ahead. i ll speak with the family of paul weiland, another american, the kremlin has locked up on espionage charges and a group of military families gets the tragic news. nine service members killed when two black hawk choppers crashed. cnn has a crew right near that save. plus tension in the house from paper tossing to hallway shouting in your face. debates are getting heated on the hill. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper, and we start today with our world lead. top u . s. officials are strongly criticizing russia after an american reporter was detained on charges of spying. evan gersh covic appeared in a moscow court today accused of trying to steal russian state secrets. his employer, the wall street journal, says it quote vehemently denies those claims. but now gorshkov itch faces up to 20 years in prison. and today , lawmakers on capitol hill are accusing russia of using this journalist as leverage, and the white house is dismissing the charges.
Kayla tausche at the white house. And this is cnn its friday, may 3, right now on cnn this morning, secret tapes, extortion claims, and one blatant lie. Its all in a days work in one day at Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial President Biden paving the way for thousands of dreamers to receive obamacare benefits. And a massive tornado strikes Central Texas with damage and some injuries reported ahead. Well have the latest details and the forecast as more severe storms could be on the way 6 00 a. M. Here in washington. Heres a live look at New York City and some man look at that beautiful sunrise. Love it. Great way to start the weekend. Good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt. Its great To Be With You sex lies and donald trump on audio tape as the first ever criminal trial of a former president continued for another sorted day, the jury appearing to hanging on every word as that they heard a call between trump and his then lawyer, Michael Cohen that cohen had secretly recorded heres the tape n
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ukrainian children. what do you make of trump objecting to desantis? colleen putin, a war criminal? i mean, look, trump s just i ve got to just i m gonna take the like, you know, analytic had off and kind of opinion hat. he s a huge, huge problem with this in terms of with russia and in terms of his his praise for authoritarians, and he s also one of the weakest scared ist most afraid of action presidents that have ever been president of the united states. i mean, he was always scared to react to anything. i give him credit for the soleimani kill, but that s about it. and with russia. he s saying, well, look, all you re gonna do is caused vladimir putin to use nuclear weapons like he s some kind of victim again. vladimir putin is the evil man. he was indicted by the i. c c. the criminal court, which, by the way, we are the party, too, but for donald trump to come out once again and defend vladimir putin, remember he used to go after angela merkel. and then in the same sentence, go afte