apologize on behalf of decorum, what he is really asking me to do is be silent when my community is facing bills that get us killed. he is asking me to be complicit in this legislature's eradication of our community. i refuse to do so, and i will always refuse to do so. >> and those, wolf, were her, effectively, last words in this legislative session. she is no longer allowed to speak on the house. she is vowing to continue to fight for her constituents and her community. wolf? >> lucy kafanov reporting for us, thanks, lucy. to our viewers, thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. "outfront" next, putin's prized supersonic jet goes down in flames days after the

russians bombed their own city. so what's going on? a ukrainian fighter on the front lines who calls the war hell is "outfront" from bakhmut. plus, banned. montana house republicans kicking out a transgender lawmaker from the house chamber after the lawmaker, zooey zephyr, accused them of having blood on their hands. zephyr is "outfront." and ya ya, a giant panda back right now on a flight to china from the memphis zoo right now. why are the chinese so angry, so livid at the united states about this panda? let's go "outfront." good evening. i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, one of putin's prized jets gone. one of the most elite supersonic jets in putin's air force blowing up today in mid-flight. you can see the jet on fire. it takes a sudden and terrifying nose-dive on russian territory. the jet was not shot down. this is all that's left of it just a few pieces of scrap metal, as you can see on the ground. today's accident on russian territory is just six days after

another russian fighter jet bombed its own city, bombed their own city. that blast left a 65-foot crater in the middle of street in belgorod. these are major setbacks for what's supposed to be an elite air force. they are taking place at the same time ukraine is ramping up for a major counteroffensive. in a moment i'm going to speak to a ukrainian fighter on the front lines. >> we're so close to the enemies. that is roman. we spoke to him last month. he was recovering from an injury near bakhmut. he fought, he went home for a few days. he is now back fighting in bakhmut. those are the very front lines where russia has been making marginal gains at immense cost. while russia may be down, a lot of soldiers dying do not count putin out at this point. because tonight leaked documents

from "the washington post" say putin has enough money in the bank to fund the war for another year, despite the sanctions. and he is putting more soldiers on the ground. a top u.s. commander today telling lawmakers that putin's ground force is, quote, bigger today than it was at the start of the war. or even as they've used that method of wave after wave of soldiers, still even after all that death have more in now than they did at the beginning of th opposition leader alexei navalny appeared in court from his prison cell. charges that could land him in prison for another 35 years. navalny was told his time in solitary confinement would be extended for a 14th time, which is a brutal punishment. he said the prison and the inmates are governed by many factors. but the three main ones are threats to kill, beat, rape

somebody, tobacco, food. but food that navalny letter continues is never actually served to him while in solitary. they show it and tell him it's expired. fred pleitgen is "outfront." what more are you learning about these charges against navalny? >> reporter: hi there, erin. they seem to come as a surprise to navalny. that hearing that took part today, that was about an unrelated case in the extremism case. it seems as though on the sidelines of that he found out that there were now going to be terrorism charges against him as well and that those charges would be heard by a military court and in secret. now, it's really unclear what all this is about. certainly navalny's organization believes it might be because of comments that navalny's chief of staff made, but they were made while navalny was already serving time in that penal colony. so therefore his supporters obviously believe that these charges as well are absurd and trumped up. we did see him today via video

link. however, we didn't hear much of what he had to say, and here's why. the moscow court literally silencing a kremlin critic as alexei navalny speaks via video link, his sound is abruptly cut off. it looks like they will limit the time for me to go through the court documents he was able to say, then the audio is muted. while some were chuckling, the situation for alexei navalny has become even more serious. the court ruled, navalny only has ten days to review hundreds of documents from an extremism case against him. and his supporters say navalny has now learned he will also be charged with terrorism. now he will have two large trials. first on extremism in total for all episodes up to 30 years, most likely it will begin before the end of may. then on terrorism up to 35 years. navalny's health is also

deteriorating, in part, because he's limited in the amount of food he can get in prison, his daughter told cnn. >> the situation has gotten so ridiculous that he buys the food, which, as you know, it's not luxurious. he buys the oats, the oats are shown to him, and then are just destroyed. >> reporter: navalny's supporters say it's all part of a massive crackdown against the opposition figure and his anticorruption foundation, which has been banned and declared an extremist organization in russia, they believe, at the behest of russian president vladimir putin. navalny has called on russians to protest putin's invasion of ukraine where moscow's forces are making virtually no progress, and ukraine says it's preparing for a major counteroffensive. yevgeny prigozhin of russia's wagner private military company saying his forces feel abandoned by the russian army. the ukrainian army is fully

ready to move and cut our flanks, he says. nobody has ever covered our flanks, all those stories about preventing the ukrainian reserves from entering bakhmut are total crap. not a single shot was fired by the russian army. while russia's forces struggle on the battlefield in ukraine, the attrition against the russian opposition continues after alexei navalny's hearing he was sent straight back into solitary confinement, his supporters say. also today for the first time since the war started, the chinese leader xi jinping spoke with ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy. china right now trying to style themselves as negotiators in all this possible peacemakers as well. afterwards, zelenskyy said that all of this was about promoting a just peace for ukraine. well, the chinese held back a little bit. they were saying that they want to promote what they call dialogue and talk. however, this seems to be quite lopsided on the part of the

chinese. we know, of course, that xi jinping is very good friends with vladimir putin. he's already spoken to putin five times since the war started, including that visit to moscow and, again, now only for the first time speaking to volodymyr zelenskyy there. >> incredibly lopsided. fred, thank you so much. "outfront" now, a ukrainian soldier from kyiv right now fighting outside bakhmut. roman, i know you just returned to bakhmut from a brief leave. i just showed the video you posted today from the front lines. what has changed during the ten days you were on that brief leave? >> i think nothing general changed, fierce battles continue for every single meter of ukrainian land. so, the only thing that's changed is me because i was on

rotation. now i'm back to hell again. >> i know you just posted a video from the trenches on your return. and i'm just going to play, roman, a clip where, you know, we want people watching to see the trenches. here it is. >> whoa, it was crazy rocket shelling here. so, what can i say living in trenches, it's a very crazy thing. and i still can't believe that i am not in kyiv, i'm here in dirty. 24/7 in very dangerous place. >> we hear the gunfire as you were sort of panning your camera, roman. we hear so much talk about the

coming ukrainian counteroffensive. are you and your unit making preparations, or have you been told anything about whether what you'll be doing is changing? >> yeah, erin. unfortunately, it's the same secret as for you and for us as well. the only guys who know about counteroffensives are the president and maybe a few people more. that's all. >> and you and i have talked in the past. you talked about wave after wave of wagner fighters coming to basically be killed. because they knew if they turned around they would be killed for sure. are you still seeing that fighting method being used by russians? >> yes, and also there are some other russian regular army. it's more percentage of regular russian army on the battlefield. >> than it was before --

>> yes, yes, because we work hard, and after our job, the wagner group just disappeared. like, not fully, but in huge numbers. >> roman, i want to play a video that you posted. this one's very different so our viewers understand. this is you commenting about finding a beautiful moment in this place you are that you say is a hell. and you're speaking in ukrainian in the video i'm going to play. there are subtitles, though, and i just want everyone to see it. [ sound of gunfire ] >> you said, beautiful sunset and bullets flying all around, as you're literally ducking.

you're in the midst of a battle. and yet you saw the sunset. what do moments like this mean to you? >> this is the moment between life and death. because every second can be less at this moment. and i'm really glad i can share with you such feelings and such thoughts. because this is what we're going through every single day on the battlefield. and i think it's important that people have opportunity to know at least to see such videos how it's happened from inside the war, how soldiers feel on the battlefield. >> roman, thank you very much. i know you were in the battles last night, and you will be going right back. so thank you very much for taking the time to share what

you're seeing, what you're going through with everyone. >> always welcome. thank you for calling me back. and "outfront" now, retired army lieutenant general mark hertling. general hertling, in that conversation, you just heard roman talk about the counteroffensive, that he doesn't know what's going to be required of him as a soldier, that maybe a few people do in the country. but he doesn't know. how difficult from, as you look at this, is this expected counteroffensive for ukraine going to be now? >> it's going to be very difficult and challenging, erin, because this phase of the campaign, i'm calling it phase six, is a different approach. what you've had thus far, and this young man has probably experienced the attack by the prigozhin groups, the attack by the russians. russian has been on the offensive, and ukraine has been on the defensive. when this switches, when ukraine goes on the offense, it's going

to take a lot of requirements for coordination, cooperation, different types of movement, the defensive lines of russia, which i believe some of the reinforcements have been put into are going to be much more heavily manned and much better prepared. they've been preparing those defensive positions since about october. and the offense is always more difficult than the defense for most soldiers. so, what you're going to see is a change in dynamic. and it's just going to be different. it's a different mission set requiring more of the soldiers. >> i think that reality is really important for people to understand. in this context, western intelligence, as you know, estimates that 40, 45,000 russian soldiers have been killed in this war. it's a stunning death toll. but what i thought, a general said today, even with that, the russian ground force in ukraine right now is bigger, he says, than it was at the start of the

invasion. and they say the air force and navy, despite these air force mishaps lately, these terrible mistakes they've made, have suffered minimal losses. so, what do you take away from that that there's more russians on the ground now that there were at the beginning? >> it is not a surprise to me, erin. and, as you remember, we've talked multiple times about something i call battlefield math about a year ago. and when russia entered this conflict, they had 190,000 soldiers allegedly. that seems like a lot. but for the missions they had, for the various mission sets they were required, that was nowhere near to being enough troop to task requirements for the russian soldiers. they realized that. they've now reinforced those positions, especially the defensive positions, the cities, the towns. so they have more soldiers there. but i'd also remind you, so does ukraine. ukraine has also mobilized literally hundreds of thousands of people. so this clash of an offensive against the defense is going to

be tough. the general also mentioned the air force and the navy. he estimated that the russian air force has lost about 80 airplanes, they've literally got hundreds if not thousands more. but what we've seen in the russian air force and the russian navy is the same kind of ineptness that their army has shown. they have not coordinated, they have not trained, they are not competent on the battlefield. so they have not used their air force forward of the line of troops. in other words, where their front lines are, they haven't flown air force beyond that because they can't control them and they're afraid of ukrainian air defense. so, yes, the assessment, the quantitative assessment by the general is absolutely correct. it's going to be a clash, certainly a tough fight in the next phase of this operation. >> right, of course, as we all understand, quantity is not necessarily quality, and we've seen that it's not in this case, even though they still have more

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tonight, florida governor ron desantis claims his, quote, kerfuffle with disney is actually helping other ceos in the country in an interview released the same day the entertainment giant filed a lawsuit against him. >> when we had the kerfuffle with disney that, actually helped a lot of ceos around the country because they could say, look, we don't want to be the next disney, we've got to stay out of this stuff and we've got to focus on the task at hand. >> disney's lawsuit filed today is the biggest escalation in a yearlong bitter fight that started when disney took a stand against legislation which restricts teaching about gender and sexuality in florida schools, something that was very relevant to many disney employees. the company is accusing desantis of government retaliation

orchestrated at every step by governor desantis as punishment for disney's protected speech. "outfront" now longtime republican lawyer. so, ben, this has been going on. it has now become a centerpiece of the presidential campaign season in the republican primary. desantis isn't declared formally, but this is at the heart of the whole thing. disney seeking to block desantis' hand-picked oversight board from taking power over disney world, taking power over the land that surrounds walt disney world in florida. does disney have a strong case? >> i think disney does have a strong case. it's interesting that it comes in this political season. what's particularly interesting about it is governor desantis is taking a position that is the opposite of small government free market capitalism that has always undergird republican and conservative thought. and, so, in a sense, this is a bridge too far in punishing with

this legislation, a company that disagrees with him is a fundamental violation of first amendment principles, disney i think was smart to include contracts clause and takings clause charges, the equal protection and due process means they didn't really have a right to present their case. and it seems at this stage like a real overreach. while it is fighting the woke company, that is different from this kind of government intrusion and government punishment of one company that disagrees with the government power. >> you mentioned desantis and the woke company. that's his word. that's what he does and he think it's works for him. every time he mentions disney, he talks about it as a woke company. he's done it again and again over the past year, specifically noting disney's opposition to the bill that he signed. just listen to this. >> disney came out against something that was really just about protecting young kids.

i said, um, we run the state of florida, we don't subcontract out leadership to a woke company based in california in the state of florida. [ applause ] we're signing the bill, and i don't care what disney says. disney is not going to have its own government anymore. [ cheers and applause ] disney is going to live under the same laws as everybody else, and disney is going to pay its fair share of taxes. [ cheers and applause ] >> the tape's obviously incredibly extensive. do any of these things hurt him? >> oh, i think it probably does hurt him. once you get in the court of law, it's going to become clear that in fact disney does pay over a billion dollars a year in taxes. and, in fact, it is legitimate to raise the point of special tax districts in florida. there are a number of entities that have them. the daytona speedway, for

example, is a special tax district. the problem with the case from the desantis standpoint is singled out for government punishment the one company that disagreed with him publicly. and that gets to free speech rights. >> this is going to be fascinating to see because he can't back down now. it is now legal, it is also the core of the republican presidential primary. thanks so much. appreciate it. >> thanks. next, house republicans in montana banning a transgender lawmaker from the floor after she told her republican colleagues that they would, quote, have blood on your hands. that lawmaker zooey zephyr is my guest. she is speaking out about the ban for the first time right here. plus, panda politics. ya ya is her name, she's a giant panda. you can see from this flight tracker is right now flying back to china from memphis. and you're going to find out why this is no ordinary flight. this is a huge diplomatic flight. why are the chinese up in arms

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new tonight, cnn learning special counsel jack smith wants the 90 audiotapes recorded by former fox news producer abby grossberg. we know these recordings capture some of trump's top allies at the center of the doj criminal investigation into january 6th, including sidney powell, the lawyer, and rudy giuliani. and they may have been a major factor in fox's decision to settle with dominion, the voting machine company, for the record $787.5 million. so, this development, which is

obviously possibly extremely significant for the doj and for trump, comes amidst new reporting from the "wall street journal" about redacted messages in the dominion case that reportedly helped seal tucker carlson's fate at fox news. the journal says fox lawyers, quote, persuaded the court to redact from a legal filing the time carlson called a senior fox news executive the c-word. "outfront" now joe flint, a longtime media reporter who works for the "wall street journal." tell me what more are you learning about these recontacted messages that tucker carlson sent. >> well, in the course of the discovery process of the dominion case, as you mentioned, a lot of tucker's texts and emails were released inside the company, ultimately, to the public, many of them redacted. and many of them showed a side of tucker that well known inside certain parts of the fox news room and hierarchy were still a

little bit surprising to a lot of people inside the company. the language, the insults towards fellow colleagues, sexist language, vulgar language, language that could be construed as racist. it was just a bevy of bad texts and emails. >> so you're reporting that just a few weeks ago tucker carlson got invited to rupert murdoch's home in bellaire. you've talked about how he has a close relationship with lachlan, one of murdoch's sons. according to your reporting they began to view him as uncontrollable. when people look at this and they say, okay, joe, so he lied about the election, said different things privately and publicly. but it was calling his bosses names is what got them to fire him. is that really a fair way to summarize it? >> i wouldn't summarize it quite that way. i think it helped seal his fate. i do think the whole dominion

exercise was very painful and embarrassing and humiliating for fox news. and even though tucker was a small part compared to maria bartiromo, lou dobbs and jeanine pirro, his emails showed that he didn't necessarily believe what he was having guests espouse on the air. and that was another problem that just hurt the image of the network. >> i should note all those three individuals you still talk about still have jobs there. tucker's been fired so who knows where things go from here. but what we haven't heard from at this point publicly is tucker carlson, silent. he's been, i understand from your reporting, he's in florida at his home' cording to tabloid photos he's there. what are you hearing about what he thinks about this? >> well, he was really shocked. i mean, this came out of the blue for him. i know the press release says fox and tucker parted ways. but he was told about ten minutes before a press release was going out, susan scott, the

ceo of fox news called him up and said the network was exercising article 8 of his contract, which, to put in layman's terms, is a clause that gives the network the right to just terminate the contract for no reason. he was not fired with cause, and he asked why, why, why. and they said -- she said, well, it's a decision of us and the people above us, meaning the murdochs. >> right, shakespearean in all ways. joe, thanks so much. appreciate it. >> thank you. and, coming up next on "anderson" more on those tapes that the former fox news producer abby grossberg recorded and that the special counsel now wants. and, next, montana house republicans just banned transgender lawmaker zooey zephyr from the house chamber after she accused them of having blood on their hands. zephyr is "outfront" next. and ya ya the giant panda, right now on a flight from memphis back to china. why this is such a serious story showing things getting truly

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new tonight, banned. the gop-led montana house banning zooey zephyr, the first openly transgender woman elected to that state legislature from the chamber until the legislative session ends next week.

she will not be able to debate proposals or amendments in the session. this came after she was silenced about comments about colleagues voting to prevent transgender children from receiving gender-affirming medical care. >> if you vote yes on this bill and yes on these amendments, i hope the next time there's an invocation when you bow your hands in prayer, you see the blood on your hands. >> just days after those remarks, protests broke out in the house chamber after zephyr raised her microphone. police in riot gear responded. seven protesters were also arrested. tonight representative zephyr is "outfront." representative, i appreciate your time. thank you very much. and i want to give you a chance first to respond to what's just happened to you. today, you were banned. your colleagues have banned you from the house chamber for the rest of the year's legislative session. what's your response to that? >> you know, we have a week and a half left of the session, and we'll be covering important topics, housing bills, the state's budget, and every bill that goes forward for the

remainder of this session, there will be 11,000 montanans whose representative is missing, whose voices cannot be heard on those bills. >> now, they're taking away your right to be on the floor. they're taking away your right to take part in debate. so all of that is gone, as you say. they are still letting you vote. i guess you have to do that remotely, though. why do you think they're making that distinction? >> so, to me, they are trying to take away the voices of montanans and find, in their mind, a middle ground of some sort. but it's important to note that i wasn't elected just to vote on bills. i was elected to have the hard discussions. >> absolutely. now, here's how some of your colleagues described your actions. i played the clip of what you had said. but here's how some of them described your actions before today's vote where they banned you. here they are. >> this body witnessed one of its members participating in conduct that disrupted and disturbed the orderly

proceedings of this body. >> this behavior violated the collective rights and safety of 99 other members of this body, our staff, our pages, and the public. >> it's an irrefutable fact that the representative in question did indeed actively support and arguably incite the disruptive antics of demonstrators who had gathered in the house gallery. the representative of house district 100 failed to do her duty. >> they're saying you violated decorum in the chamber with your words about blood on their hands, they say there's consequences to your actions. so what do you say to that? >> i would say we've had hard debates this entire session. there have been legislators on the other side screaming in their closing arguments, legislators who have insinuated that my very existence is somehow sexualizing children. and we object and then we move on. but when the speaker decides to not recognize a duly elected

representative, he takes away the voices of 11,000 montanans. and when those montanans came to demand that their representative be heard, what they're doing is standing for democracy. i raise my mic in support of them. >> now you called out some of your colleagues in the montana freedom caucus at least twice last week, representative, they referred to you with masculine pronouns. you said it was disheartening to see them stoop so low as to misgender you. but it happened again today that. group came out and they said, in part, and i quote them, representative, it's unfortunate that representative zephyr had neither the maturity nor the humility to take responsibility for his actions and simply apologize. can i just ask you on a human level, i know you've become accustomed to some of this treatment and when they do this. but when this happened today, how do you even -- how does that even make you feel? how do you handle that? >> first, i want to say that it's important to note the

hypocrisy of a group calling for humility and decorum while misgendering. but it's the same group that advocates for limited government while at the same time using government to take away the healthcare, life-saving healthcare to people in my community. and on a personal level, i don't get distracted by that. i come here to represent my constituents. and so i will show up every day on their behalf. >> all right, representative, thank you so much. and i really appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you for having me. >> all right, representative zephyr there from montana. there is breaking news in the state of montana. a judge temporarily blocking a new state rule, which would limit gender-affirming care for minors and adults. it's the first of its kind in the nation targeting adults. now, that rule was set to take effect tomorrow. and kyung lah is "outfront" with the latest. >> we're hoping to get as many people established for care as possible because we're really

feeling that deadline. >> i'll be doing your intake today. >> reporter: and the clock is ticking for patients like 19-year-old kari, a missouri resident crossing state lines to kansas because of the battle over gender-affirming care. how long have you not felt like you? >> since i was, like, 14 is when i was first, like, you are not correct. >> reporter: all patients in this planned parenthood clinic today are beginning gender transitions. a pop-up clinic to beat the deadline set by missouri's attorney general in an emergency rule. established patient koz continue care once the order goes into effect. but new patients face a slew of requirements that would widely limit access. it's why kari is here before the state-imposed deadline. how do you view this executive order? >> i view it as someone is afraid of something so they're trying to eradicate people. we are terrified. i've been afraid since i was,

like, 15. the world is terrifying. like, just sit there and listen to what we're saying. we're not trying to indoctrinate anyone. we're just saying, hey, this is us. >> reporter: in another exam room, 20-year-old andy moved up a may appointment to beat the impending order. why is it important for you to have access to this care? >> it's a constant disconnect from my own body, my own being. i look in the mirror, i feel like an imposter, a stranger. i always have. i'm going through a personal journey now, and hopefully can start to feel comfortable in my own skin and maybe feel like i recognize the person in the mirror after i start to see these changes. >> reporter: across missouri, advocates say it's uncertainty and panic among patients. this is angela, i'm calling from planned parenthood. >> reporter: angela huntington is a patient navigator planned parenth

parenthood, scheduling patient as cross missouri. >> i think we have a fight in front of us. >> what kind of pain are you hearing on the other side of the phone line? >> i've got patients calling me from all over missouri that are just scared. they don't know where they're going to get their care. >> you want to believe people when they tell you who they are or what they want for their life. and you don't want to say, wow, you know, i believe you that you are transgender, but maybe we should phone your local politician to see if they agree. it's hard not to feel like your local politician is in the room with you. >> next what i'm going to do is go over some screening questions with you. >> reporter: he says he fled tennessee a year ago and is ready to move again, unsure of what happens next in missouri. >> i can't live in any state that won't let me be who i am. i have a 24-hour plan of, well, if they do this, you have to leave in those 24 hours. like, clothes already packed up

in the trunk type things. makes me feel like a refugee in my own state, in my own country. >> reporter: so this emergency rule is scheduled to take place just hours from now at the stroke of midnight. but this ruling that we just got from the state judge just minutes ago, erin, it essentially resets the clock. there is a new deadline. it will be monday evening. the judge says she wants more time to consider and read through some of the briefings, some of the arguments. so there will be a new deadline, monday evening, when this temporary restraining order could or could not go into effect, allowing this rule to go into effect, erin. >> thank you very much. so important to hear from those young people. , and next, ya ya the giant panda right now on her way back to china from the united states. why are the chinese tracking her so closely? why are they so furious at the united states? why is this panda so important? and the house just barely passing a bill to raise the debt

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