Ride to freedom for american prisoners released in a swap with russia. Is a huge day. We all woke to this happy news and as it was brewing we are grateful wall street journal reporter evan gershkovich, fox had wall street journal owned by the same company. It s a throw for everyone here to have evan gershkovich rightfully on his way home. Americans were used to, unfortunately, seeing him like this. In a glass cage in russia court appearances he would often smile and would wave. Most recently seen with a shaved head. In the most recent images we got of him he was behind bars for a year in a 9 by 12 cell. On false charges of espionage. This is paul whelan on his way home after his wrongful detainment for espionage as well. He was 4 years into a 16 year sentence in the hard work labor camp. You can see in this next image, evan on the left seated with a big smile on his face. Hall on the right. Below him is a journalist. At this hour they are saying based on the conversations with them str
everyone over 16 in the u.s. can get one. and former u.s. vice president walter mondale is being remembered as a dogged politician. he passed away at the age of 93 and now many tributes are pouring in. our top story, jurors in former police officer derek chauvin s murder trial spent four hours deliberating but did not reach a verdict on monday. they will resume deliberations in minneapolis later today as the nation waits on edge. chauvin who is white is accused of killing george floyd, a black man, with excessive and unreasonable force by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes. floyd s death was caught in chilling video, it sparked protests across the u.s. and around the world and calls for police reform and racial justice. while the jury deliberates over the landmark case, minneapolis and other u.s. cities are bracing for the possibility that a not guilty verdict could bring anger and unrest to the streets. the national guard has even been deployed in parts of
escalating tensions in the region despite the fact that it is vladimir putin who has positioned more than 120,000 forces along ukraine s border. head of nato says that he is hopeful diplomacy will prevail. it still is diplomatic way out, but that requires that russia deescalates and engages in good faith it in political talks with nato and nato allies. and whether russia is willing to do that, this that remains to be seen. that i toe will not deploy nato troops to ukraine, but we need to be sure that there is no misunderstanding about our readiness, our commitment to protect and defend all allies especially in the eastern part of the alliance. and sam kiley is in kiev. sam, how are ukranian officials responding to these latest decisions and movements? reporter: they are very delighted to see more arrival of weapons, very important weapons to the javelin anti-arrest mower weapon that comes on top of previous supplies from the united states. and about ten days ago, suppli
it s close to catastrophe. water, food, ammunition, everything growing more scarce. ukraine s president can see that russian forces over much of mariupol. russian soldiers accused of dumping more than 200 bodies including women and children into ditches. let s begin our coverage with cnn s matt rivers live in lviv with these breaking details. matt, what is the latest? reporter: kate, what we re watching going on in the east is we re getting some more insight into what russian commanders have been thinking and i think what we ve heard from them is what a lot of us military analysts, journalists have been saying publicly for a long time now but we re getting publicly now from this top military commander in russia is that their goals in this second phase of the war is to connect the two areas of ukraine that they both, currently control. that would be areas in the donbas region, in the east. places that are russian controlled separatists areas, essentially, and also, they want
has driven up gas and food prices all over the world. we saw that in yesterday s inflation data. what people don t know is that 70% of the increasing inflation was a consequence of putin s price hike because of the impact on oil prices. 70%. we need many, we need to address these high prices and urgently. paul: let s bring in kevin hassett, he s former chairman of the president s council of economic add a visors advisers and a distinguished visiting fellow at the hoover institution. kevin, welcome. so i m, i ve always thought vindication is overrated especially when it regards to predicting bad news, but, boy, have you been vindicated [laughter] predicting inflation from a year ago. what were you looking at even nine months ago that the administration expect if ped missed? and the fed missed? right. basically, it s supply and demand. the problem with democratic economists and politicians is that they re sort of command-only economists demand-only. they re keynesians.