Im john berman. Michaela pereira is off today. We would like to el with come our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Those stories and more. It is highstakes diplomacy and tit for tat threats happening right now as the world looks for ways to respond to russias military intervention in ukraine. Secretary of state, john kerry, face to face with sergei lavrov. They are both in paris for talks that have been planned before the russian takeover. The talks are so much more urgent. Perhaps the most important test yet as to whether dialogue can be used to resolve the crisis in ukraine. In some ways, there have been setbacks. If the us and eu impose sanctions on russia, washington is looking at a series of punitive steps including economic and diplomatic sanctions designed to isolate moscow. No sign either side is backing down from a somewhat polite standoff between russian and ukrainian troops. Polite so far. These troops are all armed and the Russian Forces do remain in e
Viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. This hour, crews are scanning the sea for those elusive pings, but the air search is as critical as ever to solving the flight 370 mystery. Planes are getting ready to take off for a dramatically smaller search area, about onethird the size it was before. Officials are racing against the clock. Right now they are trying to close in on a potential crash site and find the jets black boxes. A new Zealand Air Force commander just told me a little while ago at least one area where a chinese ship heard a possible ping has now been ruled out. Our correspondents in the United States and around the world are covering every angle of the search and the investigation, along with our team of experts here in the situation room. Lets begin our coverage this hour with our aviation correspondent rene marsh. Renee . We know there have been about 133 missions, and Australian Authorities say they are just as i
Happening now a situation room special report on the mystery of flight 370. New push back from the captains daughter an a report on his state of mind. Stay tuned for information about the possibility of a criminal act. With just days left until the locator pings are expected to fade. Well have a live report at sea on whats expected in the desperate hours ahead. And a heartbreaking message to flight 370 families who are clinging to prayers and hope. An official chinese newspaper says its time for them to accept the worst. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. We expect search planes to take off any moment now in the frustrating race against the clock to find any trace of flight 370. More than three weeks after the plane vanished more mystery and more confusion today. Authorities now say the final voice message to air Traffic Controllers wasnt exactly what we originally thought. And there are now new questions about whether the jets flight path may have been different than weve b
Judge to get this ben rhodes email . I dont know. I bet every person in that white house wished the email would have been released earlier. I do, too, it tells us what we said privately is what we said publicly because thats what we thought occurred. It references protests because they were countless across the world. Mark mad does eadows is on t committee. Im assuming you agree that this select committee should go forward . Certainly, at this point to have a real robust investigatioinvestigation that focuses just on benghazi is what we need to do. Im behind our leadership as theyve made the call to vote for this select committee. What did you make of that interview that we just heard a snippet of with bret baier, the former nsa communications spokesperson, being relatively smug, admitting that obama was not in the situation room when all this was going down in benghazi. You would say what to that . Well, thats very troubling, when we have american lives that have been lost and youre n
Self defense forces. Russian forces have seized part of a ukrainian missle defense unit. They are trying to find a solution. We have reporters on the ground in ukraine, russia, and washington this morning covering all the angles. Lets begin with cnn white house correspondent. What are you hearing from the white house this morning . Reporter nothing this early at this point. Today john kerry is going to meet with his counter part, the Russian Foreign minister. Leaders there are expressing concern at not seeing russia at this point at the table to talk about this situation. That talk between secretary kerry and the foreign minister, as far as we know at this point, is expected to go forward in a matter of hours. Everyone is hoping that that does continue. But the views between the u. S. And russia have sharply die verged at this point over what has happened and continues to happen in ukraine. Madeline albright called russias view of this delusional. Saying as you mentioned, those soldier