within the past hour or so, he confirmed actually reports that we've heard before that the kremlin was engaged in an negotiation to possibly free alexey navalny in the days before he finally died in an arctic penal you know, colony, a death by the way, that vladimir putin described as a sad event. take a listen >> for mr. navalny's passed away. some colleagues told you that they were not members of the administration some people said that there is an idea to change mr. navalny for some people who are in prison in western countries, you can believe me or you can choose not to. the person who spoke to me. you have not finished his sentence. yes. >> i said i agree but unfortunately, what happened happened, we would exchange him i said and you pay only on one condition that he doesn't come back from the go. let them sit there. that's all that happens. >> what can we do about it? >> well they, have it paula. a pretty interesting description of the negotiations that went on, apparently behind the scenes to free an in navalny before he died in his penal colony, the supporters of the late opposition leader, by the way, save the the kremlin leader that putin killed, alexey navalny at something the kremlin denies as part of her ongoing campaign to silence critics and opposition inside russia, that opposition has been further silence with the result of these elections. are still coming through to us now, it seems that most of the votes counted vladimir putin has got the vast majority, well over 80% of the votes that were cast for, cast for vladimir putin as the kremlin leader. further tightens his grip on power in russia and putin tonight also mentioned the various court cases facing former president trump what did he say >> yeah, he did your right. he was of course, confronted with criticism of the undemocratic nature of the russian election. and he lashed out of that criticism, citing to take a swipe at the us presidential debate and the various court cases involving presumptive republican nominee and former president donald trump. he basically said that it was undemocratic to use administrative resources like the courts to attack a president, a candidate for president of the united states. and he said that basically when it comes to the electoral process many western countries in particularly united states, are not democratic at all, but of course, despite that side swipe by the russian president's his landslide victory in this presidential election in which no opposition candidates, by the way, were even allowed to stand i was raised questions about democracy in russia and that's the concern of outside observers at the moment >> matthew chance. thank you and for more on this. i want to bring in an apple bomb staff writer from the atlantic and i want to get your reaction to what you're hearing from putin tonight. somebody usual things that we've seen at this point look with this landslide victory, no real opposition. do you think that putin feels invincible >> so let me begin first by questioning use of the word election to describe what happened. putin likes to use the forms of democracy as a way of legitimizing his regime in fact, he's, he's running russia illegally he was meant to have served two terms as president. he's done that already. he's already broken the constitution. he's already illegally in power. it's not an election, it's, there are no other candidates on the ballot who are actual opponents. people vote really in order to show that they're upstanding citizens because they may be afraid not to vote. they may have repercussions in their jobs if they don't vote. it's not an election in any sense of the word at all. and the purpose of orchestrating it that way is for someone who is clearly in secure at some level about his power to orchestrate to create a show of approval that gives him justification. remember it wasn't it was only a few months oh, really that he we we saw a an armed uprising against putin from prigozhin, from one of his, if gaining prigozhin who was a general who ran a mercenary group that was part of his army, part of his invasion of ukraine. >> and >> that was, that was the first time we've seen anything like that in russia in many, many years. so he's clearly nervous. he's clearly worried. he clearly felt the need to create this enormous and bizarre show i just don't think that is the sign of someone who's very confident >> but do you think that this could empower him to not only continue as war in ukraine, but also potentially to invade other eastern european countries. >> you know if he's going to do that, it's not because of this manipulated event that we're pretending is an election. look, he's going to continue his war until he's not able to fight it anymore and he's very worried about not being able to fight it anymore, which is why he's using every piece of influence does that he can, for example, to block american aid to ukraine, to block european aid to ukraine he, he, he, he, the russians have friends, they have contacts in washington. they're doing their best to use propaganda on social media to convince people that ukraine can't win and so on. they have a whole series of narratives that they use to persuade americans that the war is unwinnable. but of course he knows better. russia has lost in the last few months something like 10% of its oil refining capacity. because of ukrainian drones, the ukrainian russian naibe has been pushed and pushed out of the western part of the black sea they're not moving, they should be moving forward on ukraine has far less ammunition that it did at this time last year. and yet they're not moving very fast. they've lost 300,000 people who are dead or wounded it's not award that's going well for them so i mean, obviously if they're able to keep fighting it, if they are able to when if they're able to hoodwink americans into persuading them there's no point in helping you cry and then they eventually, ukrainians could run out of weaponry would they go forward after that? yes absolutely. they say so all the time in russian propaganda is the former russian president medvedev, has recently put up a map but russia that shows russia occupying most of what's now ukraine. they talk all the time about invading other countries. but part of this is a show for their own people. and it's a way of scaring us. they want us to be afraid. they're going to escalate to make us anxious. and what they're really afraid of, what the russians or moos mr. afraid of, is that congress will pass the bill that gives aid to ukraine that will enable ukraine to continue fighting and eventually to win the war. >> i also want to ask you about navalny. not only did putin's say his name, but also said that he was open to a prisoner exchange. what do you make it that so we know there had been conversations about prisoner exchanges. they've gone on actually for a number of years. >> i don't i don't have >> any inside information about how close they really were to completion. i know that some people around navalny's think that the two things. one, the fact that it was, it was now being seriously discussed and the fact of these elections, those were actually the causes of his death. the reason why he was murdered right now was to prevent that exchange from happening two dash, everybody's hopes. and also to prove somehow to russians that there is no possible opposition that they can't. there's no point in opposing putin. you know, what do you need? needs to do to stay in power is to eliminate any idea of succession that there could anyone could replace him. that there's any alternative for russia. you wants people to believe this is the only thing that they can have. the only kind of russian than they, of course that's not true and by, by dismissing navalny or by pretending in that it was some kind of weird accident he's simply he's he's covering up what really happened. >> and applebaum, thank you. >> thank you. >> and desperation on chaos in haiti tonight, after a unicef container carrying essential items for newborn babies and their mothers was looted in the capital port-au-prince. now, armed groups have control over 260 containers in haiti's biggest port this comes as guatemala says, its console, and haiti was ransacked and cool an act of vandalism. cnn's david culver is live on the scene in port-au-prince. david, what are you seeing their tonight on the ground? >> hi there, paula. yeah, we wanted to get a sense today of some of the human suffering that is playing out here in haiti's capital city. and as we try to move out and about, i mean the logistics in the planning from a security perspective are quite tedious so we tried to figure out each morning how we're going to go a certain route just because it can change by the hour, if not by the minute, but we were able to go to one area. it was quite striking to us and that is but was a school and now has become a refugee camp people who are refugees in their own city. and this one place that we went to stood out to us because it's been more than a week since they've had food brought in. they have no running water, nothing clean for them to be able to drink and bay then and they're septic tanks are overflowing. and this gives you a quick sampling of what their life is like right now >> so this was a school here in port-au-prince, haiti and every single classroom that we pass like this one here, has now become a dorm room. is there are dozens, if not hundreds of people? oh, made this a recent campsite and you talked to a lot of these folks and they've come here in the past couple of weeks because of the most recent surge in violence and gangs taking more and more territory tori here in the city but these folks have also been on the run from their own home for months, if not years one woman told me it's been well over two years since you've been in her own house and she said gangs took over her community, killed her husband and forced her family to find a new home so essentially, paula, people like that have had to go from campsite to campsite even in that school, they have essentially had to figure out how to make do with not only the gangs and oftentimes will put pressure on them, but sometimes the folks who are living in that community who suddenly have new neighbors who they certainly didn't want there as they're all dealing with constrained amount of resources and trying to figure out how to live amongst each other. but it gets violent and it gets contentious at times. and you mentioned that unicef container because it's not about just trying to get things to port-au-prince, right? the containers are at the port several miles behind where i am and it's about and then getting them from that location to distribute them within places. port-au-prince, like where we visited and that's the challenge and that's where the gangs have really taken such a strong hold that the logistics of getting around many of those roadblocks arrow next to impossible at time. so that's the holdup for a lot of the folks who are in that situation. that is just absolutely desperate, waiting for some help to your point about the logistics of getting help this weekend, we saw the first flights of a un air bridge to help get >> humanitarian aid into haiti from the dominican republic. >> how did that go? >> and will there be more potentially? >> but this is crucial and so they're trying to ramp up more of these helicopter transports and what it was initially yesterday with two helicopters that came in with mostly people, so they had the folks who were going to be replacing some of the folks here who i'm needed to switch out or people who can just help with some of the strategic aspects on the ground. what they really need to be bringing in are the medical supplies that we know caitlin was too. right. so we're just confirmed senior editor caitlin hu here, that there have been two transports of that un air bridge helicopter coming in today, bringing in that much needed medical supplies. but again, paula, they come in, then the challenge starts on the ground and that can take many days to figure out how to get it to where it needs to be what can you tell us lastly, about american citizens still stuck in port-au-prince >> yes. so you do have folks who obviously have been either volunteers who are missionaries or here for businesses and yes, many of them happened to be american. and right now the us embassy is coordinating and trying to arrange flights out of paper he should, which is about 130 miles or show for where we are. so imagine from where you are in dc going up to philadelphia, the thing is it's not a simple as driving. certainly you can't fly the airport's closed. but if you were to try to hit the road, you would hit gang after gang, after gang after gang. and so it's next to impossible to get to those locations from here, paula david culver. thank you and still ahead, the family of ruth bader ginsburg asking that her name be removed from a leadership awards set to be given to rupert murdoch and elon musk we speak with james ginsburg, the late supreme court justices son, next, at prime minister benjamin netanyahu says, israel will push forward with an offensive in rafah, defying key allies. what we're learning about plans to invade this city in southern gaza. that's home to so many people who have been displaced. your in the cnn newsroom hey guys, the story of sin city 109810 on cnn >> you need d mobile home internet wait, chemo that's home internet >> rsv is out there for those 60 years and older, protect against rsv with a wreck sv, a rx is a vaccine used to prevent lower respiratory disease from rsv. and people 60 the years and older, wreck speed is not protect everyone. it is not for those with severe allergic reactions to its ingredients, those with weakened immune systems may have a low response to the vaccine. the most common side 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think it would be hard pressed to apply that description to people like elon musk and rupert murdoch. and that's why the family is so upset, not just a children, the whole family and her clerk family or long in fact, it was her one of our law clerks who sent the letter to the foundation saying, please rethink this. and of course, i've been contacted by people i know and people even that i don't know about this saying how upset they are. my sister even got a threatening letter because one of the things we want to do here is set the record straight. the family had nothing to do with this we were not consulted we are vehemently against this appropriation of our mother's name and this insult to her legacy >> now the opperman foundation has not responded to cnn's requests for comment, but how do you think your mother would respond to this list of honorees? >> i think she'd be appalled i think these are people who pretty much are stand in against all the things that she stood for in terms of trying to bring people into the make the world a better place? for people striving for equality and for a more inclusive world where everybody is treated with respect i think that one of our law clerks made a great analogy because i should mention that we looked at their 990, which is the form and i run enough for profit, so i don't know all about this. form that a non-profit that has to give the government saying he kept, here's our purpose. and therefore, i'm actually has the description of the award very almost exactly the same description as i just read you and it's a little bit like as one of her law clerks put it, if somebody gave money to a university to build a physics lab and they built football stadium instead. it's so violates the purpose of what was intended here. and this is not what my mother signed onto when the award was first created. >> and is it that you have a problem with the award being expanded to menn or is it just these menn in particular >> well, we could discuss that, but yeah, the the particular awardees and we can discuss the wisdom of each one, but the two that obviously stand out here our elon musk and rupert murdoch. when you think of trying to create a more just society, which of course was mom's ultimate goal? those are probably about the last names that would come to mind. >> are there any names at the top of your head that come to who you think would have been more appropriate recipients >> oh, i mean i there are so many. i wouldn't want to even begin to suggest. i think previous awardees are good examples of that. but there's so many people people try actually trying to do good in the world. and that was the goal originally of this award was to recognize those kind of people. and i don't want to single out one over another because i would be doing an injustice too. i'm sure all the great people out there who would be appropriate recipients but clearly, the ones they've named are not. >> going forward, how do you plan to rectify this to make sure this doesn't happen again next year with your after well, as another famous supreme court justice once said, sunlight is the best disinfectant. so we're starting and thank you so much for you on so that i can set the record straight i don't want to speak to what our other plans might be the foundation doesn't see the wisdom i'm disgusting. and ending this desecration of my mother's memory but i will say that we will continue to fight this jim ginsburg. thank you so much for joining us >> thank you so much >> and still ahead netanyahu tells cnn the latest hamas ceasefire proposal is quote, outlandish, where talks stand as negotiators returned to doha you're in the cnn newsroom >> cnn central weekdays. let's seven eastern >> welcome to stormy heights. >> we're >> the windows are always pellet. pellet fiberglass is the strongest material for windows and patio doors the fiberglass frame is even scratch and dent resistant hello, windows. >> it's even replacement 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happened in georgia this past week everybody i think knows there was this effort to disqualify fani willis, but i want to start talking about the judge who to make this decision. scott mcafee hizon, early 30s. he's been on the jug the bench for just over a year and he's handle this handle this incredible least sensitive issue with the cameras in the courtroom. how do you think he did >> i mean, i don't think you could find a flaw so far he has an excellent demeanor. he's patient, he listens he takes notes, his rulings come out timely, and i even personally find myself agreeing with some of his rulings. of course not the ones where he's ruled against me. but in this case, i think there's he's shown that he's a very sound jurist. i've been impressed many people i talked to on both sides have also been impressed i mean, to be thrown into a case of this magnitude right after taking the bench. that's no small feat to be able to even keep pace with the scheduling, the amount of motions, not to mention he has other cases yeah, absolutely.& is up for reelection soon. all right. so he issued this opinion effectively saying fani willis can stay if nathan wade, her former romantic partner, goes, he stepped down. but in this opinion, fani willis does not come away unscathed. he criticizes her professionalism, her judgment, and take some shots at her honesty. brian, how do you walk into a courtroom and try a case in front of a judge who said those things about two well certainly difficult. >> i mean, in this profession, we're used to taking losses, taking criticism, getting right back up. and you still have to advance the case forward. no one wants to be referred to as unprofessional and a court filing, especially not in this profession. as you said, her entire office has cases in that courthouse. they have to return to that courtroom. they could have a blow dealt to their own credibility. certainly not what you want to read, but at the same time, i think some of the decisions that you made have gotten us to this point. it's not as if it was just what took place in the courtroom that de there has been this ongoing issue, which is of course why defense filed the motion the first place see, we explore how did we get here, how did this happen and so i think that they'll lick their wounds, get back up, and continue with the case. now that weight is resigned, she has plenty of season prosecutors within her office who are completely capable of handling the case like this many of them who will remain on the case maybe they'll appoint somebody else to replace wade. but they have no choice but to move forward. >> well, let's previously said she wants to bring this case against trump and over dozen co-defendants in august of this year. but this disqualification process took up a couple of months do you think it's realistic that this case could start this year >> it's hard to say. >> i mean, the volume of discovery in a case like this takes a long time to go through. the main thing that i'm looking for now is what is the state going to do as far as are they going to point someone else? so they can just move forward with the team that they have but also they were held. there was another ruling that came down just before this one from judge mcafee granting the dimmers with respect to several council the indictment. so the state now has to decide do we seek a certificate tried to appeal that. do we move forward with an indictment that has fewer accounts? or do we go back to the drawing board, re-presented the grand jury and try to get indictments on those counts again, as he noted in his order, unlike federal court, there's no way for them to cure this by giving more particular information they have to go and seek a new indictment if they want to proceed on the counts that we're just quashed and if they get it wrong the second time in georgia, a second quash on the same count means you can never bring that count again, it's extinguished. so they'll have to make some really careful decisions if they want to bring the same counts for a long time, trump's legal team said they worry the most about the georgia election subversion case because of the gravity of the charges, but also >> the fact that it lies outside the pardon power do you think that this should still be their biggest concern given the four criminal cases >> well, i mean, any criminal case is a great concern. i mean, you have the weight of the government. i don't care how much money i'm and your resources you have, you will never outspend the government having all of these cases going on at the same time is it's just an unbelievable complexity. not just the potential at the end of the road, but even defending such case, if you give testimony because you feel you have a good defense in one case, that transcript is going to be available the next time you're testify. and so you may want to assert certain rights to not testify in one case, but you need to testify in another case. there are all these considerations that they have to go through, not to mention the timing and the scheduling aspects. you have four cases, even the judges in those cases are trying to figure out how do we try this with the other trials on the horizon, because certainly defendants have a right to be present participle fade in their own case. >> yeah, the calendars are real mess and we have no idea what's going on in new york. but apparently you might find out on march 25th brian. thank you >> thank you for having me still ahead. march madness, the college basketball event of the year is finally here. and today is selection sunday, the team does that made it to the big dance. and the ones who got left behind, your in the cnn newsroom vegas to store your ssd 109810 on cnn >> next next stop. >> we got it no. >> going again. >> next next. >> if you pick one, you have time. am i keeping you from your job? >> next? >> i don't even know where i am anymore. >> step dewey finally have it 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carolina blue line. there, their back. and even though three of those 14's lost their conference tournaments, the only one, that one there conference tournament is yukon. but those two those four teams look strong. and i think there's a big question too about purdue out of the big ten. produce had heartache. they've lost in the last two two of the three years. they have lost in their first >> a very highly ranked >> produ team. and so can produ do what their fans want them to do and get to the men's final four. that's it. >> that's another big question out there among many as people are starting to begin to think about the men's bracket is we're about to find out about the women's i could hear in a few minutes. are while we're waiting for word on the women's teams, do you have any predictions there >> will certainly. we've got to talk about the most famous name in college sports. and that's caitlin clark and her iowa team has been playing much better in the last few weeks and one, the big ten tournament last week, coming back from a deficit in the final few minutes and really, really playing well. so we would think that i will will be a number one seed. south carolina is the best team in women's basketball undefeated. i don't stay lays team is looking strong. then i think maybe through teams from out west, when you're looking at stanford and the us see southern california with their freshmen started due to watkins. this is a great time for women's basketball hall. it's a great time for the women's game and for the respect for the women's game, what i was watching, the men's selection show kept talking about men's basketball. the adjective that wasn't used for generation decades. and now it is as being used. the talk about men's and women's brackets. i will be interesting to see how many more people will do a women's brackets this year than i've ever done them in the past because of the celebrity of caitlin clark selling out arenas millions of fans. frankly, the 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time. he picked up both men and his patrol car before the inexplicably vanished. they are both presumed dead 20 years later. >> the cases are cold >> just going to go back there and see what i can see, knowing that the remains of terrence williams and fleet bei santos are still out there somewhere this part's a little tricky. but once you get past these rocks and gets easier caulkins got to know this the area really, really well. he had lived in north naples, then had patrolled it for at least ten years. so he knew this place like the back of his hand the authorities are pretty sure he's lying about something. but he was never charged so fred, the answer is somewhere out there. and this mother's love >> and determination and this investigative reporting has gone on for nearly 20 years. what do you do when you don't know who to trust? don't know where the answers are going to come from. >> but all you >> know is you've got to find your piled. >> it's unbelievable. it is so gripping and 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