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matthew appreciate that want to bring in now? cnn s chief national security correspondent , jim sciutto, jim. good morning to you this news coming overnight and all of your years. i know there s the last time this happened was 1986 as we have been discussing, but that this is quite rare, but quite serious. well, first, we should take any russian claims or accusations here with enormous skepticism and doubt right? it may have been many years since the journalist has been arrested on these charges. but we ve had other americans we have paul whelan, a former marine accused of spying as well. and of course , brittney griner case, you know, a case where russia greatly trumped up their accusations of drug trafficking writer but before she was released, so russia s track record on this inspires zero little to zero confidence. and russia does, we know have a habit of taking americans and other foreign nationals in effect as hostages right that hostages to be used as
you mentioned that the wall street journal. they have categorically denied vehemently denied the allegations against him and have called for his immediate release, but the foreign ministry has issued a statement. their spokesman, marie marie, is a harvard saying that there is no question that the activities and i m paraphrasing here. the activities of evan gosh, covic, we re not compatible with nothing to do as she said with journalism, so the russians are standing by this arrest right now. yeah well, a lot more to be learned about this. especially from the u. s side of this. did you know him and have you run into him on assignment at all since you re both in russia? i would like, you know, i didn t know him personally, but his name very well. i mean, he s a very prominent journalist in russia because he s been working not just for the wall street journal, but for the french news agency for a long time, and before that for the moscow times, which is an english language newspaper here,
collateral for exchanges for russians held in the u. s or other countries, so we have to be conscious of the track record. conscious of russia s doubtful track record on making accusations like this, and then bigger picture. just the state of the relationship between these two countries to declining virtually i m writing a book about this, but virtually every day, there s another sign of really escalation. you have russian aircraft hitting a u. s drone. you you have the escalation of the war in ukraine. you have russia pulling out of many aspects of the nuclear treaty just this week, and i think we could look at this as part. of the decline. that broader relationship. yeah i mean, and that s what s so concerning is here is because the relations are not good between them. obviously. britney griner was released in bid russia s invasion of ukraine, but jim the broader context here of the question, you know when nick daniel off, was arrested in 1986, he argued that he believed
. paul whelan is an american newsman held for five years accused of espionage in a russian cell and this quiet diplomacy stuff. i understand why it s an interest of the state department. i don t think it s the interests of the prisoners. i hope that they speak up. raise this issue and also, you know, shame russia and make it clear that business investors aren t going to want to go to moscow. we have to raise the price of hostage taking. nicholas kristof. always a pleasure to be with you. thanks for coming in and talking about the breaking news. we appreciate it such an important topic and we ll be tracking those updates and keeping everyone updated. also this morning, we have been asking all morning. how much do you tip on everything from a cup of coffee to food delivery. we ll see how you responded harriet and has crunched the data. gosh! it was interesting. how what s ththe number one retinol brarand used momost by dermatologists.