requested a colonel convicted of murder and added along this infamous arms dealer for wnba star brittney griner and paul whelan. we have a team of correspondents covering these breaking developments. frederik pleitgen is in moscow for us. let s start with natasha bertrand, who is breaking this exclusive. what have you learned. reporter: what we ve learned is that in response to the russian proposal to trade that arms dealer, viktor bout for the two americans detained in russia, paul whelan and brittney griner, the russians put forward their own request and they said we don t want just viktor bout, we want this guy name vadim krz krosokov, convicted in december of 2021 for murdering in broad daylight a chech an fighter and the germans sentenced him to life in prison. the russians in response to this proposal submitted this kind of back channel request to the americans. it was done through an fsb back channel, the fsb of course is the main security service for the russians.
minister boris johnson, but he paid the price. what really wounded me was what the duke of sussex addressed the united nations and seemed to compare the decision whose name may not be spoken with the russian attack on ukraine. cnn supreme court analyst joan joins us now. so he seemed to be, while there was sarcasm there, what else did he say? reporter: you know, alyson and victor, this was classic samuel alito. these were very familiar themes he was striking. the speech overall was about religious liberty and bemoaning secularism in america. but samuel alito exudes a sense of aggrievement even when he is winning. he is the one who wrote that dobbs decision.
inconsistency he could not explain. sara sidner, thanks so much. the progressive push to change the supreme court is getting more attention today. the bipartisan commission established by president biden to look at reforming the supreme court unanimously voted to adopt its final recommendations this afternoon but progressive democrats might be a bit disappointed. a draft of the report shows intense disagreement over the idea of adding more seats to the high court. supreme court analyst joan joins us. the draft of this report is nearly 300 pages long. what are the main things we should be paying attention to here. okay. on the court expansion question, which is why this commission was set up because this was president biden s compromise. a commission rather than saying he supported court expansion or what some call court packing. profound disagreement on that. essentially a nonstart are. term limits. there was some bipartisan support for term limits like 18-year terms. but that s
let the nation s most restrictive abortion law take effect in texas. admit night the court released the order explaining the majority opinion on why it did not intervene to stop texas from banning nearly all abortions. the law outlaws the procedure as soon as a fetal heartbeat is detected. that could be as early as six weeks when most women don t know their pregnant. the dissenting justices, they re shocked by the court s failure to act, upending the precedent set by roe v. wade in 1973. justice sotomayor plainly writes, quote, a majority of justices have opted to bury their heads in the sand. the texas act is a breathtaking act of defiance of the koungs and this court s precedents and of the rights of women seeking abortions throughout texas. merrick garland stated that the justice department is deeply concerned and looking at all options. cnn supreme court analyst joan joins us now. joan, can you explain the
receiving i ve antibiotics and iv fluids. cnn supreme court analyst joan joins me now. and joan, as we point out, this is the fourth health scare in just over a year. as her health issues mount, are there, i guess growing concerns that she may consider retiring from the bench? there certainly are concerns, given the fact that she s the senior liberal on a very divided bench. she s a women s rights icon in america now. there have been health concerns from her since 199 when she had cancer. she survived. in 2009 she survived the first pancreatic cancer. she keeps coming back. granted, you ve made a strong point about how we ve had so many more health scares just in the last year. but she says she s going to keep