on so many innocent people. hello. welcome to what is the last edition of outside source. but it s no different to all the ones that have gone before. we re going to have a detailed rundown of some of the biggest stories of the day. and we ll start in russia, because a court in moscow has ordered that a us journalist is kept in custody over spying charges. americanjournalist is american journalist is kept in custody over spying charges. american journalist is kept in custody over spying charges. the journalist in question is evan gershkovich. he works for the wall streetjournal. russia s security service the fsb it says the journalist was acting on us instructions. and that he had collected information constituting a state secret about the activities of a russian defence enterprise. the wall streetjournal denies he has done anything wrong. we ve heard from the kremlin too. translation: this is - the prerogative of the fsb. you already had a statement about this from the
relations not seen since the cold war, which also was the last time an americanjournalist in war, which also was the last time an american journalist in moscow and russia was accused of espionage, backin russia was accused of espionage, back in 1986 with the us news & world report reporter. anthony, thank yom world report reporter. anthony, thank you. that s world report reporter. anthony, thank you. that s anthony - world report reporter. anthony, thank you. that s anthony live i world report reporter. anthony, i thank you. that s anthony live with us from washington. also with me is edward lucas, times columnist and author of the new cold war: putin s russia and the threat to the west. what was your reaction when he heard this? it what was your reaction when he heard this? . ~ , . ~ ., this? it takes me back to when nicholas cannot this? it takes me back to when nicholas cannot force the - this? it takes me back to when nicholas cannot force the us l this? it takes me back to
indicating that there was a certain sense of respect for either side as they sat down to try to hammer out an agreement for at least a temporary ceasefire. but as that s going on, you have a guy in moscow who is saying crush the country. yeah, it s pretty interesting. if you look at the titles of the different people involved in the ceasefire talks, particularly from the russian side, you have a lot of deputies, a lot of underlings, you don t have foreign minister sergey lavrov in the negotiation. so, there does not seem to be a lot of optimism, and you heard from the ukrainian side, not a lot of optimism going into it. the ukrainians want a complete ceasefire, the russians want demilitarization. sandra: expectations on the ground as you head into the evening hours, obviously you ve been through a few nights so far. what do you expect tonight?
his father did together on that air force one statement, what he said about the block phone numbers on calls. right. there are a lot of statements that he made that struck me at the time. all right. so you think that and made ve ferls to the special prosecutor. it s not referral it s referrals. you re saying you think multiple people lied. and also came before our committee. i m certain that being the systematic prosecutor is looking because he was intimately involved. in the trump tower interaction? yes. he was the guy in moscow on the ground who was producing michael
how soon until we read someone saying obviously we didn t mind taking a swing at that bee s nest, that no fix was in prior to this? that s what i was thinking all dow because i think like that, and maybe it s cynicism. but i thought if there was a way for him to kill the narrative that he s in bed with putin, it would be this. take on putin s fresh water port, take on his ally, his satellite, his loyal ally assad. that would be a way of saying, i never was in bed with these guys. i never planned any kind of coalition with this guy in moscow. you re right, i was thinking of it. who knows? it certainly isn t going to go well with putin unless we find out they had a phone call this afternoon and worked this thing out and it was a set piece that was not meant to be particularly antagonistic to moscow. a bunch of cynics in the political business, right? speak for yourself, brian. joining us in studio in new york is nick christophe from the new york times.