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it's 4:00 a.m. in kyiv. vladimir putin is threatening more strikes after targeting cities and civilian infrastructure across ukraine with some of the worst missile strikes since the beginning of the war. president biden today condemned the attack, promised additional security assistance including advanced air defense systems. in a moment we'll talk with two retired army generals about the significance of today. first cnn's nick paton walsh. >> reporter: this was the day the war came back to all of ukraine. the capital kyiv like many cities for months edging towards

normal hit by multiple missile strikes. carnage at rush hour, central streets hit, the target, unclear. the aim, utter horror. over 100 missiles and drones. the civilian death toll rising along with global fury that there was nothing the kremlin would not hit. even this kyiv walkway to save face from endless losses and the weekend blast that hit another bridge between russia and crimea. for a few hours this morning almost all of ukraine's cities seemed under attack. the bus next to this crater caught by one of two missiles injuring five. you can see the utter ferocity of the explosion here by the hole, one of the two rockets made it. it's a curious question as to why this was indeed the target. it seems like this telecom facility was unused at the time

it was struck. but also too the callous disregard for human life being shown, all these apartment blocks just within the blast radius. this woman said she ran her two children back into the kitchen in the minutes between the two missiles. homes here gone and winter ahead made worse by the power cuts the missiles caused. however fast the recovery is. >> it is terrible. it is a crime against civilians. >> reporter: anger here, some fear, but also resilience echoed by ukraine's president. [ speaking non-english ] there may be temporary blackouts, he said, but our confidence, the confidence in our victory will never have a blackout. why these particular strikes, the enemy wants us to get scared, wants us to run. we can only run forward and demonstrate that at the battlefield.

russia's brutality was always a known quantity. but ukraine's stubborn resistance still surprises. this day sharing a video of a soldier shooting down a missile with a shoulder launch rocket. a david who wants more advanced arms to defend itself from a weakened goliath. a call for this rare and chilling moment of terror across the country will only amplify. >> nick, is it clear if vladimir putin thinks this retaliation has been some sort of success? is it expected to be repeated? >> reporter: i think certainly for the domestic audience which i think is most likely intended for has certainly been a success. critics are happy with the conduct of the war and calls after the extraordinary failures. the past weeks or even months that they change tactics or, quote, tougher.

is this something russia can repeat on a regular basis? well, you have to ask yourself given there's not a sudden change how unmerciful they've been. whether or not this would have been done in the past more regularly. it may be down to limits in russia's own arsenal. we don't know how many cruise missiles they have but you probably imagine they don't have 80 plus to use every single day so this is certainly been a use of a limited amount of arsenal to try and send a message, yes, cruikshank, that probably hasn't worked but probably had more of an impact on their elite dampening the criticism and showing vladimir putin still has a card to play in this war. it's done some damage to critical infrastructure here. it's taken some civilian lives, i think certainly for a few hours this morning many ukrainians were shaken because cities that had been essentially getting back to some degree of normality away from the front in the south and east were suddenly

being hit intensely. do we think we'll see this again in the weeks ahead? it's possible. i think, though, russia's struggling with all of its inventories here, shells, cruise missile, basic diesel fuel for tanks, soldiers, they're all a struggle right now. this i think has been a show of brutal force but i'm not sure it's something they're able to pull off on a nightly basis, anderson. >> nick, thank you. be careful. with russia now reduced to targeting cities and people in them, what does that say about the state of the war for what nick called a weakened goliath? joining us cnn military analyst mark hurt ling and pierce whack served as attache during the russian invasion of crimea in 2014. general, even a weakened goliath can cause chaos and destruction. do you have any idea how long russia could continue to carry out attacks on today's scale? >> i think we have to point out, anderson, that this is not a

change in tactics by russia. they've been doing these kinds of things since the very beginning. in terms of answering your question how long can they do it, they obviously attempted to do a -- equivalent of a shock and aude yesterday and even with the 84 ukrainians' count, 84 missile, 24 drones half of both were shot down by ukrainian forces as they flew overhead. there was a lot of damage done but, again, mr. putin is a one trick pony. he has been attacking civilian infrastructure with rockets and missiles since the beginning of this campaign. none of that has contributed to him achieving any of his political or military end state goals so, you know, i got to believe that sanctions are hurting him. that his weapon systems are faltering. remember, way back long ago we were finding out that about 60%

of russians' missiles were failing during launch so a combination of fewer with more failures with the same strikes against civilian targets which are criminal, i don't know. i don't believe he can keep this up much longer. >> what does it say if nick is right and this attack, these strikes were largely for domestic russian audiences. what does that say about what lies ahead? >> these attacks as general hertling mentioned is a follow-on of behaviors going all the way back to the first evening of 4, february. they're amping it up. i feel frustration in these strikes. the russians have not been able to beat the plucky, nimble and capable ukrainian military in the field. so -- and then the kerch bridge

was dropped several days ago, and i just think that this is sort of a manifestation of frustration, rage, power, and i think it's all it's going to do, it's going to harden the ukrainians even more that went through incredibly anxious days in february and march and this just continues the negative narrative. he may get some points for being strong and tough, but this isn't long-term going to play well in russia and also it really enhances, continues this sort of black hat aspect of the russians in the international community and united nations. >> and general hertling, what is the war continue to look like in the months ahead? >> well, we'll see changes in the environment, certainly, anderson. but that affects both sides and

i'm talking about weather. ukraine can continues to generate momentum. there's an attempt by russia to incorporate mobilized soldiers which we've seen through internal russian reports. there are more people running out of country than there are moving and marching to mobilization stations and even if they get some of those, russian soldiers to the front line they're going to be joining units that are actually depleted, low morale and have not achieved any success on the battlefield. so we're going to see an increased momentum by the ukrainian forces, you're going to see more defeats on the battlefield by the russian forces and unfortunately we're probably going to see more since we have since the 24th of february as peter said more artillery and missile strikes against civilian targets and more criminal activities that puts russia and mr. putin in an aspect that they should be brought before the hague. >> general hertling and general

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might be a political risk in a swing state. >> what it looks like when i step away from president trump. >> reporter: kari lake leans into trumpism in a state where roughly one-third of registered voters are independents, lake, along with republican u.s. senate nominee blake masters is part of an entire slate of republicans backed by and championing trump in the west. in nevada republican nominee for governor joel lombardo. >> round of applause for president trump. >> reporter: and senate republican nominee adam laxalt. >> do we miss the trump economy right now? >> reporter: but playing to the republican base means standing with a former president who continues to lie about the 2020 election. >> our country is being destroyed. >> reporter: and praising those who attended the rally in washington on january 6th, shortly before the riot at the u.s. capitol. >> they were there largely to

protest a corrupt and rigged and stolen election. >> reporter: trump energizes the base but in both nevada and arizona, he risks alienating some independents. but not all. >> i feel like he's doing the right thing by coming back to these battlegrounds. >> reporter: joey valdez is one of them. >> do you think he's going to speak to the independents who are undecided? >> i think he will. i think he will. we're out here struggling to make ends meet, buying gas, buying groceries. >> yes. >> reporter: nevada democratic senator catherine cortez masto, the incumbent. >> when we stand together we can get it done and make it happen. [ speaking non-english ] >> reporter: leans on her own strategy to keep nevada blue. energize her base. hundreds of union workers going door to door to persuade democrats to turn out. [ crowd chanting ] polling shows she's in a tight

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we're now in the crucial midterm races and showed you the former president was there holding a rally for the candidates he support, many election deniers, most of them. none has the support of house spe speaker rusty bowers who broke from his party. he refused the former president's pleas to overturn the election results and testified before the january 6th committee. >> and i said, look, you are asking me to do something that is counter to my oath when i swore to the constitution to uphold it and i also swore to the constitution and the laws of the state of arizona and this is totally foreign as an idea or a theory to me and i would never do anything of such magnitude without deep consultation with

qualified attorneys. you are asking me to do something against my oath and i will not break my oath. >> and rusty bowers joins me now. speaker bowers, it's a pleasure to talk to you. you saw election denialism on full display, candidates embracing the former president. how concerned are you about integrity of elections in arizona? >> well, i don't know that i'm concerned about this round. what i would be more concerned about is who wins and what they will do with elections. but we have had some excellent work and thankfully by a lot of good volunteers who came out of the woods to be helpful and so i think this one will be fair. but if -- depending on who's elected, what happens next is what i would worry about. >> after losing your election bid in august you said and i'm quoting, the constitution is hanging by a thread. what do you think the future of

american democracy looks like and how do you make it more than just a thread? how do you make the constitution embedded deeply and not hanging by a thread. >> how do you beef up the thread? >> yeah. >> i've recently -- we've opened a trade office in germany, arizona has and talking to people in europe, they all are watching arizona and we've mentioned that. they say, how arizona goes we are very, very concerned. we're very interested and it was a little baffling but they just said as arizona goes, we fear that's how the country will go and so i know that there's the concern just today i had denmark interviewing me and tomorrow more. the issue of a threaded constitution lies in everybody's hands. this constitutional republic

depends on that democratic foundation that we can count on the elections being fair and square and straight up and everybody has to -- you have to count on that, both sides, and so that's at stake, that really is at stake in this election. >> i know -- you're a lifelong conservative, republican. you never expect -- i've seen quotes you said. you never expected a threat to the constitution like this from the republicans. >> from republicans. >> liz cheney, lifelong conservative has said election deniers like kari lake in arizona, the gop secretary of state nominee mark finchem could put the republic at risk. she says if she lived in arizona now she'd vote democrat -- for democrats for arizona governor and for secretary of state. do you agree with that idea? >> i wouldn't blame anybody for doing it. i don't plan to support anybody who doesn't pass my litmus test of honesty and that honesty is

was it stolen or not? and if you can still believe after all we've been through and all the rounds of audits and reviews of the processes that, yes, it was stolen, then you fail my litmus test. i would never vote for mark finchem. i don't -- i'm not out looking for a fight with mark but i know mark and i think -- i frankly in my opinion he's a very dangerous man. >> it is just stunning -- >> i wouldn't put him at the helm of the elections. >> politics aside, it is stunning that a reasonable person looking at the election of 2020 and all the recounts and all the audits, legit and, you know, and even the ridiculous audits, all have shown the same thing, there was no widespread fraud. there are paper ballots backing up all of these votes, it's remarkable that this has taken hold. it's just -- it's insane. >> mr. cooper, one of the things

about the constitution that's critical, it is a paper. it's a paper ballot too in a way. but the thing that makes it work is that i can look at someone who opposes my point of view and say, the consensus that we can reach as americans is what keeps our country together. if we have the capability to come to a consensus on an issue, pick an issue, some we won't, but that respect for other people is what really makes a constitution work, and this illustrates that for some there's -- that this isn't about consensus or building unity in a country, it's about destroying and sanitizing a party, both sides, both sides in this last election throughout the more moderate elements and so it's going to be a real show. it will he be interesting. >> rusty bowers, it's a pleasure

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it has been a turbulent few months for the southern baptist convention. the sbc is the largest evangelical institution in america and represents 47,000 chufrjs and 14 million members. in may it was revealed some of its now former executives had ignored hundreds of allegations of sexual abuse in southern baptist churches for decades. when the sbc members gathered to elect a new president they turned to bart barber to lead them. with the justice department investigation into the abuse scandal underway, my 60 minutes team and i weren't sure bart would want to sit down and discuss weighty matters but he did and as you're about to hear bart barber has a lot to say about faith and scandal and the political extremism threatening american democracy. here's my 60 minutes report that aired just last night. >> blind partisanship destroys everything except baseball. i'm a st. louis cardinals fan and i'm sticking with that no matter what. but so many things in church

life and beyond that are areas where we have an opportunity to unite, solve problems and we pass over that opportunity over and over again to shoot at the other team. >> you see that filtering into the church. >> it's absolutely coming into the way people in churches who ought to know better are speaking to one another about the issues that are outside the church that aren't really theological. the best characterization is they're not listening. >> bart barber lives with his wife and two children in farmersville, texas. >> what we're hoping to do is use kind of regenerative farming methods. >> he has land with a dozen or so cows. >> if you want to see people come to know christ the way to do it is share the gospel and pray. >> has preached every sunday for 23 years at the first baptist church which only has about 320 members. what made you decide to try to become the head of the sbc. >> i believe that the southern baptist convention faces some

unique challenges right now. i felt like god was calling me to try to give leadership at this moment to help them move forward. >> the chair declares the winner to be bart barber, the next president of the southern baptist convention. [ applause ] >> when bart barber was elected sbc president in june it was just four weeks after an independent investigation revealed that some former members of the sbc's executive committee which oversees budget and organizational issues had for decades ignored hundreds of credible accusations of sexual abuse in southern baptist churches and seminaries. partly to avoid being held financially liable. >> they actually kept a list of over 700 names of people who had been credibly accused, what they said though is we couldn't give that to the churches because local churches have autonomy in who they hire and fire. we can't tell them they can't hire this person. >> reporter: ryan burge is an assistant professor her at eastern illinois university. one of the country's leading

data analysts on religion and politics. were they calling law enforcement and letting police know there was a predator at this church in this state. >> the executive committee had a list, put it in the drawer and didn't tell anyone about it for over ten years. >> we're repudiating and moving against. >> when you read that report and to read accounts of people who were brave enough to call in to the executive committee to report abuse for them to be ignored. >> that's not a strong enough word. we didn't just ignore them. sometimes we attacked them. the reason why i'm president of the southern baptist convention is because our churches do not agree with that. and have taken action to correct those things. >> bart barber says he's cooperating with the justice department's investigation and appointed a new nine-member sexual abuse task force building a registry for credible reports of abuse to help churches track

predators. >> i have strong feelings about this. i'm -- it's not just anger, although i'm angry about it. god called me to be a pastor when i was 11. i believe in this. for people to sully this hurts me. i'm not doing this to try to accomplish some pr objective for us. i'm doing this because i want to serve god well. >> for the new president of the sbc that means staying true to his deep conservative values and his beliefs about the last presidential election. do you believe the 2020 election was stolen? >> no. >> you believe joe biden is the legitimate president of the united states. >> i do. absolutely. i pray for him consistently as the president of the united states, i believe he was legitimately elected. >> bart barber told us that he doesn't believe the election was rigged. he does believe that joe biden was duly elected as president of

the sgludz that's a big deal. 60% of white evangelicals believe the election was stolen in 2020 and many southern baptists go to church believing that. southern baptist pastors have been afraid to speak about that from the pulpit because they know lots oppose it in the pews. >> how many people, how many voters is bart barber in a position to influence? >> at least 70 million people identify as evangelical today. he can have a huge impact when it comes to who they vote for and why. >> ryan says in 2016 evangelicals accounted for 33% of all votes cast for donald trump. but bart barber's vote was not among them. in 2016, you said, i think it hurts the credibility of my testimony for me to be a vocal supporter of a demonstrably evil man whose campaign platform consists mainly of his evilness. >> i did not vote for president trump in 2016 and that lays out my rational for that pretty well. >> what was the evilness you saw? >> the way he treated women that

had been documented at that point. i thought that a lot of the rhetoric about immigration was wrongful. a lot of southern obamas thought the rhetoric about immigration was wrongful. >> you're talking about legal immigration. >> i'm talking about legal immigration. >> you embrace it. >> i embrace it. i am thankful -- i live in texas. i'm surrounded by people who are in intermarried into our families. they make our community better. >> correct me if i'm wrong in 2020 you did vote for donald trump. >> start of what changed is that the president advocated for some legislation on sentencing reform, something that really addressed some injustice that affected minority communities. i was encouraged by the consistent pro-life support that the president gave. i didn't expect that. >> we're going to walk down and i'll be there with you. >> barber did tell us what happened on january 6th.

[ crowd chanting ] and donald trump's role in it has had a big impact on his opinion of the former president now. >> i think a lot of southern baptists would be thrilled to have the opportunity to support someone for leadership in our country who's strong on the values that matter to us, who can do that without putting the vice president's life in danger. >> you would be hard-pressed to vote for somebody who put his vice president's life in danger. >> yes. >> donald trump did invite and incite and encourage mob, people to march on the capitol. >> i'll just say this i want to be driven by the principles of jesus christ and that does not involve mob violence. i don't support that. anyone who does support that i'm less likely to vote for them because of their support for that.

>> if mike pence ran in a primary you would vote for him in a primary? >> there is nothing that would prevent me from voting for mike pence in a primary. >> we asked what he think about the christian nationalist rhetoric increasingly being used by some elected officials like lauren boebert of colorado. >> the church is supposed to direct the government. the government is not supposed to direct the church. >> steve osunsami it stands contrary to 400 years of baptist history and everything i believe about religious liberty and opposed to the idea of christian dominion churchley dominion over the operations of government. >> why do you object to that? >> okay, i object to it because jesus said his kingdom is not of this world. i object to it because historically every time it's been adopted it wound up persecuting people like me. doesn't stop it from prosecuting people not christians, it eventually winds up persecuting people who are christians for whom the flavor of their christianity is different from that of the government.

>> support for the separation of church and state was a foundational principle for obam bap baptists who faced persecution in the 1600s. baptists split over slavery which is when the convention was founded. the sbc supported slavery and later segregation. on abortion their opposition has hardened over the years. in 1971, they made exceptions in cases where there was, quote, the likelihood of damage to the emotional, mental and physical health of the mother. but in 1980 they narrowed that exception only to cases where pregnancy threatened the life of the mother. bart barber says he stands by that today. >> our interest with abortion is not to police everybody's sex life. our interest with abortion is that we believe it's a human person who deserves to live. >> there is just the case recently, a 10-year-old raped barred from having an abortion in ohio. was able to obtain one in

indiana. this is a little girl who -- she has a right to life too. >> sure. >> even in that case you think she should have the child. >> i do. >> forced to have the child. >> i think -- i don't want that to sound like i don't have tremendous compassion for her and her circumstance. i wish we could put an end to 10-year-olds being raped. i'm trying to work against child sexual abuse because i think it's atrocious. >> you don't see forcing a 10-year-old child to go to term with a baby from rape as abuse of a child? >> i see it as horrible. i see it as preferable to killing someone else. >> not surprisingly barber and the sbc oppose same-sex marriage. >> we're committed to the idea of gender as a gift from god. we're committed to the idea that men and women ought to be united with one another in marriage. >> do you still believe gay people can be, should be converted out of being gay?

>> i believe that sinners should be converted out of being sinners and applies to all of us. >> can somebody be a good christian, a member of the southern baptist convention and be gay or lesbian and married to a person of the same sex? >> no. in jesus' name we pray amen. >> could a good christian in good conscious vote for donald trump in 2024? before we left we asked bart barber one last time about how he'll vote. >> i'm not even going to speculate about that. who are the other choices. >> ahead of the election in 2016 you said who you would vote for. in 2020 you said who you voted for. now you're not saying who you'd vote for. >> that's correct. >> somebody seeing this will think, okay, well -- >> why are you hedging it now. >> -- think it's political. >> i am speaking only for myself and now, you know, 50,000 churches of people i love are represented by me when i speak

and so do i feel a sense of needing to be more wise and careful about things i say now, absolutely, i do. >> have evangelicals sold their soul in order to support donald trump? >> first of all, i think we choose from the choices that were given to us and that's -- that's -- that's an inescapable reality in our political system. >> but there's a lot of evangelical support for donald trump that goes beyond somebody holding their nose and saying i have two choices, i'll vote for this person. >> there are. i'm telling you there are a lot of people who articulate what i've just said. i just think that under president trump they saw less backtracking on the things that were promised to them. i do think that americans are hungry for strong leadership. i think that there's opportunity for strong leaders to emerge who give us better choices. i'm praying for that.

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>> these are the images to regime does not want the world to see. they cut off the internet -- to tell the stories and this. a man pleads with police to leave his wife alone. >> we are not protesting, she is pregnant. but no bail. both appears to be forcefully dragged away. it is that tyranny that feeds the anger for those on the streets. defiant, and determined. seemingly unstoppable. said the riot police. >> i don't know women's university this weekend. president the brain braces, who

was dismissed thousands on the streets as rioters praise students for seeing through what he claims as a foreign conspiracy to weaken iran. at that same university, an extraordinary moment of rebellion as yeoman trent race get lost. >> i'll clip this happen when he was there. it is clear is the wall of fear in iran. has come down. even their dreams attempt to control the narrative was also disrupted. harrison truck to state tv and saturday evening newscast with his video. it targets super imposed on the face of the supreme leader, and at the bottom of the screen but the faces of -- three young women who have died in the protest. but -- with the message at rates, join us, and rise up. but what >> the streets of tehran brody rising up that night. some of the largest protests in the capital so far. seems replicated across the

country. as the government claims column has been restored and the so-called riots are mostly over. daytime brought more students back out in force, protesting on campuses across the country. and young schoolgirls waving the forced head scarves, joining in the chance. the fearless cries for women, life freedom. reverberating louder than ever through the streets of iran. democracy, cnn, istanbul. but >> the market seems from around. up next, something we hope that brings a smile tonight. we'll tell you about the day of a growth cooper roberts who survived the fourth of july parade shooting in highland park illinois.

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good news to tell you about before we go tonight. his name is cooper roberts. this is him with his twin brother, luke. back on july 4th in highland park illinois and mass shooter -- it has been a long covering. but today, he was able to return to school. joining his brother in the

third grade. his parents say he can't i think if classmates can put a spirit, soul, and kookiness, remade. we wish him and his family the best. the news continues. i want to turn things over to the warm welcome to laura coates and also commodifying's night and their debut program. take it away. >> anderson, thank you so much. good evening everyone as the camera, and i'm laura coates, and this is cnn tonight. we want to keep conversation going every night from ten to midnight. we've got a lot of smart folks here to do just that with us tonight. and, you know, u.s. viewers can actually be a part of the program as well. you can join us. give us your tweets, your comments, and we'll actually have them right on air at times as well. >> asked direct questions by start to think what those could be. >> what could possibly wrong? what could be the issue with that? we're gonna track tonight. we'll be here with our panelists across the political spectrum. through the midterm elections. and there is a lot to get to on that front tonight. let's start with hypocrisy. or abortion. hypocrisy an