florida. algae blooms threatening the east and west coasts and what they are doing to prepare. and taking to the streets protests and clashes with police in france as the president moves to raise the retirement age. this is what we are watching at this hour. thank you for being here. i m kate bolduan and a milestone and potential troubling statement on a developing partnership of russia and china. xi jinping is traveling to moscow to meet with putin, and this is first trip since the launch of the war in ukraine. this is coming after cnn has learned that u.s. has intelligence that china is considering providing lethal aid to russia, and the u.n. has said that would kcross a red line. and turkey has said that their country would start the process to ratify finland s nato membership, and that is a significant move. nato requires the unanimous approval of its 30 members to start this move. let s start with will ripley on this trip that xi is planning for his trip to russia?
there are reasonable grounds to believe that putin bears individual criminal responsibility for the crime. one, for having committed the acts directly, jointly, with others and/or through others. and for his failure to exercise control properly over military us is is board nants who committed the acts or allowed for their commission and who were under his effective authority and control. going directly to the top here. cnn s chief international correspondent clarissa ward is at the hague, which is home to the icc. this represents the first international charges to be brought suns the start of russias s war. what do you make of it? reporter: this is a big deal. this is something that s been hotly anticipated for some time. two arrest warrants being officially issued by the icc, where we are actually standing right now. this has just happened in the last hour. those two arrest warrants, as
these issues. i have a responsibility as a 50-year civil libertarianian to speak out about these issues whether it involves north korea or president trump. look, on the buzzfeed thing, before the announcement was made by the special counsel s office. i posted a piece on the new york daily news raises all cineldz of skepticism. asking hard questions about the buzzfeed report. it did not seem credible to me. particularly the arguments that it s like richard nixon. it s not like richard nixon. richard nixon, on tape, told his sub board nants directly to lie about criminal activities. break-s in, et cetera. and here, of course, there is no credible allegation that there are emails or eyewitnesses. and i pointed that out in my article and now my view has been confirmed, look, i have to tell you my views on this investigation have been confirmed over and over and over again. i have been right and many
seem to be concerns about these issues. i have a responsibility as a 50-year civil libertarianian to speak out about these issues whether it involves north korea or president trump. look, on the buzzfeed thing, before the announcement was made by the special counsel s office. i posted a piece on the new york daily news raises all cineldz of skepticism. asking hard questions about the buzzfeed report. it did not seem credible to me. particularly the arguments that it s like richard nixon. it s not like richard nixon. richard nixon, on tape, told his sub board nants directly to lie about criminal activities. break-s in, et cetera. and here, of course, there is no credible allegation that there are emails or eyewitnesses. and i pointed that out in my article and now my view has been confirmed, look, i have to tell you my views on this investigation have been confirmed over and over and over again.
are derelict in the oversight responsibilities. we have to find out if how appropriate let s assume this was a joke, tucker. how appropriate is it for the deputy attorney general to be joking about wiretapping the president while he is overseeing an investigation of the president in front of his colleagues and sub board nants subordinates. rosanne barr got fired for a joke and i think rosenstein might, too. tucker: interesting. speaking of the congress obligation as oversight body the documents pertain to the russia investigation. particularly, the fisa warrant to allow the obama administration spy on carter page. we were promised they would be declassify and the permanent bureaucracy prevented that from happening. it s frustrating for those of us who believe in transparency and the people s right to know details of what the government is doing behind its back. can anything be done about it or is it final? i think some convinced the president that since the