Of lethal aid arrived in ukraine. 80 tons of weapons reinforcing the countrys defenses against the Russian Forces amassing on the border. Also top brass presented the president with the option to Bolster Forces in the baltics and eastern europe. Repositioning 5,000 u. S. Troops. Cnn is covering the story from every angle as only cnn can. Nic robertson in russia, Jasmine Wright in washington, d. C. , and melissa bell in paris. We begin with nic in moscow. Good morning. How is the kremlin responding to all this . Reporter i think were going to get an update on that in the next hour or so. The kremlin spokesman is due to speak. There is so much has happened. Russia has been accused of backing a former, a former ukrainian Member Of Parliament to become the new leader in kiev. Thats something we can expect to hear more about. But i think the announcement from president the announcement over the weekend that President Biden is considering sending up to 5,000 troops is something we can expect
Marilyn monroe, blond bombshell. Get out the fire house. Hollywood super star. The late Marilyn Monroe. Tragic victim. The story of Marilyn Monroe is an talentic tragedy. When we talk about Marilyn Monroe, its always about poor marry listen, this vulnerable passive woman who is being destroyed by hollywood. Thats the way the story frames her. After a reckoning in hollywood, its time to reframe her story. Now it can hit pause and roll it back a bit and ask ourselves, okay, what is it that we think we know . She was quite ahead of her time. And she was very much an architect of her own fame. You must think i was born yesterday. Her performances are layered. Theyre funny. Theyre tenner the. They are human. They feel modern. She had a deep inner life. She was an artist. She was a poet. She was a business woman. What a power broker she was, renegotiating her contract, creating her own production company, getting films made. Its rather instruments straighting that people cant think about her
[ sound of gunfire ] as far back as i can remember, i always wanted to be a gangster. Goodfellas is like, fasten your seatbelts, im going to kick the shit out of you for two and a half hours and youre going to love it. There have been so many Gangster Movies, so many mob movies. Is it really possible that in 1990 Martin Scorsese will be able to make a Gangster Movie that has something to say that hasnt already been said a million times . Its going to be a good summer. And you watch the movie and youre like, yeah. See you later, thanks. What are you doing . Youre leaving your car . He watches the car for me. We tried to capture the exuberance of that world. Its dangerous and threatening, but theyre having a wonderful time. Over there. Oh, thanks a lot. Goodfellas was the nuts and bolts of the mob. It was the mob as a job. What do you do . What . What do you do . Im in construction. And the balance of these two families, of your mob family and your real family, and the way that the two s
Robinson, apparently tired, punched fairly well and rocked jake right to his heels. Come on, ray. A director and actor finds a story at the right time in the right place. And out comes this amazing combination of cinematic virility and absolute fear. Its like watching an animal. Raging bull is a great title. The film fulfills the promise. The reality of the boxing and the great slow motion, all of the Black And White gore, the violence of the flush bulbs going off. When he designed the movie, marty purely, he didnt pickup a clutch on the film. Theres no clutch. Hey, ray, you never went down, ray. You never got me down, ray. Its a boxing movie for people who dont like boxing. Because its really not about that. Its about this man who was based on a real person who is really at war with himself. Come on. Harder. Harder. I didnt really understand boxing, but the character was interesting. He was just so contraire, as they say. He was just so difficult. What are you trying to prove . What d
Minister Boris Johnson hold on . In hindsight i will talk about all of that and more with richard haass, Anne Applebaum and david miliband. Also, stocks are volatile, inflation is stubborn, oil hits sevenyear highs and chinas growth starts to slow. What is going on with the economy . Now we need to get inflation under control. I will talk to Rana Foroohar of the financial times. But first here is my take. What does Vladimir Putin want . Its a question washington finds hard to answer because, lets face it, we americans rarely put ourselves in other peoples shoes. Two important essays by Dmitri Trennen in Foreign Affairs provide some clues. Both suggest that putin has stated power for over 20 years not by being a reckless gambler but rather by being careful, even rational. Trenen points out that putin has watched four waves of nato expansionism since he took power. His Military Incursions have usually been reactions to events rather than grand initiatives of his own. In 2008 it followed