case and what the and he was there was a and they also settled a russian tanker that in karachi on sunday and that is packet study perspective they can get hold of any oil and if they don t have to pay in us dollars that is welcome. of course it is controversial because western countries have imposed sanctions on russia for its invasion of ukraine, so it all oil exports have been restricted. they have announced a price cap of $60 a barrel. pakistan has been negotiating with russia for months to get discounted oil. a short while ago the petroleum minister said that they are going to pay in the chinese currency. that is again a benefit to pakistan because foreign exchange reserves have dropped below $4 billion and now they are looking for ways to pay. this all against a pretty weak economic picture for pakistan. it is facing a lot of economic trouble and therefore it needs this cheap energy. at the same time i wonder what needs to be done to try and set the economy back on an e
warm welcome to our viewers all around the world. bianca is off. but just ahead on cnn newsroom the colorado supreme court found that former president trump should be disqualified from being on the ballot in that state. we ve never had a president inside an insurrection and then tried to run for the presidency again. thousands of migrants in eagle pass, texas waiting to be transported for immigration processing. congress has not been able to come together and do comprehensive immigration reform which would help prevent a lot of the scenes that you see at the u.s./mexico border. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is wednesday, december 20, 9:00 a.m. in london, 2:00 a.m. in denver, colorado where the state supreme court has delivered a stunning decision disqualifying donald trump from the 2024 presidential ballot. justices ruled trump is not eligible to be a candidate because of his role in the 2021 insurrection. his c
extraordinary effort to reassure americans that the u.s. banking system is safe plus, poland is set to become the first country to send fighter jets to ukraine. it comes amid new reporting that china s leader will visit russia next week. those new developments are also straight ahead. and donald trump goes off on a frenzied defense amid a series of investigations. we will have the latest on the probes involving the former president. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, march 17th happy st. patrick s day. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. in the words of cnbc, wall street rides to the rescue 11 of the country s largest banks are depositing a total of $30 billion to first republic bank to avoid a third collapse of the u.s. bank in less than a week first republic serves a similar clientele as silicon valley bank and signature bank, both of which failed in recent days. those banks had a high number of uninsured deposits as d
would expend the political capital here. washington lost its collective mind on this yesterday. the chinese do spy on us. this goes back to maybe some cold war worry about something tangible looking up at us. the joke i had in my household is that they are getting a preview of the next season of yellowstone. laura: yellowstone? what a riot sent around the comedy circuit. the chinese are laughing at us, that s for sure. the role of the pentagon under biden seems clear. unless we are talking about sending billions in weapons to ukraine, of the american aerospace defense command continues to monitor it closely. who s controlling this balloon right now? is the chinese government controlling the movement of the balloon or is it just loading with air strengths. we are monitoring the situation closely. we ll continue to monitor. will continue to review our options and provide information and updates. since we are in the observation and monitoring business, norad i
former attorney general eric holder is here on set for sunday exclusive to talk about all of that and more. plus, trump s allies in the house but their sights on discern attorney alvin bragg. i m not freaking about what they re up to. i m gonna explain to you why. meanwhile, at least 26 people are dead after a tornadoes tore through mississippi and alabama. we got a live update on the recovery efforts. and later a conversation with gun safety activists turned congressman, maxwell frost. i asked him about vital records, finding a place to live in washington d.c. in his weekend routine. as his legal problems continue to mount, donald trump held the first major rally of his 2024 campaign last night. in many ways, it was a typical trump speech. maybe a little less energy. with a lots of self promotion, flat out lies in the usual votes of what s that to me was trump s embrace of the insurrection. the rally opened with a somber song recorded by a group of january six defendan