germany this week to meet with leaders there. this comes among increased drills near the ukrainian border and the kremlin is denying a report that they re emptying their embassy in the ukrainian capitol. also this morning, former president trump could be gearing up for 2024. we have new details about how his political operation is already organizing and how some former administration officials hope to stop him. also this morning, an urgent call for a delay in the rollout of 5g cell technology. airlines warning of possible devastating impact. lawmakers have serious safety concerns as well. what, if anything, will be done ahead of tomorrow s planned launch? lots of news that we are covering this morning. we are beginning with the growing global tensions over russia s increased military action near and around ukraine. our reporters are covering all the angles. let s begin with cnn s senior international correspondent, matthew chance, in ukraine s capital kiev. secretary of
major obstacles stand in the way of passing new voting rights protections, namely democratic senators joe manchin and kyrsten sinema, who refuse to change senate filibuster rules. overseas, tensions continue to grow between russia and ukraine and the west. secretary of state antony blinken urged diplomacy on a call he just held with his russian counterpart, this as a bipartisan group of senators return from a trip to ukraine where they met with the ukrainian president zelensky. we ll have more on that story in just a moment. we begin with cnn s manu raju joining us from capitol hill. manu, has chuck schumer given any indication of what he will do if and when these votes likely fail? reporter: he needs all 50 senate democrats to weaken the senate s filibuster, which now requires 60 volt0 votes to over filibuster. they want to change that so a simple majority, 51 votes, 50 democrats with. have the harris breaking the tie could be enough to get this bill to the president s
actions. and another who once told police that the actions of the father and son convicted today of murder were, quote, perfectly legal. no one was charged for the murder for more than two months, not until video of that deadly shooting surfaced. two days after that, the first arrests. and now, a year and a half later, his murderers were let out of a georgia courtroom in handcuffs after the verdicts were read. arbery s mother tells cnn, quote, we finally got the justice for ahmaud that he deserved back in 2020. justice delayed, but no longer denied. martin savidge who has been covering this story since the very beginning joins us now with the details from this emotional day in court. martin. reporter: was absolutely, john. you know, i have been standing outside of the courthouse after it had been announced there was a verdict. a crowd had rushed up. many had been outside of this courthouse since this trial began. they were listening to the live stream coming from inside the
shooting surfaced. two days after that, the first arrests. and now, a year and a half later, his murderers were led out of a georgia courtroom in handcuffs after the verdicts were read. arbery s mother tells cnn, quote, we finally got the justice for ahmaud that he deserved back in 2020. justice delayed, but no longer denied. martin salve savidge, who has been covering this story since the very beginning, joins us now with the details from this emotional day in court. martin? reporter: was absolutely, john. you know, i have been standing outside of the courthouse after it had been announced there was a verdict. a crowd had rushed up. many had been outside of this courthouse since this trial began. they were listening to the live stream coming from inside the building and when they heard the first word, guilty, with travis mcmichael, it was like an emotional dam broke. people shouted cheers. others broke down into tears and they fell into each other s arms. guilty was a word
they never said we re making an arrest. they never said they saw him commit a crime. so ladies and gentlemen, where in the world did the citizen s arrest thing come from? because it didn t come from the defendants on february 3rd, 2020. did ahmaud arbery commit an offense in the presence of any of these defendants? the answer to that is no. boom. citizen s arrest is gone. when three people chase an unarmed man in two pickup trucks with guns in order to violate his personal liberty, who gets to claim i m not really responsible for that? they know what they did. and they know why they did it. it s not a mystery to them. when you come back with your guilty verdict, all you re doing is telling them we know what you did too. and they know why they did it. how large will that question loom in the jurors minds? how difficult is this case for them? nine counts for each of these three defendants. 27, right? they have to deliberate on. travis and greg mcmichael, william roddie bryan