we re not even talking about the lead up to this conflict by that point, why were you there originally to do a duck documentary, what was it about ukraine or maybe it was about zelenskyy that interested you? get i think i was in the better part of the population with enter understanding of ukraine, with the exception of a phone call between president and zelenskyy and president trump that was made a lot of and the fact that president zelenskyy had been a comedic actor who ha betrayed an actor who became th he went initially to make a documentary that had kind of a bring home a sense of ukraine and a profile of this president fred. it wouldn t bent as interesting and then the next thing you do is this build up o vladimir putin on the eastern side of ukraine. first we have 50,000 troops, then it s 100,000 troops and then all the military equipment and you are chronicling all of this and you develop a relationship with zelenskyy perry telus, as this was unfolding, a lot of t
movie there. we head home and by that time it s on every tv screen and just at trite as it sounds, a stage you ll nerver fert. fegt. forget. you can see john s work on sportsillustrated.com. i m don lemon, live for the cnn debate happening monday. we begin with a report for moammar gadhafi, crumbled empire in libya, his son, we re told, saadi, a former playboy fled to niger. we ll be joined now by cnn s ben we dman with the latest on that. ben what can you tell us? reporter: yes, don. we know from the justice minister of niger, saadi, the third son of moammar gadhafi, 37 years old, traveled into that country with eight other so-called minor libyan officials. they were granted refuge there on a humanitarian basis. so saadi is not really the big fish that libyan officials are hoping to catch. they re most interested in saif islam the other brother and the man they call the big fish, moammar gadhafi. don? cnn s ben wedeman. thank you, ben. moving on to talk about t