deal to release grbrittney grin and paul whelan. jennifer, what can you tell us about this offer? that s right, we have learned that the biden administration is prepare to send victor boot, this convicted russian arms dealer back to russia as part of a deal to try to bringwhelan ho. boot is currently serving a 25 year prison sentence. secretary of state antony blinken publicly announced yesterday that the administration has offered a, quote, substantial proposal to moscow to try to get these two wrongfully detained americans back home. blinken did not go in to specifics about what was in the proposal, but he did say it has been on the table for weeks now and that it has the direct backing and sign jooff of joe biden. prisoner swaps do require the president to signoff. so this is a significant signal. prisoner swaps are generally quite controversial in the administration and other administrations have generally avoided using them because there is a fear that other government
Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, Breaking News and international stories. Somebody, in other words make up stories if you dont know, they just make up lies. Alan dershowitz stayed composed. Ive seen it many times. They go from ten years to a national hero. They have a statue erected in their honor. Its not a fair thing. But thats why he did it. He made a very good deal. All right. Lets immediately go to our White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins at the white house. This is a big deal that a longtime friend and associate of the president of the United States, david pecker of American Media, cooperating with federal prosecutors in exchange for immunity. What are you hearing of these latest attacks and the revelations about david peckers role in helping Michael Cohen facilitate these Hush Money Payments . Reporter yeah, wolf, youre right. This is a big deal, and its not good news for President Trump. The Wall Street Journal reporting that david pecker and an editor at the national
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Joining us tonight. See you at 00. Tonight, the white house transcript released. The president saying to a foreign leader, id like you to do us a favor. President trumps phone call with the president of ukraine. In that call, urging him to open an investigation connected to his political opponent, joe biden. Noting in the conversation the u. S. Had done a lot for ukraine. And tonight, the timing. The president and the ukrainian leader were set to meet today, even before the headlines broke. And so they did. What they said. And President Trump before the cameras just moments ago, furious Speaker Pelosi has taken this very rare step. Jon karl and Mary Bruce Standing by. Also breaking tonight, the whistleblowers report that started it all. The person within the Intelligence Community who was so concerned. That report has now arrived in congress. What it reveals and what weve learned. Also tonight, 24 hours after President Trump spoke of irans, quote, blood lust, tonight, the president of
an eye on who is coming before january 6 and who may have helpful information. reporter: you news comes at the same time that sources say that the federal investigators have asked questions specifically about donald trump s actions, suggesting their probe is getting closer to the former president himself. all while a separate state level investigation is looking at trump and election interference in georgia. you see a pincer s movement on donald trump and perhaps this will be the occasion in which he cannot dodge criminal liability. reporter: the public posture of the doj is welcome news to members of the january 6 select committee who have been publicly pleading with federal prosecutors to take action. that encourages me or solidifies the understanding that i ve always operated with is that the department of justice has a vast arsenal of resources at their disposal. these are extremely competent effective lawyers. they know what they are doing. reporter: however there is no
miscalculated and force of the iron will. before the war began, the public posture of the u.s. government to the kremlin was, look, we re willing to discuss where certain things are geographically, where we put troops in nato sometimes and missiles sites that while they re not going to tell us where that certainly it was we were open to a conversation. i m about to speak with a lat latvian official in a few minutes. at this point is the u.s. posture we don t care what the russians think, it all about securing nato allies, particularly those on the front lines and the border, russia? the nature of the dialogue and the focus has shifted. our focus is supporting our ukrainian partners, reassuring nato, including our nato allies in the eastern flank and putting tremendous pressure on the