only when it comes to ukraine but also the detention of other americans like paul whelan. arlette signs from the north lawn at the white house. thank you so much. let s get some perspective now from cnn national security analyst steve hall. he s the former cia chief of russia operations and also with us is jason rezaian. he is an opinion writer for the washington post, who was wrongfully imprisoned in iran is actually the author of the book prisoner my 544 days. in an iranian prison. jason and steve . thank you so much for being with us, jason. i want to start with you. you were arrested and convicted for espionage. here. we have. another reporter detained under somewhat similar circumstances. what was your reaction to this news? yeah boris. thanks for having me on my reaction was well, i know this storyline. very well. i ve lived this storyline. um you know, i appreciate our let s reporting from from the white house. i would say that the
well, boris important new details coming out from the vatican this evening. they have diagnosed bronchitis, the vatican says, and the pope is receiving antibiotics intravenously. he is responding well to that treatment. they say there is a clear improvement in his health. this is added to what they told us this morning that he had slept well overnight . he was able to have breakfast, read the newspapers this morning and even do some work. so a good picture for the pope. remember he s 86 years old. he has a prior history of respiratory issues. when he was 21. he had part of his lung removed because of respiratory illness. so certainly important news that we know there is a diagnosis and that he is responding well. to the treatment, boris. deal with gallagher. thank you so much for that update from rome. thanks. republican senator john thune is accusing the white house of trying to quote run the clock
one of these has to do with a $40 million bribe. yeah boris. that s right. so sam blankman freed, the founder of ft x was back in court today. he entered a plea of not guilty to these new charges and among those charges include securities fraud , commodities fraud, but also conspiracy to commit foreign bribery. that s what prosecutors say that he allegedly had helped transfer $40 million in cryptocurrency to at least one chinese government officials so that they would unfreeze an account holding as much as a billion dollars in digital assets. blankman freeze attorney said that they do intend to challenge these new sets of charges that came after he was extradited from the bahamas. that s because bank winfried agreed to the extradition on the initial eight charges, so they re singling today that they re going to legally contest these additional charges. embankment freed is charged with prosecutors say is one of the largest financial frauds in u. s history he has released on bail
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