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comcast business. powering possibilities. top of the hour now on cnn newsroom. good to have you. i m victor black well. and i m bianna golodryga. any minute now the jury will return from lunch and receive instructions from the judge. just before the defense was getting ready to begin this morning, a judge dismissed a juror for discussing the case with people outside the jury. you have had some discussions with some folks not on the jury, which is going to require me to remove you from the jury. i m not suggesting that you intentionally did anything wrong, but that in order to preserve the integrity of the process and in fairness to all the parties involved, we re going to replace you with one of the other jurors. cnn national correspondent diane gallagher is outside the courthouse there in walterboro for us. walk us through this final day of the closing arguments. reporter: victor, right now we are waiting for court to return essentially so the judge can cha ....
State antony blinken met with sergey lavrov. joining us now is the author of all the president s men. putin, zelenskyy and the path of russia to ukraine. mikhail, you have been known as a criminologist and you have sources that remain there in the kremlin. it was interesting to see secretary of state blinken meet with foreign minister lavrov, their first meeting since the war began. i m curious to get your insight into what leverage at all lavrov has over putin given that he didn t know until the last minute about the major assault? that s true. we say if anyone has any leverage on president putin, and definitely lavrov is not the case, is not the man to take any part in any decision-making, but even like all the bureaucrats who are not close to the army or ....
Finland and Sweden are set to deliver their formal applications at NATO’s headquarters in Brussels this week, with bloc members rallying around the move that requires unanimity among the 30 allies. ....
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said a $40-billion package of US aid to Ukraine may be approved on Wednesday. Nato members rallied around Finland and Sweden on Sunday after they announced plans to join the alliance. ....
Sanctions today. we will see what those are. in a sense the two are acting in a calibrated manner, carefully not wanting to force action. remember, this is a war that could kill 50,000 civilians and create 5 million refugees, is the estimate. so you need to be careful about taking the staff that actually torches off the war. i think we should listen for biden s comments today. is there still in his mind a diplomatic path? will secretary of state blinken meet with his russian counterpart sergey lavrov on thursday as has been discussed? what are u.s. expectations for that meeting? what can it accomplish given the situation? do they still see an exit ramp, as they like to put it, or are we headed for a full-scale, all-out war? is that where we are? we will have to listen for biden to give us his sense of where ....