the big, overarching crime that makes these 34 counts of falsifying business records? a felony because normally they re misdemeanors. does the prosecution have to eventually tell everyone because there has to be a defense mounted? correct absolutely. yeah, i was a little surprised that the underlying predicate offenses were not spelled out so clearly. in the indictment or the statement of facts. certainly there are illusions to it. and certainly the a brag, made allusions to state campaign finance violations. federal violations of campaign finance law as well as tax fraud, but typically that would be in the heart of the indictment itself. part of the charges. exactly for the reason. you said that the defendant knows what he needs to answer. so what will happen is no doubt his defense team and he has an excellent team will ask for a bill of particulars. they will make a motion there was a you need to tell us exactly which crimes you re accusing this
we will do everything we can to get evan home and paul whelan by the way. that hasn t stopped either. we have no allusions that it s going to take a lot of hard work. we won t shy away from it. we will do that work. bret: you have been in contact with the administration. we have. the administration have stood behind us. we are optimistic that they are moving towards label willing evan as wrongfully detained. i think when this happens then you get an official recognition that the charges against him are bogus and then i think the government issuing the will go up a notch. they have been very supportive. bret: i was studying this about americans detained by foreign government. look at these stats. more americans in recent years detained by foreign governments on what the u.s. considers done bogus or politicized charges than have been taken captive by
investigations and inquiries they are looking into. the hope is that this is just the building of momentum and we will see more like this to come. so, gary, you tweeted today i do not care if putin leaves his country in chains or in a box, but he must be culpable for his crimes. the facts will come out. you think at this point the russians will learn something from this? eventually, yes. but, before this moment comes, ukraine must win the war. as i have been saying for a long time, we believe that victory for ukraine is the beginning of the duration of russia from putin s passes in. full liberation of the country, including crimea. preparations being paid. and war crimes tribunal. those are three key components for russia to have a historic chance to leave behind empire. not only imperial allusions and
michael cohen s federal felony s donald trump on the hook for that but even if it s just a bunch of misdemeanors, at a certain point,s with a showed, the trump org, felonious lying cohen in prison. donald trump is, he going to be hit with any of that would you bring the case against someone if they weren t a former president? the trump team arguing this is bragg doing a select thing. absolutely not. i think this is the kind of approaching that the d.a. s office brings, and it is to create transparency and fairness in financial markets you were there how many years? i was there five years. all right, that s something professor murray you heard it from your counterpart with the bread. your thoughts? i m going veer away from the fiddler on the roof allusions and talk about the firm . there s a poignant scene towards
violence, to us are homeless again after a fire ripped through a camp in bangladesh. it gutted around 2,000 huts on sunday, refugee volunteers trained in firefighting eventually gained control of the flames, we haven t heard deaths but around 12,000 have been displayed. they re working to provide food and shelter to those impacted it has been a deadly winter in afghanistan. coldest in more than a decade according to the u.n. refugee agency but the problems won t disappear when spring arrives in a few weeks. extreme poverty and hunger have only been made worse by taliban policies, limiting the assistance, aid agencies can provide. cnn anna carr reports. fresh snow blankets the hill tops in central afghanistan. creating the allusions of a