it is all on tape. cnn obtains audio of donald trump claiming to retain secretive military documents well after leaving office, documents he admits on tape he had not declassified. how he plays -- how it plays into the special counsel's case. cnn is on the scene of an early evening attack. russia striking a city center, we have a live report from kramatorsk ahead. for the first time in 20 years, a disease thought to be eradicated is spreading within u.s. borders. the cdc putting out a warning about malaria. we're following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to "cnn news central."

2021 recording of donald trump discussing classified documents is at the heart of the justice department's indictment of the former president. cnn has now exclusively obtained that tape. in it, you hear the former president speaking about a secret document that he says he was holding on to, literally holding after he left office, admitting he no longer had the power as well to declassify it. the conversation appears to undercut seriously undercut trump's publicly stated defense. cnn's sara murray has been following this. and, sara, he says on tape, i've got the document, he describes the document being among the most sensitive one could hold, which is about u.s. military plans to attack a serious national security threat to the u.s. being iran, and also says he no longer has the power to declassify it. how do you -- how does he claim

to do this all in one place? >> it is tough. you can see why this is such good evidence for prosecutors. you can see why people are saying, look, when you hear the tape, you will understand why this could be so damning for donald trump, but i just want to get right to it, because it is really striking to hear donald trump in his own words. take a listen to what he said in this meeting. >> these are bad, sick people. >> that was your coup, you know, against you. >> it started right at the -- >> when milley is talking about we're going to -- they were trying to do that before you even were sworn in. that's right. trying to overthrow your -- >> well, with milley, let me see that, i'll show you an example. he said that i wanted to attack iran. isn't it amazing, i have a big pile of papers, this thing just came up. look. this was him. they presented me this. this is off the record, but they presented me this. this was him.

this was the defense department and him. we looked this up. this was him. this wasn't done by me. this was him. all sorts of stuff. pages long. look. let's see here. >> yeah. >> i just -- isn't that amazing? just totally wins my case, you know? >> mm-hmm. >> except it is highly confidential, secret. this is secretive. look at this. >> now, jim, trump is in this meeting with two staffers, who do not have security clearances and writers who are working on a mark meadows book, the former white house chief of staff, who also don't have security clearances and they're having this very casual conversation and trump has already done an interview with fox where he sought to downplay what was happening and there was no document he was talking about. take a listen to what he previously told fox. >> there was no document. that was a massive amount of papers and everything else,

talking about iran and other things. and it may have been held up or may not, but that was not a document. i didn't have a document per se. there was nothing to declassify. these were newspaper stories, magazine stories and articles. >> i want to point out again in that tape, he says things like i'll show you an example, and these are the papers. and he's just talked to fox again today, where he had still insisted he did nothing wrong here, jim. >> presumably, investigators will ask folks who were in that room what did they see. >> yes, they already have. we know they have talked to mark milley, the chairman of joint chiefs who trump was fuming about as he was in this call. they know they talked to one person in this meeting. the trump team is going to get transcripts of the witnesses that prosecutors have interviewed as part of discovery in this case soon if not already. they're going to know what people may have had to say about this document. >> so the special counsel's other focus beyond trump's handling of classified documents, alleged mishandling, are his attempts to overturn the

20 to 2020 election and a key witness has testified. >> there is an investigation ongoing that is still the case. jack smith's investigators, special counsel investigators, are set to interview brad raffensperger tomorrow. feels a little late in the game given we have know since january 2021 that trump called raffensperger, put all this pressure on him to try to overturn the vote count in georgia. but it is coming as we have seen this sort of flurry of activity from the special counsel's office and trying to lock down witnesses. >> and that, of course, the focus of the other investigation, the fulton county d.a.'s investigation in the state of georgia. sara murray, thanks so much. so much to follow every day. boris? >> a lot to follow right now. just in to cnn, the former president now responding to the audiotape that cnn obtained and just played for you. cnn's kristen holmes is on the trail with the former president in new hampshire, where he spoke earlier today and, kristen, in trump's response, did he get reiterate these were not classified documents?

>> reporter: well, actually, he did not talk about this document at all. you heard that clip that sara just played for you from the brett bear interview where he talks about how that was no classified document. there wasn't anything there. notably in this response, he doesn't talk about that at all. instead, he says this, he says he had a whole desk full of papers that included, quote, copies of different plans and news articles covering, quote, many, many subjects. again, not saying there is no classified document there. i want to note we have reached out to trump's team to see what he meant by copies of plans because as we understand it, a copy of a classified document is still a classified document. and trump was ordered to turn over not just the originals, but any copies and notes that he had as well. this is the first time we're seeing this response. but, again, he says he did nothing wrong and was also asked if he believed there are more recordings. he says he was not sure, but he shouldn't be concerned because, again, he did nothing wrong.

>> yeah, an interesting argument to make as you hear him in the recording saying these secrets, these documents and then saying those weren't classified documents. i want to get your reporting and your response from the trump team to some comments made by house speaker kevin mccarthy. he was asked if donald trump would be the strongest republican candidate in 2024 and his answer was noncommittal. >> can he win an election? >> can he win an election, he can. the question is he the strongest to win the election. i don't know that answer. >> reporter: boris, noncommittal to say the least here and trump's team was outraged. not just his advisers, but allies, they have been on the phone all day, fielding calls, why was kevin mccarthy not prepared for this question. you have to remember that trump and his team believe they got mccarthy the speakership, they were the ones who convinced these outliers and the

republican party to vote for mccarthy, to turn the tide there. he even made calls on mccarthy's behalf and for months i've been asking advisers why it is that mccarthy has not outwardly endorsed trump in 2024 and they really brushed that off, saying he has to please a lot of people, he's going to be running for speaker, if he's going to actually be the speaker, once, of course, he was. but today seemed as though he crossed a line. we're still trying to get some kind of reaction from mccarthy's team. i'm trying to figure out if there has been any outreach. i reached out to trump's team to hear about that. we do know there was a lot of outrage and anger at these remarks from kevin mccarthy. >> yeah, please keep us posted if there is any communication between the two. kristen holmes, live for us, thanks so much. let's talk more about nthis now with norm eisen and juliette kayyem for the department of homeland security. norm, i have one question for

you as we hear trump talking here and saying, really, that he didn't do anything wrong and i may know the answer to this question, i think, but is it wise for him to be out there saying this? >> no, brianna, it is not. in over 30 years of representing defendants, many cases as a defense lawyer, the first thing i told my clients was from this moment forward, you're about to be charged, you've just been charged, no more talking. not even to other people about the case, much less publicly. every time he offers a different and frequently inconsistent explanation or justification, he just makes his situation in front of the jury that is going to have this documents case worse. >> juliet, why is this -- we had seen the partial transcript of

this conversation, but now we're hearing it. why is it different having the audio than having the transcript? >> well, the legal matter is going to just have more resonance with the jury. you hear the voice, you know the voice, you hear the egging on, the laughter. and i think that will have significance in terms of its weightiness, even though a transcript would have been satisfactory if jack smith had only had that. so some of this is just the drama of it. i think for people listening to it now, the incomprehensibility of hearing a former president say this was my least favorite part of it, when he says to the people in the room, this is off the record, as if that somehow excuses the fact he's about to disclose massive amounts of classified information and it also goes to what the world is hearing, what people are forgetting is that nearly -- it is still the -- i think until

like next week is still the joint -- the chairman of the joint chiefs, he is still in charge of our military branches, so to speak, his job is to advise whatever president and so he advised both trump and now president biden and so it wasn't like trump was talking about some past person, a former cabinet official, the joint chiefs is still in power and still reflecting the u.s. position. and that's a sort of disclosure of present information, this is not past conduct. >> talking about a current one. any admissibility issues here, norm, in court? >> well, team trump will fight it. and the hearsay rules are complex in bringing in an out of court case. but when you have this kind of an admission, it is so powerful. there are a set of exceptions that have evolved really over

centuries of litigating cases that may not count as hearsay, but if it does, there are a number of exceptions that apply. it matters whether trump is testifying or not testifying, a little easier to get it in if he's not testifying. it would be suicide given all the things he has said for him to actually appear on the stand. very often defendants don't. but bottom line, brianna, the jury is going to listen to this tape. it may be one of the first things that the jury hears because the admissions on it that he's doing the essential thing that he's on trial for, possessing highly sensitive, dangerous classified information no longer as a president and showing it to other people who are not authorized to see it, wow, that captures what this prosecution is all about. >> juliet, does the doj need anything else here, the actual document, do they need to link this up with the actual document

that they think trump was referring to or is it confirmation from the aide who was in the room enough because obviously we know that she was in the room and she testified to the special counsel? >> right, so the testimony of the witness will be sufficient, just as a legal matter to attest to. this is the document they're speaking of and sometimes you don't need the document. trump will try to get out of it. trump is talking about a document that he is, you know, stating exists, that he has read and that has been provided to him. also, there are other means to access that document. and what is going to be the -- other people obviously have versions of it, so the content of it can be found out through other means, even if it wasn't in trump's possession. this is going to be one of the challenges in all of the classified information cases and why many of u.s. is picture that th suspect that there is information that jack smith did

not come forward with because he could not get the intelligence agencies to declassify them and i think part of this is going to be he's going to pick and choose which pieces are you going to fight over in terms of classification and which ones are not necessary and you can make the case without them. these are complicated cases regarding classified information procedures and speed is of the utmost importance at this stage as we're seeing. so there is going to be choices that jack smith makes about which disclosures he's going to insist on and which not. with trump speaking about it, you kind of don't need the document. >> look, this is a big day hearing this audio, this exclusive audio obtained by cnn. juliet, norm, thank you to both of you. boris? still to come on "cnn news central," ukrainian officials say at least three people including a child are dead after russian strikes hit a popular restaurant. we're going to take you live to the scene. plus, the supreme court deciding a case that would have radically changed u.s.

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we have breaking news from russia's war on ukraine. ukrainian officials say at least three people now are dead, including a child, after a russian missile hit the busy center of the city of kramatorsk in the east. s do dozens of people are injured. ben wedeman has more. we spoke last hour, we spoke last hour, i'm curious what you have seen in the last several minutes as rescue teams worked frantically to save people caught in the rubble. >> re >> reporter: yeah, jim, we had

to leave the area because there was a warning of an air strike. so we sort of left the immediate vicinity. so this is really the worry in these situations is that a strike like this takes place and there could be what is known as a double tap, a hit afterwards when the area as it is now, full of rescue workers, and civilian onlookers, so we have moved away, hopefully it is a little better here. so, but what we have seen is that it is a scene of huge destruction. by all indications, not one missile, but two. we saw a separate building not far from the restaurant that appears to have taken a drebt hi direct hit as well. the information we have is three people have far according to the president's office were killed. among the dead, a child. and 25 people wounded. they're still looking for more people under the rubble.

in fact, in just a few moments ago our translator did see another person, a worker from the restaurant, being pulled out, injured, from the restaurant. there is also a woman in front of the restaurant desperate to find out news of two of her adult children who were working in the restaurant as well. so this is still very much a desperate ongoing effort, under difficult circumstances. here we're being told by a member of the armed forces that we should move further away. but at the moment, things seem to have stabilized. >> please, ben, get to safety, don't mind us, the danger of secondary strikes is always real there. thanks to ben wedeman and his team. we also have our nick paton walsh here, because, nick, a question hanging over the fallout from this armed rebellion inside russia has been the fate and the location of the wagner chief, yevgeny prigozhin. new satellite photos give us a

clue. what do you know? >> reporter: absolutely, it seems to be suggestions from satellite images showing an air base on the outskirts of minsk, that planes afilliated with him have indeal landed there. that would provide some sort of independent verification of statements we heard from alexander lukashenko who said that yevgeny prigozhin had landed in belarus. we have to wait given the bizarre opaque nature of the last three days around this particular armed rebellion for prigozhin himself to admit he's got to minsk. what we heard today essentially tallied with the statements we heard from the kremlin and prigozhin himself and sprawling 11-minute audio message we heard yesterday, lukashenko saying that he got in contact with prigozhin and after a rant, prigozhin after multiple calms agreed to turn his tanks around on the way to moscow and go to belarus where he was offered safe haven. the lukashenko version of these

events in contrast to vladimir putin today. multiple meetings with soldiers, dignitaries, desperate, i think, to refashion the narrative in his favor after a startling two and a half day silence. whatever you think about putin's reluctance to put himself in the public eye during moments of crisis, startling misjudgment after surviving a coup attempt to suddenly disappear. today, there he was, standing in front of soldiers, part of the land forces, who essentially have done very little to prevent wagner from marching up toward moscow. but instead, putin said thank you, you saved russia. you saved us from civil war, battling, and i think many russians will listen to that and think perhaps the president overstepped that sidelining of reality that is so common in his rule. he went on to tell people that wagner had got a billion dollars in the last year from the russian state. so, a lot of messaging now from moscow and from belarus.

it appears to tally together, but ultimately prigozhin is now in belarus, no longer facing prosecution. and possibly with a safe haven there where he can regroup. we simply don't know of his fate. but this is yet finished. jim? >> pentagon saying that at least some wagner forces remain inside ukraine. we'll continue to follow their position as well. nick paton walsh, thank you so much. boris? let's break down all the latest developments with cnn global affairs analyst kimberly dozier. she's also the managing editor at the military times. kim, great to see you. before we get to the fate of yevgeny prigozhin, let's talk about this recent strike in kramatorsk we just saw. not the first time that russia has targeted civilians. >> well, what the russian military has to do now is prove that it can make progress, bloody progress, without the backing of the wagner forces. and truly what the big army does

best is to hold territory. and mostly right now it is going to have to try to hold territory against ukrainian offensive. but as we know, with past russian tactics, they will hit populated areas, they will hit civilian areas, to try to hit the population that is supporting the military. that seems to be their strategy overall. they don't care about civilian casualties. >> yeah, and sort of as you noted the limited progress if you call it progress that russia had in the last year or so has come at the hands of prigozhin in bakhmut. so now that he's gone, the question is how will the mod respond, and also is he safe in bel belarus? >> not likely. look, he was stuck with the deal, a bad deal to survive. he could have taken a jet, flown somewhere in africa, try to spend his billions, but he always would have been within putin's reach somehow, somewhere, or more likely he could have been extradited to the u.s. or somewhere where

there are charges against him for past crimes. so, he's taken the option where by going to belarus, throwing his lot in still with putin, hoping probably that his popularity with the public will keep him safe. he also has until this weekend to find out how many of his own forces are going to stand with him, because, of course, putin gave them a deadline. by this weekend, they can either go back home, go to belarus or sign a contract with the russian military. >> yeah. i'm also curious to get your perspective about belarusian leader alexander lukashenko. we have seen him as a pawn of putin's, but he's taken on an outsized role here, describing himself as a broker of peace between the two sides. >> he seems to be trying to get all the credit he possibly can for this maneuvering and for once after months, years of being dismissed as putin's poodle, saying i was the power broker in this situation that

diffused this crisis for moscow. but, you know, the crisis remains. we don't know at this point if the reason that there was so little russian military response to the wagner onslaught marching towards moscow is because did they not realize at first that these were wagner divorforces at regular russian troops or is it that the typical russian military thing of waiting for orders from higher to attack your own troops? this is not a military known for innovation, they wait for the top generals to tell them what to do and that filters on down. >> lately they have been mostly known for their incompetence on the battlefield. kimberly dozier, appreciate your time. >> thank you. ahead on "cnn news central," a damning report from senate democrats claiming u.s. intelligence dropped the ball ahead of the january 6th insurrection, ignoring serious tips about how deadly the day could become.

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just a blistering new report from senate democrats slamming how the fbi and homeland security department handled intelligence before the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol. senators accused officials of dropping the ball, saying the riot was essentially planned in plain sight on social media. cnn national security reporter

zachary cohen is here with this story. it is a critical assessment, very critical. what are the biggest lapses that they detail here? >> this report points the finger directly at the fbi and dhs and says, hey, look, you had all the information you needed to effectively, you know, understand there was a credible threat to the capitol on january 6th and whether it was because you didn't share the information with other agencies, you didn't deem it to be severe enough to really take it seriously, you left law enforcement unprepared to deal with what ultimately happened that day as thousands of rioters stormed the capitol building and effectively tried to stop congress from certifying the election for joe biden. this report does bring out some specific instances and specific evidence that the committee has uncovered, communications between these officials at these various agencies. i want to give one example of an online post, the kind of thing they were seeing in the leadup to january 6th. quote, bring food and guns, if they don't listen to our words,

they can feel our lead, come armed. this is the kind of thing that analysts were flagging to each other and raising concerns about and they were also getting direct tips to the fbi, this report says got a tip about the proud boys, a few days before the insurrection, says, quote, their plan is to literally kill people, take this tip seriously and investigate further. we know the proud boys, the right wing group, several members including some of their leadership has been arrested and convicted for their actions on january 6th. and finally, communications between intel analysts at dhs in the daying leading up to it. they said i feel like people are actually going to try and hurt politicians, january 6th is going to be crazy, lots of discussions coming -- lots of discussions about coming armed to d.c. this is before really we saw what played out on the day itself. but by all accounts, this report says the evidence was there. >> some people in the agencies were taking the evidence and analyzing it correctly as we saw in that last example there. how are the agencies responding here? >> so, dhs and the fbi are

saying, look, we have taken the last two and a half years and tried to really work on some of these issues that are raised in this report. but the chairman of the senate homeland security committee was not convinced they have done nearly enough. he wants them to both conduct really deep dives into the failures that day and report back to his panel. now congressional oversight is a tough job. but the chairman is making clear he's going to stay on the case. >> all right, we'll be looking for that. zach cohen, thank you. jim? today the supreme court handed down a major decision affecting the future of u.s. elections. in a 6-3 ruling, the justices rejected north carolina republicans' arguments that the states courts, its own courts, should have a limited to no role in reviewing election rules, rules that would be established by partisan state lawmakers. cnn's supreme court reporter ariane de vogue has been watching this. the legal theory behind this, let's talk first about the effect it will have on how elections are run in the states, including federal elections are run in states going forward.

>> right. well, you have to remember that the supporters of president trump here and the supporters of this theory they were making a big ask, they wanted the court to say that state courts have no role in reviewing election rules, passed by state legislatures, when it comes to federal elections. that is a very broad theory. it was a theory that hadn't been brought up for several years. and critics were worried about it for this reason. they said, look, it is going to up end how elections go forward. because it could lead to rogue state legislatures, it could lead to different rules for state and federal elections within states. and that would be real confusion. that was their worry. so, today, the supreme court really acted swiftly here, 6-3, rejecting that theory. they said in fact that state courts do have a role here, and that -- this is what chief

justice john roberts said in the majority opinion, he said, state courts retain the authority to apply state constitutional restraints when legislatures act under the power conferred upon them by the elections clause. so, basically you even heard former president obama, he weighed in right away, praising this ruling saying that the court had really turned back what he called a fringe legal theory. >> so, that deals with what we saw in 2020, an attempt to use this theory to allow states to really overturn the results of their election in a presidential election. who about on the way congressional districts are drawn, because that is another major affect on the decision going forward as well. >> the one thing you got to remember here, one of the reasons the republicans may have been really pushing this is things stand right now for states that biden carried in the 2020 are led by republican

legislatures. and, in fact, when the litigation started, the majority of state legislatures were republicans. so that might have pushed them to sort of think in these terms and use this -- bring forward this theory. i will say that in his opinion, chief justice john roberts did say, look, state courts, they do not have free reign here. there is still a role for federal courts to play, to sort of overlook that at times. so, basically the end of the day today, what the supreme court did is move swiftly before the next election to try to push back at the notion we have any more sort of chaotic litigation coming up. >> yeah. things like if you look at the north carolina makeup of its congressional delegation, difference between a 10-4 split or 7-7 split there, more reflective of the broader voting

populous. ariane de vogue, thank you. we'll keep doing our best. still to come, the vatican announcing it is sending a peace envoy to moscow in hopes of ending the war in ukraine. we have the details on that. and the new cdc alert. for the first time in 20 years there are local cases of malaria within the united states. "cnn news central" returns in moments. (vo) when someone is diagnosed with cancer, they need support. subaru and our retailers are there to help... by pviding blankets for comfort and warmth and encouraging messages of hope to help support nearly three hundred thousa patients facing cancer nationwide. we call it “the subaru love promise.” and we're proud to be the largest automotive donor to the leukemia and lymphoma society.

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now to some of the headlines we're following at this hour. pope francis' peace envoy is traveling to moscow tomorrow. the vatican says the visit is a gesture of humanity meant to encourage a path to peace. the pope himself is not going, though. remember, he's recovering from abdominal surgery that he had earlier this month. also, home prices in april rose for the third straight month. the latest index showing the cost to own a home went up a half a percentage point from march. the increase comes after an uptick in february that snapped a seven-month streak of month-over-month declines. if you're looking to buy a vowel, ryan seacrest is your guy. he has a new gig. he's been named the new host of "wheel of fortune" in a multiyear deal. seacrest will replace pat sajak. secrest is set to take the wheel in 2024 alongside vanna white.

brianna? >> you have lots of vowels in your name, actually, boris sanchez. parts of the great lakes region getting a blanket of thick and dangerous wildfire smoke today. look at milwaukee. look at this. you can barely see through this haze as the wildfires in canada keep burning. air quality alerts in effect for several great lakes states, including illinois, which is where cnn's adrienne broaddus is. she's in chicago, monitoring the situation there. a very unhealthy level for air there. adrienne, how long is this expected to last? >> re i think we're having some technical difficulties with adrienne. i don't think she can hear us. oh, here she is. >> reporter: hopefully it will be clear by tomorrow and at least not quite as thick as what we're seeing today. if we change positions, it is easy to notice this thick smoke and the haze. now, when we spoke with you about two hours ago, you -- when

we were out here, we could smell it. we could also taste the smoke. that has since changed. now, a short time ago i spoke with a doctor at rush university medical center who says he is really concerned about his patients who have pre-existing lung conditions. but this is what we are seeing in the chicago area as well as the great lakes area. but it is expected to clear out. the air quality index, unhealthy. it is registering at about 195 right now here in chicago. so stay inside, if you can. not the day for a long walk or a bike ride. brianna, boris? >> very good advice. adrienne broaddus in chicago, thank you. jim? coming up, doctors have detected malaria cases here in the u.s., locally acquired for the first time in 20 years. cdc has now issued an alert. what you need to know coming up. !

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the cdc is now warning doctors to be on the lookout for malaria, after a small number of cases have been detected in florida and texas. we should note all of them were transmitted locally. that means the infected people have not traveled outside of the u.s. to catch malaria. this is the first time this has happened in the u.s. in 20 years. cnn correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us now. a small number of cases so far. but still first time it happened in two decades. i wonder how seriously the cdc and doctors are taking this? >> jim, in speaking with folks

fro from the cdc and dr. rachel walensky, they are taking this seriously. we're talking about four cases in florida and one in texas. these are both states that have a lot of experience with spraying for mosquitos. so that is a good thing. to put this in perspective, you mentioned the case years ago, that was eight cases in florida. and if someone does get sick, anti-malaria drugs are very effective, best if taken early. so let's look at symptoms. fever is the number one. there is also headaches and body aches and fatigue, et cetera. if this sounds familiar, we've all felt this way sometime. this could be a whole bunch of things. i think the key is that if you suspect malaria go to your doctor and say the cdc say doctors should consider malaria has a possible diagnosis. jim. >> do they have any sense of how this would have happened, how it would have been able to get into

this urntcountry as opposed to someone traveling in with it? >> yes. there are mosquitos travel too. so that is probably the way it happened. malaria is not spread person-to-person. it is spread by mosquitos. so when you think about it, it is amazing it doesn't happen more often given that mosquitos don't need passports. >> and people are traveling. thank you so much. boris. >> talk about a bad day at work. we've all had them. a school janitor is accused of ruining a million dollars worth of research. we'll explain whwhen we come ba.

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well they are underpaid and undervalued and absolutely essential employees to any business operation. but one janitor at an upstate new york university allegedly got annoyed while on the job and his reaction, supposedly ruined a million dollars worth of research. a lawsuit from rens lear polytechnic institute said he turned off a freezer while he heard multiple annoying alarms. the freezer contained 20 years of cell cultures and sensitive crucial samples that were destroyed. the worst part is that apparently on the outside the freezer had a sign that red, quote, this freezer is beeping as it is under repair. please do not move or unplug itment no cleaning required in this area. we should be clear the university said they don't blame the janitor. they say he's not at fault, they're suing his employer where he was a contractor for failing

to properly train him. you could imagine working on something for 20 years only for somebody to come by and just pull the plug. >> he needs a more serious note than this is my lunch. stay away from my sandwich. >> i feel like that gets violated here all of time. >> i don't violate that. but i get mad when someone leaves my freezer open that has the extra meat and ice cream from costco. so i couldn't imagine this situation. where it is unbelievable. >> well so much hard work i imagine. >> i don't mind melted ice cream. >> melted meat? well we know you. >> big meat salad. >> we finally got it on the air. thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate you being with us this afternoon. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. major strikes today in ukraine and officials say russia is responsible.