could be a trap but in the m meantime, the world hangs its hope on this idea of a better understanding for now between the united states and russia. much more on this coming up. clarissa and nick, thank you both very much. all right, big news this morning in terms of the legal piredicament for the former president. we will be joined by his former communications director amid reports that trump held secret meetings in the white house ahead of last year s attack on the u.s. capitol. and the very sad breaking news this morning. he was a bat out of hell who would do anything for love, except he wouldn t do that. today the world says good-bye to the legendary meatloaf. and now broken tide b it s gentle on her skin, and out cleans our old free detergent. tide hygienic clean free. hypoallergenic and safe for sensitive skin.
written statements are received by the russians. the threat still exists, but as blinken said, there is a clearer path forward, and it will be very interesting to see what kind of consensus, if any, the two sides can find, because there is still a chasm between them on these issues of ukr ukraine s sovereignty, of the ability of ukraine to continue to press or push for nato membership one day, and it s difficult to see how these p pivotal issues can potentially be resolved. but at least some inkling of hope that diplomacy has not yet reached a dead dend. john. nick, take-away? reporter: yeah, i think for the from the russian pers perspective, sergei lavrov is able to come back to the ckremln can say you re going to get the written response from the united states that you wanted.
fatal highway shootings in new orleans. police are not saying whether they re random or targeted. cnn s nick joins us now. the shootings on new orleans highways just represent a small portion of the city s overall gun violence. but they are on the rise at an alarming rate. so much so that local police say they have an ep idemic of gunfie on the city s highways. two of the shootings happened within 12 hours and the latest shooting is the third in three days. new orleans on alert as the city has been experiencing a still eady uptick in highway shootings. 34-year-old whitney watts was fatally shot in new orleans on wednesday. according to police and family members. one of her children was in the car when the shooting occurred. police say watts was pronounced dead at the scene. her family is devastated. i m going with her daughter
through diplomacy and dialogue. that s clearly the way to do it. it s clearly the responsible way to do it, but it s also up to russia. we ll take a final question. a very important news conference conference following a 90-minute meeting with russian foreign minister. this comes as there are more than 100,000 russian troops near or on the ukrainian boarder and very real fears of invasion. we heard very carefully chosen words from blinken. he said he leaves this meeting with a clear path forward. the u.s. and russians have a better understanding of each other s, positions he says, but no breakthroughs. and he made sure that say that any crossing of the boarder by russian troops would be met with swift and severe and a very united response. i want to bring in cnn s cl clarissa ward who is live in can i ev. nick robertson in moscow. clarissa, what did you hear
one of those areas, which is critical to u.s. national interest as we saw in the elections where the allegations of russia hacking dnc computers, in the past few years under one of their top strategists, the chief of staff, the russians have now strategized to develop an area of their defense spending on essentially cyber warfare on developing trolling fake news and hacking. that is part of their defense spend. strategically they say you can have, you know, a quarter of a number of tanks that you need and use these type of cyber tactics so they may not have the money, but in an arms race like this, that s how they look at it. and maybe more bang for your buck if you re undermining democratic institutions instead of firing bullets. interesting stuff. nick robertson in moscow for us, thank you, nick. attorney general jeff sessions gets the backing he needed from president trump.