>> we'll celebrate christmas, celebrate christmas and even if there is no electricity, the light of our faith in ourselves will not be put out. >> the power in ukraine growing more dire. an expert on ukraine's power grid says it capital will at best have no more than ten hours of electricity a day in january, the coldest month in kyiv. the lack of power because of russia's strikes on civilian infrastructure. those attacks taking out power, heat, and the internet, which leaves kids unable to even attend classes virtually unless they go outside. and one extremely resourceful teacher has found a way to teach no matter what. look at her. she's on the street, no wi-fi inside. goes outside in the freezing cold, sets up shop at a parking lot at a super market. that's where she is. according to ukraine's defense

ministry this is an area that still has some electricity, but look at that. there's something about that i found to be so powerful. thanks for joining us. "cnn tonight" with john berman starts now. good evening. i'm john berman, and this is "cnn tonight." and frankly, what a night. based on some predictions a nearly impossible night for those who believe in freedom, an almost miraculous night. >> and it gives me good reason to share with you our first -- first joint victory. we defeated russia in the battle for minds of the world. we have no fear nor should anyone in the world have it. ukraine gained this victory, and it gives us courage which

inspires the entire world. >> standing before the u.s. congress ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy there not as some deposed or defeated figure but as the leader of an independent and democratic ukraine, a ukraine ten months ago no one thought would exist. a ukraine vladimir putin clearly thought would crumble. a ukraine whose kierly capital kyiv person intelligence thought would fall within a week. it didn't. the this was president zelenskyy very first night outside ukraine since the russian invasion, but his 300th night of defiance. >> against all odds and doom and gloom ukraine didn't fall. ukraine is alive and kicking. >> this was history with a capital "h" or a capital "u" as the case might be, or actually if you'll forgive me a capital

"fu" to russia. this was the leader himself who told those who offered to help him flee in february i don't need a ride, i need ammunition. >> we'll celebrate christmas. we'll celebrate christmas, and even if there is no electricity the light of our faith in ourselves will not be put out. if russian missiles attack us, we'll do our best to protect ourselves. if they attack us with iranian drones and our people will have to go to bomb shelters on christmas eve, ukrainians will still sit down at the holiday table and cheer up each other. >> politicians and the press often toss around comparisons to winston churchill, but this time

minus the scigar and whiskey it fits. churchill came to speak two weeks after pearl harbor. he actually helped to light the christmas tree. today president biden noted zelenskyy who is jewish was here for hanukkah. >> tonight is the fourth night of hanukkah, a time when jewish people around the world president zelenskyy and many families among them honor the small band of warriors fighting for their values and their freedom against a much larger foe, and how they endured and how they overcame. >> one difference between the visit of churchill and zelenskyy, the u.s. is not nearly as unified in support for the war effort. yes, there was warmth and applause inside the house chamber, but donald trump jr. declared today zelenskyy is

basically an ungrateful international welfare queen. as you let that sink in remember what the people of ukraine have been through. homes bombed, buildings destroyed, schools, playgrounds, trains. and for what? for existing, for daring to be there at all next to russia, separate from russia. thousands of ukrainians killed. instead of trying to grasp the enormity of those numbers, thousands, let's talk about one. i met andre last march in the hospital after his foot was shattered by a russian mine. >> and i just remember like i woke up in road. i see the broken car and i see my mother on fire.

my mother was -- >> translator: why mother was still alive while she was on fire. >> the blast killed his mother. >> what do you want the world to know about your mother ? >> translator: i want them to know that my mother was a very beautiful woman. >> and that's just one story, one. there are mass graves. there are cities without power,

the towns without water. that is what president zelenskyy was here for tonight, standing before congress, before the world, standing for freedom, for ukraine, for andriy. let's turn to phil mattingically and jim sciutto. this felt like a moment. this felt like a speech people will be talking about for generations. jim, to you. who do you think that zelenskyy was speaking to tonight? >> i'm so glad you told the story you did just there of your experience in ukraine and just one of the victims in many tens of thousands. because there has been willful ignorance in this country about the war in ukraine, and it still continues tonight. we've heard it in the wake of the speech in some corridors not just through donald trump jr. who for some choice doesn't want to see what's happened there at the hands of russia.

you had him come deliberately in his first words direct to the people at home, just folks at home to say this is not just our war, it's your war. this is a war for our country's freedom but also for the free world. and he reserved for the russians behind this war some quite strong language at times including calling them terrorists. have a listen to one of those moments. >> it is in your power really to help us bring to justice everyone who started this unprovoked and criminal war. let's do it. [ applause ] let the terrorists take responsibility for its war and

aggression and compensate all losses done by this war. >> he was speaking fact there, right? russia invaded. since the invasion russia has not just tried to burn down the country and it's committed alleged war crimes, rapes, murders of civilians, et cetera. and saying don't give up in effect to the american people or to the politicians in that room, don't give up because we still need your help. >> clearly speaking to the american people, speaking to members of congress what you just played, and speaking i think of vladimir putin. phil mattingly at the white house how does this message zelenskyy delivered today, how does it square with the current white house message? how aligned are they? >> i think broadly they're very aligned, and i think white house officials going into this day, throughout the course of this day and certainly at the end of president zelenskyy's remarks were willing to acknowledge this was a critical moment for these messages to be delivered, a moment where there is no sense that there is an end game here

for a war that continues to grind on. it's gotten more grueling day by day. and i think when you look at the dynamics of the battlefield right now and talk to u.s. officials about that, they've looked at the escalations we've seen over the last couple of weeks targeting civilians and civilian instruct. they look at the number of troops russia is calling up in this moment despite their battlefield defeats over the course of the last several months, and they recognize this is going to be a major and significant battle for months if not longer, and that is why this moment, this moment that president zelenskyy shocked everyone, showing up here in this first trip was so critical. yes, there are very clear differences in what type of assistance the u.s. believes it should provide versus what zelenskyy wants. and there are clear differences about the diplomatic pathways that could lead to the end of the war. overall i think the dynamics when you talk to white house

officials is recognizing what they need more than anything else is a coalition that's been rock solid up to this point but also the durability of the american people and their willingness to continue to serve as the number one ally of ukraine in military assistance and economic assistance but also as president biden made clear as long as it takes. >> does this visit help that cause? >> i think unqueivically when you talk to white house officials they believe it does, they believe it was essential. and they also understand the shifting political dynamics. they believe the republicans will in large part stay with democrats in supporting this cause, in supporting ukraine i president zelenskyy, but they know things are shifting. certainly with the house republicans about to take the majority, they want to make sure they do everything in their power to maintain that going into that new diem naic in washington. >> jim, can we talk about the major deliverable or at least the one being billed as the major deliverable here, which is

this single patriot missile battery. practically speaking what might that do? and i will note zelenskyy flat out said he'd like more of them. >> listen, it's an umbrella in a rainstorm, a rainstorm of russian missiles and iranian drones that are punishing the ukrainian people every day and is the reason as zelenskyy said in the chamber that they'll be celebrating christmas but perhaps by candlelight, right, because so many people have lost power. and that's deliberate. it's one system. it's going to take weeks to train the folks necessary to operate it. frankly, ukraine has been asking for more and more air defense since the beginning of this war. they're getting more but not at the pace they want, and that's why i think you heard zelenskyy a little bit tongue in cheek say it's nice to have this, but man he's behind that as the suffering of the ukrainian people. so it's a step but it's not all they need. and it's not clear how quickly they will get the air defense

necessary to stop some -- you know, stop some of the suffering. listen, they shoot a lot of these down, but russia's firing so many at them that they can't shoot them all down. >> jim sciutto, phil mattingly, so great to have you on. i want to bring in democrat senator amy klobuchar. if you can be our reporter on the ground there for us. what was it like to be in the room? >> thanks, john, and thanks for the last reporting. it was right on. president zelenskyy has always shown courage. he showed courage when he walked down into the streets of ukraine when everyone had counted him out and said those simple three words, we are here and change the trajectory. everyone had counted him out and the people of ukraine out. he did it again tonight. first of all, it was at a moment when democrats and republicans are hashing out this end of year spending bill and tempers are

high. people were united. leers of both parties there, multiple, multiple times of standing ovations and applause, and almost this joyous -- while somber, the joyous support for this man that they respect so much. and the way he was able to scon conjure those images of candlelight and i saw a few members tears coming down their cheeks as they heard those stories and thought of the people of ukraine in the cold still hanging in there, refusing to give up on democracy. and then his rhetoric i don't know you can say it was soaring, but what it was was to the point. and he said this is about the kind of world our children are going to grow up in, as in ukrainian kids, but also your children. making the case this is a worldwide cause to stand up for democracy, which is of course, one of the reasons you're seeing this broad support. people love him. they love the people of ukraine,

but they also know we cannot fold to vladimir putin and to russia. that's why you're seeing the president standing up with his plans and that is why you're seeing the money coming here. what i hope we will get done what we should get done by the end of the year for military and refugees. >> he speaks well, but to do that in front of the congress and the american people, that takes a certain amount of courage also. but he talked about the money the american people and the american congress is providing, and he pointed out it's not charity. listen. >> your money is not charity. it's an investment in the global security and democracy that we handle in the most responsible way.

[ applause ] russia -- russia could stop its aggression really if it wanted to, but you can speed up our victory. i know it. >> who do you think that message was directed to? why is it necessary? >> well, first of all, i love that part when he talked about the investment, the first part about investment in democracy. i think i might have been the first one to stand up. i just thought that was a really important point to make. first of all, ukraine's going to come back. they are incredibly innovative group, and there's already people thinking about their economy moving forward, so it is an investment in their country, but it's also an investment in the world's democracy. so i thought that was well-said, because you don't want to start thinking like, oh, this is just

a sad sack situation. it's not. they've beaten all the odds. they've beaten back russia. they've got -- regained their territory. so i think that was a really important point to make. >> you know that the republicans will be in control of the house of representatives in a matter of a few weeks. how do you think that might change the dynamic in terms of what has been pretty broad congressional support for aid to ukraine? >> i am hopeful that that is not going to change. i saw it for one thing i know in the senate strong support. senator portman he and i traveled in august in the middle of the night to meet with president zelenskyy and the defense minister, and many other members stepping in. but you're going to have strong support still in the senate. there have been a few as you know in the house on some of the statements that were made -- kevin mccarthy actually did, i remember this before the

election, actually drawing back some of his statements after he made them about ukraine. so i'm hoping this strong support continues. there are so many ukrainian americans in the u.s. that's important. people are listening to them. but i think people get this democracy argument. you cannot no matter what your political beliefs are -- and you're always going to have people on the extremes who may not want to help, but when you look at what this is about, you cannot let the barbaric, inhuman vladimir putin be able to dominate the world stage and just walk into any democracy he wants and take it over. that is an american interest. it's not just democratic or republican. >> senator amy klobuchar, thank you so much for being with us. hope you have a wonderful christmas back in minnesota. as close to the north pole as you can get, right? >> if we can get through the blizzards and these votes, yes, i hope i do. >> thank you so much, senator. much more ahead tonight on president zelenskyy's historic

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>> and there he was, volodymyr zelenskyy, the president of ukraine walking into the house chamber wearing his now famous green fatigues. he might be the first person ever to address congress in a green sweatshirt. he spoke near perfect english reading from the notes in front of him as he addressed the crowd. he got a kiss from house speaker nancy pelosi. this was a remarkable moment. we've never seen anything quite like this before, but it does harken back to some of the more some inspiring moments, inspiring visits from leaders in o ourpast. also with us margaret hoover and cnn senior political analyst john avalon. tim, i dropped the winston churchill bomb earlier, and that is the comparison. churchill did come here after pearl harbor, stayed at the

white house with franklin roosevelt and spoke to congress. >> yes, and this historical analogy is just right. and it's just right because at this moment volodymyr zelenskyy is the symbol of resistance and the symbol of liberty in the world. and in 19414 winston churchill was the symbol of revistitance and the symbol of liberty. in 1941 churchill's country faced long odds. in 2022 zelenskyy's ukraine faces long odds. and at both times -- at both times the arsenal of democracy was america. we weren't doing the fighting. but if we didn't give the supplies, our ally would fail. and so the analogy is perfect, and that's why tonight was one of those historic moments that will be talked about forever. >> here's where i'm not so sure it's a perfect analogy.

as you know in 1941 the united states had just been bombed in pearl harbor. churchill was coming here because he'd been begging the united states to join this war for years, and, you know, as churchill always said americans eventually get it right after they've exhausted every other option. okay? this is the case now where 300 days into the war americans -- we know democracy gets tired of war when it's our own let alone when it's other peoples wars. i think it's really poignant to say it's an exact analogy because he was coming here to rattle our troops to make the case we cannot get tired of fighting for our values on their front. >> so you're almost saying zelenskyy has a harder job than churchill. >> that's exactly what i'm saying. >> look, i think that -- you know, i love history giving perspective on the present moment, but this was one of those moments that will endure in part because zelenskyy is

also -- he's living on the front lines not just an air war but a ground war, and it is about symbols of freedom and liberty and the free world standing up to tyranny. and it was great to see the bipartisan applause in this joint session of congress. we don't remember the america firsters of that first generation when churchill spoke. because after pearl harbor was bombed many of them shifted their tune. i think amy klobuchar who was on a second ago was right saying the extremes -- we shouldn't let them crowd out the broad bipartisan support there is in standing up for ukraine. >> he came here to say don't lose energy -- because you're a historian. >> that doesn't mean i know everything. winston churchill would have disagreed with you because when he came here what his fear was

was because japan had attacked the united states. the united states would not send munitions to europe, so he was actually very worried. >> i'm going to push back on two fronts. first of all germany declared war on the united states after the attack on pearl harborer, so we were already engaged in that fight. >> it was over when they bombed pearl harbor. >> the second point as a historian you can't get into winston churchill's head. that's impossible. >> but churchill wrote to the king and he explained why he was going to the united states. he was very afraid the united states would not supply support, which is what zelenskyy was trying to do today. >> yes, zelenskyy was afraid it's going to stop. >> and it's all about the politics of the moment. i mean they are coming here to the united states based on the contemporary politics in that moment in 1941 and the politics right now. >> okay, so sales pitch -- did he sell?

>> yes. yes. and, you know -- >> i think so. i think it was very clear. >> you could tell by the room, overwhelming bipartisan support. it dramatizes the moment. but i think when we take a step back we'll see that 2022 has been a tipping point in the 21st century. and the way that the western world led by the united states has rallied around ukraine who pushed back vladimir putin -- and this was an important point he made, too. this is not russia's war. it's putin's war. that's a critical point. >> here's how he sold. he's coming to a welcoming congress. the congress has given ukraine $8 billion more dollars in omni than the white house even asked for. >> to the point sometimes americans get tired of war and those are wars americans are actually fighting in. what does history tell us about how long america's heart will stay in this? because zelenskyy was clearly asking for a lot longer. >> when americans lose a sense of why they're fighting, then

morale disappears. when americans couldn't understand why they were fighting in korea, morale collapsed. when americans couldn't understand why they were fighting in vietnam, morale collapsed. americans never lost a sense of why they were fighting evil in world war ii. morale was high in both wars. i suspect when people in this country can tell the difference between good and evil and understand zelenskyy represents good and we're fighting -- we're in the era of dictators once again, and that the front line for all of us is the donbas -- if americans accept that, i don't think morale will collapse and i don't think it'll collapse in ukraine either. >> guys, thank you so much for being with us. so he was hoping to go on tour across europe with his punk rock band shortly after the war in ukraine broke out. that's when i first met him. since then he's been touring as

a military doctor in his own country. how his story reflects the reality on the ground in the country that vladimir putin is trying to destroy and volodymyr zelenskyy is asking the world to save. that's next.

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the audience for president zelenskyy's speech tonight was certainly american lawmakers, the american people, the international community, but in the middle of it all the ukrainian people so many of whose lives have been completely upended by the war. i wanted to tell you the story of one ukrainian, a punk rocker, i met last winter. what he is now fighting for and how his life has now been changed. ♪ >> we first met andriy and his ukrainian punk rock band in march. not long after the russian invasion they had just released

kyiv calling, a cover of the classic london calling by the clash. it went viral with all proceeds going to the war effort. what message are you trying to send? >> message that we are struggling, we are stubborn. we stay strong but we need help. >> that was then. this is now. >> what happened with the song after that? how far did it go? how successful was it? >> things happened so i started my own ukrainian tour as a military doctor, as a military surgeon. >> so instead of going on a tour with the song, you basically have been touring as a military doctor? >> yeah, exactly. so i've been working during four months on evacuation with my

ambulance car. i'm going closer to the front line to take injured persons in the trenches. we are very close to front line nearly 7 kilometers or something like that. and russian military are very happy when they can bomb an ambulance car. it's a very big success to shoot an ambulance car. and some maybe three or four times i was very close to be shot, but thanks to all the guards, i'm still here and i can speak with you. >> andriy sent us this video of his work near the front lines. here he's removing a piece of shrapnel from a soldier's arm. in a way he's now living the words of his song. >> we are not the band who

pretends to be those who resist-touch we do the resistance. >> is this part of the resistance? >> yes. >> i can say properly music, you know, it's something like a bridge from this -- a normal world with rockets, and thanks to a normal world with concerts, with bicycles and something like that, so music it's and very helpful thing for all of us. >> helpful because they know -- they always knew the struggle and pain ahead. are you guys -- are you afraid? >> sure we do. it's normal to be afraid. we're adult. we understand that every day can be the last one, 0-0. >> that was then, this is now.

a picture of andriy's bloodstained vest after a shift treating soldiers. >> i cannot explain in other words. you know, it's blood, it's sweat. it's the worst thing that ever can happen with human rights. >> andriy told us he didn't think he was going to be able to see his family, his wife, his children for christmas. and he told us their faces are the only ones he wants to see. so the january 6th committee dropping the first batch of hundreds of interview transcripts from its investigation. what we can expect in the final report, which is due out tomorrow. that's next. this is my secret. i put it on once, no more touch ups!

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so tonight the january 6th committee released 34 transcripts of witness testimony including their questioning of witnesses michael flynn, john eastman, roger stone, alex jones. the documents show that michael flynn took the fifth nearly every question asked by the committee. then there was roger stone refusing to answer any questions in an interview that lasted just under an hour. jeffrey clark stalled two contentious interviews one of which he left early. just hour from now we'll get the full report from the committee, the final report. it's a day late. we were expecting today, now we're told it'll come tomorrow. with me now nic acerman, and deputy director andrew mccabe, author of "the threat."

the full report is coming out tomorrow. it may be as simple they wanted to wait until after zelenskyy spoke to congress to release the report, the maximum coverage. what will you be looking for when we get these hundreds and hundreds of pages of writing? >> i think what we're going to be looking for is see if there's anything in that summary they just released the other day. that was pretty comprehensive. it's hard to believe there are going to be any bombshells in the full report. clearly one of the things i'm going to be looking for and i look for in the summary is whether they fill in that gap between the white house and the actual insurrection perpetrated by the proud boy and the oath keepers on january 6th. is there going to be anything in there about roger stone? is there going to be anything in there about michael flynn? is there going to be a connection to the war room at the willard hotel and all the who had one common denomator,

they'd all been pardoned by donald trump or asked for pardons from donald trump. that to me is the real key, if you can show that somehow the white house, donald trump was orchestrating what was going on between roger stone and general flynn, that would open up aee whole new area of evidence. i don't think they have it or it would have been in that summary. >> andrew mccabe, we do understand the committee has already started transmitting some of their information to some of the department of justice investigators. tomorrow half of us, half of the journalist community will be pouring over the full report. my question to you is will investigators -- the federal investigators doing the report, will they be going through the report as carefully, or at this point do they already know everything that's in it? >> they'll absolutely be going over it very carefully. listen, john, even if let's say you're the investigator on the team that's focused on, you know, the -- let's say you're

focused on the piece of trump's kind of continuing to put out the big lie after his advisers had told them that absolutely he lost without any question. even if you know who all the interviews were -- who was interviewed by the committee. even if you have a general idea of what all those people said, you are still going to parse through this report and the underlying documents, the transcripts, the things that support the conclusions of the report just to see if the folks that you're talking to, the folks you've interviewed already, the folks you would like the interview in the future may have said something that you're not aware of. it's both a fascinating opportunity for the investigators to get an inside line on what these witnesses might be thinking and might have said. and it's also a possible real problem for them if they've already taken statements from these people, they already have them on the record. now they're going to be looking to see if they said anything contradictory to anyone else on

the committee. so they're going to be very focused on all this. >> nick, one of the things we saw from the transcripts that were released tonight was the fifth like people using their fifth amendment rights a lot. one of my questions is when you take the fifth why do you take it on simple questions like how old are you or what's your address? so many times we see people saying on the advice of my lawyer, you know, i assert my constitutional rights. >> i think they're doing it because they're lawyer is telling them to take the fifth straight throughout. if you went to a judge and said this guy's claiming the fifth amendment right because he's not going to tell us how old hids, that's not going to work. but i think as a general matter these people are just refusing to answer any questions based on the fact that a truthful answer would tend to incriminate them. that's what it's all about, and they don't want to incriminate themselves. and the committee if they had wanted could have provided immunity.

they have the power to grant immunity to witnesses, but they didn't do it with anybody. now, this was contrary to what the senate select committee did during the watergate investigation. it seemed like half the witnesses including john dean who we all know was granted immunity. but the problem now is the law has changed on that because of iran contra and ollie north and the case brought against him. i think the committee was being very, very careful about not undermining any doj investigation. and i think they've been pretty much -- and if you read the summary you get the impression that they have been feeding information to doj and the d.a.'s office in fulton county just as things have been going along. so there's not going to be a lot of surprises there. >> we'll see. i'm dying to see what happens over the next few weeks and months with the doj investigation and the january 6th committee. thank you both for being with us. so millions of americans

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it is also hitting places including denver that is seeing the most drastic temperature drop in decades. that is where our lucy kavanaugh who is in bombing conditions a few hours ago now braving the frigid conditions. was it 52 before, now it is zero as in zero? where is it headed? >> nowhere good, john. this is the joy and glamour of tv news, people here on the streets to experience these unprecedented temperatures that the folks at home hopefully do not have to. now denver actually saw a massive temperature drop, 24 degrees in just seven minutes earlier today. the national weather service describing this as a life-threatening cold front that is a once in a generation storm. it is expected to bring temperatures even lower as cold as minus ten to minus 15 degrees here in denver by tomorrow morning. this is going to be the coldest

date denver has experienced in 32 years. of course it is going to feel a lot colder, gusting winds, snow, wind chill, potentially going down to negative 25, or lower in some parts of the plains. john, we could experience 60 degrees below zero in terms of wind chill. this is no joke, frostbite and those kinds of conditions could happen to exposed skin and as little as five minutes. now, close to 1000 flights have been canceled nationwide. chicago o'hare airport leading the way, but here in denver, that report coming in second. also, denver's airport seeing a 37-degree temperature drop in just an hour, john. a lot of flights canceled, i have friends who are not able to get home for christmas as a result of this. obviously a lot of people affected across the nation. colorado's governor activating the national guard to help with extreme cold weather, preparations, and also a shelter, such as the denver coliseum being converted to a 24-hour warming center in order for folks to have a safe place

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