the judge considers bail for the suspect leaks case. why prosecutors say he is a flight risk. and reports of fighting in khartoum, despite new cease-fires. foreign citizens rushed to evacuate. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. a former vice president compelled to testify about his direct conversations with the president he served. that s a situation mike pence found himself in on thursday before a grand jury in washington former vice president testified before a federal grand jury for more than five hours. that testimony would have been about what happened after the trump the president at the time, at a time when donald trump was pressuring him to overturn the vote. hints pence refused to do so. pence has also spoke about this conversation publicly. he s right about them in his book. the on a tour of really regularly. whenever before as an investigation, as a grand jury and have prosecutors gotten pence under oath to reveal
the air national guardsman accused of stealing and sharing classified documents appears in court. and the government says he has a history of threatening to kill people. then, dozens of americans trapped in sudan, begging the u.s. government to help them get out. why do u.s. officials say they can t help, even though other countries are carrying out evacuations? plus, tears, smiles, and laughs. brittney griner holds her first news conference since her release from a russian prison. never going overseas unless i m representing my country at the olympics. what the basketball star had to say about her famgame and th other americans still being wrongly detained in russia. welcome to the lead, everyone. i m in for jake tapper. we start today with our national lead. this afternoon, the man accused of leaking classified u.s. intelligence on the internet appeared in court where a judge decided that the suspect will stay behind bars, at least for now. prosecutors argued th
nearly 10 months, much of it in a bleak, remote penal colony about 300 miles from moscow. she received a 9 year sentence for drug smuggling after being arrested at a moscow airport carrying cannabis oil and vape cartridges just before the ukraine war started. griner said she had packed the cartridges by accident. she said, during her some of her more desolate moments in detention, seeing pictures of her family and images of the efforts to get her out meant everything. it made me a little bit have hope, which is a really hard thing to have. a really thing to have. because when it doesn t work, it s so crushing. she spoke of what she would tell paul whelan and evan gershkovich, to american held in russia, and all the other wrongfully detained americans abroad. stay strong. keep fighting. don t give up. just keep waking up. find a little routine and stick to that routine as best you can. i know that s what helps me.
you cry, you re making me cry. just digging deep, honestly. you know, you re going to be faced with adversities throughout your life. this was a pretty big one, but i just kind of relied on my hard work, getting through it. reporter: she was detained for nearly ten months, much in a bleak, remote penal colony about 300 miles from moscow. she received a nine-year sentence for drug smuggling after being arrested in a moscow airport carrying cannabis oil just before the ukraine war started. she said she packed the cartridges by accident. today, she said during some of her more desolate moments in detention, seeing pictures of her family and images of the efforts to get her out meant everything. it made me have hope, by is a really hard thing to have. a really dangerous thing to have, because when it doesn t work, it s soul crushing. reporter: and she spoke of