[inaudible] why do you ask such dumb question? jesse: it s actually great question. it s a question every single reporter should be asking. because, before we even knew joe biden was the big guy, before we even had the laptop a ukrainian businessman told an fbi informant that he bribed the big guy 5 million bucks. he used the phrase the big guy when joe was v.p., years before the nickname went public. and tonight we are learning the big guy was throwing his weight around. this alleged $5 million bribe wasn t so much of a bribe. it was more of a shakedown by the big guy, joe biden. he was shaking down the ukrainian. the federalist is reporting that biden coerced the ukrainian to pay the bribe. the big guy was strong arming a ukrainian energy company to wire him cash. the ukrainian told the fbi informant he hid the payments, never directly paid joe, just hid it in a maize of shell companies and said it would take at least 10 years to follow the money back to biden. well, it
and a warm welcome to our viewers all around the world. and just ahead on cnn newsroom i m ron desantis and i m running for president to lead our great american comeback. it came off almost like he was a talk radio host not a future leader of the free world. keep on turning, keep on burning, rolling, rolling on a river she was a gift. there will be nobody like tina. this is going to continue to be a significant storm. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is thursday, may 25th, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in miami where governor desantis will meet today with donors backing his newly launched presidential candidacy. he is also looking to recover with disappointed campaign rollout on twitter marred by delays and glitches. the governor s team saying more than half a million people logged on to the chat. but twitter s infrastructure couldn t handle the overwhelming response. desantis appeared on fox news a short
portions of mississippi and alabama or live in the weather center. awarding to the west, vladimir putin says he will station nuclear weapons in belarus. and risking it all for the american dream, a rising number of pregnant women and minors make the dangerous trek through panama for a chance at asylum in the us from cnn center. cnn newsroom with laila harre. we begin with a massive cleanup underway in the southeastern us after powerful storms that spawned deadly tornadoes barreled through mississippi and nearby states friday night, at least 26 people were killed and dozens injured. the secretary of homeland security is set to tour the area later today and in the past couple of hours, president biden approved the mississippi governor s request for a major disaster declaration to get federal disaster. eight. flowing as quickly as possible. the mayor of heart hit rolling fork saying his city is gone. here s congressman bennie thompson, describing the destruction in his home stat
communities flattened by deadly tornadoes. and now president biden approves a disaster declaration for the state of mississippi. donald trump rails against what he calls weaponization of the criminal investigation process will tell you what he s saying about the investigations he faces and look at where they stand and russian president vladimir putin planning a move we haven t seen since the end of the cold war details and a live report from moscow. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom. with kim bruun hoover. and we begin in the southeastern us where millions are at risk today for severe storms, damaging winds and isolated tornadoes. this new extreme weather threat coming after powerful storms spawned deadly tornadoes that barreled through mississippi and nearby states friday night, leaving buildings crumpled vehicles scattered like toys and trees and power lines, stripped bare and strewn about at least 26 people were killed and dozens injured. just hours ago, president
is beautiful. but calabria means something more to me. it s my ancestral homeland. and i want to get to know the region that my family left behind all those years ago. is this jogging your memory at all? that s a long time ago. i m stanley tucci. i m italian on both sides, and i m traveling across italy to discover how the food in each of this country s 20 regions is as unique as the people and their past. caught between a rock and the sea, the calabrese are notoriously tough. but this is a place where southern hospitality is a way of life. oh, my gosh, look at the size of it. you should open a restaurant. and in this poor region. all right. every meal is a celebration. oh, wow. there s like a million different flavors in there. calabria sits in the toe of the boot of italy, connected to basilicata in the north and separated from sicily in the south only by the narrow strait of messina. it s a region of rugged landscapes, dramatic mountain ranges, and