the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. at least 23 people including three children are dead after a russian cruise middle attack in the city of vinnytsia. anymore people are still missing. officials believe the missiles were launched by russian submarines in the black sea. president zelenskyy calls this an act of russian terror. scott mclean is in vinnytsia. scott, i know it is dark now. tell us what is happening at this hour. reporter: president zelenskyy said earlier today that people can t do this. he said that the people who did this are animals. those are his words. if you look over here, you can see fire crews trying to get rid of all of the debris here from this office building. i cannot show you the theater next-door because it is dark but one of the two missiles that landed in this area obliterated the building. there is maybe only a half a dozen windows that survived the sheer strength of this blast. what is incredible, they were two strikes. what hit the parkin
23 people are dead, including three children. plus, a dead wife, a dead son, a botched hit, an alleged fraud scheme. murder charges have now been filed against a once prominent south carolina attorney in this case that has more twists than a country road. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. president biden s first trip to the middle east being overshadowed in a controversial sit-down that s not yet even happened. president biden stood side by side with israeli prime minister and promised iran will never get a nuclear weapon. how to go about that? that s where they public disagreed. i continue to believe that diploma city is the best way to achieve them. words will not stop them. diplomacy will not stop them. he was pressed by reporters as to whether or not he ll bring up the murder of the journalist with leaders in saudi arabia. the leaders responsible for his murder. at we report from jerusalem, president biden stopped way short of making any such commitment. r
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Charge of grand larceny, a big stack of charges involving a large amount of money and potentially a large amount of jail time. The story they uncovered at the courthouse that day, for some reason, friedman had gotten this huge Criminal Liability he was facing winnowed down to almost nothing. All the prison time and felonies evaporated. Instead of being tried for evading 5 million in taxes, prosecutors let him plead guilty to one count of evaluating 50,000 worth of taxes. Not 5 million, 50,000. Instead of decades in potential prison time the deal he cut with prosecutors got him zero prison time. People do plea deals all the time they offer their testimony for prosecutors letting them off the hook and going easier on
them. This was like the mother of all plea deals. The amount he offered must have been very very valuable to the government given how sweet the deal was he got from them in return. That happened in late may.
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