This is cnn news its monday, february 20, right now on cnn this morning, donald trump with all the Momentum Heading into michigan, while nikki haley gets dropped by one of her top donors Fertility Clinics halting Ivf Treatments after alabamas Supreme Court declared frozen embryos are people republicans now dealing with the fallout . Why dont, you tell people the truth for a change cnn this morning comes to washington, senator joe manchin joins us live in studio for our inaugural voyage all right, a live look at our Nations Capital at 06 00 a. M. Here on the east coast. Good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt. Its great to be with you this morning over the weekend, former President Donald Trump won more than 60 of the vote in south carolina, beating nikki haley in her home state still, that means nearly 40 of republicans in that conservative Southern State did not vote for trump. Haley made clear this weekend that she wont drop out of the race when so many voters on lets be honest there o
signs it seems for now perhaps cooling off. thousands of mercenaries who have fought for russia and ukraine have been marching rapidly towards moscow as they turned on vladimir putin. just in the last half hour halting their dance we are told on the capitol the head of the wagner groups and he gave the order to avoid shedding russian blood. this, after letter potent valid decisive action against what he calls treason. it is ongoing and fluid situation here at fox news we are on top of it all. hello everyone what would fox s life i am eric shawn. hi arthel. arthel: hi eric hello everyone i m arthel neville. today stunning developments represent the first major challenge to putin s decades long grip on power. the head of the wagner group is a long time kremlin. he has been increasingly critical of russia s military in recent weeks. he says his forces have seized key russian military facilities knew that near the ukraine border. again they are being ordered to return to their fi
to prove fear ending up as a mean and a bizarre and alarming clash between china and the philippines on the high seas, the chinese coast guard launching a quote, brutal assault, a filipino general while slamming beijing s over the attack saying, quote, only pirates do this and artificial intelligence may be coming for all our jobs. and faster than thought possible. a new survey has a stark warning for americans were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here. the cnn news central just one week from today, president biden and former trump will go head to head right here on cnn, the debate in atlanta will be the first of this year s presidential race. and we just learned that former president trump will get the final word after a coin flip to determine the order of closing statements and podium placements. but before they we take the debate stage next week, both candidates are preparing in very different ways today, president biden headi
To try to get through ukrainian air defenses. ukraine has gotten very good at shooting down certain types of missiles. and now russia is using a variety of different types of cruise missiles to get through those air defenses. that is why ukraine has repeatedly been asking western allies for more and more sophisticated air defenses to try to swat these drones and these missiles out of the sky. erin? all right, alex, thank you very much live from kyiv tonight. and alex s reporting comes as we re getting new video into outfront of a prominent russian military hardliner, also actually a former fsb officer. his name is igor girkin. he s making his first appearance in court. prominent pro-military guy. well, he was arrested and charged with inciting extremist activity just three days after he took on putin directly in a telegram post, in which after all the support he d given he d called putin a low life and a
He relies on his minister of defense yevgeny prigozhin and the director of russia s federal security service fsb. but it does not mean all of russia s military the other senior military leaders are his intelligence officers would not turn against vladimir putin. in the early days of the were vladimir putin the fsb officer in space bar the for intelligence and the former union putin tried to make him a scapegoat for intelligence failures in ukraine are absolutely vladimir putin s alone. so it is possible there may be groups forming among the security services and in the military that might decide to launch their own coup against vladimir putin. we have already seen rearguard action from anti- putin elements. we have seen drones in moscow. there are those who are counting vladimir putin and see an opportunity right now to take the fight to the kremlin.