secretary blinken and foreign minister sergey lavrov spoke by phone and that is significant given talks have been sparse during war. the 31-year-old reporter was arrested wednesday in central russia about a thousand miles away from moscow, russia is accusing him of spying. gershkovich has been reported in russia for the six years mostly the wall street journal which denied allegations. the timing of the arrest looks like calculated calculation to embarrass the u.s. the board called for the russian ambassador to the u.s. be expelled along with journalists. president biden said that wasn t part of the immediate plan and offered this. detaining the wall street journal reporter. let him go. you heard the president say there. secretary blinken also called on russia to release paul wylan he s been retained in russia since 2018 as you mentioned mike and back in december the biden administration facilitated release of brittney griner in exchange that freed merchant of death. th
hundreds of russians inside of ukraine. without long-range precision missiles it would be hard for ukraine to win the war. general milley the u.s. will not be providing for shortage in the arsenal. according to national security, only has 45% approval rating under water all that is foreign policy 44%, border security 36% and with the economy just 35% approval and, of course, this all comes as america waits for president biden to announce he s running for reelection in 2024. so far he s not made it official, mike. lucas tomlinson live on the north lawn. thanks very much. ukrainian officials estimating thousands of children from ukraine have been sent to ukraine from russia. senior correspondent mike tobin has story has story from one boy that made it home from captivity. you are russia assuming
lucas tomlinson in the north lawn. lucas: despite billions of dollars in the biden administration weapons and ammunition to the ukrainians the front lines have not changed in months. russia occupies 20% of ukraine. here is the good news, the front lines are continuing to hold. this administration has provided to lethal aid with very unexpected to russia, i think russia thought they would, you know, first off be met by the ukrainian people by a surrender and second thing is i don t think they have expected they have the congressional push that s occurred with this administration or this administration. lucas: u.s. military s top military milley they will win this year. ukraine s casualties are not far behind. today british intelligence says there s been, quote, russian casualties due to alcohol consumption, mike, among
politics? i think it is and the way to look at this is he s taking what might be a bookkeeping error from almost ten years ago a misdemeanor in new york law and claiming it s a felony because he now says it was a violation of federal campaign finance law. well, the problem with that is he s a local da. he s got no authority over they recall campaign finance law. the two agencies that do, the u.s. justice department and federal election commission where i served as a commissioner, both of them looked at this and decided there was no violation of the law. so this this is such a weak, almost non-existent case. mike: would it pass legal muster? i don t think it would pass a legal muster. manhattan i think in the last presidential election, 87% of individuals voted against trump and i think he believes they would convict him no matter what the facts and the law are in the case. any chance of a change in
on friday since indictment it s raised $4 million. former donald trump denies any wrongdoing but has acknowledged the payments. house gop leader want manhattan da to testify about the investigation but the manhattan da calls the request unlawful political interference, however, you feel about this tuesday is going to be a historic moment, mike. mike: expect to hear plenty from former president trump and campaign has made announcement, cb cotton live outside the courthouse, cb, thanks a lot. for more on the indictment of former president, senior legal fellow at the heritage foundation. haans, welcome. thanks for having me. mike: 2:15 tuesday afternoon the former president will be arraigned. we do expect that he will not be in handcuff, secret service is figuring out how he will be brought to courthouse and multiple street closures expected and we expect security to be super tight, why are you