808 to 14000 this is cnn Breaking News we are continuing to follow Breaking News. President biden addressing the nation moments ago formally announcing the largest exchange of prisoners between the united states and its partners at russia since the Cold War, the president confirming that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and retired Us Marine Paul Whelan are Coming Home. This photo just posted online the two men after theyre release between them, of course, is Russian American journalist alsu kurmasheva, whos being released along with prominent putin critic vladimir karamurza, who is a us resident brutal ordeal is over theyre free moments ago families and i are able to speak to them on you telephone from the Oval Office. There out of russia earlier today, there flown to turkey and soon therell be wheels up on their way home to see their families this is an incredible relief for all the Family Members gathered here. Its relief to the friends and colleagues all across the cou
have time to start focusing on it, kind of weed out, you know, whether people are just wrong about it or it was something else. we ve got a long waying into g that. but it s good to keep talking about because it s what i hear about most. appreciate you bringing it up, anderson. i ll see you soon. i m chris cuomo, welcome to prime time. if congressman matt gaetz has nothing to answer for, if the federal investigation of alleged activities, maybe involving prostitution, even underage females, if it s all a sham, why would he ask trump for a pardon? that s what the new york times is reporting tonight, that gaetz privately asked trump and the white house, in the ugly final days of that presidency, for blanket, preemptive pardons for himself as well as for unidentified congressional allies. now, remember, a preemptive pardon means for any crimes that i may have committed, i m pardoned. cnn hasn t confirmed the story yet, but if true, you have to ask, do innocent people seek
else. we ve got a long way to go on that. but it s good to keep talking about because it s what i hear about most. appreciate you bringing it up, anderson. i ll see you soon. i m chris cuomo, welcome to prime time. breaking news from the new york times . if congressman matt gaetz has nothing to answer for, if the federal investigation of alleged activities, maybe involving prostitution, even underage females, if it s all a sham, why would he ask trump for a pardon? that s what the new york times is reporting tonight, that gaetz privately asked trump and the white house, in the ugly final days of that presidency, for blanket, preemptive pardons for himself as well as for unidentified congressional allies. now, remember, a preemptive pardon means for any crimes that i may have committed, i m pardoned. cnn hasn t confirmed the story yet, but if true, you have to ask, do innocent people seek out preemptive pardons? sources tell the times top white house lawyers and offic
emotional connection to the distress and the pain that resolved itself in guilt in them. you know why that is. it s because i ll tell you a story. you remember alton sterling, this was in batten rouge, july 2016, got into a scuffle with police, ended up dying. and everyone was like he had a gun, it was this, it was that, okay? so you know my family is from there. so my nieces call me and they said oh, that was mr. alton. he is always standing out in front of the convenience store and he sells the cds. we know him, we see him. so to them because it was near where they grew up, he was a human being. he was not threatening. uncle don, sometimes we would see him and we wouldn t want to buy cds from him because we have our own music and whatever but we would go mr. sterling here s some money, whatever, not threatening to them. human being, they saw his humanity, as a person who was their neighbor. oftentimes when you don t have a relationship with people like that, you don t k
xfinity makes moving easy. go online to transfer your services in about a minute. get started today. i want to thank you for watching. cnn tonight, with the big star, d lemon, starts right now. it was an amazing opportunity, for the majority, today. in watching the trial of george floyd s murder. and very often, white people come to a conclusion that, you know what? i don t really understand this. i don t live it. i don t feel it. but often, it ends there, because it s hard to get that different perspective. it is an abundance, right now, in what we are seeing. i think it s really instructive, for me, and for a lot of white people. people in the majority. to see how many people of color, who were standing by, watching this happen, and having an emotional connection to the distress and the pain that resolved itself, in guilt, in them. you know you know why that is? it s because i ll tell you a story. it you remember alton sterling? this was in baton rouge, 2016. ju