, greetings, ukraine and american representatives are open to dialogue with russia, but the kremlin itself is not ready for real diplomacy, the spokesperson of the state department, matsa miller, stated this. He also emphasized that during the meeting in saudi arabia , it is important for the countries of africa, asia and south america to hear the ukrainian side directly regarding the negotiations that will take place in saudi arabia we believe that it is important that countries around the world hear directly from ukraine about the horrors that happened to their ukraine about attacks on civilians about attacks on schools and hospitals multiapartment buildings and civil infrastructure, however, as russia has violated their territorial integrity, violated their sovereignty. So, if at some point russia wants to participate in real diplomacy, i will not speak on behalf of the president of ukraine , but he made it clear in the past that he would be ready to cooperate with them in such matt
standard, and i used to be deputy chief of the criminal division in the southern district of new york, i wouldn t have touched a guy like michael cohen, especially if he s a convicted perjurer. that s robert costello after testifying in manhattan yesterday, and he could be the last witness the grand jury hears from before voting on an indictment for the former president. we ll break down what s next in the case in just a moment. meanwhile, more members of the oath keepers are held accountable for the violence on january 6th. and also ahead, what we re learning about the first face-to-face meeting between chinese president xi jinping and russia s vladimir putin since the invasion began. began good morning, and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, march 21st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ve got a lot to get to. we ll begin this morning in new york city, and the manhattan district attorney s office ahead of a possible criminal indict
intense fighting back underway in gaza. could another temporary truce be on the way? cnn has learned that israel and hamas are continuing to negotiate actively negotiating the release of more hostages. the latest on that. plus former president trump s attorneys are in a fulton county courtroom right now defending their client for the first time as they try to have his charges in the georgia election subversion case thrown out. and kicked out of congress. an historic move the house e expels george santos. he s calling his ouster dangerous. we re following these danger developing stories and many more. we start this hour with a return to war. israel and hamas back to fighting after a week-long truce. now this video shows the iron dome intercepting the first rocketing targeting israel since the truce ended this was near tel aviv. in gaza, israeli air stieks hit the south. israel ice military dropped leaflets drking palestinians to evacuate the area which was described as a f
The fbi says they still do not know who did it, but the sony studios hacking has produced more drama than their film. So what alist actress was written off in an internal email as a minimally talented spoiled brat . Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Fallout from the torture report and first well go to the money lead and the markets which have just closed, free falling. The dow down more than 250 points today. Lets go to allisison kosik. Shes live at the stock exchange. Allison, this is three days in a row that stocks have slipped. Whats going on . Guess who you can blame . You can blame oil prices. In fact, oil getting crushed, closing below 61 is a barrel and closing down Energy Stocks and taking the rest of the market with it. A couple of reports that came out sparked the selloff and not only with oil, and the latest Weekly Oil Report showing us a surprise jump in u. S. Crude supplies and opecs monthly report came out tod
A prior warning after they were tipped off about this missile strike from iran. Also breaking overnight, a passenger plane crashed minutes after takeoff from tehran. Several International Airlines are now avoiding iranian air space as a result of this. And obviously so many questions about the timing of this incident. We have yet to get any real answers this morning. We are digging. In the meantime, cnn covering every angle of all these breaking stories. We begin with arwa damon live in baghdad for the latest. It is daybreak in iraq right now. Theyve had a chance to assess the damage at these two air bases. What are you learning . Reporter this is really the first government response to this were getting. They received official verbal warning shortly past midnight and then communicated that to their commanders on the ground. Keeping in mind that these bases are joint bases. There are joint command centers that are shared among the iraqi, u. S. , and coalition forces. The attack happeni