Kremlin is dragging out the war, waiting to see what happens in the 2024 u. S. President ial election. Cnns new reporting is straight ahead. And political Collision Course Donald Trumps legal calendar filling up just as the race for the republican nomination is heating up. After trumps third arraignment yesterday well show you why he hopes the Supreme Court can throw him a line. A Major Development in the gilgo beach murders investigation. Police say theyve identified a victim whose remains were found nearly three decades ago. Were following these stories and many more coming in right here to cnn news central. A brazen drone attack on the black sea and a potential warning to russias navy that more could be on the way. Look at this video obtained by cnn. It appears to show a Ukrainian Unmanned sea drone approaching a landing ship at a Russian Naval base. The video shows the drone inching closer and closer until you see there, the camera cuts off, likely the moment it hits and the ship e
how he plans to expand democratic control in 2023 and how not to celebrate black history month. we will reveal our worst of the week contenders. i m ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. let s start this hour with the breaking news of the night the united states has shot down the suspected surveillance balloon off the coast of south carolina. officials say a f 22 missile jet took up the balloon with a single air to air missile. at 2:39 eastern this afternoon. nbc s gary graham joins me now from washington, d. c.. with the latest. gary, it s good to have you with us. what do we know about that decision-making process to shut down this blue and the evidence to collect the debris? as you can imagine,, eamonn you get our learning that this whole process was a team effort, it was a multi agency effort. the faa turned off all the arrivals and departures from wilmington airport from north carolina, from myrtle beach, from charleston. the air force is the one that shut down the ballo
The state department expects to be able to evacuate some american who is wish to leave the african country of niger. they plan to transport them on a flight for nonemergency diplomats and family members them comes after the nation s democratly elected president says he was detained by son-in-laws in a military coup. president biden called for his immediate release. keep in mind, the country of niger is a key u.s. partner, serving as a base for hundreds of u.s. troops to assist with counterterrorism missions. jim in. jailed opposition leader alexei navalny was sentenced to an additional 19 years in a russian prison today. he was clearly not shocked by the decision. just received this statement posted in navalny s official telegram channel. he says he already knows he s serving a life sentence. cnn political and security analyst david sanger joins me
Is that why we re getting this information about who this victim is so many decades later? well, thanks for having me, breanna. yes, from what we re told this was connected through familial dna, not unlike the way the golden state killer was caught through ancestry dna. but it s fascinating how this is unfolding, because they apparently have known her identity since october of last year, which is nearly a year, and that dove tailed with the investigation into rex heuermann. so what i believe is this was a conscious decision by law enforcement to get heuermann off the street first, lock him up, secure him, and then make this announcement so that it would not be a distraction or perhaps even spook heuermann. they have not linked this particular victim to rex heuermann, who has been arrested for murder of three of the gilgo
Intercede. we should point out it s not his money. it s campaign donations. jessica schneider here with us. is there a court filing in the works to get some of this sorted out by the supreme court, or is this just the former president posting on social media? at this point boris, it appears to be political bluster. we don t know of any legal finding. but it is possible that at some point in either of these cases, january 6th or classified documents case, the elements of the case or ultimate ruling, decision from the trial, jury itself might ultimately be appealed all the way up to the supreme court. but right now we haven t seen any indication of that. it s important to note, though, every other time that any of trump s challenges to the 2020 election, every other time they ve gone up before the supreme court, the court either