disney magic how the company and an outgoing florida oversight board quietly stripped away power from governor ron desantis . this is what we re watching at this hour. thank you, everyone for being here. i m amra walker in for kate baldwin. we begin in kentucky, where nine u. s service members are dead after two black hawk helicopters crashed overnight. these photos from local radio station w. kedzie show the crash site and trick county, which is just north of the kentucky tennessee border. now, in these photos, smoke and flames and what looks like to be a piece of the wreckage. can be seen. officials say the choppers were on a routine. what was supposed to be a routine training mission with night vision goggles when they collided. let s get straight now to diane gallagher live at fort campbell, kentucky. diane what are we learning? i know. officials just held a news conference. that s right, aymara and look, they ve said that they have a safety team coming in from fort rucke
two days after election day in 2020 before the results of the presidential election have even beenio called. president donald trump s chief of staff received a text message laying out a veryte detailed scheme. for keeping donald trump in power. the text was from donald trump s son, don jr. and described in detail the plot to use republican legislatures to keep trump in office regardless of the actual vote count. if that failed, republicans in congress could keep dump in keep trump in power. it matches up with the scheme that trump and his allies tried to carry out by replacing biden electors with fake trump electors in states that joe biden won. today the committee investigating the deadly january 6th attack released the transcriptsse of the interview with donald trump jr. and he told the committee he doesn t remember where the idea came from. quote, question. is that something you wrote, or did you cut and paste that from somebody else? junior,me i imagine i cut and paste
is to grab americans use them as leverage in this case, reporter make spurious allegations against them and detain them, you know, potentially for long periods of time, but we are in very dangerous territory with him. this is all about leverage . and so now we have a human life. in the balance. do you agree with that characterization hostage taking kidnapping? yes absolutely. i don t think there s any question that russia is using this for leverage. look, russia, russia has become increasingly aggressive and increasingly lawless in the way that they interact on a wide range of issues, pulling, pulling out of treaties. obviously the invasion of ukraine the way they re conducting that war. i don t think there s any doubt that they did this as a kidnapping for leverage against the u. s. and it it really ramps up the tensions between our two countries in a dangerous way. i don t think there s any doubt about that. gonna be a tricky situation for the biden administration. how do you hope th
for tat. well i don t know that i would necessarily say tip for tap. that s entirely possible, but the context of the war in ukraine is definitely part of this and what they re talking about. these charges are looking at collecting information for the u. s government about a military industrial complex. uh institution someplace in ekaterinburg. now i ve been talking with us former diplomats and what they are concerned about is it raises the level of concern because there have been laws and we d be reported on them. we were affected. cnn was affected by this by these laws against spreading disinformation considered about the war, but this is talking about espionage. it is immediately raised to it. top secret level so it will be very difficult to get any information about precisely what is happening. these cases are
into the court and that court designated the case top secret. they said that mr covic has not pleaded guilty as not accepted guilt in these charges of espionage, and he has been basically set arraigned in pre trial detention. pretrial detention until may, the 29th and so it may not be you know, until then, that we get any further details about what exactly it is that this wall street journal reporter 32 year old american citizen has actually been specifically accused of all right, matthew chance. appreciate that. let s talk more about this with cnn contributor and former cnn moscow bureau chief jill dougherty, jill the timing and the context of gross kravitz s arrest are are important right? because we have this war in ukraine that s raging on. and just last week, the doj announced that a russian spy was arrested. i believe it was in washington, d. c. do you have any doubt? that this is a tip