became the first transgender champion in ncaa division history. in an interview last month, he said that she does plan to keep swimming competitively including, she said, at the olympic trials to try and go after the olympics. the vote, though, by the governing body would ban thomas and other transgender athletes from taking part in women s sports events. mary korean rafferty joins us with more. reporter: hi, eric. the new rules would mean a trans it s e alt heat9 would have to complete their transition before the age of 12. ya thomas, first trans athlete to win a division i swimming title and had also hoped to compete in the olympics, will not be allow to do so. the international body that governs water sports says the move will balance includessivity and insure no one has an unfair advantage. we have to protect the right of all our athletes to compete. but we also have to protect competition fairness at our events, especially women s competition. and also the past reco
and paul whale. en. in fact, here s state department spokesperson ned price. let s listen. we have called for the release of both of them beyond making these public calls. we are working acid youously behind the scenes, quietly to do everything that we can to see to it that they are released as soon as possible. arthel: and, of course, we want them both released. explain to us, jonathan, why brittney griner s detention could be tangled up with paul whalen s. well, the thing is that that, unfortunately, hostage taking is a type of state craft that s used by some countries to exact, you know, kaying caving in and receiving whatever it is, political goals, ransom, a variety of things that a country may be speaking in hold seeking in holding hostagings. and if the united states, if we
as was mentioned, i think this is under outrageous. she is innocent. paul whale in and trevor reed, the americans convicted falsely of espionage are innocent as well. i was what s changed since the warren terrace and fill us for five years, is the americans being detained or seized, it was 80% terrace an insurgent groups. now it s 80 or 90% autocratic governments. this is what iran does, this is what north korea does. it is outrageous, it s wrong, it s shameful, it s another sign of putin s desperation. brittney griner is innocent. joel david, stick around for us we have a lot more to discuss. still ahead, the public health crisis developing in ukraine. plus, the race to flee as russian troops pushed closer to wards major urban areas. when i was leaving, i had to
explicitly telling them, they need to leave immediately. but now, with dwindling ability for u.s. diplomats inside russia to come to the assistance of an arc and citizens, if they were to be detained, and less and less options for americans to fly out of the country, the u.s. says it is time to leave. and in the latest indication of the concerns about that, we are learning about a wnba player, brittney griner, apparently detained in russia for what customs officials say was some hashish oil found in her luggage. the representative for the wnba player saying that they are in contact with her lawyer, and that health and safety are top concerns for them. the u.s. is continuing its diplomacy today. with secretary of state anthony blinken and paul and, where he visited a refugee settlement center, and also met with the ukrainian foreign minister on the ukraine poland border. the top ukrainian diplomat, really putting blinken on the spot, saying that nato s responsibility to step up, and tha
to their posts in moscow and washington. putin defended his nations provocative moves in ukraine. of course, will biden raise the issue of paul whale and trevor reed. those two americans now in prison in russia. biden says he also brought up the growing number, the alarming number of cyber attacks in the u.s.. putin s seemed to shrug off. as for cybersecurity, we reached an agreement. chiefly, that we will start negotiations on that. most of the cyberattacks in the world are carried out from the cyber realm of the united states. in second place is canada. russia is not on the list. certain critical infrastructure should be awfully makes to attack. period. by cyber or any other meeks means. i gave them a list. if i m not mistaken, 16 specific entities. 16 defined as critical infrastructure under u.s.