Something that might have been accomplished in another phone call. Theyve already spoken by Phone A Number of times, but it was clearly important to this president who, yes, has been conducting Foreign Policy for 50 years, but who is only now, as President Of The United States, in control of that Foreign Policy, an important opportunity to speak directly and look directly and to speak directly to President Putin about all of this. I will say based on what we were talking about before, there are some issues from putin that you respond to proactively, there are some you maybe wait for a question to respond, and there are some things you ignore. He ticked through a number of issues right at the top. First and foremost, Human Rights. He asked a question about Alexey Navalny if he was killed under his watch. There were certainly things that had to be brought up proactively as well and is more to digest as we learn what happened behind the scenes. Andrea, how will putin take bidens posture t
Goal, more than a week before the deadline. And this comes, of course, when things arent all smooth sailing on the vaccine front. This comes of course as we are expecting some word from the u. S. Government, from the cdc and the fda, by the end of the week about whether or not the Johnson Johnson oneshot vaccine is going to come back into use. But even with the administration of that oneshot vaccine still on pause for almost two weeks now, we apparently today hit 200 million doses administered anyway, which is phenomenal. Today, President Biden also announced a new tax credit. And i know youre thinking, why is rachel talking about tax policy at the top of the a block . It relates to the covid thing. This is super interesting to me. He announced a new tax credit today that will fully reimburse employers who give their employees paid time off to go get vaccinated. Apparently polls show that about a quarter of people who havent yet been vaccinated say they would go get their vaccine if th
What do you say . All you have to do is pick up your phone, or go to loveshriners. Org, and youll be a part of Something Special too. Thank you so much top of the hour on cnn newsroom. Im victor blackwell. We begin with reported new evidence of how deadly Vladimir Putins War On Ukraine has become. Ukrainian officials now say theyve identified multiple mass graves just outside the near decimated city of mariupol. The Satellite Company said more than 200 new graves can be seen. Today Vladimir Putin proclaimed the efforts to capture mariupol a success and he scrapped plans to storm a Sprawling Factory Compound where reportedly more than 1,000 civilians and ukrainian fighters are sheltering. A blockade to keep even a fly from getting through. The siege of mariupol was compared to a terrorist operation. He added ukraines forces do not have enough heavy or serious weapons to free mariupol. Translator we dont know when we can unblock mariupol, and i say this openly, that all the boys in mariu
hello everyone and good morning. welcome to cnn this morning at a sunday, february 18 time. amara walker, i m victor blackwell. thank you for joining us. here s what we re watching for you this morning. i m lynda fight to get them ammunition. they need past president biden doubles down on his commitment to get aid to ukraine. he lays blame for the delay directly on congress. what he said to ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy during a phone call, donald trump hit the campaign fain trail for the first time since being ordered to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties in the new york civil fraud trial. and he did not hold back his response and how he s now raising money as the fines add up. i am happy to be alive, but i don t want to be the product of a fraud. a really uncomfortable discovery, in a case of what lawyers call fertility fraud after doctors accused of secretly using his own sperm to impregnate patients evacuation orders have been issued for pa
facing tough questions over the railway company s safety practices in the wake of the train derailment in east palestine, ohio, and now he has explaining to do before congress. shaw has apologized more than once for derailment, and he has said that the company is making changes, and they will do right by the people of east palestine. and let s get to the testimony from washington. and sunlen, what have you heard so far? some frustration from the residents of east palestine, but we did hear from the ceo of norfolk southern, and the company and the person who has specifically had so much criticism in the aftermath of this train derailment, and we have heard from mr. shaw. he said that he is deeply sorry of what happened, and he promised to see this through, to get it right for the residents there, and he said point-blank, it is clear that the safety mechanisms that we had in place were not enough. this is more of what he had to say. i am determined to make this right. norfo