time now for jake tapper and "cnn tonight." jake? thanks anderson. welcome to "cnn tonight." welcome to "cnn tonight." i'm jack tapper in washington. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com tonight we're bringing you a cnn exclusive, brand-new video you'll see here for the first time in just a few moments. it's an incredible story, one that only cnn's clarissa ward can tell, taking place during a rare cease fire in putin's brutal war. getting two hours of cover for this dramatic scene. cnn's crews shuttled by ukrainian intelligence as russia returned the body of an american, an american killed in ukraine while fighting for ukraine. his name was joshua jones, 24 years old, u.s. army veteran from tennessee. he was killed in august while fighting putin's forces

alongside the military. this handover happened in a dangerous area known as no man's land, in the zaporizhzhia region between ukrainian-controlled ukraine and russian-controlled ukraine. and jones' body will now head back here to the united states to his family who are have been longing for his remains to return to his final resting place, to home. now, this rare moment of detente takes place during an incredibly tumultuous time in this war. today russian president vladimir putin led military training drills, which the kremlin says include practice missile launches. and then putin said this earlier today. >> translator: risk of conflict in the world as a whole as well as at the regional level remains very high. >> risk of conflict in the world as a whole remains very high, putin said. the risk for a new world war, according to putin.

and russian officials are continuing to push the totally unfounded claims that ukraine is preparing to use a dirty bomb. a dirty bomb is a traditional explosive that can also contain radioactive material. to be clear, we know of absolutely no evidence that ukraine is developing or planning to use one of these weapons. and if the russians did, they should turn it over to the united nations. but western and ukrainian officials worry that this could be a false flag operation by the kremlin, that putin is just trying to distract from his own plans to use a nuclear device, though his ambassador to the uk denied that to cnn's christiane amanpour earlier today. >> not going to use nukes. it is out of the question. >> this is really important what you just told me, russia will not use nuclear weapons.

in a conventional scenario, are you saying that your country has pledged, your defense minister, not to use nuclear weapons. >> yes, yes. this is what i am saying. >> reassurances from the russians, who also told the world there was no way they were going to invade ukraine, until, of course, the moment they invaded ukraine. if you're wondering why russia could be inching closer to the unthinkable, using a nuclear device, well, think about this. russian president vladimir putin's brutal war has not gone according to plan. ukraine did not fall, let alone within a few days. and this has all surprised the world, even some of ukraine's allies were surprised by ukraine's resolve and now by ukraine's counteroffensive that continues to take back the country. and ukrainian forces are now set to make a big move to try to reclaim the strategically important city of kherson. this was the first major city taken by the russians and now one of the only ones still under the kremlin's control.

an adviser to president zelenskyy is warning the, quote, heaviest of battles are still to come, while russian installed authorities in that part of the country are stepping up pressure on residents to leave. this comes after ukraine already reclaimed territory in the kharkiv region. the kremlin pr machine tried to spin the troop exit as a regrouping. in reality, that's called losing. you could also call it hell, as officials discovered that the russian army left behind evidence of at least 22 suspected torture chambers and bodies of more than 500 civilians. cnn has been there to document the brutality. >> re >> so, this here is where the first strike hit. and then you can see the second one just smashed in to the top of that building. >> cnn was there even moments before the bombs fell in kherson. >> translator: it's not safe, he

screamed. >> we have to get out of here as fast as possible because the russians might target this position. >> and herein lies the paradox of putin losing. western leaders want putin to fail, but the more he fails, the more desperate he becomes. that so far has led to an influx of brutal attacks against innocent ukrainian civilians and increased attacks on critical infrastructure, taking out power and water, things needed to live. one of the latest attacks on the city of dnipro, where a gas station caught on fire after a russian missile attack overnight. local officials say two people were killed, a car wash operator and a pregnant woman who was trapped in her car and burned alive. in a different example of putin's desperation, he's turning to another brutal regime for help. ukrainian president zelenskyy claimed russia has used 400 iranian drones to specifically attack ukrainian civilians.

escalating attacks on innocents, innocents who have been targeted by putin and his army since this war began. all of that is what's fuelling these fears that a nuclear option is not off the table. considering russia's despicable inhumane actions against ukrainian people, it's hard to imagine any form of civility between the two sides. but this war has seen at least some brief moments of cooperation when it comes to prisoner exchanges. two american veterans fighting in ukraine who were captured in june were released last month. part of a prisoner swap, partly brokered by saudi arabia. they were recently reunited with their families back here in the united states. >> i mean, there were a lot of beatings. there was a lot of physical torture. but i think some of the worst stuff, there was a lot of psychological torture. >> i just remember it being

prolonged, suffering prolonged pain. me personally, i just remember wanting to die actually. i wanted it to end. >> the story of those two americans who bravely tried to help the ukrainian people brings us back to the story of joshua jones, the fallen american whose body is now in ukrainian custody. in just a few minutes, joshua's mother will join us for her first live interview since this news broke. let's start with cnn's clarissa ward, who witnessed the handoff of joshua jones' remains today. clarissa, thanks so much for joining us. it's obviously been months since joshua was killed. when you started the day, did you think this exchange was going to happen? >> reporter: honestly jake, i really wasn't sure that it would happen. there were so many different components that had to come together. it was such a narrow window of

time that both sides had agreed to stop hostilities, just two hours. and during that time, you know, we had to get right to that no man's land area. they had to get the ambulance ready, move forward to the transfer. just a lot of moving parts. and because there have been these sporadic attacks in the past from the russian side particularly on civilian convoys, for example, trying to escape through the check point in zaporizhzhia, which is very close to where we witnessed this sort of handover earlier today, it just seemed like there were so many different things that could go wrong. and i think all of us in the team didn't want to get our hopes up too much that it would actually come off. >> i certainly understand that. given where things stand right now with russia's war against ukraine, what do you make of the timing of this exchange? it seems extraordinary.

>> reporter: it is extraordinary in the sense that the war is just grinding into such a grim chapter now, where i think for russia, in the face of humiliation, the gloves have really come off. and it's just laid bare. civilians are the targets. civilian infrastructure is the target. let's make sure that people in ukraine can't really survive this next winter, that they are forced to flee their homes, that they will not have electricity, that they will not have heating. at the same time, though, there seems to be this sort of pragmatic recognition that has set in on both sides that this war isn't going to end any time in the very near future and that therefore there do need to be some areas where they can come together and come up with deals. and we have seen, i'd say in the last few weeks really, a number of prisoner swaps. some of them really large in scale and some of them with

foreign nationals. all of them incredibly sensitive, incredibly difficult to pull off. and so it does seem that there is some willingness on both sides to try to make this work. and after today, where the remains of joshua jones were successfully moved back into ukrainian territory and can now begin their journey to his family in tennessee, i think there's hope we can see cooperation in this one very narrow sphere, jake. >> stick around. we're going to show our viewers the powerful moment and your story about joshua jones' remains when they were handed over. later i'm going to speak live with joshua jones' mom on this important and somber day. we'll be right back. stay with us. capella university sees education differently. our flexpath learning format lets you set deaeadlines and earn y your nursing degre on your schedule.

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international correspondent, clarissa ward. she was there for the handoff of the remains of american veteran joshua jones in ukraine today. clarissa documents the return of the tennessee native who were returned to ukraine back in august. >> on the frontlines of ukraine, he was known to his fellow fighters as tactical jesus, on account of his long hair and deep knowledge of the bible. to his mom, he was simply joshy. tennessee native joshua jones was just 24 years old when he was killed fighting in eastern ukraine back in august. his passport and ukrainian military id showed up on russian social media channels soon after, but his body was never recovered. since then, ukrainian lawmakers have worked tirelessly to get his body back. and today, it is finally

happening. why is it important to you to recover the body of joshua jones? >> he was for me, our soldiers. we should make everything possible to give his body back to his family. >> reporter: we are driving to the front line in zaporizhzhia. we stop along the way to link up with military intelligence. in another car, a russian soldier sits slumped over. he is being released today as part of a larger swap in which ten ukrainians were already freed. the lawmakers talk with the officers to go over the plan once more. a makeshift white flag is put together for the moment of transfer. and we're off again, this time to no man's land. a rare two-hour ceasefire has been agreed by both sides, and

time is of the essence. so we've just arrived at the meeting point. they're waiting for the russians to arrive with the body. >> a team of forensic investigators get ready. this is as far as we are allowed to go. actual handover will happen just beyond the hill. waiting for their return, it is eerily quiet. only the bravest dare come out in these parts. one of the transfer team captures the moment joshua jones' body is brought back into ukrainian territory, as russian forces look on. it's the moment they have been waiting for. jones is now one step closer to being returned to his family. back in the car, they show us his personal effects. >> this is his personal body cross, which he was wearing. he was a religious guy. >> what's your feeling in this moment? you've been working toward this for a long time to try to get joshua jones back to his family.

>> we are proud of country, of our team. we are proud of president. and we are proud that we are saving lives because, you know, even when somebody is dying, his family continue to live. and they cannot live normally if they know that they don't have a place where to come for their son. >> reporter: thanks to their efforts, joshua's mother, misty gossett in tennessee, will soon have the chance to say good-bye to her son. >> joshua was -- he was a soldier. he was a born soldier. he was named after the battle of jericho, and he proved he lived up to his name. so, valiantly. and i feel like the weight of the world has been lifted off of me. >> reporter: a name and a life that will be remembered even half a world away.

jake, at least five americans have been killed fighting here in jaukraine. and those two lawmakers we spent the day with said there are at least two americans who are still alive who are being held by russian forces. they very much hope that what you saw today could be a prelude to negotiating their release and also the release of many of the other nationalities who have come to ukraine to join the ukrainian foreign legion, to participate and play a role in this war, jake. >> clarissa, first of all, just extraordinary and impactful and emotional journalism. so, thank you for bringing it to us. take me back to the moment where you first saw joshua's body being brought into ukrainian territory during this rare two-hour-long ceasefire? how tense was it? >> it was very tense, jake.

it was tense from the moment we arrived. the military intelligence people who we were with were quite nervous. they were concerned about our presence just because the situation on the ground was so tenuous and nobody, i think, was really convinced that this two-hour ceasefire was going to hold. and everybody was very concerned that the timings were very precise. and in fact, by the way, the ceasefire ended at 3:00. and at 3:10, the air raid sirens started going off once again. so, i think there was a lot of concern about the fact that there were so many moving parts, so many things that could go wrong, and the fact that you had us as journalists along obviously added a different layer of responsibility for them. it was definitely tense, but then there was that moment of relief when they were able to put the body into the ambulance and then quickly ushered us in the car to get out of no man's land as soon as possible. >> all right, clarissa ward in

ukraine, thank you so much. and the mother of joshua jones will join us when we come back. it will be her first interview since she learned her son's body finally will be coming home to her. what emotions could she possibly be feeling today? what does she want the world to know about joshua? we'll talk to her nextxt.

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for two long months, the parents of joshua jones have had to live with an unimaginable pain, the loss of their 24-year-old son and a fear they might never get his remains back from russian soldiers who are currently attacking ukraine. tonight joshua jones is finally on his way home to his final resting place. joining us now to discuss is his mother, misty gossett. misty, let me start by just saying, my deepest condolences. i know everybody watching is

sending you love and prayers and support. i want to ask you about the moment you first learned that the ukrainians had finally been able to negotiate to get your son back. what was that like for you? that was earlier today or last night, right? >> it was this morning around 7:00. once a week, angie that's been helping me with everything, we spent one night a week staying up late making the contacts to russia, ukraine, every contact we could find. and so i went to bed at, like, 4:00 this morning and at 7:00, my husband is telling me they have him. and i don't know if it -- i just -- if i didn't believe it. it didn't hit me until around 2:00 today. >> i want to read part of a post that you wrote a couple days ago

about the pain you've been through. you said, quote, nothing on this earth will satisfy my maternal desire to hold my son in my arms, and knowing it will never be possible kills me inside. the intense desire to see and speak to him is all-consuming not only mentally but emotionally as well, unquote. so, when you look back on the last conversation you had with joshua, what was that like? what was that conversation about? >> it was -- it was a fun conversation. he had sent me a picture. it was three days before he died. and sent me a picture with his long beard and his long pony tail. and i said, apparently there's no barbershops open. and then i said, wow, look at the red in that beard. and his whole life he's looked

like his dad. but i saw mama in that red beard. and he's like, i look good, don't i? i was like, you look great. >> he was such a handsome man. >> he loved -- >> the beard must have frustrated you as a mom just because he had such a handsome face. >> right. not a big fan of facial hair personally. but apparently there wasn't a barbershop handy on the front line. so, that's where we went with the conversation. >> wow. it's nice that it was a happy conversation. so, joshua first left for ukraine on march 30th, just a day before he turned 24, just weeks after putin ordered this invasion. what was his reasoning? why did he want to go to ukraine? why did he want to go fight? >> he said that he had to. of course, as his mom, i said,

no you don't, adamantly. and he said, he had to. he said, no one else is happening, and i'm good at this, mom. i'm going to do it. >> and he was a veteran. where did he serve? >> and he did. he was in the army, the united states army. he was out of fort benning, immediately stationed to hawaii. he did some different training in thailand and was it south korea or north korea that they had the olympics? one of them. he was there for that. >> south korea. >> yes, as they were preparing for the olympics. he loved every bit of it. he loved the -- he loved everything except being told what to do and except duty

station time. but he loved the infantry. he loved to fight. and he was apparently very good at it. >> his fellow fighters in ukraine, as you heard in clarissa's piece, often referred to his as tactical jesus, jesus because of the beard and the long hair, but also because of his devout faith. some soldiers have even taken to wearing a patch with joshua's image on it. when you hear how beloved he was by his comrades and how he's seen by ukrainians as a hero, what goes through your mind? >> just proud. they have shared the stencils and the patches. they are stencilling everything that they take over from russian territory with that stencil for my kid.

and his faith was amazing. and he -- he preached without preaching. you know, a lot of times they say that, you know, it's not what you do in public, it's what you do in private. his actions showed who he was. as parents, his dad and i, you know, we were hard on him. but we raised him to be who he was, who he is. and he was strong. he was resilient. he was hilarious. i've gotten hundreds of messages of soldiers that were in trenches with him that they were in the worst of times with shelling around them and weather

issues. and joshua made light of it. made them sing abba. he -- he could make the worst situation better naturally. >> he sounds like an extraordinary young man and of course a hero. thank you so much, misty gossett, for talking to us about your very special son. we'll be right back. that's when you know, it's half-washed. downy has 7 benefits that condition and smooth fibers so clothes look newer, longer. feel the difference with downy.

crime is now central to the closing message for republicans in this midterm cycle. nationally the gop has portrayed the city of angels as nothing less than a hellscape. >> every day there are stabbings, rapes, murders, and violent assaults of every kind imaginable. >> we talk about the rising crime rates nationally, but in california, specifically in l.a. >> this is literally what i would call woke justice, and i'm tired of it and people are tired of it. >> hyperbolic? alarmist? perhaps. but crime and homelessness are real problems in los angeles. homicide there is up almost 17% from two years ago. robberies are up almost 16%. the number of people experiencing homelessness in los angeles also increased in the

same period. congresswoman karen bass wants to be the next mayor of los angeles. she's a democrat she's in a tight runoff with developer rick c caruso. congresswoman, thanks for joining us. why is crime and homelessness worse in los angeles now? >> let me just tell you, homelessness really exploded a couple years ago right before the pandemic and certain think through the pandemic. but you know what? i can't even imagine what l.a. would have been like if we did not have the american rescue plan so all of the resources around covid allowed us to do an experiment that i hoped that we keep, which is doing master leasing of motels and hotels, where you lease out all of the rooms and you put people who were on the streets in the hotels and motels. we've been able to get thousands of people off the streets, and this needs to be expanded tremendously. >> what is the percentage of individuals who are on the

streets because they were evicted, they lost their jobs, versus those who were battling emotional, psychological, mental issues. is there any breakdown that we know of? >> yeah, there is a breakdown. i think that if you include substance abuse and mental illness, you're talking about 41% of the population. one thing that's sad is there are people in tents who actually work full time. they just can't afford the rent because l.a. has become extremely unaffordable. in terms of evictions, that was a big issue before the pandemic. we knew it took place before the pandemic, even though there was an eviction moratorium. so, i'm actuallily worried that homelessness is going to spike again at the end of the first quarter of next year because the eviction moratorium will go away and some of the resources for covid will go away. so, we're going to need to

appeal to the state that has $100 billion surplus to extend the contract so people can stay in the hotels and motels for several more months. >> i want to get to crime in a second, but i read a really good comment by ezra klein in the "new york times." the column is called, the way los angeles is trying to solve homelessness is totally insane. that's the title of oit, not me. let's stop making perfect the enemy of good and not good enough. his argument is when you're trying to get people off the streets, you need to make sure the focus is putting a roof over their head as quickly as possible with micro units, shared units, interhousing. he says these aren't perfect approaches, but with so many people dying every day, there has to be a sense of urgency. the problems seems to be that communities and activists for the homeless don't want those solutions. can you explain why? >> yes, well, first of all, i

couldn't agree with him more t. we need to have an all and the above solution. we need to get people off the streets immediately. but jake, you have to address why they were on the streets. if you don't deal with the substance abuse and mental illness, they'll be right back on. you have temporary housing but you have permanent supportive housing. i did a press conference with carpenters on a vacant lot owned by the city. they can build housing there in a matter of months and it's significantly cheaper. but what he was talking about is when he pass propositions, we loaded everything in, everything we wanted to see. that's the perfect, and we can't do anymore. we need to get people off the streets as soon as possible. you know, three or four of them die on the streets every single day. it is a humanitarian crisis in los angeles. >> so, on the crime issue, you and your opponent resisted calls

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doing a debate wasn't exactly easy. you know? in fact, i don't think that's ever been done before in american political history before actually. after that stroke, i got knocked

down, but i got back up. >> that's pennsylvania democratic u.s. senate candidate lieutenant governor john fetterman addressing the fallout and concerns about his performance during the first and only debate in his u.s. senate race against republican candidate dr. mehmet oz. you'll recall that lieutenant governor fetterman suffered a stroke on may 13th, just a few days before the primary. since then some of his health struggles have been on full display on the campaign trail. he's avoided taking questions from reporters sometimes. last night's debate, fetterman stressed he is on the road to recovery. viewers noticed some lapses in his speech. >> i do support fracking, and i don't -- i don't -- i support fracking, and i stand, and i do support fracking. and do not believe in supporting the supreme court. >> joining me now the discuss,

medical analyst and cardiologist dr. jonathan reiner. dr. reiner, what's going on with john fetterman's health. you said you think this is more than just an issue with auditory processing, which is what some reporters seem to be suggesting, he hears the words, but has trouble computing what they mean. you say he also has expressive aphasia. what is that? >> he's had an injury to his brain in the area that helps someone process speech. so, most people have thought that mr. fetterman's injury was how he processed sound, which is why they gave him the prompter. but what was really apparent last night was that he has expressive aphasia. it's a really common injury in people who have had a stroke. it's estimated about 30% of people who survive a stroke will have some difficulty with speech. but the particular problem that mr. fetterman has is expressive

aphasia to an injury to a part of the brain, most people on the left side toward the front of the brain and temporary lobe, broca's area, and people with expressive aphasia have difficulty putting together complex sentences. they have difficulty processing spoken word in complex sentences. >> so, what's the prognosis? does it get better? can it get better? >> it can take better. it takes a lot of speech therapy, a lot of work. i take care of people like mr. fetterman who have had atrial fibrillation, which is where we think his stroke came from, how it originated, and i admire his couragepeople who sul have some difficulty with speech. have some difficulty wit speech. i admire his courage to go on that debate. he had to know he was facing a fast-talking tv doctor who at times seemed to be almost talking intentionally faster in the face of mr. fetterman's difficulty speaking.

sometimes it appeared almost cruelly faster. he had to know that he would get the kind of reception that he got from that, and being the son of a man who had atrial fib ra fibrillation and had a stroke i know how much work it takes to recover and i admire mr. fetterman's determination to do that but he obviously had a significant neurological injury. >> do you think like in a year from now this all will be in the rearview mirror if he does the work he needs to do? >> it is hard to know. part of the problem is that, you know, the campaign was opaque at the very beginning. they didn't really disclose the degree of his illness. we don't really know how sick he was. in fact, his treating physicians were never made available to the press or the public, so we don't really know how much

mr. fetterman has actually recovered. >> matter of fact, at the debate he was asked if he would release his medical records and he basically said no. >> so he might have had a massive event, and if, you know, people who have seen him originally might now say, oh, my god, he looks remarkably better, and i bet he does. but not knowing how far he has come, it is very difficult to know how far he can go, and it would be -- it would be good for the people who care for him to be made available to the press. there is no sin in having a stroke. there's a lot of honor in the dogged determination that it takes to recover, and i admire that. what i don't admire is the way sort of the campaign has handled the disclosure of his illness. >> you think they should have been more up front and transparent about it? >> absolutely. >> so lieutenant governor fetterman is spending a lot of time talking about a different moment in the debate, not his struggles but a comment that dr. oz made about when he talked

about who should be behind a decision about whether or not a woman should be able to terminate a pregnancy. let's watch. >> as a physician, i have been in the room when there's some difficult conversations happening. i don't want the federal government involved with that at all. i want women, doctors, local political leaders, letting the democracy that has always allowed our nation to thrive to put the best ideas forward so states can decide for themselves. >> i saw you tweeted about that. what are your -- i mean he says he thinks the decision should be between women, doctors and local political leaders. >> yeah. so the only people in the room with me when i'm talking with a patient about their treatment plan or their prognosis is the patient and their family. you know, there's no role for local political leaders in the decision relating to a woman's reproductive health. no physician believes that in these kinds of very personal,

life-changing decisions should be filtered through the lens of a local political official. that's just pandering to his base. >> all right. dr. jonathan reiner, it is always good to see you. thank you so much for being in here. >> my pleasure. we will be right back. designed to balance growth and guaranteed incomome so y you can enjoy the life you've created. that's the planning g effect. from fidelity.

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bor i flew to new hampshire this morning, or i tried to fly to new hampshire this morning to speak at a memorial service at my alma mater. weather delays prevented me from getting there in time, so if you will generously permit me a moment now to say goodbye to a mentor and an old marine. jim wright, my first history professor and the former president of dartmouth college. professor wright became my history professor in march 1988, and he never stopped being my professor. the class was, if memory serves, history 2, history of the american west, and it was a joy. it set me on a course to become a history major, and history became a lifelong passion. professor wright, president wright, jim was along with me the whole time, guiding me, encouraging me, sending me

cheers and compliments and articles he has written and books. jim wright was a marine veteran. he was a lover of students and teachers and democracy and his family and dartmouth college. he was an intellect and never an elitist. he was a friend to us all. he taught me history. he taught me reverence for service, he taught me empathy for veterans and their wounds. he taught me friendship and he taught me fellowship, and i will miss him deeply. in judaism mourners say the kadish. it is trans plated from the armaic the words are a lit annie of praise for god at a time when maybe mourners don't want to offer praise. one interpretation of why we do this is because of the believe that the only true comfort in the loss of someone so special can be achieved in viewing the death as part of a whole that we

cannot fathom. while academics like jim and journalists like me require proof and evidence, we can all acknowledge that we do not know that that theory is wrong. perhaps it is fantastical, perhaps it is an illusion, but perhaps it is right. we can only know what a special soul james wright was and wonder if perhaps there was something so remarkable about the glints in his eye and the acceptance of his smile and the gravitas of his baritone, that perhaps if there was something that we cannot comprehend that gifted him to us, maybe there's also something we cannot comprehend that took him from us as well. goodbye, john. semper fi. thank you so much for joining me tonight. you can follow me on facebook, instagram, twitter and tiktok @jaketapper. our coverage continues with lauren coates. hi, guys.

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