right now on early start, lost at sea. the all-out search under way to find a small sub that was taking tourists to the titanic. and new talks to bring americans detained in china back home. and tropical storm gaining strength, tomorrow it could be a hurricane. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. it is a race against time to find the five people aboard that submersible. contact with the craft was lost sunday. it has only about four days worth of life support aboard. a billionaire is one of the five passengers along with a father and son from pakistan. brian todd has more. reporter: an urgent search and rescue operation is under way in the north atlantic to find a lost submersible with five people aboard. coast guard has a ship and aircraft on the scene. canadian ships and planes joining the search as well. along with the polar prince, the vessel that transported the missing submersible to the site of the titanic wr
About a pending vote in the u. N. General assembly regarding israel. According to the charges, a very Senior Member of the president ial Transition Team directed flynn to contact officials from foreign governments, including russia, to learn where each government stood on the resolution and to influence those governments to delay the vote or defeat the resolution. Nbc news reported today that the very senior official was Jared Kushner, the president s soninlaw. In a Statement Today Michael Flynn said, i recognize that the actions i acknowledged in court today were wrong, and through my faith in god i am working to set things right. My guilty plea and agreement to cooperate with the Special Counsels office reflect the decision i made in the best wanted of my family and of our country. I accept full responsibility for my actions. There was strong reaction to todays news from democrats on the hill involved in the russia probe. Their message, theres more to come. Inside the white house the
i sneeze businesses getting into russian military hands for use against ukraine.i sneeze businesses getting into russian military hands for use against ukraine. ukrainians felt that they had good response from the chinese. so i think that there is hope on that front. but of course the big support that russia really gets out of china is the economic support. the fact that this has improved business, energy supplies, relations between china and russia to moscow s benefit because it is getting a lot of money from china which helps support the war. but in terms of the nonlethal aid that china says is not going to give to russia, this is something that the united states will have heard and as was said by secretary blinken, a statement chinese have given to other countries. this will have been heard certainly to my knowledge over the past few months even though other country, whichever they may be, are not being named specifically, but some would be
officials continued to press russia publicly and privately to engage in good faith negotiations, pursuing a variety of different options, in recent weeks, though, it became clear that while the russians were willing to reach an agreement to secure brittney s release, they continued to treat paul differently as i just stated with their totally illegitimate charge that they levied against paul. in this last week, the president approved moving forward with releasing viktor bout in exchange for bringing home brittney griner. over the last 48 hours brittney was moved from the penal colony where she was held in russia to moscow and then flown to the uae. bout conditional grant of clemency was not completed until today when u.s. officials in the uae verified brittney was there to and ready to return to the u.s. yesterday u.s. officials met with paul whelan s family to inform them of the news and i
foreign policy adviser to the trump campaign and advocated for closer ties with russia. in fact. two months early. flynn traveled to russia to moscow itself. as the paid speaker for russia today anniversary dinner. seated two seats over. for vladamir put-in. on april 27th, 2016, donald trump delivered his first major, foreign policy speech in which he advocated for closer ties with russia. let s watch. we desire to live peacefully. and in friend sthp with russia and china. i believe an easing of tensions, improved relations with russia, from a position of strength only, is possible. absolutely possible. by may of 2016. donald trump becomes the nominee of the republican party. early loyalty rewarded with infamous speaking spot at the republican national convention.