requested a colonel convicted of murder and added along this infamous arms dealer for wnba star brittney griner and paul whelan. we have a team of correspondents covering these breaking developments. frederik pleitgen is in moscow for us. let s start with natasha bertrand, who is breaking this exclusive. what have you learned. reporter: what we ve learned is that in response to the russian proposal to trade that arms dealer, viktor bout for the two americans detained in russia, paul whelan and brittney griner, the russians put forward their own request and they said we don t want just viktor bout, we want this guy name vadim krz krosokov, convicted in december of 2021 for murdering in broad daylight a chech an fighter and the germans sentenced him to life in prison. the russians in response to this proposal submitted this kind of back channel request to the americans. it was done through an fsb back channel, the fsb of course is the main security service for the russians.
and david mccormick. their positions on the leaderboard changing by the minute with thousands of votes still left to be counted. as of this moment this race would certainly trigger an automatic recount. in the governor s race in pennsylvania doug most reno has won the republican nomination. he has championed efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. he is face josh shapiro the state s attorney general, shapiro is the first nonincumbent to run unopposed in a democratic gubernatorial primary since 1930. john fetterman easily won the democratic senate primary in pennsylvania, no drama there, though he might be the first candidate to do so from a hospital bed. he is out of surgery after suffering a stroke and receiving a pacemaker hours before the polls closed yesterday. we will hear from his wife in just a bit. north carolina congressman madison cawthorn has it s a major rebuke of someone else once seen as a major person in the gop but salacious photos puts him on the
hearing about along the way. now, cnn has confirmed that pelosi and a group of lawmakers will visit asia, some of the stops that are to be included, include japan, south korea, malaysia, singapore, as you mentioned, it remains to be seen whether she will indeed visit taiwan. the biden administration has concerns about how china might respond if pelosi does visit the island, and some officials have been privately working behind the scenes to try to convince the speaker to not go. one thing to keep in mind here is that pelosi has built a reputation as a china hawk. this could be her last term in congress. we ll just have to see whether she ultimately makes that decision or not. alisyn, victor. melanie zanona, thank you for the latest. here s wihat we have all ben thinking about. what would we do if we have won the jackpot tonight. one lucky person or a group of people could be $1 billion richer tomorrow. so next we re going to talk to one man who won the mega
lose elections, that they accept defeat and they don t try to destabilize or delegitimize election results just because they don t like them. al schmidt, thank you for joining us this morning. thank you. we will have more on all of the take a ways from last night, including the evolution of democratic candidates and what it means for who can get elected in november. plus, we have what and who exactly is bringing a violent right wing conspiracy theory to the mainstream. a new warning that north korea is preparing a missile test as president biden gets ready to visit asia. this is cnn s special live coverage. with my hectic lifife, you d think retirement would be thehe last thing on my mind. hey mom, can i go play video games? susure! .after homework. thankfully, voya provides comprehensive solutions,