and good evening. i m erin burnett outfront tonight, speaking out on the verge of a prisoner swap alexey s alexey navalny s closest allies tonight is claiming that a deal to swap navalny and to americans for one of putin s most wanted us acids was ready to go. when navalny suddenly died in a russian penal colony now wildly booth symptom can putin navalny with everything putin could never be needed him for it. but why did he kill him? now on the y february 16, i know the answer to that question, and i have neither the flight is to reason nor desire hi. hi, dad will navalny s team says that this was all at the final stage. the final stage of a deal to swap navalny on the night of february 15, the night of february 15, of course, is the night before navalny mysteriously died in prison navalny s team says that russian oligarch and billionaire roman abramovich delivered putin s proposal to swap navalny and the news is coming as navalny s wife is now speaking out against putin no
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a highly credible confidential human source with the most corroborating evidence we have said judiciary chair jim jordan last month. sounds big. and according to reporting from multiple outlets, it was big. alexander smirnov was the lynch pin, perhaps, of the entire gop impeachment inquiry into president biden. except that lynch pin now looks more like a poison pill. in a new court filing, the special counsel tasked with investigating hunter biden s business dealings said smirnov is a lay liar, that he can t be trusted on anything, not about his financial conditions, not his alleged meetings, not about his supposed insider information, and certainly not about the bribe claims. in fact, special counsel weiss says the lies smirnov is still telling are linked to russian intelligence and could, quote, impact u.s. elections. oof. so where does the house impeachment inquiry go now? hunter biden is supposed to testify next week, but first his uncle james is behind closed doors with
we show you these incredible pictures. hello, i m matthew amroliwala, welcome to verified live, and straight to breaking news. hundreds of people wrongly convicted in the post office scandal are set to have their names cleared after the government set out plans for new legislation. the government expects the new law will come into effect by the end ofjuly. let s get more on this story, it has just happened, let s go to our business corresponding in the newsroom, tell us more. this was contained in newsroom, tell us more. this was contained in a newsroom, tell us more. this was contained in a ministerial- newsroom, tell us more. this was l contained in a ministerial statement from the post office minister. a certain amount of what he is saying we already knew so there are some 983 postmasters up and down the country who have been convicted on cases that involved in some way evidence from the now discredited horizon accounting software. the government said it would come for