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them on the battlefield. i do think they're very confident they're going to make this a counteroffensive a success. and it's one of the things we heard from the main commander on the southeastern front, who was saying there's fierce battles, but that thr hitting the russians extremely hard. they've destroyed a lot of russian armor and have cleansed the russians from some of those positions. the deputy defense minister came out today and said the ukrainians are entrenching positions they've taken and moving forward. of course the movements are difficult and slow because of the tough russian defenses and air power as well. soldiers we've been speaking to on the ground say they're absolutely confident they can go deep into russian held territory, erin. >> fred, thank you very much. and thanks so much to all of you for joining us as well. we'll see you tomorrow. "ac 360" starts now. good evening. tonight on "360" more sounds from under the sea, as the race
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to find the "titan" submersible grows by the hour. we'll also show you what it's like inside the "titan" and talk to someone who raised douts about its safety. and from ukraine, just how difficult the counteroffensive has been. the most urgent deadline there is for the five people you see here on the missing submersible. british businessman hamish harding, shahzada dawood and his teenage son, suleman, paul henry nargeolet, and stockton rush. they are now the subject of a multinational search involving military and civilian ships, aircraft, and expertise, which grew larger in size and capability today. the question is, is it enough and do they have time? this is new video from a canadian air force plane. the entire effort is running on
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hope that underwater sounds are coming from the titan. it's also running up against the sub's limited oxygen supply and the possibility locating a vessel the size of a large car in an area twice the size of connecticut will simply take more time than they have. jason carroll is in boston tonight, where some of the coast guard searchers are based. what's the latest? >> reporter: the u.s. coast guard says they are in close contact with family members. as you can imagine, anderson, the wait for them is agonizing. those sounds, those underwater sounds that have been detected, have offered them some hope. but time is running very, very short. >> when you're in the middle of a search and rescue case, you always have hope. that's why we're doing what we do. >> reporter: with what could be less than 24 hours of oxygen left on board "titan," hope at this point may rest on noises detected by sonar. the coast guard revealed more
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noises were picked up this morning af a canadian aircraft dropped a sonar buoy. >> with respect to the noises specifically, we don't know what they are to be frank with you. the p-3 detected noises. that's why they're up there. that's why they're doing what they're doing. >> reporter: the sounds are described as banging and first picked up by a canadian plane yesterday and heard again today. all the acoustic information sent to the u.s. navy for analysis. additional resources sent to search the area where the sounds were detected. the coast guard cautioned about drawing conclusions before experts can weigh in. >> we moved assets and we're searching there. and we'll continue to do so. >> it is encouraging that there did seem to be a pattern to it. and, you know, we're going to continue to hold out hope. >> reporter: time is crucial. the rescue window continues to shrink. >> we are very aware of the time sensitivity around this mission.
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>> reporter: the vessel was headed to view the titanic wreck that sits nearly 13,000 feet deep, but lost contact on sunday just one hour and 45 minutes into its descent. five on board, including oceangate ceo and founder, stockton rush. >> i'd like to be remembered as an innovator. i think it was general mcarthur said, you're remembered for the rules you break. i've broken some rules to make this. i think i've broken them with logic and good engineering behind me. >> reporter: now questions surrounding the safety of the vessel, which was not inspected and classed by an independent group that set safety standards. most chartered vessels are carefully inspected, reviewed, then classed. oceangate argues the "titan" is not due to the technology being so new that it's not incorporated into existing standards. two former employees of ocean gait separately brought up safety concerns about the vessel and the thickness of "titan's"
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hull. there was additional testing since the time the employees left the company in 2017 and 2018. so, it's unclear if their concerns were addressed. >> jason, what more do you know about those banging sounds, what they could mean? >> well, anderson, that was one of the questions that i put to the captain of the u.s. coast guard here earlier today, specifically, what more can they tell us? what specifics can they tell us about those sounds? because the reality is that the ocean is a noisy place. i mean, these sounds could be anything from wreckage from the titanic shifting. it could be sea life. it could be other vessels that are in the area. that is why the acoustic information, all that data that they've gathered, has been taken to the u.s. navy so their experts can look at that and try and determine exactly what it is. but, again, the time is running out. that's the bottom line here.
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>> jason carroll. appreciate it. if the missing sub is trapped at the bottom of the ocean, it could be in water many times deeper than any rescue successfully done before. tom foreman joins us now with more on the challenges involved. tom, there are huge challenges obviously. we don't know how deep this vessel was when contact was lost or where the currents may have taken it. just try to put into perspective how deep down this vessel might have gone. >> this is an area that is so incredibly forbidding and so terribly deep. statue of liberty, eiffel towel, mt. fuji, it's important to bear in mind, before you get to the titanic, this is roughly where the deepest underwater rescue ever occurred in 1973, at that level. this is roughly where nuclear subs operate. so, this gives you an idea of how forbidding it is and a three dimensional environment, anderson. you're right. we have no idea where it may
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have gone since being up here on the surface. >> it is incredible when you see -- when you put it into perspective like that. the different types of vessels that have been called in to help -- obviously there's air assets, there's sea assets. >> absolutely. and right now, those that are on the surface -- the polar prince was the launching vessel for this. these and many things in the air, their best skill is going to be searching up above. jason mentioned a minute ago, the searching -- those used to looking for submarines, the regular submarines are way up higher. really important at this point in the equation, things like these probes that could drop down lower, much lower, and give a sense of what's happening on the bottom. you remember the search for the malaysian airplane, they were looking for things like this. and it's a tremendous job to try to cover all that space down there. if they can find something, then they will turn to a robotic vehicle like this that would be able to go down and possibly attach a line to it to bring it back up. but, again, huge, huge job that
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absolutely takes hours and hours. that's what they don't have much of left. >> that robotic vehicle that you just circled, i think that's from a french ship that's heading to the area. but to your earlier point, it only goes down to, i mean, is 6,000 feet the limit on where it goes down? >> that's the problem with so much of this. there are very difficult challenges to even get near this thing. one engineer i had spoken to at one point said that he thought the only way to raise it would be really to get buoyancy on it using robots that can go down lower and attach that way. but all of this takes so much time, and there's so many possible failures. i mentioned earlier, deepest rescue ever. they were on scene for many hours, and the people were in the water at that much lower level for more than 80 hours before they were rescued. and they had full communications the whole time and they knew where they were for most of the
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time. that's very different than what we're dealing with here. even if they find what they're looking for here, could be a huge challenge. >> what do we know about the interior of the submersible itself? >> the interior of the submersible is really interesting. i'll see if i can get this to come up in just a moment. if you look at the inside of this sub here, it's fairly large in a way, if you include everything involved, but not gigantic. five people. they're pretty close together. they can't really move around a lot inside there. and life support for 96 hours for the entire crew, that's a give or take thing, depending how much they regulate their breathing, how much they control things. but the bottom line is, you can see they're fitted together in a small space here, anderson. no matter what's happening, this is not comfortable. it will be an anxious time for these folks. >> it's sickening to think about. once again tonight we have the perspective of -- who has been involved in two missions
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attempting to reach the titanic. how optimistic are you that these banging noises could have come from this missing submersible? >> i'm extremely confident -- not 100% sure, of course -- but very confident that these banging noises come from the submersible for several reasons. first and foremost because there are not that many banging noises like that out in the middle of the atlantic. it is in a very remote place, 700 kilometers from newfoundland where the titanic lies. that's one. number two, the noises came, as we understand it, on the half hour and on the hour, ie, with 30-minute segments in between them, signaling that there is clearly a human watch behind it. it's inconceivable that nature would be so attune to send banging noises on the half an hour. and it is common practice within
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naval distress situations that you bang on the hour and on the half an hour. and the reason why you do that is because you allow three minutes of banging to make sure the people know you're there, you're in distress, and then another 27 minutes to be quiet so that the expedition looking to find you can identify you and it's quiet around you. and then on the 30 minute, again, you bang again. it's common practice within naval. and you do have on board the french navy person, paul henry nargeolet, and he would know that. >> it's interesting. i had not considered that, the idea that banging at the top and at the half of each hour, which is not a natural cycle in nature, would indicate that there is an idea -- that there is a human behind that or an intention behind that banging. that is not just some sort of ocean noise that would be
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occurring every 30 minutes. >> no, exactly. i mean, imagine, how unlikely is it that nature would precisely on the half an hour do that banging noise. it's pretty much inconceivable. i think we have a high degree of confidence that those banging noises come from the submersible. that was actually the good news i learned today that they're there. they're most likely alive. and we're in with a chance, a fighting chance. so, that's good news. >> so, if the people on board have less than a day's worth of oxygen left, are there things that they can do to try to stretch that supply out? i mean, obviously you're trying to remain calm. i guess, sleeping in order to reduce the amount of breath you're taking. is that all that somebody can do? >> absolutely. i think that that is what you can do. take it easy. don't stress. don't panic. use as little energy as you can. >> which is obviously easier
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said than done in this situation. it would be hard not to be freaked out. >> absolutely. absolutely. anybody in that situation would be horrified and panicking. but the good news is people like hamish harding, who is on board, who is a very experienced adventurer, explorer, he would be calm under stress. he has been under stress before. i know he went to the south pole with one of my friends, edward buzz aldrin. so, he's been in extreme situations before. and there were problems that happened on that expedition as well. so, he would have the calm, and i would have full confidence that he's a good player to have on board. stockton as well, experienced explorer as well. would also hopefully keep the calm. but having said that, one thing is the oxygen side of things. and there's also the co2 that's being breathed, that people are
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breathing out. there comes a point there will be too much co2 and too little oxygen. so, it is effectively a race against time and something close to -- i wouldn't say miracle or something would have to happen soon because we are running a tight rope here. ideally the submersible will start to come up by itself. >> so, unless that vehicle can somehow surface on its own, i mean, that is where -- that's where the hope really still lies. i mean, that is obviously the best-case scenario, for the vehicle to be able to surface on its even though it has not been able to do that. all of this -- the aerial searching, all of which is important because not only placing sonar devices, which is why we know about the banging sounds but also in case this vehicle has surfaced, it's critical to get to that vehicle even though it's surfaced because the people inside can't get out until it's actually recovered. >> that's correct. however, with all the airplanes
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in the air there at the moment and provided that the weather is okay or decent, one should be able to locate the submersible should it come up to the surface, hopefully relatively quickly. >> we appreciate your time tonight. thank you. >> thank you very much. coming up, the safety issues in the ocean. we'll talk to the explorer josh gates who had concerns of his own on it. and we'll talk to adam schiff over his russia investigation today and the russian republican vote tonight to censure congressman schiff in it. ♪ ♪ the vehicles are all-electric.
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oh you're no fun. [lock clicks shut] it goes without saying that any trip by humans to the bottom of the ocean carries considerable risks. there are not many submersible vehicles that can reach the depths the titanic lies. that said, there are specific questions about this specific vessel. in a moment, someone who took a test dive on it and came back with questions of his own. >> we are all in a position right now saying, what could we have done? >> reporter: will conan, remembering back to 2018, when he says he penned a letter first obtained by "the new york times" warning that what he called the company's experimental approach could have serious consequences. >> this is a extremely difficult
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situation to be in. >> reporter: conan, who heads the submarine committee of the marine technology society was concerned that oceangate wasn't following the same safety standards as other vessels because the "titan" hadn't gone through independent testing, which isn't required to dive in international waters. >> there are ten submarines in the world that can go 12,000 feet and deeper. out of those ten, all of them are certified except the oceangate submersible. >> you believed this expedition would be too dangerous without being certified? >> yes. >> reporter: he says he spoke to stockton rush and voiced those concerns. >> we agreed to disagree. many of us do feel that it may have been preventable if the vehicle had been certified. >> reporter: in a 2019 blog post, oceangate defended the company's decision, saying
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certifying "titan" could take years and stifle innovation. quote, by itself, classing is not sufficient to ensure safety. >> plexiglass. >> reporter: rush, who's one of the missing crew, has touted his maverick approach to innovation. >> i've broken some rules to make this. i think i've broken them with logic and good engineering behind me. the carbon fiber and titanium, it's picking the rules you break that are the ones that will add value to others and add value to society. >> that approach drew criticism from some of his own staff. cnn has learned two former oceangate employees, neither of whom are engineers, raised safety concerns when "titan" was built. one claimed oceangate hadn't performed adequate testing on the hull to check its structure. the other told cnn he was concerned when the carbon hull arrived and was only 5 inches thick rather than 7 inches.
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both said their concerns were dismissed. the company -- titanic excursions, after several equipment or weather issues caused the trips to be delayed. as the frantic search intensifies, conan says there's one component he wishes were on the vessel, a working beacon. >> it would be making a huge difference if it had a beacon so that someone could direct themselves in that direction. >> and anderson, cnn has reached out to oceangate about these various claims. so far they've declined to comment. >> thanks so much. so, those are some of the safety concerns. we're joined now by someone who had a chance to assess those risks himself firsthand af a test dive with ocean gait on the titan. he's the host of "expedition unknown." i want to talk about your experience on "titan." but i wonder what's been going through your mind the past few
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days having been on this thing, watching this? >> it's been surreal. it's been haunting. i spent quite a bit of time with stockton and quite a bit of time at the oceangate headquarters in washington and took a dive on "titan" as they were putting it through its paces. having spent time in the sub, you know, my mind reels to think about it. i also know hamish harding, who is a fellow member of the explorers club. it's obviously a difficult, challenging time. >> what was it like being inside the "titan" back in 2021? >> i think the thing people have to understand is how novel this vessel is. there are, as was said in the previous piece, there are very few submersibles that can reach titanic's depths. and all of them, with the acception of "titan" are made in a different way. there's a personnel sphere held together with titanium or steel.
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and "titan's" pressure hull is polymer. with it comes this light-weight machine. and because it's more light weight, it could be made bigger. so, when you see "titan" up close, one of the things that strikes you is it's fairly large. it can hold more people. all the other vehicles that go down to titanic can only hold two or three people. it can be made larger and five people can go inside of it. but with that innovation, with that novel design, comes a really important trade-off, which is how much do we know about how this carbon fiber can perform at depth and in terms of the pressure and the temperatures and in terms of fatigue. and there just isn't a lot of data out there about that. so, on one hand, you have this incredibly innovative, novel design. on the other hand, there are a lot of unknowns. >> so, i assume that's a business decision that this company made because they wanted
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to be able to bring paying passengers who were paying a lot of money to come down. so, you need an interior space that allows for, you know, several passengers. are there -- >> look, i think that's true. i also think it's true, though, that if you've ever been in any of these smaller submersibles, they are extremely claus phobic. and you are really pinned in. a trip down to the titanic is a fairly long expedition. i think one of the things "titan" was offering was the ability to have more room and not be in a claustrophobic environment. i think stockton saw it as an innovation in terms of the design of these subs and how roomy they can be. >> i understand you were on "titan" because you wanted to perhaps do an episode of your show highlighting oceangate's technology. you decided not to go forward with it. can you talk about why you made that decision not to try it? >> you know, we were up there in 2021, so this was just before the season where they were going to bring the first passengers
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out to titanic. this was really a shakedown dive to see how the sub would perform. and we went up there to see how we might film this. we knew we would only be able to put one camera operator insigh the sub with me. we were interested in how we might mount cameras and make things work. in the course of going down in titan, it became clear to us at that time there was a lot that needed to be worked out with the sub. it had just come back from the east coast where it underwent pressure testing. a lot of the systems worked, but a lot of them really didn't. we had issues with thrusters and issues with computer control and things like that. ultimately it was a challenging dive. we were inside titan for two or three hours. and there were a lot of things that weren't really ready for prime time, it seemed. i think beyond that, there were questions about the support vessel that was going to be used with titan. we had questions about the timetable. with a television program, you
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need some reliability of when this can happen. ultimately, i felt by the end of that trip, i couldn't get comfortable with "titan" at that time. i felt it needed time to go out and do missions and get into a groove before we were going to go and film with it. it wasn't for me. >> josh, this is supposed to have the ability to drop weight so that if something happens it will naturally surface. are you aware of what those systems were that were in place at the time that you were on it? >> yeah. you know, a lot has been said about, i think, things that are not that important. the video game controller and the simplicity of the cabin. there were a lot of other systems on board "titan" that offered real redundancies in terms of safety. and the weight system is one of them. at least to my understanding in 2021, there were four different ways that "titan" should shed weight to come back to the surface. there was a computer controlled weight system that could release weights. there was a manual valve system where you could turn a valve and
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inject air into exterior containers and float it to the surface. there was also a hydraulically controlled system that could drop weights. and finally if you look at "titan," it sits on a sled. that entire sled can be ditched manually, which takes a ton of weight off the vehicle and can help it back to the surface. hypothetically, if there is an emergency aboard "titan," there are a lot of systems to shed weight and bring the vehicle back to the surface. >> the question is why hasn't it come back to the surface. we simply don't know that. thank you for being on. thank you. >> absolutely. still ahead, a look at other deep ocean surface missions and what they tell us about the options ahead for saving those on board.
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as rescuers race to get to the search site, the question remains what they can do when they get there even if they locate where the sub is underwater. a rescue would be incredibly challenging and complex, but it is not unheard of. here's randi kaye. >> reporter: a different ocean
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decades earlier and a frantic search more than 1,000 feet beneath the surface. it was 1973, and rescue teams were searching for a commercial submersible known as the pisces iii. it had disappeared off the coast of ireland. two british sailors spent three days trapped in the vessel, which was about six feet in diameter. they had been laying trans atlantic telephone cable when the rope connecting them snapped. they survived on a single sandwich and extra oxygen they had on board. >> before we started the dive, i stole a bottle of oxygen. and because of we stole it, i'm still here. otherwise, we certainly wouldn't have been here. >> reporter: the pisces iii was trapped more than 1,500 feet below sea level, around 150 miles off the island. the men inside avoided speaking to conserve air.
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rescuers were reportedly able to locate the vessel using sonar, by making one of the sailors sing high notes. crews were able to bring the crew to the surface using a tow rope. by the time the men were freed, they had 12 minutes of oxygen left. according to the guinness book of world records, it was the deepest rescue ever. >> it look 84 hours to rescue us. >> reporter: about a decade earlier, officials lost contact with the uss thrusher. the nuclear attack submarine was doing deep diving tests. >> navy search teams went into action. there was optimism at first. maybe communication equipment was faulty. with the hours, hope waned. >> 129 officers, crew men, and technicians perished. what was left of the submarine was eventually located by other
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ships about 8,400 feet below the surface. in 1939, the uss -- submarine sank during a test dive. 26 people on board died immediately, but dozens survived. >> a marker was spotted, and the navy put new rescue techniques into operation. a bell was attached to the sub, and 33 men of the 59-man crew were rescued. >> more than 30 crew members reportedly survived using smoke bombs and morse code to signal for help. >> you couldn't see anything, i'm sure of it. we didn't do any moving around. we have battle damage. just like big flashlights, hand liners they call them. but they tried to conserve those because they didn't know how long we were going to be down. >> more recently n 2000, a russian nuclear submarine sank 350 below the surface during a training accident in the arctic
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circle. rescue missions failed due to high waves and strong winds. also the hull of the sub had trouble attaching to the rescue vessel. >> there were very few chances for rescue, but some exist. >> reporter: in the end, all 118 sailors on board perished. it took months to pull the 18,000 ton vessel from the ocean floor and recover the bodies. randi kaye, cnn. >> as we mentioned, time and oxygen are both running low. for more on that, i want to bring in dr. ilene marty. she knows well the challenges here. i appreciate you being with us. can you just explain the impact of the dwindling oxygen supply and also carbon dioxide? >> that's right. and i'm glad you mentioned carbon dioxide because obviously as they lose oxygen, the carbon dioxide builds up, i don't know if the vessel has the capacity to extract that carbon dioxide, whether that submersible was
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built with that in mind. we also don't actually know what's going on right now. they may not be alive right now. there may have been a leak in that porthole. it may have been a catastrophic leak, in which the individuals there may already have drowned, which is horrible. if they're still alive and we're looking at dwindling oxygen, the decrease in oxygen getting to the brain and the increase in carbon dioxide is a very panicky situation. you feel your world closing in. it's like everything gets narrower like it's in a tunnel. and it's a horrific sensation that people get. they sense that they're dying. they can't believe that they're losing their life in this horrific way. >> yeah, i mean, it's just horrible. i was wondering about that earlier today. not to, you know -- i mean, you
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feel -- you know you're dying. you feel like you're dying. >> you can -- you sense that you become weaker. you become disoriented. you have loss of focus, and you have a loss of the ability to see. so, you lose your peripheral vision. it's a horrific way to die. >> do you then just pass out? >> eventually they do pass out, yes. but before that, they go through this. and then, again, remember, we don't know if there wasn't a fire on board that ship. no doubt they had batteries. the batteries can, for a variety of reasons, malfunction. and if so, there may be carbon monoxide in the atmosphere of that submersible that would already have made the individuals succumb. >> so, carbon monoxide, that's something we hadn't considered. that would come from batteries. >> having a fire.
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any kind of other secondary problems that may have happened on board. because right now we have no communication. so, that's an indicator that something else may have led to the fact that we can't find the submersible. >> is there anything people can do to conserve their oxygen in a situation? i've read sleeping, which would seem hard to do in a situation like this, with all the fear involved, and obviously not talking so much, not getting upset. >> well, it's also very cramped in there, which makes all five of them being able to sleep very challenging. and the fear that you mentioned, that's a huge factor because it leads to stress. and the stress, in turn, is going to affect every organ in the body. and anyone with a sensitive heart could then have a heart attack because of this situation of low oxygen and stress. so, there's a lot that's going on in that little, tiny
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submersible right now. >> appreciate you being with us. thank you. >> my pleasure. coming up, democratic congressman adam schiff was censured today. it's only the third time this century a u.s. congressman has been censured. his fellow congressmen shouted shame in response. congressman schiff joins me next. [ tiger dust by yello playing in the background ] turn right on to western avenu. [ dog barks ]
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breaking news, just over an hour ago for only the third time this century a u.s. congressman was censured. >> the yeas are 213. the resolution adopted. without adoption, the motion to consider remains on the table. house will be in order. [ crowd chanting, shame ] >> in the background you could hear democrats shouting, shame, and later, disgrace. we're joined by congressman adam schiff. congressman, i appreciate you being with us. what's your response to this
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censure? >> it's a banadge of honor. as roosevelt said, sometimes you can judge a person by the enemies he makes. -- they would be subject to a primary challenge. so, this is basically trump and maga world going after someone they think is effective in standing up to them. so, i feel like i've earned their opposition and was proud to stand with all my democratic colleagues and oppose this flagrant abuse of the house process. >> do you have any regrets on how you handles the russia issue? the former president was never criminally implicated for anything involving russia. >> no, not at all. i think the investigation of his misconduct was very important. it ultimately led to his impeachment, which i was proud to lead, and it led to the first bipartisan vote to remove a president in u.s. history.
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i was also proud to serve on the january 6th committee, and i would do all of that again. and i would do it the same way. what is really the gravel of the offense here is i feel it was effective at holding him to account. and if the need were to arise, i would do it all again. >> john durham testified before the house judiciary committee. i want to play part of your exchange with him, where you were asking about a june 2016 meeting between donald trump jr. and a russian lawyer to get damaging information on then-presidential candidate hillary clinton. >> and you think it's insignificant that he had a secret meeting with the russian delegation for the purpose of getting dirt on hillary clinton and the only disappointment expressed at that meeting was the dirt they got wasn't better. you don't think that's significant? >> i don't think that was a well advised thing to do.
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>> not well advised? that's the understatement of the year. do you think it's perfectly appropriate or maybe just ill advised for a presidential candidate to secretly meet with a russian delegation to get dirt on their opponent? >> if you're asking would i do it, i hope i wouldn't do it. but if it's not illegal, it was stupid, foolish, ill-advised. >> you clearly don't agree with mr. durham's description. >> well, you know, what was fascinating about the hearing today was the degree to which it revealed both his ignorance of a lot of what was in the mueller report but also the degree to which he is a biased actor. there you saw him really trying to down play the significance of the president, the former president's son, arranging a secret meeting in trump tower to receive what had been represented to him as derogatory information about hillary clinton that was part of the russian government's effort to elect donald trump. that's how it was represented to him. he was happy to accept it.
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he was disappointed during the meeting, as were others in trump's campaign that what they got wasn't more valuable. and to see this special counsel talk nothing about the danger of russian interference on our elections and down play seeking help from a foreign power, revealed a lot about his bias. >> it was interesting to see how during this hearing kind of both democrats and republicans at times seemed equally unhappy with durham for different reasons. congressman matt gaetz was calling durham, quote, part of the cover-up. i'm wondering what you made of the gop response to his testimony. >> well, you know, the matt gaetz's and the donald trumps and others are deeply d disappointed because this was a four-year, biden was supposed to be indicted, clinton was supposed to be indicted and god knows who else. none of that materialize.
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the most he was able to come up with was he believed the fbi was justified in opening up a preliminary investigation, not a full investigation. that was it. talk about a nothing burger. the two cases he brought to trial, he lost. the defendants were acquitted in a matter of hours. and so, yes, i think the maga world was deeply upset with that. they try to put the best spin on it they can. but compared to the expectations they set and what was delivered, they're deeply upset with him. >> congressman adam schiff. i appreciate you joining us. thank you. >> thank you. just ahead, as ukraine claims more gains in its counteroffensive, cnn's ben wedeman takes a trip to a recently liberated village in southern ukraine. what he saw next. the first time your sales reached 100k with godaddy
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counter offensive is pushing forward. top leaders claimed advances in the south. russian forces are on the defensive. this come as heavy fighting continues in eastern ukraine. ukraine's military said russia conducted what they called several unsuccessful offenses around there. ben wedeman went there and we want to warn you, some of the images you're about to see are disturbing. >> reporter: an unknown russian soldier lost his life here in a dirt road in this small village. he was killed in ukraine's counteroffensive which has at best so far put a small dent in russian lines. hardly the turning point so many had hoped for. this is one of the villages that was liberated by the ukrainians. this one on the 10th of june. clearly the russians were in a hurry. they left behind this blood-soaked stretcher. it is still too dangerous for
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civilians to return to these once tranquil farming communities. and there isn't much left for them to return to. the crew of the 35th ukrainian marine brigade has moved into a house recently vacated by russian troops. this afternoon, they're busy piling up newly arrived american-made shells. far better than the old soviet ammunition, he says. that's amazing. they're just great, he says. they hit the bull's-eye. my favorite. throughout the day, shelling echos around them. the russians may have left the village. yet they're still nearby. the mortar training in britain didn't prepare him for the front. this is only his third day in the line of fire. there are moments when i want to hide, he says.
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but i have to stay put and wait. the unit commander alexander takes coordinates from headquarters. his men make the adjustments and prepare the rounds. they're firing these rounds at russian lines which are four kilome kilometers. it is going to be a long, hot summer. >> ben joins us now. what are ukrainian authorities saying about the progress of their counteroffensive so far? >> reporter: well, what we heard today is actually president zelenskyy saying progress has been slower than expected. he said in an interview that this isn't a hollywood movie and things don't happen just now. and what is clear is that things are difficult. when we were up at the front
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today, what we heard from the soldiers is that even when they're able to force russian troops to retreat, they oftentimes come under intense artillery from the russians. the russians have throughout this war really used their superiority in just sheer number of artillery pieces that they have to really unleash these punishing barrages. so there were high expectations before this offensive began, that it would be similar to what we saw last year in september in the kharkiv region where the ukrainians in just about two weeks took an incredible amount of territory. more than 46,600 square mails. >> ben, thank you so much. still to come, a forever honor for a departed american
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