that are all over this country and drank coffee with ukrainian troops who took selfies with him . courageous leader indeed. all right, ivan watson. thank you very much. stay safe over there, joining us now to discuss what s going on cnn contributor on russian affairs jill dougherty and cnn military analyst retired colonel cedric leighton. jill. how revealing are these deadly russian strikes on civilian targets so soon after putin and the visiting chinese president? xi jinping tried to portray themselves as working for peace in ukraine. yeah i mean, that s the irony of it. and obviously, president putin is saying full steam ahead. this is not going to stop. i mean, if you look at the negotiating the discussions that she and putin had they didn t really get into any specifics. there were generalities about peace and certainly president she wants to look like a peacekeeper. but in actual fact, i don t think it it
know we know that it s a no limits partnership and today they said it is the highest level of that. there s a lot of hyperbole. if you look at what s happening, xi comes to moscow for a number of different reasons. primarily economic. china needs oil, needs gas, and in a sense, you could say has it s a terrible pun, but they have putin over a barrel because putin needs to sell that oil and gas as the markets in europe are drying up. so russia has been selling that crucial those crucial commodities, but at a discount. so i think china comes, presents the peace plan, xi, as you said, does want to look like the peacekeeper. in fairness they brokered an agreement between saudi arabia and iran. so there are a lot of moving parts internationally. that s why i think this visit by
screen this is genius putin declares a big portion of the ukraine, of ukraine, putin declares it as independent oh, that s wonderful so putin is now saying it is independent, a large section of ukraine. i said, how smart is that? and he is going to go in and be a peacekeeper. that s the strongest peace force we could use that on our southern border. that s the strongest peace force i ve ever seen there were more army tanks than i ve ever seen they re going to keep peace all right. no, think of it. this is a guy who is very savvy, i know him very, very well. joe, this starts with, once again, donald trump expressing kind words for vladimir putin. yup. i think there s something actually far more dangerous about this this is now desantis, suggesting that this is deeming this war a territorial dispute between ukraine and russia, instead of russia invading ukraine. suggesting the biden administration, the u.s. is too
left the community shocked. the fatal shooting of a catholic bishop. investigators giving an update a short time ago. miguel almaguer has late details. and miguel, what are authorities saying that the motive might be here? reporter: well, lester, good evening. the sheriff says the suspect in this case, 65-year-old carlos medina, believes the bishop, david o connell, owed him money and that it s possible a dispute over cash for handiwork could be a factor in this shocking murder. the 69-year-old bishop was killed saturday in a home owned by the catholic archdiocese. authorities say they used surveillance video to track a car leaving the crime scene which led them to their suspect today. law enforcement sources say o connell was found in his bed with a single gunshot wound. there was no sign of forced entry. authorities say the suspect s wife was a housekeeper at the home. the bishop, known as the peacekeeper, devoted his life to helping immigrants and the poor. his shocking murder has