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toward the kremlin overnight. russia says this was some kind of an attack on vladimir putin's life, an attempt, i should say. ukraine responded saying they have nothing to do with this incident. they added they have no information on the strike on the kremlin, if it even happened. a spokesperson of ukraine's president zelenskyy say russia's allegation of this assassination attempt, they are calling it, quote, a trick. cnn's nic robertson is in eastern ukraine and nick paton walsh is in dnipro to the south. nick paton walsh, first to you. you received a detailed response from ukraine on these russian claims. what did you hear? >> yeah, look, they've been very clear from two separate officials and the first from the spokesperson for volodymyr zelenskyy saying they have no information on this particular attack and they do not act on

attack and only to defend ukraine and to get russian forces off ukrainian territory and an adviser to volodymyr zelenskyy saying obviously, they had nothing to do with it and suggesting this may be part to ferment emotions and i'm paraphrasing amongst the russian population and this attack does nothing to advance ukraine's military goals and would simply allow moscow to continue to justify, i'm paraphrasing here, unjustifying attacks on civilians in ukraine. the information we have is very limited and it is a statement from the kremlin making remarkable claims that the heads of rushsia vladimir putin was subject to an attack from two drones. the fragments of them landed and did not hurt anybody and that vladimir putin was not in the kremlin at the time this occurred and importantly, that same statement said they reserve

the right to take retaliatory measures and it's important what they might be meaning for that. we know russia has a nuclear power and there is no indication that they have posture in that regard and they've made repeated a threats in the past year and they're in a difficult military place in ukraine at the moment, with the counter offensive that's been planned by nato and assisted by nato and breathing down the neck of russia's beleaguered military in the days ahead. so the timing in this statement with little to back it up with evidence at this point despite the video you will see shortly showing smoke over the kremlin and something we can't verify ourselves and the timing of the statement is particularly important and it suggests possibility that russia is looking to ferment population, and it is some degree of russian weakness if this has occurred or have been alleged to occur in the very heart of moscow and its cultural heart, centuries of russian history running through

that building and also, too, it begs the question quite what russia's response may end up being, given militarily they're floundering so badly over the past few months and their goals not achieved and we are seeing ukraine beginning this counter offensive. vladimir putin, we began this voice of choice and who was isolated through the pandemic and was receiving poor advice and the target of this attack and has put a focus what his response would be and whether this is something being put together by russia to justify a future act or whether we are seeing a devastating lapse of security in the heart of moscow. john? >> nic robertson, to you. the speed of the ukrainian denials are notable here. this wasn't us. frankly, this doesn't help us is the paraphrasing of the statement we're hearing from ukrainian officials. what do you see going on here, nic? >> russia does seem to be putting forward a narrative that

gives it a number of options by escalating whatever happened here to calling it the potential assassination attempt on the president gives them a road map, if you will, to run up another false flag operation, to claim something that proves to be in the end patently untrue, that these perhaps weren't ukrainian drone and has nothing to do with ukraine, but gives president putin a path to perpetrate another act of atrocity on ukrainian civilians. is that what this is about? what ukrainian officials seem to imply is very well aware in a couple of days, the 9th of may are celebration parades in red square right outside the kremlin where you see hundreds of military vehicles normally paraded by all of the big generals and all of the president's men are standing there as they do on platforms as a fly by of russian aircraft and

it's a big day and commemorates the loss of dozens and millions of russians lost in world war ii and it commemorates the death of tens of millions of russians during the second world war. he would have a hard time selling a counter narrative to that when he's losing tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of troops in what he's still calling a special military operation and not a war inside ukraine and the ukrainians were saying that this can be used by the kremlin as a diversion to the losses that it's having in ukraine. the concern in ukraine is what will putin choose to do in the back of this and the reality is there is a potential counter offensive building up and the other piece of the puzzle here that ukraine will be looking at are the number of strikes that have occurred or the attacks that have occurred inside russia just beyond the borders of ukraine at russian supply lines

and supply facilities that help fuel the war in ukraine that have happened this week. two attacks on train lines inside russia leading to ukraine, 20 carriages destroyed in one attack and just this morning another fuel depot close to ukraine's borders inside russia blown up unexpectedly. this will be a background narrative ukrainians don't claim them and this is something that will sting, sting in the kremlin. >> again, it's fascinating that it seems to be the ukrainians most rattled by this video and these claims today, not necessarily the russians. our nic robertson and nick paton walsh, please stand by and we'll come back to you on this. sarah? joining me for more on this breaking news is cnn correspondent alex marquardt and our matthew chance who has left moscow and is now in london. i'll start with you, alex.

the secretary tony blinken will speak in the next hour. what do you expect we'll hear from him. will he make a statement about what has happened here and the claims russia is making? >> secretary blinken certainly knows all eyes are on moscow right now and people would hope to hear something from him in terms of the explanation and what we are hearing for now, sarah, and i've heard from biden administration officials who say they are trying to figure out what happened here and they're scrambling to figure out what happened, but what i have heard from two different officials is whatever happened here, they were given no head's up. so washington for now appears to be in the dark. sarah, the u.s. is keen to help fight russia, but inside ukraine. they don't want to see ukraine necessarily carrying out provocative attacks like this one would be inside russia and certainly not in the heart of russia. ukraine has struck russia in the past and what i've been told by

administration officials is of course, ukraine is being attacked and they have the right to defend themselves, but the u.s. is not enabling or encouraging ukraine to carry out these attacks. the longest range rockets that was given to ukraine by the u.s. maxed out at 160 kilometers. they had not been given the long-range rockets they had been asking for and that is in part that they have not struck inside russia with those rockets and they did not want to provide provocation in the conflict or escalate this conflict. the u.s. is very keen to see ukraine again fighting against russia inside of ukraine. the backdrop of all this, sarah is that we know as nic was just saying that ukraine has carried out strikes before and in fact according to the leaked documents that just came out obtained by "the washington post" ukraine was planning to

strike moscow on the anniversary of the invasion back in february and in the end, ukraine did not carry out that strike according to this document because washington managed to persuade kyiv that this would be too provocative. you can certainly be sure, sarah that right now washington is calling kyiv, the white house and the cia, et cetera, to confirm that ukraine was not behind this and really to try to get to the bottom of what happened. sarah? >> all right, alex. let me now turn to matthew. matthew, you talkeded ab about extraordinary it is that something was able to get into russia, that it was able to hit the kremlin, this fortified place where you can see the huge red wall around it. russia is claiming that not one, but two drones hit the kremlin on tuesday night and they have said some very strong words saying this was an attempted assassination and this was a terrorist attack and they will

retaliate. ukraine in response saying this is a trick. they had nothing to do with it and how do you see this escalating? >> well, you're right. these pictures are absolutely incredible to watch, particularly if you've been watching the kremlin as i have for so many years and it makes it sort of astounding to even contemplate the possibility that russia staged this, although they may well have, of course. i'm not ruling anything out. the fact that you see an explosion literally on top of the grand kremlin palace, the physical, geographical, spiritual, center of the russian state and that's on videotape, it basically, the drone seems to have hit the flag pole carrying the russian flag in the center of the kremlin. that is a remarkably potent image of vulnerability and it's extraordinary to think that the russians may have sort of put that out themselves as justification for stepping up

their campaign in -- in ukraine. i'm not even sure that they need a reason to step up their campaign inside ukraine and never mind having to broadcast images which expose just how sort of -- just what a weakened state the kremlin is currently in. so, yes, extraordinary scenes. these will be viewed with horror in ukraine to some extent because people are concerneded about what the consequences might be and what retribution there may be for this, but there will also be people around russia who are watching these images absolutely astonished that they war that they were told was a special military operation that wasn't going to touch them, that has nothing to do with them, really, has come right into the center of the russian capital that's going to be a very, very potent message indeed from these images. >> very good point.

at one point you could be arrested for using the word war there inside russia. matthew chance, thank you, as well as alex marquardt. kate? >> let's talk more about this especially the unverified video and joining me is retired general mark hurtling, thanks for coming in. what do you see in what would be extraordinary video, so far this video circulating on social media is unverified. >> first of all, kate, it's a very small uav, alleged uav and it could be artificial intelligence and a mock-up of a uav and having been to that location before it's fascinating that it hits right at the peak of that dome. that would be the equivalent of some type of attack on the dome of our capitol. it could spur anger among the russian people.

it could be a false flag operation and it also could be a ukrainian strike and i've calculated listening to your reporters about six different potential courses of actions that led to this. some internal to russia and some external, but if you're talking about a drone strike from ukraine, that's a 600-kilometer distance from ukraine to the capitol in moscow. it is very difficult to have a drone that long from that small of a drone and it could be a strike from anti-putin activist or special operators for ukraine inside of russia at a closer distance or it could be a lot of other things so we have to be careful about what we are confirming is our bias on the strike and what the results are. >> yeah. as alex marquardt was just reporting, u.s. officials are looking to gather more information and the line that

alex marquardt has gotten from the u.s. official is whatever happened lear there is no advance notice given and what are you hearing from that is official? >> i'm hearing the same thing. that kind of confirms the fact that that's what happened. on the ukrainian side. there are only a few people that know what was behind this strike. it is interesting. you said earlier during the last hour, kate, as you were talking about the may parade on may the 9th, the may day parade. that just doesn't happen on may the 9th. there have been literally tens of thousands of soldiers practicing for that parade right near the drone strike hit. i don't know why they would do it in the dark of night and allege it to be an assassination attempt on putin. to me, that's ludicrous. putin is not going to be in that building at 3:00 in the morning,

likely, and one drone strike unless it has a missile onboard is not going to kill him. so all of that is part of what russia terms moscaroka. it's the word that russia always attaches to anything that's deception. you never know what's coming out of russia. every story out of russia has an element of disbelief to it. if they're publicizing this in the afternoon in the day after it occurred or the morning after it occurred then they're probably working their generation machine of misdirection or miscommunication or misinformation in all of these areas. >> it's always great to have you, general. thank you for having on. relating a healthy dose of skepticism around all of this until something is verified one way or the other. >> absolutely. we are monitoring all of the developments there. also nine people are dead

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>> oh, my god! stop it! stop! stop it! >> everyone was, like, seriously stop. >> a witness tells cnn it all started when the suspect's wife was sitting in the wrong seat. a crew member insisted that she move and that is when the suspect now having been identified as cody lovins became agitated and then very clearly started throwing punches and was violent. he was taken off the plane and charged with battery and he's now been banned from flying with united airlines again. john? >> that is some video. we have new reporting this hour president biden's former executive assistant has been contacted by robert hur, he is the one being questioned in the classified documents probe after testimony about the house oversight committee about the handling of the classified documents that were found in president biden's former private

office. sarah murray joins us now with your new reporting on this. so we are getting some details about that house testimony, sarah. what have you learned? >> that's right. our team has gotten our hands on this from the memo from the staff that includes portions of kathy chung's testimony and she was the key witness and the person packing and unpacking it, and she makes clear that she thought all of the classified documents had been removed from biden's office when she was vice president when she started packing. she told the committee that there were file folders in a box and here's what they're asking her. they're saying at that time when you took the file folders there were documents in these file folders and kathy chung confirms that's the case and they continue the questioning and did you go through the file folders and documents at this point? she makes it pretty clear she

did not know there were classified documents and she sort of describes there were policy papers in there and condolence letters about joe biden's late son beau biden. there were photos and memorabilia, but she said she didn't know when she was packing the boxes or later when she unpacked them at the penn-biden center that there were classified documents. it's likely federal investigators already know a lot if not know the investigation and she spoke to them part of the initial review in january and since then her lawyer has been koblg are contacted by special counsel. she is a key witness in what is now this criminal investigation into joe biden's investigation of classified documents and what we see is what she's telling the committee does support biden's claims that he was surprised when he learned that he still had classified documents in his possession. we don't have the full transcript. republicans said they are in the middle of this investigation so they're not going to release the

full transcript yet. >> sarah murray in washington, new reporting just coming out this hour. thank you very much for that. kate? also at this hour we are tracking multiple man hunts under way across the country. inrie searching for al stenson. he's facing four counts of first-degree murder after authorities say he shot and killed a woman and three of her children. police say they're aware of stenson's whereabouts and actively working to take him into custody. then in california, students and staff at uc davis are on edge and understandably so right now as police are still searching for clues related to three stabbing attacks. two of the victims died as we've been reporting. authorities say the attacks were, quote, particularly violent and brazen and they did say that they see similarities in terms of a pattern in the three stabbings. school officials say for now in-person classes are canceled after 6:00 p.m. in light of

this. officials in mississippi, they're hunting for one remaining suspect who broke out of a county jail. four inmates initially escaped from the raymond detention center on april 22nd. officials say two of those inmates have since died. one, captured and one remains on the run this morning. and federal and state law enforcement in virginia and forth carolina, they're searching for two men who also escaped from jail. one of them was charged with murder for killing a sheriff's deputy. the two escaped from a jail in farmville, virginia, this past weekend. with all of that in mind, at least one high-profile man hunt is now over today. in texas franciscoor pesa was found hiding in a home roughly ten miles from the crime scene. >> somebody got a tip and found that tip to be true. bottom line is we now have this

man in custody. he was caught hiding in a closet underneath some laundry. >> and this morning the sheriff's office has said several other arrests have been made in connection with oropesa. ed lavandera having fresh reporting on that. he is facing five counts of murder and has a bond hearing later today. sara? >> let's discuss all of this with cnn's chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller. thank you so much for coming in to talk about all of these things. this is such a disturbing case. five people dead. his neighbors including a 9-year-old, but the law enforcement got to him in what? four or five days? >> that's right. >> but there's not been one arrest, there are two. tell us about what happened in that second arrest and what it tells you, i guess, about his partner, wife, i'm not who she is to him. >> when law enforcement began searching for him they work in these concentric circles. this is a spontaneous crime, but it was also a spontaneous escape

without a plan, without resources. so first they focused on family members and then they focused in the outer circle of friends and associates and then they focus on the public where there is because of the horror over this crime a real motive for anybody that spots him to see something. in montgomery county just on the other day there was a sighting by a highway in a wooded area. there was a giant police response, k-9 units. they tracked him, but lost him there, and then this tip came to the house of a relative that had to be a very specific tip for them to hit that house in the space of time from 5:15, the tip coming in to the fbi call center to a team of law enforcement going through that door in a dynamic entry by 6:30 p.m., but they're looking at who was in that house, who knew who he was. everyone knew he was wanted.

thi this is a story that's been widely out there and the woman who was there described as his wife has been charged with aiding and abetting, hindering prosecution, avoiding arrest. >> that we just heard from our ed lavandera who had new reporting who had seen her at the house sort of coming out covering her face and later on here she is now charged in this case or at least arrested in this case. i want to turn now to the string of stabbings around the uc davis campus. two of them -- two people have been killed and one person is in critical condition. what does this tell you? because police at this point are saying we are not sure if this is connected, however there are some similarities and there is a suspect that they are looking for in this case. what does it tell you about this person who is going around stabbing people randomly, it seems. >> he starts off and there are three incidents almost in rapid

succession, one a day starting over the weekend and going through tuesday. that is an incredible pace of violence which shows, you know, he is driven by something. he seems to be targeting homeless people. the first victim was a homeless man who was known to sleep in the park. that was central park. the second victim in sycamore park, not a homeless person, a star student from uc davis, but could have been mistaken as a homeless person because he was in the park. it was after dark. he had long hair and a beard. we can't be sure of that, but the third person was in a gathering of tents where she was stabbed through the tent. now you would describe this as a disorganized offender. in the second incident talked to a witness after the attack and then fled and in the third incident he engaged in

conversation after people saw him hiding and darting around behind trees and they said, what are you doing? why are you acting that way? are you that guy? and he returned and stabbed the woman after those conversations. so you have five people who have seen him face to face, but their video canvas has not shown a definitive picture that they can say is that suspect. right now they're working on a sketch because working at this pace law enforcement can only assume he's going to strike again. >> and that is the fear and why they had the campus and the surrounding area basically on lockdown. they have lifteded that since, but there is still a clear and present danger to the public. john miller, thank you for coming, as always. i appreciate it. >> john? >> a top democrat in the house takes a major step toward voting -- or trying to force a vote on the debt ceiling and new reporting on the chances of an arrest next.

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there has been no independent verification of the claim and of course, we have heard from ukraine saying this is a trick. minutes ago secretary of state antony blinken commented on the alleged incident. listen. >> i can't in any way validate them. we simply don't know. second, i would take anything coming out of the kremlin with a very large shaker of salt. so let's see. we'll see what the facts are. >> so you heard there, take everything you hear coming out of the kremlin with some skepticism. we will have much more on this coming up. kate? >> this morning the top democrat in the house hakeem jefferies, he's setting up to try and bypass speaker mccarthy and force a vote to raise the debt ceiling, but the math right now is not adding up. all 213 house democrats would need to support the move, of course, but that means they would also need five republicans to join them to get a vote to the floor and at this hour there

is zero republican interest in supporting the move, at least stated publicly. the critical timing here is june 1. that is when the treasury secretary says the united states could run out of money to pay its bills. let's go to capitol hill. manu raju is standing by. what exactly are you hearing that jefferies is trying to do? >> this is considered a fallback plan in the event that no deal can be reached and in the event that some republicans can decide to break ranks and mccarthy wants to put a bill on the house and the democrats are in the minority and there are procedures in which they can force a vote on the house floor and they need 218 signatures and support from 218 members to force a vote and the democrats have 213 seats and they need five to break ranks and i spoke to several of those republicans that could potentially break ranks and many of them don't have an issue and this continues to play out and the next big step is the closed-door meeting

at the white house next week and one of the top four congressional leaders and they're coming from completely different viewpoints and how the crisis needs to be averted and the republicans aligning themselves in the senate with a house of gop efforts to raise the debt ceiling for one year's team. mitch mcconnell says he is behind kevin mccarthy and democrats on the other hand, are saying this just simply needs to be raised without any spending cuts at all and talk about those issues later. how it gets resolved remains to be seen and in talking to senators this morning it's clear that both sides are still digging in. >> the president has wasted 90 days. it's been 90 days since the president last made any attempt to reach out to speaker mccarthy. >> why not consider some spending cuts? compromise. that's what americans want. avoid default, compromise and agree with some spending cuts. >> we do not want to be a

country where the rest of the world says whether or not the united states honors its already-made commitments to pay bonds and to pay bills depends on whether they can make some kind of political negotiation. >> but there really are not that many legislative days left on the calendar when the house and the senate are both in session for this month. in addition to that there is the time and the calendar is shrinking here and there is not much interest in the potential short-term fix and maybe a couple of months or so to raise the debt limit and that's been rejected on both sides of the aisle and how will they avert the biggest crisis on this issue for the past dozen years. at that time 12 years ago they agreed to raise the debt limit and not before the united states was downgraded and that is still a major question about the concerns with the economy looming. >> great to see you, manu.

great reporting as always. >> joining us is john avlon and host of pbs firing line making her new central debut, ooh! margaret hoover. usually in standoffs like this between the white house and congress, you can turn to the back page of the story and you know what they will say, there will be a lot of fighting and anger and they'll get to the end. this time it's not clear what will be on the last page of the book, is it? >> they're saying it will all work out eventually. look, kevin mccarthy is holding the nation hostage and you need to reiterate two things. kevin mccarthy voted to raise the debt ceiling three times when donald trump was president and it wasn't a weapon you wanted to use with the full faith and credit of the country and this is self-created and biden is in a position where he does need to deal with it, and it should be off the table for the good of the republic and my

guess is if i had to say what the last page should look like, biden should agree to a couple of, you know, proposals made by republicans, the more reasonable ones and in my mind that would be permitting reform for energy, and calling back covid relief and welfare for americans and say we'll do that for the budget and you have my commitment and we'll follow through. no one is in the mood for compromise and it's the opposite of fiscally responsible. >> tenuous moments, to be sure. >> i want to shift to electoral politics and the primary posturing because former president trump is suggesting that he may not attend the first two republican debates which are already on the schedule. he's saying they're just too early. there's also the suggestion that he's pretty far ahead and doesn't need to show. what do you think of that strategy? >> it recalls the very first time he decided to opt out of the debates in iowa in the presidential primary before the caucuses. of course, he suffered slightly for that and that was before he

solidified the base for the republican party and gone through the full term as president. it's a power play from his position because he actually can't afford to rally the base and not show up to debate. he can let asa hutchinson and nikki haley and anybody else who decides to get in demonstrate the very little contrast between them as candidates and avoid a contrast with anyone else in the field. it's also coming from a position of what he views as strength in the polls, but frankly, weakness and fear because he doesn't actually want the contrast, i think. because he is vulnerable from, i would say, 60, 55, 60% of the republican priority that does not want him to be the nominee, and a contrast to all of the things that he has done to undermine the constitution, particularly in the last three years does not suit him. >> strength or weakness? >> fear. fear because he doesn't want that contrast because the

majority of republicans would like to see somebody else. strength because he is in a poll position and that's what front-runners do. they'll say we don't need to debate. so, i mean, look, the american people and the republican party deserves that contrast, but donald trump doesn't give ta dan about anybody but himself. >> we have a lot of time to talk about this before the debate. >> sure. >> do you focus trump? that's the contrast, you'll have to make the contrast if you want to win the primary. >> if republicans want to beat trump they'll have to unify. the reason he got it is because he had a plurality of the republican party. >> sure. >> if there are fewer candidates in the race and they can unite against them instead of a circular firing squad among themselves that serves. >> in this case, republicans want to really do something and they need to stop votes and winner take all and be proportional and the main thing is republicans need to get over this tiptoeing around donald trump and this fear of saying

his name a la voldemort and they need to draw the contrast based that the former president tried to overturn an election and if you're a true constitutional. >> that is not what is polling and winning in the republican space. so if you're going to win in a primary with republicans you can't take on donald trump or you lose. >> trump will lose even worse. >> not in the republican primary, john avlon, the general election is a different question. >> leaders lead. >> this is awkward. john avlon, margaret hoover, our thanks to both of you. please both of you come back. >> thanks. >> thanks, john. facebook's parent company meta is issuing a new warning this morning and hear why hackers are using chatgpt that's ai, to break into people's devices and soccer star leonel

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seven others were injured. these types of shootings happen all too often here in the u.s., it is a rarity in europe. police say the shooter is in custody after calling police to turn himself in. his father has also been arrested. sudan rattled by new violence today despite the two warring factions agreeing to a seven-day cease-fire. witnesses say there were explosions near the presidential palace in khartoum and a group based in sudan says at least six civilians were killed in the capital today. cnn has not been able to verify those claims. separately, air strikes and anti-aircraft fire were also reported in a nearby city. now to argentinean soccer star leonel messi is in trouble and his team paris st. germain suspended him after making an unauthorized trip to conduct personal business. >> he attended promotional event

out of france. messi was in sawedudi arabia wh he promoted the country tourism bureau, kate? >> the parent company of facebook is putting out a new warning that hackers are trying to take advantage of all of this interest we are seeing in the new ai tool chatgpt. this comes from a security tool saying since march meta's team has blocked more than a thousand phony web addresses that appear to be linked to chatgpt. tony is joining us. what is meta that these hackers are trying to do? >> kate, many of us love playing around with chatgpt and we spend a lot of time trying to get it to say all sorts of stuff. m m meta is saying hacker are trying to get people to download browser extensions and you might have an extension that can translate a page. they are selling these

extensions to say they have chatgpt-type technology. meta released screenshots of some of these. let's take a look. they look in the app store, if we can pull them up just like what you would see and we can go to a few of these, like if you were to go download an app. so this one, i think we have one or two more. stuff that people would normally download directly from the google store and the fact that it's on the google store i think people think that it's secure. >> these look legitimate. >> these have now since been taken down and it was actually meta that identified these rather than google through their security team so they've been taken down. what would happen if you were to download this and put it on to your google chrome, basically hackers would get access to your device and access to your private, personal information. meta says they blocked 1,000 links more than 1,000 links in pushing this sort of stuff over

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