and they are working to try to get me home. if you consider all of the people and all the agencies in my countries that are working on this, it s incredible. and i think they re going to get it done. and i should also note, jim, that secretary of state antony blinken has said the u.s. has given a proposal to the russians to secure paul whelan s freedom and the russians have not yet engaged on that proposal. jim? great work there. thank you so much. we appreciate it. let s talk about this a little bit more now with jill dougherty. she s cnn s former moscow bureau chief. again, great work by jennifer there over at the state department. let s talk about this. paul whelan says he is optimistic in part because of these public displays of support for him. i saw the president talking about this at the white house correspondents dinner not too long ago. do you agree that his case remaining visible is essentially part of the reason why we re seeing this pressure being brought about for h
axios which reports top aids to president biden clashed with hunter biden s team over strategies for dealing with the legal battles and republican attacks that surround the president s son. biden s top diplomat had to face questions about the laptop in this interview with fox s benjamin hall. can you explain what your role was in that and if you incentivized it? they don t do politics and don t engage in it but with regard to that letter, um, i didn t it wasn t my idea. i didn t ask for it or slid zit it. reporter: some former intelligence officials refused to sign the letter. former moscow station chief dan hoffman explained why. the letter noted there was no evidence. i just felt like we needed to do the forensics. it was a very convoluted story. reporter: john brennan and james clapper are slated to testify before congress later this month. rich? rich: lucas, thank you. let s take a deeper dive into
i didn t it wasn t my idea, didn t ask for it, didn t solicit it. some former intelligence officials refused to sign the letter. former moscow cia station chief and fox news contributor dan hoffman complained why the letter noted there was no evidence but i just felt like w need to do the forensics. it was a very convoluted story. former cia director john brennan and former director of national intelligence james clapper are slated to testify before congress later this mont ago see you sunday, shannon. i can see you then. face, lucas. anthony cdcp mac is designing. dr. which wroblewski said the waning of the covid pandemic is a good time to make a tran transition. her last day will be june 30th. is ac/dc presented them said it appears people attending one of his conferences last month were likely infected with covid-19. about 2,000 people went to that conference. meanwhile the world health organization said covid-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency. up next why a major
fighting, and what we have seen time and time again is russia violating that. ellison barber, thank you. with ukrainian and russian troops locked in a bloody stalemate and bracing for the spring fighting season, hundreds of russian men are now facing criminal charges back home for refusing to fight according to a new york times report. some tried to escape abroad, others down right refused to comply with orders. others went to extraordinary lengths, including shooting each other to avoid going to the front lines. i want to bring in neil mcfarquhar, a former moscow bureau chief. thanks for being with us, and you write about one russian officer who took a bullet in the leg, and it was actually part of a pact among several soldiers to shoot each other and claim they were wounded in a far fight. a better alternative than dying on the front lines. what do these conscripts tell
special military operation as russia calls the war. cnn s former moscow bureau chief explaining the significance. this is to me an indication putin has no intent of stopping. in fact, what he is going to be doing is essentially propagandizing children for the next 20 years by creating this. they re changing the educational system, et cetera. so he is, if anything, he is digging in and trying to convince his own people that this is what russians mission in the world should be. it s really perverse. a day earlier putin signed a decree that allows the deportation of ukrainian citizens from territories illegally annexed by russia if they are deemed national security threat. residents from kherson, donetsk