Within the past hour or so, he confirmed actually reports that weve heard before that the kremlin was engaged in an negotiation to possibly free Alexey Navalny in the days before he finally died in an arctic penal you know, colony, a death by the way, that Vladimir Putin described as a sad event. Take a listen for mr. Navalnys passed away. Some colleagues told you that they were not members of the administration some people said that there is an idea to change mr. Navalny for some people who are in prison in western countries, you can believe me or you can choose not to. The person who spoke to me. You have not finished his sentence. Yes. I said i agree but unfortunately, what happened happened, we would exchange him i said and you pay only on one condition that he doesnt come back from the go. Let them sit there. Thats all that happens. What can we do about it . Well they, have it paula. A pretty interesting description of the negotiations that went on, apparently behind the scenes to
Recuperate and prepare for future operations. A good significant bourse will still remain in other areas of the strip. This move marking a new face, and the war as israel faces rising pressure from the us to dial down operations in gaza. But israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says hes not backing down, and that pressure from the us will not stop his plans to invade the Southern City of rafah the Prime Minister also facing significant trouble at home with thousands of protesters coming out in force this weekend to demand his resignation. And abroad as israels military says, its preparing to move from quoque defense to attack and its border with lebanon after the countries that it hit multiple hezbollah targets overnight cnns Nic Robertson is joining us now nick, this is the six month mark of this war, and we are seeing major developments today. Give us the latest yeah the idf is characterizing this pooled pullback, withdrawal of the 98th Division from khan yunis as a Mark Step Ch
fight participle he and figure out how to make this thing even better and cover even more americans. and hopefully the politics are done here. but i doubt it. the reason why, they tried to repeal this 71 times is because this is a big issue in the republican party. it is a very popular bill. only about one third of the country does not approve of it. sadly those are all republican primary voters. and you saw statements immediately this morning for republican leadership saying they are going to try again. so that is unfortunate politics. for those of us who have labored so hard to get this done, including barack obama, i am sure today is incredibly happy. i m sure. i m sure we have not seen the end of this issue. but at the same time we still have not seen a republican alternative which is about how we got here. and of course let s not forget that john mccain thumbs down dramatically in the middle of the night that ultimately helped save this law from the legislative perspective as we
they would like to come out with in june or july of this year that has different conclusions about the president s conduct, his behavior while in office, looking at key decisions like the firing of former fbi director james comey. and he believes that he has to figure out the president s intent and that s the missing piece. attorney he willout from the above the law blog and nick akerman now an msnbc legal analyst. you re both very smart men, smart lawyers and opinionated. i feel like have you opinions about these stories. i ll start with you. i don t care right now if trump is a subject or a target or a participle. it doesn t matter right now. if he testifies in front of mueller and lies, his status will change by the time he comes back from the bathroom. that s not the real story. the real story is as you pointed out the fact that mueller has basically told us how this is going to end.