claiming that the west s sanctions are doing nothing to hurt his economy. donald trump fires back at the committee and his former vice president. and china is showing off its most advanced aircraft carrier in what appears to be a direct message to the west. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we begin in ukraine where russia is reportedly sending more firepower to eastern lines. russian artillery is pounding areas near sievierodonetsk, trying to cut it off from surrounding cities. ukraine says it intercepted two russian missiles near odesa and no one was killed. in kyiv, ukrainian and eu flags flew side by side. the move doesn t guarantee membership, which would be years away, but president zelenskyy says it s still important. here he is. translator: ukraine deserves this positive. ukrainian values are european values. ukrainian institutions remain resilience, even in conditions of war. ukrainian democratic habits have not lost their pow
dumping riskier investments which include cryptocurrencies. b bitcoin has plunged and is trading just under 19,000, from a high of $69,000. people will ask, is this real money disappearing? well, it sure seems to be. scale those comparisons and billions of dollars actually being lost. joining me now is eva welsh, the professor of finance at the anderson school of finance. we ve seen crypto values plummet, companies laying off staff, some have halted withdrawal. but it wasn t supposed to be like this. one of the points of crypto was meant as a hedge against inflation if the normal markets were flooded with cash, bitcoin
has anything like that happened before? not to my knowledge. don, just so your viewers know, basically $250,000 in bitcoin was deposited into the account of nick fuentes who is the leader of groipers, one of the groups that actually breached the capitol that day. that bitcoin came from a donor in france who was lamenting the decline of western civilization. so this is the challenge we have to deal with at this point, the foreign financing of domestic violent extremists. and that s according to the investigation you ve done. again, it s not cnn s reporting, but that s what you have gathered here. so you also heard from army general charles flynn today. he s the brother of that disgraced big lie and coup promoter, michael flynn, general walter piatt, general army staff. did they clear up whether
you also pressed the fbi director on whether there was foreign funding of individuals involved in the january 6 attack. let s listen to that. sir, you can t rule out that other far right extremist groups received foreign donations in the lead-up to january 6, can you? not only would i not want to rule it out, but certainly the possibility of foreign funding or support for domestic violent extremism is something that s particularly high on our priority list because of the challenges it poses. b bitcoin is certainly part of the concern. yes, sir. you can t rule out that foreign financing helped fund activities related to january 6, right? correct. i m not sure we ve seen that at this stage, but i certainly wouldn t purport to rule it out. so, congressman, how significant would it be if r rioters were given money by people outside the u.s. to attack the u.s.?
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