cluelessness depending on the secrecy of those documents. >> charlie, those subpoenas by the january 6th for house minority leader kevin mccarthy along with congressman scott perry, jim jordan, andy biggs, and mo brooks. i mean this is an unprecedented move. give me your reaction to the committee subpoenaing its own colleagues. >> well, as a former chair of the house ethics committee, we actually did authorize the issuance of some subpoenas to members at various times.

it was always for documents. i don't think we actually ever issued the subpoenas, but we authorized them. senator bob packwood, he was subpoenaed for documents. he went to court and packwood lost. what's unusual is members are being asked to provide testimony under a subpoena, and so i suspect these members will not comply and then if the house flips, i suspect they'll return the favor and they will issue subpoenas to their favorite targets, maybe adam schiff or someone like that. but this is -- i think it's bad for congress at the end of the day because, you know, if these subpoenas are defied by the members, you know, it just weakens congress. so i think that's really what's happening here. >> he didn't say it, but i could hear it, john. >> look, i think this is not a process story. yes, they may try to run out the clock. yes, it's bad for the institution. they'll probably refuse it. but that's not the real deal.

you know what's bad for the institution? members of congress trying to coordinate with a sitting president to overturn an election. and the reason they're resisting testifying is they have something to hide apparently. they can't handle the truth, and it's important to get the information, knowing what we know about scott perry, knowing what we know about some of these other folks who were working. we got the text messages in some case. we know they were working with the trump white house to try to overturn an election. all that information has got to come out, and they should testify. >> alice, look -- >> i agree. >> wait a moment. hold on, alice. >> i just said i agree with that. >> thank you, charles. >> i agree they should testify. >> but will they? i don't think. alice, will they? >> no, they won't. >> good night, everybody. they're not going to do it, right? >> have a good night. no. we're not going to any additional information out of them than we already have. there's the off chance that they will provide documents that have

been subpoenaed and some extemporaneous information. but as far as any of them testifying under oath, that's not going to happen, and potentially they could be found in contempt of court. and john's right. they're probably going to try to run out the clock and have this stretch as long as they possibly can in hopes of, by the time this does come to fruition, republicans will be in control. look, i'm talking with republican members of congress now, and they say if this does get to that point and there has been no findings out of this committee and republicans take control, they may dismantle the january 6th committee, or they could repopulate it with some of their own and begin their own investigation. and what they would look at would be nancy pelosi's security procedures at the capitol that day as well as the capitol police. so there are far-reaching consequences of this one way or the other. but the reality is -- and i think we can all agree on

this -- i truly believe at least in terms of republican voters and many independents, they're not looking back with regard to that when they're going to the polls. they're looking to the future. and while getting an answer to january 6th would be ideal, most voters out there that i talk to and republican members of congress, they're not concerned as much with that as they are, as we all know, the pressing issues of economy and jobs and now the big issue being pro-life and the abortion issue. >> in your multiple choices that you offer there, i'm going to say it is "b," repopulation and changing of the narrative to investigate nancy pelosi and the capitol police. that's what will happen if the clock does run out here. >> right. >> charlie, you agree with me, right? >> yeah, i do. >> charlie is just like, i agree. >> he's joe friday. >> charlie's the perfect guest. he doesn't go on for a long

time. i agree. you're right. next question. >> there needs to be accountability for what happened on january 6th. >> yes. >> members should come in voluntarily to answer questions. that's my preference. >> of course we all know that. but the reality is, as you said, everyone on this panel has agreed that they donthink the chances of them testifying are slim and none. i think repopulating it is the answer. alice, heading into the midterms, we have seen a much sharper tone from president biden toward president trump and the republican party. take a listen to this. >> under my predecessor, the great maga king, the deficit increased every single year he was president. i never expected the ultra maga republicans who seem to control the republican party now to have been able to control the republican party. this maga crowd is really the

most extreme political organization that's existed in american history, in recent american history. >> look, alice, you've actually got some in the gop embracing these comments. will the attacks have the impact that biden thinks they will? >> i don't think so. if that's his version of calling us deplorables, it's not going to work. it just kind of goes to show what a nice guy president biden is. look, that kind of thing is not going to frustrate republicans, and quite frankly, i don't see it impacting independents and undecided voters. certainly the democrats are going to jump onboard with that, but, you know, independents and republicans are not concerned about being ultra maga. they are concerned with the ultra high inflation, ultra high crime, ultra high prices, ultra high gas prices, and that's the -- >> you got to let john in before he jumps out of his seat here. >> i hear what you're saying and the new monmouth polling shows whether this will be about the

inflation or other abortion, those are the key issues. but i got to say independent voters in particular, this election does have a lot to do with democracy. and the fact that one political party is by and large backed the big lie, some will say it out loud, some will say let's just not address it. you know, this is very much about democracy because that's what was threatened in the last election. and one party -- a large number of it, including younger members, when they call themselves ultra maga, that's what they're backing. that's not appealing to independent voters, alice. >> i had to cut you off, alice, because he was like -- wait a minute. don't leave off of the set here. my point was, and, alice, you didn't really talk about this. but to call him the great maga king, i mean trump wants nothing more than to be a king. and of course he's like, yes, of course, i'm the king of the maga movement. i don't know how insulting that's going to be to him. charlie, go ahead. >> just look at pennsylvania right now. you have a gubernatorial race

and a senate race and most of the republican candidates are running as, you know, trumpian campaigns. but the two leaders, this kathy barnette for the senate, she's on the cusp of breaking through, and doug mastriano running for governor, they are ultra maga. these guys are so far out on the limb, the other candidates, even fox news is attacking barnette. they're out there attacking. so what i'm saying is there are some very fringe elements. i don't know if ultra maga is the right term, but they're problematic, and they're ascending in the pennsylvania primary now, setting up a situation where we could have -- you know, we could have two completely unelectable candidates in a year where republicans should probably win those two races. they could blow it. >> charlie's right. that's a big fear in the pennsylvania race, in that senate race he's talking about. charlie knows pennsylvania. he's won 13 out of 13 races. he understands how it works.

but barnette has benefited from the roller derby of that u.s. senate race there. we've had oz and mccormick really going after each other for months, and barnette just kind of coasted around on the outside. >> alice, you think people are sick of the fighting between those two? >> yeah, they are. but in the next three days, they're going to see a lot of people fighting against barnette because she is posing to be quite a threat. so we will see how the next few days pan out in pennsylvania. i happen to think people in pennsylvania are more conservative and would support someone like mccormick, who supports trump but is not as in the trump trenches as oz currently is. but, you know, it's down to the wire. right now we have a statistical dead heat between the three of them. this will be a great race to watch. >> yeah, i mean, what alice just conceded, though, there is such a thing that's too extreme. it's a problem for the republican party. you just heard it right there. if the republican party

nominates the most extreme folks, they're going to have a real problem in the general election. >> right. >> with speaks to the problem with folks who are ultra maga, who are backing the big lie, because they're not going to win the moderates or independents. that's what republicans are dealing with right now in these relatively low turnout, hi gh stakes primaries. >> can someone answer a question for me? what happened to dr. oz? >> how much time have you got? >> politically he can be as right as he -- if he is a conservative, then that's fine. but to embrace the big lie, someone who is a doctor, you know, who had at times a respectable show, in the beginning was, of course, oprah winfrey brought him into prominence. you know oprah. oprah operates from light. now you have this person operating from darkness. what happened to dr. oz? >> he's trying to win a republican primary. alice, go ahead.

>> sorry to bump in. look, like it or not, donald trump is the titular head of the republican party in many places. currently in pennsylvania, he has 70% approval rating in the republican primary voters. so with oz's long-term vision of becoming a u.s. senator and probably -- and dreams of being president someday. i guess he slept on a mypillow a little bit too long. clearly he realized the path to victory in his mind was to be all in on trump. he got the trump endorsement, and he thinks that's the winning ticket. but i happen to think we need to make sure and have a more moderate candidate to win the primary in order to win the general. >> charlie, i don't know if there's a quick answer for this. why are people -- why isn't he having as much success in pennsylvania as one would think? i mean he's gone full maga. is it because he's a carpetbagger? but a lot of people are carpetbaggers. >> look, i think the challenge for oz and mccormick to a certain extent is a lot of

pennsylvanians don't think they're particularly authentic. oz, look, he's got his tv persona, which is very different than he is as a candidate. mccormick, he was a bush guy. a successful biography and career, and a lot of people don't believe he's a real maga guy either. so there's an authenticity issue for both of them unlike kathy barnette, who is seen as authentic, authentically way out there, but they say her as authentic. and the real authentic guy is jeff barnos, who is the most normal of them and he's not getting traction right now. >> thank you. fascinating conversation. come back. come back now, ya hear? who knows what that is? come on, it's "the beverly hillbillies." thank you guys. i'll see you soon. new video tonight of what the fighting was like inside the steel plant in mariupol. we're going to break down what it tells us about the fight.

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the ukrainian military says a russian support ship is on fire in the black sea. here's a map of it. they claim that the ship is currently being towed near the now infamous snake island. now, that as new video obtained tonight by cnn shows close fighting in the aszovstal steel plant. let's get to colonel cedric leighton, the star of the show. i've been singing your praises everywhere because i really love the information that we've been getting from you. so thank you and good evening. >> good evening, don. >> so cnn has just obtained this

video from the azov regiment, sho. we can assume the video isn't recent because russian forces have largely pulled out from that area. but what are you seeing when you look at this fight? >> don, talk about close combat. this is one of the most impressive, real combat pieces of video that i've seen in a long time. what you're looking at here is an industrial site. you see this right here? that's a grenade launcher that is being used directly against enemy combatants, which are right over to the edge right there. they were kind of in this smoky area right there. and you see remnants of some of the rockets that have hit. it is, you know, clearly a scene of complete devastation. there's a manhole cover, what looks like a manhole cover there, where they probably quo d -- go into the tunnels below the azovstal plant. this is one of those areas where

a lot of fighting has happened. it's clearly all destroyed. in one of the scenes that's coming up here i think in a little bit, you see the soldiers firing right there. you're going to see some really close combat, or at least the closeness of, you know, some of the firing that goes on there. so this shows you the danger of what is actually happening here. it is something where it's a matter of inches. it kind of reminds you of stalingrad in world war ii. there it is right there. this is the kind of, you know, close quarters where they're firing out there. then you see a grenade go in and the bang right there. those are the kinds of things this was all about. it's a very dangerous place, a very lethal area of combat. >> colonel, ukraine saying today a russian naval support ship is on fire in the black sea. they aren't saying what the cause is, but after the sinking of the moskva, how is the russian navy holding up? >> they've got some problems, don. there are somewhere around 20 russian surface combatants and

subsurface combatants right in this area. snake island, of course, is marked right here, right at the southwestern edge of ukraine. the ship that is on fire is being towed here to sevastopol, which is the main russian naval base. but ever since they lost their flagship, the moskva, that you mentioned, they've had some significant command and control issues. they've had some significant areas where they've really lacked the ability to deploy their naval forces and they haven't been as effective as they could be. but they're still firing missiles, so they're still dangerous for the ukrainians. >> colonel, thank you so much. we'll see you tomorrow. the u.s. and the s international community have accused russia of war crimes in ukraine. next, what a two-month-long cnn investigation reveals. ( ♪ ) ( ♪ )

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string of atroszcities he has committed. cnn's international investigative correspondent nima elbagir has the exclusive report. a warning, you might find some of the images in her report disturbing. >> reporter: a devastation of civilian homes and lives. throughout the last two months, we have witnessed atrocities in ukraine. more mortar strikes very, very close. they want us to start moving. while we know these are russian actions, it's been difficult to draw a direct line from individual atrocities to a specific russian commander -- until now. cnn can exclusively reveal that this man, colis the commander responsible for this. munitions targeting civilians in the city of kharkiv, east ukraine -- a war crime under

international law. >> you can see more artillery rockets apparently fired from russian territory towards the territory i would say around kharkiv. i don't know if you can hear this right now. >> reporter: this is the start of the war. cnn's senior international correspondent fred pleitgen witnessed artillery being fired from inside russia within jer avenue love's district, toward the city of kharkiv. sam kiley was in kharkiv and could hear the shelling moments later. >> could feel the concussion against the glass. >> reporter: we soon learned from experts these were smart rockets. this is what they're capable of delivering. cluster bombs. one smart rocket releasing many smaller explosives, scattering bombs, amplifying the devastation. these attacks captured on social media both in kharkiv and both from the same day are a clear example of their indiscriminate nature. when used in this fashion

against civilians, it's considered a war crime. the use of smart rockets are key in our findings of who is responsible because they are unique to one unit here, one commander. after years of forensic work, using social media videos to guide us, we returned to some of the scenes of the attacks, focusing on february 27th, when three civilian targets were hit and eight more on february 28th. we start in a neighborhood of kharkiv. "this is shrapnel from those missiles that fell on our neighborhood," lilia tells us. "this shrapnel was found in one of the rooms." lilia takes us to see a smart rocket that fell 200 yards from her apartment block in this once affluent area. "i remember the whistling sounds of the missiles. i know that the missiles were

flying and that they were accompanied by fighter planes or drones." you can see the hole that it came through. you can see the way that the rocket buckled when it hit the car. you can also very clearly see that this is a smirch. it's not the only rocket coming from this direction on this day. less than a half mile down the road, another hit. helping to situate us, this ki kiosk, that water cooler. those blue doors you see, that's where the cluster munition shrapnel embedded. this video filmed moments after the attack where four people, including a child, were killed. another smirch launching cluster bombs. we know this because one of the unexploded bombs was found only 280 yards away. notice the date, 2019. russia stopped selling arms to ukraine in 2014. this confirms this is a russian

cluster bomb. 1 1/2 miles away, another strike, more suffering, and no sign of any legitimate military targets. "people were queueing for food, and then something just hit. people started running here," she says. this is the exact moment of impact. look at it again. frame by frame, you can see the scale of the rocket and proximity to innocent civilians. we are here in kharkiv. notice the five hits along this line from the 28th. they're pretty much in a line, apart from three here, which line up with the hits from february 27th. we can trace these lines 24 miles to a point of convergence here, across the border in russia, well within the range of a smirch rocket. where we have a satellite image from the 27th, showing the

launching position. notice the plume of smoke and the telltale burn marks of a smirch here, here, and here. in collaboration with the center for information, we can tell you who is firing from this position. the 79th russian artillery brigade, which is under the command of jer ave. love. military experts and intelligence sources say they are the only unit in this district equipped to launch smirch, and only the commander has the authority to order the 79th artillery brigade to launch the rockets. one expert told cnn, smirch is a district-level asset. there are very few of them in the russian armed forces, and therefore they're dedicated to special missions at the order of a military district commander. colonel general geravlov is this

commander, and he's no stranger to these brutal tactics. atrocities targeting civilians. they're very similar to what we saw in syria in 2016, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that geravlov also led russian troops during the siege of aleppo. he is the architect of the devastation you see here. for leveling aleppo, he was awarded the highest honor granted to russian officers -- hero of the russian federation. yet syrians have documented his war crimes. despite the direct line from the impunity the world afforded russia in syria to the t atrocities suffered by civilians here today, the question remains what will the world do to stop this cycle? nima elbagir, cnn, kharkiv. >> we've asked the russian

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a blazing wildfire ripping through a california community. hundreds of homes evacuated, dozens already destroyed as firefighters fight the fast-moving brush fire. cnn's nick watt has more. >> reporter: multi-million dollar mansions eaten up by fast-moving flames. this is one of california's most affluent neighborhoods. >> i feel like it's the end of the world honestly, and i just hope we can all get through this. >> reporter: hundreds of homes as well as a luxury golf resort evacuated. firefighters dousing homes in the hope of saving them. some using water pulled from the country club pond. two firefighters injured. >> we have a fresh group going

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this week. i'm going to talk to him in just a moment, but first, here's his story. >> reporter: leaving shanghai today is a onetime, one-way journey. i've not had this much freedom in 50 days. and here we go, off to the airport. heading out for the first time since mid-march, it all feels so strange. a few people you see out and about, most of them are head to toe in hazmat suits. as you look on the streets, the ropes are still blocking off a lot of the sidewalks. stores basically all closed. with a government-permitted driver, we pass through checkpoints, our documents thoroughly inspected, including a letter from the american embassy. many ex-pats like me needing diplomatic letters just to leave our apartments. once vibrant and rich with energy, shanghai was forced into an induced coma. the rolling lockdowns began in mid-march, but by april, this city of more than 25 million

people was under strict, harsh lockdown. most of us sealed inside our homes. community covid test after test after test, and in between, at-home covid tests. >> i've done quite a few of these. >> reporter: early into the lockdown, i packed a go bag, for me and for my dog. if i tested positive, i'd likely end up in a government isolation center like this, or worse, like this. most of us would prefer just to recover in the privacy of our home. but in china's zero-covid world, that is not an option. shocking scenes of people shouting "we are starving, we are starving." heartbreaking stories of people being rejected medical care. some of them later dying, all because hospital workers feared breaking unforgiving zero covid protocols. witnessing shanghai's handling or mishandling reminded me of wuhan. on january 21st, 2020, we traveled into the then-epicenter of what was a mystery illness.

>> it's the wildlife and seafood market. >> reporter: still fresh in our minds, the perseverance of those in wuhan who lived through the original lockdown. some losing loved ones to covid early on. >> just give him a second. >> reporter: they risked their furious with their government for not doing more to stop the initial spread. chinese officials maintain they were transparent from the start and in recent days, president xi jinping has reaffirmed and praised his country's zero-covid efforts, vowing to fight any doubters and critics. over the past two years, we learned through china's military-like mobilization. rapidly building hospitals. mastering mass testing of tens of millions at one time. designing a sophisticated contact tracing system. essentially sealing off their borders to the outside world. wanting to keep on the story,

i've not left china since 2019, making this departure a long overdue homecoming visit. shanghai's international airport, once among the busiest in the world, is a lonely experience. on the departures board, only two flights. on the floor, sleeping bags and trash from stranded travelers have camped out. they wait here for days or weeks for a flight out. outside on the tarmac, strict covid protocols and sanitation in place. ground crews spraying each other with disinfectant. boarding the near empty plane -- it finally starts to feel real. about to takeoff. the disorder, despair, the anger, the exhaustion, all of it feels so distant now. with a sigh of relief and a bit of survivor's guilt, leaving

behind a country amidst almost unprecedented changers, i wonder if china's covid restrictions will keep it shuttered doors from ever reopening. >> cnn's david culver is here in new york and joins me now. david, thank you. good to see you. >> reporter: good to be here. >> good to see you. so, it is alarming to see the extent that china is willing to go to to stop the spread of covid. is there any indication that president xi is going to back away from this zero covid approach? >> any indication of a timetable that there's perhaps an exit from this, it falls short. and there's this credibility deficit between the people and the state media and the propaganda they're pushing out. president xi has doubled down in recent days, telling the top leaders and rulers of that country that they will continue to implement zero-covid. and so, as soon as he says that,

you then have local officials who are starting to study exactly what he says and keep it in place. >> so, david, at least 32 cities are under full or partial lockdown in china. we have seen the anger in the video, you've seen this anger up close. people are banging on pots and pans on their balcony. could the situation get too uncomfortable for the chinese government? >> reporter: that's the question. scenes like this are rare. you don't see folks vocalizing their anger, their frustration, yet, here they are, you hear the banging of pots, something that, for many, is reminiscent of 1989 and tiananmen square and the massacre that played out there. so, you wonder, is it going to rise up to a point where there's going to be so much social unrest that there will be some sort of governmental change or regime change -- as of now, there's no ipd case of that. why? because they're able to allow these venting of frustrations to kind of go out for a moment and then they come down hard on it. and so then it will be on social media, it will be in person,

there's windows that they can freely express themselves, but then it's clamping down. it doesn't really seem to be clear how long that's going to sustain, though. >> the dilemma here, what people are grappling with, how do you stop covid, you restrict covid, without all of the restrictions like what's happening in china. do you think -- has that changed your idea, perception, of the debate here in the u.s.? >> reporter: so, it is interesting, if you look at how china initially handled this and as i pointed out, i haven't left china since 2019, so, i was there for the initial outbreak. we saw the military-like mobilization. you see all the extreme measures they put in place and they were effective, but they were effective for the early variants. when it comes to omicron, this has been a game-changer for china. we saw that around the beijing olympics and now it's clear that they don't really know how to stop it altogether. so, you see the extreme measures being put in place in places like shanghai. as far as what's effective there, it's tough for me to say, i can tell you what's not

working and it's the lockdowns. and part of that is, i was locked down in my neighborhood for 50 days. you start to wonder, how are people still in my community testing positive after three weeks, after four weeks, five weeks? turns out, there was some concern that the mandatory community testing that we had to go to and then the government distributions that we gathered together to receive, those were perhaps spreader events. and so -- where do you go from there? and they're at a loss for that, too, but it's become political and it's from president xi jinping that will keep it in this direction. >> how does it feel to be home? >> reporter: feels weird. feels really strange. honestly. it's -- i'm still processing it. i lack words. but feels ultimately good, i'm grate. . >> glad you're here safe and healthy. great work there. >> reporter: thanks, don. and thanks for watching, everyone. our coverage continues. hand in hand, h very mh so you should really be focucusg on both, and definitely at the same t time.

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hello, welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. i'm john vause. ahead this hour, from neutral to nato. with finland now publicly pushing for rapid membership of the defense alliance, the kremlin warns that's a direct threat to russia and will trigger retaliation. unprecedented. five republican congressmen subpoenaed to testify before the house committee investigating the january 6th insurrection on capitol hill. and the staggering toll of covid in the u.s. 1 million dead in 843 days