putin accusing him of war crimes in ukraine. but will the russian president actually be arrested? we ll break down where things go from here. anger boiling over in france. violent clashes between protesters and police as people take to the streets to condemn plans to raise the country s retirement age. plus trump s lawyer ordered to testify. what the ruling means for the investigation into the former u.s. president s handling of classified documents. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with laila harrak. we begin with a historic decision by the international criminal court. for the first time since russia invaded ukraine the icc has issued an arrest warrant for russia s president over alleged war crimes. the court says vladimir putin bears responsibility for his scheme to illegally deport thousands of ukrainian children to russia. the icc has also issued a similar warrant for russia s so-called commissioner for children s rights, who oversees the d
One is first of all, to some degree this has already been a victory for donald trump because this has delayed the start of the trial by jack smith and as a result has put him in the middle of a political campaign. We have a highly divisive electorate, highly divided with republicans on one side, democrats on the other cheering for their respective squads and as a result, it has energized president trumps base. The campaign reported that they had raised nearly 6 million over a fiveday period leading up to this weeks event. There has already been a victory for him in this. My suspicion is the Biden White House is saying we want him to be held to some level of responsibility for actions that he took while in office but not as the president of the United States. But on the other hand he also like the fact that they are out there able to campaign whether as an explicitly political candidate or campaign as the president in his official capacity and talk about the things they want to talk abo
investigations, ourselves, cooperation with other states and also ukraine, that these crimes appear to have been committed. and one follows the evidence. and the simple reality is these crimes van been hidden. it s the first time in history any head of state of the permanent members of the five permanent members of the security council has had a warrant of arrest issued by independent and impartial judges. it shouldn t give us any celebration. it s a matter of real regret that we ve had to do this. the evidence compelled us to move in this manner. it s a historic moment certainly, but will we ever see president putin in the dock? well, the president of the court made it very clear our job is to independently and impartially without any political motivations or agendas apply the law to the facts. the thakts that have been verified, that have been independently collected and rigorously analyzed. that s for others to decide
health from guaranteed benefits an they re seeking cuts in medicaid which funds mental health and substance abuse treatment. if there is a terror attack that has a or a mass killing that has a link to either an immigrant or muslim the argument of the perpetrator it s the immigration laws or terror laws or we need to be smart. that is going to be what we re going to get. the question is the public willing to accept this kind of routine mass killing as kind of a new normal in american life or will there be shift in the politics around some of issues having do both with mental health and access to guns. i don t think you will get change from the administration. the mold from the president is clear and you will see these divergent responses based on who is committing the violence. ron, thank you. amy, we appreciate it very much. it is stunning to consider the thakts that three of the deadliest five shootings in modern american history have been in the last 17 months.