sanctions over the war in ukraine are hurting russia s economy. the senior correspondent mike tobin is live in kyiv with more. mike? trace, another update coming from russian news agencies. gershkovich has a hearing on the books now scheduled a week from tuesday. so far no u.s. representative has been able to get in the yale to see gershkovich. the wall street journal said private lawyers got to see him. the u.s. ambassador in moscow had a meeting with the deputy minister. not much movement came from the meeting. gershkovich is the wall street journal reporter taken into custody and accused of trying to obtain classified information about a russian arms factory at the direction of u.s. officials allegedly. he was taken to moscow where he s being held in prison. denied access, u.s. officials don t have good insight to his condition. i wish we did. we still haven t been able to get consular access. that s an issue that we bring up through our embassy in moscow. i wish i
russia and other countries taking aim at the u.s. dollar. promising an alternative currency of their own. then there s china itself inserting itself and more conflicts. playing everything from peace maker. we have you covered on growing frick tions in taipei. welcome. i m neil cavuto. we have a busy show. let s go to aishah hasnie on taipei trying to see what s going on. aishah? hi, neil. good to see you. so absolutely we expected to see some kind of response from china to these back-to-back meetings not only with kevin mccarthy but now this delegation that landed today. they re due to stay in taiwan for about three days. that is a number of days that china plans to inspect ships that are passing through the taiwan strait. on top of that, the people s liberation army, navy sent three ships to surround this island a few hours before the u.s. deligation landed. house foreign affairs chairman michael mccaul is leading this delegation. i asked him about those chinese ships duri
reid wiseman added we can see the artemis 2 mission take off late next year that does it this hour, our coverage continues with alex witt right now very good to be with all of you. i m alex witt in for katy tur. we begin this hour in tennessee where any minute now the state s republican-led house will hold a vote to remove three democratic lawmakers from office. those lawmakers are currently making their opening statements. you see one of them right there doing so state representatives gloria johnson, justin jones, and justin pierson participated in a protest on the house floor where they held signs, led chants demanding stricter gun laws. the protest was in response to last month s shooting at a nashville school that left six dead, including three 9-year-old students those three democrats were stripped of their committee assignments, they were hit with three separate filings for their exp expulsion. it is a step that the tennessee state house has only taken twice since t
welcome back to the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. across the globe, major landmarks are lighting up in the colors of ukraine as the war there enters its second year. it s a stunning milestone for a battle many thought would end with a quick defeat by russia s powerful military. as vladimir putin s tanks rolled across the border last february. there was little hope that kyiv would be able to stand up to moscow for very long, but ukraine has shocked the world and perhaps russia most of all with its strength and determination. that defiance has come at a heavy price for the country and its people. the u.n. estimates have come up and they say more than 8,000 ukrainian civilians have been killed since the war began, a number that is likely much higher. some 8 million ukrainians have fled the country, many not knowing if they ll ever return. yet despite the cruel challenges his country has faced, president volodymyr zelenskyy is optimistic about the future. we st
congress all about it. that s where we start on thursday morning as we get rolling here. i m bill hemmer live in new york. dana: good morning, i m dana perino. there is a lot of news. bombshell allegations come from an unnamed i.r.s. supervisor asking congress for whistleblower protection so he can tell them how the administration is mishandling the hunter biden tax probe. bill: that investigation started back in 2018. white house repeatedly promising to stay out of it. this agent says it has done anything but. according to his lawyer, he has receipts to prove it. my client wants to come forward to congress. he is ready to be questioned about what he knows and what he experienced under the proper legal protections. would you find any evidence or allegation of a political agenda? no. to him the truth is one truth. he wants to come forward with it. the things he has been through are very well documented in emails and other communications with the department of justice