drone. welcome to the program, big two hours. i ll bill hemmer, hello, partner. dana: you set that up, i m dana perino. russia downed the drone in the water. russia says the drone was flying too close but it was in international waters. pissed off, the report coming out of our government, this was unprofessional act and environmentally unsound. they shot down a united states warplane, they took it out of action and that is the response we get back? yeah, not very happy about it. bill: from washington, dc with jennifer griffin, 32 million for the reaper drone, the same price of the russian jet, two of which were flying around that drone. we had reaction from john kirby earlier today on cnn, roll the clip that happened an hour ago. they need to be more careful flying in international sparespace near u.s. assets flying in completely legal ways in support of national security interest. they need to be more careful. the black sea doesn t belong to russia, it belongs to many
wrote, i purchase a horse, that s inaccurate. that s a lie maybe, but there s no crime there because this filing was not for the purpose of influencing an election it wasn t something hidden there was no obligation to disclose this to an election campaign committee at all. the lawyer representing donald trumpin the stormy daniels hush money case presenting a defense for why the former president did not break campaign finance laws that payment. we re going to have much more from this heated interview straight ahead meanwhile ron desantis is facing criticism from some members of his own party after he called russia s invasion of ukraine a territorial dispute. and that comes as russia makes an aggressive move with a u.s. drone over the black sea we ll break down what happened and the possible fallout good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, march 15th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. and we ll begin this morning on capitol hil
invasion of ukraine. a spokesman for the u.s. air force called the actions reckless, unsound and unprofessional. let s bring in natasha bertrand and melissa bell live in kyiv, ukraine. melissa, what are we hearing today from ukrainian and russian officials ans about this inciden the black sea? reporter: what we are getting from the russian ministry of defense is a direct contradiction to what the united states has said so far. what the russians are saying is that there was no contact at all, and that drone went down into the black sea as a result of sharp maneuvering, moscow accusing that drone of flying without transponders that allow a drone to be tracked, a violation of the temporary measures that were put in place for the special military operation in that area. the euphemism that russia uses for its invasion of ukraine. what seems to have happened is that drone was destected off th coast of the crimean peninsula. russian jets scrambled to get up there, and we have seen
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as the streets were filled with people. ukrainian officials describe it as a precision strike aimed at a particular civilian target from the actual fighting. cnn s scott mclean is on-site for us to walk us through what you are seeing there right now. reporter: i just want to quickly point out, this is across the street from one of the streetcars that would have been writing at the time when this went off all of the windows were blown out. let me take you over this way and show you this is the actual building that was hit with this is called a house of officers. it s actually a concert hall, a really ornate concert hall from the soviet era. it s quite his work, firefighters are still putting water on this it might be difficult to see against the sky, but there is still steam coming off the building. now we are nine hours or so later. i will take you over this way and show you, this is an office building across the street. you can see it s maybe nine stories high. i see two o