i've been working in ukraine with very good teams, and a lot of the time with a cameraman, fred scottearly 60s — done all the things i have done over many, many years. i'm telling you, the two of us, as soon as we get there, we want to get out, film what we have to do and get out of there. there's been this huge shift between the young man in el salvador and the slightly older man reporting an ukraine. has the job you are doing changed as well? some things never change, the fundamentals of journalism don't change — you still have to be accurate, you still have to be on time, you still have to hit your deadlines, be empathetic, that's very important, you still have to be impartial, particularly important for us guys at the bbc but the technical side has changed unbelievably. the first time i went to afghanistan, when the soviets were leaving in 1989, we arrived there with one tonne of equipment and two engineers had to spend three days rewiring the tv station before we could consider trying to get our pictures out onto some failing soviet satellite. now, you do it all from a laptop, ba

and i have been working in ukraine with a very good team, and a lot of the time with a cameraman, fred scott, early 60s, done all the things i have done over many many years and i'm telling you, the two of us, as soon as we get there, we want to get out, fill what we have to get out, fill what we have to do and get out of there. there has been this huge shift between the young man in el salvador and the slightly older man reporting an ukraine. has thejob you are man reporting an ukraine. has the job you are doing changed as well? , as well? some things never chance, as well? some things never change. the _ as well? some things never change, the fundamentals i as well? some things neverl change, the fundamentals of journalism don't change, you still have to be accurate, you still have to be accurate, you still have to be accurate, you still have to be on time, you still have to be on time, you still have to hit your deadlines, be apathetic, that's very important, you still have to be impartial, particularly important for us guys at the bbc but the technical side has changed unbelievably, the

this question about ron desantis is does this all end up like rick perry's campaign or fred thompson's campaign or scott and the money, but you just can't deliver a message that ultimately works. the ron desantis campaign is a juggernaut of a campaign. it arguably has done everything right in terms of infrastructure. its messaging to dasha's point solely relies on donald trump's a loser and i can be a winner. he's yet to draw a contrast with donald trump and to do so aggressively. a lot of republican voters are going to say i'll stick with the old guy. >> you wrote a story about a different aspect of the desantis fund-raising. it's actually about his administrative staff, not his campaign staff soliciting money, tell us about that. >> yeah, this a scoop first nosed out by our colleague matt dixon, what happened here is that ron desantis's administration officials were putting out solicitations to florida lobbyists, putting out donation links that could be tracked as basically bundling codes is what it's called. basically the idea was the governor's staff was telling these lobbyists time to pony up to th

reporter: the field of gop candidates is growing with senator tim scott filing paperwork today ahead of a formal campaign announcement in monday. fredublicans are sizing up the contenders. >> we're looking for a candidate, i think, with less baggage that trump is carrying with him now. >> reporter: do you think republicans are looking for a candidate that can win back the white house? >> yes. it's not clear who that is right now. frankly, even though trump has got his strong supporters, they take a primary, i'm not sure he can win a general election. >> reporter: in talking to voters, that is the point, win being the general election. desantis talks again and again about the culture of losing. we're about to see if he can provoke a culture of winning. next week he'll meet in miami with an announcement in his hometown after memorial day. this is hardly a surprise. now he has to show he can bring this big campaign only three months before the first debate for the republicans. >> fascinating stuff. it's on. governor desantis claims a new immigration law taking effect soon in the state of florida will ensure if the taxpayers are not foo

strong, but i do want to start with you, fred, and thank you for being here and being always willing to come on and talk with us. that myth you just heard rick scottthat the solution to scho shootings is more armed people in schools. armed guards in schools. bust that myth for us. >> well, listen. armed guards and armed security in schools in a lot of places is actually already a thing. he was trying to actually raid some federal dollars from elsewhere to pay for it. he politicized it. but here's the thing about schools. and i'm so tired of listening to people like rick scott who for at least 30 days of his life did the right thing immediately after parkland, but wants you to forget it. there's about 115,000 schools in america. since columbine, there have been fewer than 400 school shootings, so the whole notion that the only way to deal with gun violence in america is by arming more people in schools, because he wants to arm teachers also, it's bunk. it's nonsense, it's ridiculous. and in fact, my daughter got killed in something that is extremely, extremely, extremely rare. if you add all the guns to schools by arming teachers, you're just going

presidential candidates is swiftly growing with senator tim scott filing paperwork today ahead of a formal campaign announcement monday in south carolina. fredampshire state representative said republicans are sizing up the contenders. >> they're looking for a candidate, i think, with less baggage, that trump is carrying with him now. >> do you think republicans are also looking for a candidate who can win back the white house? >> it's not clear who that is right now, and frankly, even though trump has got strong supporters, may take a primary, i'm not sure he can win a general election. >> and republican voters say they are indeed looking for a winnersh that is one of the leading criteria, as they begin sorting through this growing field of candidates, of course the question of who that is is going to be determined by this campaign. with governor desantis announcing next week at that donor meeting in miami, this field is quickly growing, if first republican debate, only three months away. jeff zeleny, cnn, washington. >>> now, there's a new twist in the saga of embattled u.s. congressman george santos, and a filing with the federal election

scott mclean. appreciate it. >>> and the leader of wagner mercenaries is now inviting russia's defense minister to visit bakhmut. yevgeny prigozhin made the invitation after mubly slamming russia's top military brass. cnn's fred pleitgen as more. >> reporter: after months of brutal fighting the battle for bakhmut may be pushing wagner boss yevgeny prigozhin closer to the edge. standing in front of the bodies of his dead fighters, he launched into a rant against russia's military leadership, blaming them for the deaths. >> translator: do you think you were the masters of this life? do you think you could dispose of other lives? you think that because you have warehouses full of ammunition that you have that right? >> reporter: for months prigozhin and vladimir putin's top generals, sergei shoigu and valerri gerasimov, have been mired in severe infighting. but now the wagner boss's tirades are becoming more vicious and more frequent, accusing russia's defense minister of withholding much-needed ammo. >> translator: instead of using a shell to kill an enemy and saving one of our soldiers' lives, they are killing our soldiers. >> reporter: in a country where thousands have been jailed for criticizing vladimir put