in digital detective work. he is bellingcat s lead russia investigator and the cause of serial embarrassment to the kremlin with his revelations about the poisoning of alexei navalny and other russian military and intelligence operations. he says he follows the facts wherever they lead but what s his motivation? christo grozev, in washington, dc, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me on hardtalk. it s a pleasure. alexei navalny famously described you once as just a bulgarian nerd with a laptop. since he said that, you have become the joint winner of an oscar, you are in the international limelight as an investigative journalist. does all of this attention make yourjob harder? not necessarily. i was oblivious of any attention before all of these awards and i m oblivious of it now. i like to work from cafes so i get a lot more people approaching me and asking for a selfie but that is about the only disruption. you, until very recently, were based in vienna but you re tal
as a progressive place. then there s the future of democracy itself today, with the republican party, in some places like arizona, deciding through its voters tonight whether the party s nominees for top jobs are backers of the big lie of baseless election fraud claims, of attacks on the way we do nonpartisan democracy in this country, with trump encoursed candidates currently viewed as front-runners, including a maga governor candidate who s pushing claims of fraud, kari lake. those who do stand up to trump, including three who threatened to voted to impeach president trump. there s more at stake than a typical primary night, and a lot more issues. as the political guru s de la soul put it, issues close like an elevator door but open once we get to the next floor. as the stakes is high, you know the stakes is high. fact check, true. the stakes is high. it is primary election day in missouri, and several high profile races could help bring voter out to the polls. histor
and all of this is against the back drop of our response to nato s to russia s aggression and to help ukraine defend itself. united states is rallying the world to stand with ukraine. allies and partners around the globe are making significant contributions. sect austin just brought together more than 50 countries, more than 50 countries pledging new commitments and this is a global effort to support ukraine. nearly 140,000 anti-tank systems, more than 600 tanks, nearly 500 artillery systems, more than 600,000 rounds of artillery ammunition, as well as advanced multiple launch rocket systems and air defense smexs. and again the united states is leading the way. we provided ukraine are nearly $7 billion in security assistance since i took office. the next few days we intend to announce more than $800 million more including new advanced western air defense systems to ukraine, more artillery and ammunition, counter battery radar and the launch system we ve given ukraine and mo
order to help people access the health care and abortion services that they need. i anticipate there will be more debate and discussion. or was interesting about the supreme court decision, it gave the authority back to the states to make these decisions. so now that the decision has been made, it will be up to each of the state legislators and people there to talk about their elective representatives about what their laws looked like. we also get a new look at how americans see this decision to overturn roe, from the yougov poll out this morning, it was 41% of americans approved, but nearly 16% 60% disapprove. 67% of women overall in the survey do not agree with this decision. you ve got washington, also in the meantime, still feeling the aftershocks on another topic, a week of bombshell testimony at the january 6th hearings. as folks now brace for more in the coming weeks, this morning, one member of that committee, congressman adam schiff lays out what he thinks the
The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. Manafort and its clear in the attempt by the defense to establish reasonable doubt. In The Big Picture its important to say that prosecutors putting on their case now are trying to delve into what they called the extravagant lifestyle of paul manafo manafort. They say he parked money in Offshore Banks and evaded taxes. Evade it had Internal Revenue service so today we expect to hear more of the deep dive into how u. S. Political consultants of both parties were hired to work for ukraine. We expect on the stand today among others daniel rayban. The first witness was another Democratic Political consultant, tad devine, the chief strategist for the democratic president ial candidate bernie sanders. Also on the stand, an fbi agent who is expected to go through the nuts and bolts of what the fbi learned. The rocket docket. Another big day. Joining me now, Crime And Justice reporter Shimon Prokupecz and former fed