unless russia were to accept full responsibility for its war crimes. and that s not likely either. how do you shake the hand of someone who has that much blood of your people on it? it s just impossible to imagine. phil, thank you so much. really appreciate it. berman? a cnn crew reporting near the city of mykolaiv narrowly escaped incoming russian artillery fire after stopping to talk to some ukrainian soldiers. one of the crews two vehicles badly damaged but they did imagine to make it to safety. cnn s ben wedeman part of that team. and he joins me now thankfully safely from mykolaiv, ben. why don t you walk us through exactly what happened. reporter: we were going forward, john, to an area where we knew that there was some fighting. we weren t going to go directly there. we were doing what we normally do under these circumstances, as you move forward you stop, you talk to people to gather as much
origins investigation. congressman thanks for being here. why don t you walk us through this letter. what are you trying to accomplish here with this letter to the president? well it s pretty simple. the american people, and republicans in congress at least , expect there to be a whole of government approach. we ve sent the biden administration two letters previously to this. finally this week, we re able to get briefed because biden instructed the intelligence community to do an assessment. now, what it s clear is it, once again, they re using the intelligence agencies to put a cloud of secrecy over all of this and quite frankly, with 700,000 americans dead, this should not be happening. there should be totalitarians here. total and complete transparency. earlier this week, we had numerous questions that were asked by republican members on the intelligence committee, and every member left there with zero confidence that there has actually been a real investigation done here, and
origins investigation. congressman thanks for being here. why don t you walk us through this letter. what are you trying to accomplish here with this letter to the president? well it s pretty simple. the american people, and republicans in congress at least , expect there to be a whole of government approach. we ve sent the biden administration two letters previously to this. finally this week, we re able to get briefed because biden instructed the intelligence community to do an assessment. now, what it s clear is it, once again, they re using the intelligence agencies to put a cloud of secrecy over all of this and quite frankly, with 700,000 americans dead, this should not be happening. there should be totalitarians here. total and complete transparency. earlier this week, we had numerous questions that were asked by republican members on the intelligence committee, and every member left there with zero confidence that there has actually been a real investigation done here, and
compensation, give legal advice to a member of the judge s family. so the key question is, did berry receive compensation in exchange for her legal advice? joining me now, cnbc contributor and chief economic correspondent for politico beno brien, an msn contributor, bloomberg opinion, a man named in this article. a quick shout-out, tony schwartz said on twitter last night he s stunned and disappointed that more journalists aren t focused on this story. tune in, we re covering it. tim, first of all, president trump s sister, why don t you walk us through how she became a judge? right, so this is the long arm and long shadow of roy coen. the trumps looked to roy cohen who had a very close relationship with reagan, and got her the president s attention and that s how she got the appointment. one more reason why the trump family seems so beholden to roy
that was senator jeff flake of arizona, outgoing senator who, obviously, decided not to run again. someone else is running in his stead. unclear saying he s going to keep an open mind about this. he doesn t make any predeterminations and doesn t think brett kavanaugh is a serial rapist or disbelieve christine blasey ford and made the point that notwithstanding this nomination or these allegations he doesn t think it s strange that a high school girl might not have reported a sexual assault which sounds to me a direct response to president trump who has said if this happened why wouldn t her and her loving parents have gone to the police? why wouldn t there be any evidence? that s not that dissimilar of the statement from senator graham. garrett haake is live on the hill. why don t you walk us through the statement we have gotten from senator graham? reporter: graham is one of brett kavanaugh s strongest defenders up here on capitol hill and there s no change in that today. he relea