last may congress held its first hearing on ufo s in over 50 years. intelligence experts testify about hundreds of encounters with unidentified objects and gave americans a glimpse into apparent run-ins with unidentified aircraft. air force veteran and high-ranking intelligence official is blowing the whistle on a program run by the u.s. government for decades. david grusc h claims the government is in possession of partial and fully in tact aircraft of nonhuman origin and several members of the program corroborated with the office of the inspector general. he says information about the deeply covert program has been withheld from congress and is speaking out about the secretive program. these are retrieving nonhuman technical vehicles, spacecraft, if you will, nonhuman, exotic origin, vehicles that have landed or crashed. we have spacecraft from another species? we do. how many? quite a number. quite a number, kayleigh. what is fascinating about this, he s not the
good morning. buenos dias and welcome to cnn this morning. we are grateful you are starting your sunday, march 19th with us. i m boris sanchez. i m amara walker. is there a good morning? it is a very good morning for me. it is a great one. because boris is going to getting a lot more sleep on the weekends. look, there is really no bad news. there is some breaking news. i guess the bad news is that you won t be able to see boris bright and early in the morning saying buenos dias, but, for all the boris fans you will be getting a lot more of boris during the week. we don t want to disclose all the details. look, i think you and i channelled each other because we are kind of in mourning with all of our black. sadly, because we won t be together. that s the bad news. the good news, you will get so much more of boris. you are too kind. more of that in a sec. here is what we are watching today. russian president vladimir putin makes a surprise visit to the russian-o
for the first time since russia invaded ukraine china s president xi jinping will meet face-to-face with vladimir putin. so what could this mean for the war and also tensions between the u.s. and china? we are on it. plus a cnn exclusive, dozens of mar-a-lago staffers, members of trump s inner circle as well, have now been subpoenaed to testify in the ongoing probe of classified documents. find out who is on that list. and big banks to the rescue, 11 of them are now offering a $30 billion lifeline to one of the regional banks in danger of collapsing after this week s banking turmoil. we will be watching for reaction when the markets open in less than 30 minutes. we do begin this hour with next week s meeting in moscow between the russian president, putin, chinese president xi. cnn s senior international correspondent will ripley is with us. what more are we learning about the talks and what they re expected to focus on? reporter: the timing is certainly significant, it
serve, allowing mr assange to return to australia, his home country. i mjoined by return to australia, his home country. i m joined by our north american correspondence. looks like this long running saga could be coming to conclusion. us more. we received conclusion. us more. we received the conclusion. us more. - received the breaking news in the last couple of hours and there are so many layers to the julian assange story. to recap what you said there, it looks like he will be a free man at some point this week, striking a plea deal with the us. he spent the last five years in a high security prison, belmarsh prison, in the uk. remember, he has been long accused by the us of exposing sensitive secrets about the war in iraq and afghanistan through the wikileaks website, the whistleblowing website. and they claim it put american operatives in danger. and almost all the charges he faced, by the way, 18 charges, were under the 1917 espionage act. but he, now, this plea deal