i'm paula reid in washington in for jim acosta.surrender despite russia's throat eliminate all resistance. the unrelenting assault levelled mariupol, the fate of the people trapped there, mostly unclear. but ukraine's president believes about 5,000 children have been deported to russian territory. their whereabouts still unknown. now, you may find these next images disturbing, but they show exactly what is happening. russia is now gearing up to launch a major ground assault in eastern ukraine where intense

i'm paula reid in washington in for jim acosta. i want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. ukraine bracing for a dangerous new phase of war after the sinking of a major russian warship. ukraine says russia is retaliating with increased attacks in the south. and in the east, heavy shelling. this is ahead of a planned ground offensive that could move forward within days. today a russian cruise missile hit a residential area killing two people and injuring 18 others. other civilian buildings in eastern ukraine are sustaining extensive damage. cnn's cameras were rolling when the village market was attacked. a senior official is urging the 70,000 remaining residents to evacuate now before russian forces move in. ukraine knows all too well what happened last time putin's forces occupied ukrainian towns. more than 900 bodies of civilians have been discovered sincewithdrew from areas around the capital, many showing signs of torture, rape and brutal execution. cnn's ed lavandera is in the port city of odesa. e

i'm paula reid in washington in for jim acosta. new insight into vladimir putin's state of mind as russia prepares for a major ground assault in eastern ukraine. the russian president is, quote, in his own world and believes he is winning this war. that's according to the austrian chancellor who met with putin face-to-face. and new images show what putin's troops are doing to eastern ukraine ahead of a planned ground offensive, and you may find them disturbing. intense shelling in kharkiv has killed five people. an official there saying russian attacks cannot break the will of the ukrainian people. he witnessed a medic shielding a wounded woman during the shelling. and today is, of course, a holy day in ukraine, palm sunday. russian shelling hit this church, but this brutal war could not stop ukrainians from practicing their faith. children, civilians, soldiers across the country pausing to worship. including in bucha where residents survived a russian occupation that displayed the worst of humanity. so it should come as no surpris

paula reid has details on testimony before the house committee about the president's activities leadingw. what have you learned? >> reporter: cnn learned just days before the capitol riot white house officials started providing fewer details about trump's calls and visits with those involved in white house recordkeeping. sources telecnn, trump's diarist, that's the person whose job it is to collect details about the president's daily activities. we have learned she was interviewed by the house select committee roughly two weeks ago. during that interview she described a noticeable propaganda drop off in the information provided by oval office in the days leading up to the insurrection. one source described how the white house record keepers appeared to be iced out during this critical time period. one source familiar with the investigation said the last day that quote normal information was sent out was january 4th. then starting on january 5th the diarist didn't receive the usual notes and calls she would have been receiving. >> paula, how unusual is that? for a record keeper has been

our senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid joining us right now. as begun investigating the handling of 15 boxes of whours records, including classified information taken to mar-a-lago after trump left office. the fbi and justice department prosecutors routinely conduct a review when classified materials are found to have been handled or stored in a way that doesn't meet government requirements. of course, in this case, the former president moved materials from the white house to his private in florida which would certainly appear to fall outside normal protocols. the justice department is also blacking the national archives from sharing details of what was in those boxes with congressional investigators. again, not unusual for government agency to limit the information shared with congress while an investigation is ongoing. but there might be another way to get some insight into what was in those boxes for lawmakers. the house select committee says it will consider inviting trump to appear before the panel after the former president told "the washi

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our senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid is joining us with cnn's exclusive reporting. ican congressman's attempts to overturn the presidential election. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. a batch of text messages obtained by cnn show how congressman scott perry, a little-known republican lawmaker from pennsylvania, played a key role behind the scenes in trying to push to reverse or delay the certification of the 2020 election. now, these texts, which have not been previously reported, were among those provided by former white house chief of staff mark meadows to the house select committee investigating january 6th. and these texts show perry pushing to have the nation's top intelligence official investigate baseless conspiracy theories. for example, on november 12th, five days after the election was called for joe biden, perry texted meadows, "from an intel friend. dni needs to task nsa to immediately seize and begin looking for international coms related to dominion. was china malware involved?" so here, wolf, perry appears to be encouraging the white house chief of staf

i'm paula reid in washington, in for jim acosta.ant to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. >>> russia ramping up attacks in eastern ukraine as a major ground offensive could be days away. two civilians are dead and 18 injured after a cruise missile strike that hit residential buildings and shops in the country's northeast. civilian buildings in eastern ukrainian are sustaining extensive damage. watch this moment when a cnn team witnessed an attack on a village market. in another village nearby russian forces struck a fuel depo today. a senior official in the area is urging the 70,000 remaining residents to evacuate now. some southern cities also under fire from russia. ukraine says it is retaliation for this. one of russia's main warships is now at the bottom of the black sea. u.s. military officials believe two ukrainian missiles are responsible. vladimir putin is angry over russia's military losses according to u.s. officials and his behavior is increasingly unpredictable. his forces leaving behind

senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid is joining us. what are you learning?h he describes her answers as not being too broad or her being overly chatty. he notes, look, she's here voluntarily. she was not subpoenaed and to her knowledge, she had not invoked her fifth amendment or any other privilege as we've seen other witnesses do. and, wolf, that's notable because lawmakers have a lot they want to ask ivanka about. in addition to being the former president's daughter, and senior adviser, she really has a unique perspective on the because she physically inside the white house, in close proximity to her father and at several key meetings. in the original request from the committee to ivanka, lawmakers laid out some of the things they wanted to talk to her about. for example, they revealed that other witnesses have testified that she was present for a conversation between her father and then vice president mike pence. this was part of the pressure campaign that the vice president was facing. they said they want to ask her what she heard in that conversation. t

uncomfortable questions but ultimately believe this controversy will blow over. >> we shall see, paula reidnow, cnn political analyst, washington correspondent for new york times, maggie, how much does it really matter to the house minority leader that he was caught in this blatant lie? >> wolf, it should matter to the house minority leader and frankly, to everyone, that the potential next speaker of the house told this bold-faced lie when he was on tape and it became clear several hours later a huge tip of the hat to my colleagues martin and alex burns for what they did here. it doesn't seem to matter particularly to mccarthy that he was caught in a lie, it seems to matter to mccarthy that there's tape and he then has to grovel to donald trump and colleagues in the house republican conference to keep them on his side, to keep them supporting him in his effort to become speaker and not to toss him out now, but that's where things stand. whether it is going to matter, wo wolf, in january, assuming house republicans retake the house majority in november remains to be seen, will donald trump s

i'm paula reid in washington in for jim acosta. we begin with what could be the final stand in mariupol. the last ukraine forces there rejecting russia's demands to surrender despite russia's throat eliminate all resistance. the unrelenting assault levelled mariupol, the fate of the people trapped there, mostly unclear. but ukraine's president believes about 5,000 children have been deported to russian territory. their whereabouts still unknown. now, you may find these next images disturbing, but they show exactly what is happening. russia is now gearing up to launch a major ground assault in eastern ukraine where intense shelling is already under way. five people have died in renewed rocket and artillery attacks against kharkiv. today, of course a holy day in ukraine. russian shelling hit this church. and we are also gaining new insight into vladimir putin's state of mind. the russian president is, in his own world, and is believed to be thinking that she winning this war. that's according to the austrian chancellor who met with p

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paula reid, cnn, washington. >>> president biden is touting the latest new jobs report.bs and the unemployment rate dropped to 3.6%, a pandemic era low. cnn's arlette saenz joins us from the white house. the white house happy about the jobs report. the u.s. has recovered more than 90% of the jobs lost during the pandemic, but the president acknowledges inflation is still a problem, people are still dealing with that. >> reporter: yeah, jim. these figures in the march jobs report are something any white house would be celebrating, burr it's inflation that still looms large over the economic picture in this country and how americans are feeling about that. if you take a look at recent polling, inflation and the economy writ large are really the top issues of concern to american voters. that is something that this white house is fully aware of that concern that has been bubbling up. yesterday, president biden was touting those numbers relating to the jobs report, the 431,000 jobs added last month, as well as that downtick in the unemployment rate to the lowest level of the

cnn's senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid is working the story for us. from these public hearings? >> reporter: wolf, the committee chairman bennie thompson announced they will hold eight hearings starting on the 9th. these sessions held in primetime and during the day and we've been waiting to hear details on these much anticipated hearings. they still have not announced who will testify. but it is expected to be a combination of staff, outside witnesses and exhibits, thompson says some of the testimony will be from witnesses the public hasn't heard from before, but their testimony he says will be, quote, on point as to why this investigation is so important. now, in addition to these hearings the committee is also expected to issue a final report telling the story of what they have uncovered during their investigation. >> it's interesting because the committee is also hoping to hear from a few more key witnesses before their final report, right? >> that's exactly right. thompson says he wants to reach out to more members of congress including republican

i want you to listen to trevor reed's mother paula reid, saying the state department told them all along, we're going to try to do this separately. she didn't believe it until this morning. listen. >> it's a testament to what the state department has told us all along, even though the war going on with ukraine, that the talks for negotiations were on a different channel and i was always kind of skeptical of that, honestly, they were correct and it happened. >> is it that simple, steve, if you were at your own job, what would your intelligence assessment be of why? why let's do this now? >> yeah, i think it is entirely possible in the descriptions as to what happened. but the united states and russia and previously in the soviet union have always had sort of these parallel channels that they can work in at any time and a lot of people ask, why do we maintain our embassy over there? because there are other issues that sometimes such as counter terrorism threat information that regardless as to what's going on, for example, in ukraine, you need to have those channels opened. let me remind p

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. >>> and this just in, paula reid, trevor reed's mother tweeted that he is back in the united states. it has been a day of joy for the family but hard for paul whelan, he is the american still detained in russia. we will speak with paul's twin brother ahead on "new day." >>> let's go live to lviv, ukraine, and bring in isa sore res for the very latest there. what can you tell us? >> reporter: good morning, brianna as john your yourself were outlining there we've seen that russian offensive with a ukrainian official telling us russia has been exerting intense fire in the donetsk and luhansk region where we have seen that big offensive. bear in mind that russians haven't taken their eyes off the besieged city of mariupol. reminding you of some 100,000 people are still stuck inside mariupol. there have been no evacuation corridors for days, almost a week or so, and then you have that azovstal steel plant that is the last line of defense for ukrainians. inside about 1,000 civilians with soldiers, women, children. they haven't seen daylight for about 50 plus days. i have been speaking to

paula reid, thank you very much for that report. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." i will be back in half an hour on a new streaming service cnn plus called the newscast. it is always available also on demand. thanks very much for watching. "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. >>> out front next. breaking news. president zelenskyy what he saw in bucha. this as russian solars are purportedly caught on tape talking about casualty killing civilians. >>> plus, soldiers say they had names, a long list, remember kill lists? apparently they were real. their harrowing story, coming up this hour. and video appearing to show the execution of a russian prison bir ukrainian forces. what was the biden administration saying about this tonight? the white house chief of staff ron klain will be out front. let's go out frontal. >>> good evening, i am erin burnett. out front tonight, the breaking news. much worse. much scarier. those are zelenskyy's warnings tonight. the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy moments ago talking about the town where 26 bodies were just discovere

>> yeah, paula reid ed texting obviously we are elated, three exclamation points after. you can imagine how many exclamation points that family is feeling right now. ar arlette saenz at the white house, can you tell us anything about this? this comes down to a prisoner swap and we're awaiting details on what that is. >> reporter: that's right. so far we have not receive details from the white house about how exactly this prisoner exchange was conducted. but we did just minutes ago receive a statement from president biden, confirming trevor reed's return to the united states. he said today we will welcome home -- we welcome home trevor reed and celebrate his return to the family that missed him dearly. trevor, a former u.s. marine, is free from russian detention. i heard in the voices of trevor's parents how much they worried about his health, and missed his presence. and i was delighted to be able to share with them the good news about trevor's freedom. the president went on to thank the various u.s. government and diplomatic officials who helped with the negotiations, a

. >> well, it was overwhelming to see the joy on paula and joy reid's face to understand just how hardright thing here and to realize a marine is back on american soil. the country that he loves was just incredible. it really was a are outdoors but you are both wearing masks. i bet that has something to do with his health situation. what can you tell us about that? because we have heard a lot of stories. >> well, there are a lot of protocols, good professionals at army south did a wonderful job on reintegration and they take every safety and health precaution number one concern is to make sure that trevor reed is okay right now. that's exactly what we did last night. we are respecting not only his health but also his emotional well-being and making sure that his reintegration process is going to be successful. it's a tricky thing and the professionals at army south doing a great job of that. that's exactly why we were wearing masks. >> do you think -- let's talk about the geopolitical aspect of it. do you think it's a little odd that here we are at logger heads with russia and yet russ