he's going to lead the team back into the playoffs after missing the postseason last year in teammate aaron judge was asked if there's a greater urgency to win with soto in the mix? >> you playing new york, it's every year the expectations when a championship, it doesn't matter who's here, who's not here, who's going to be here? it's just about putting the work and doing we can to put this team back on top >> grapefruit league game start tomorrow afternoon with the dodgers taken on the padres new la superstar kasie shohei ohtani, not expected to play. i know you're baltimore orioles also feel the pressure are the expectations. another season is upon us. >> i got to tell you. i mean, i loved baseball season i the spring training. all of it fits. >> you got season tickets to the o's this year. i can't wait to get back. we'll see what they can say. they said it's a young team, right? which we've talked about and they, they say that they're using what happened in the alcs is inspiration fingers crossed.

i wrapped a lot ride >> morning, everyone so glad you're with us. i'm poppy harlow with phil mattingly in new york, and we begin here a major new twist in the hunter biden saga, the former fbi informant accused of it's reading lies about the bidens, now says that information came from russian intelligence lost donald trump addresses alexey navalny's death on camera for the first time, would be stunned to learn. he made it about himself and nikki, haley's staring down to in her home state of south carolina makes a defiant new vow to go the distance in the primary cnn this morning starts right now >> the ex-fbi informant charged

with lying about the bidens is now telling investigators that russian spies fed him those lies. alexander smirnoff paid his face under a scarf, a hoodie, a mask, and sunglasses. as he left the courthouse in las vegas yesterday. that's him in the middle. they're wearing orange orange prison shoes. >> a prosecutor say smirnoff claims to have met with russian intelligence officials as recently as three months ago, and they're warning that smirnoff is still, quote, actively pedaling new lives that could impact the presidential election in november. now, in his core filing, the justice department special counsel, so smirnoff fabricated stories about shady business dealings in ukraine and the biden's taking bribes have had affects the quote, continued to be felt today. this big development, of course, raising huge questions about the doj's criminal case against hunter biden and the effort by house republicans to impeach president biden. >> so let's start with our colleague, kaitlan polantz to walk us through all of this jet like just reading, this is so

remarkable the detail especially the fact that the prosecutors allege that this is continuing on today. what do we need to know about the doj's biggest concerns with this misinformation? >> well, they certainly have concerns over this man who was giving information to the fbi for ten years and one of these filings, it says he was talking to his fbi handlers nearly daily and even recently was telling them he was in contact with russian spies that he had extensive and extremely recent contact with russian intelligence officials and other people there. and he was passing to the fbi information about hunter biden information that could be damaging about hunter biden. now, this guy is charged with lying. alexander smirnoff allegedly was telling the fbi as part of his contact with them over the years about connecting hunter biden and joe biden closer to burisma at a

time when joe biden was the vice president, then what was actually true? that's what he's charged with. but there are also these other things that he was telling the fbi that are coming up now cause the justice department is concerned about him. they are concerned he might flee the country and they wanted to keep him in jail. they weren't successful at that, but they're putting this out all now in these court filings in a way that is recasting our understanding of what's been in the political ecosystem about hunter biden i didn't. >> you mentioned kaitlan, the political ecosystem. hunter biden's lawyers have acted in the wake of this coming out. what are they saying right now >> will they want judges to look at this and they want more information about this guy and about what he was saying, what alexander smirnoff was saying to the fbi and to other investigators? here's because they want to try and unravel his two criminal indictments that he's facing, one on tax charges and one on gun charges. they're trying to sow doubt in

the investigations around hunter biden, even though those two charges, as far as we know, don't connect back to smirnoff and what he was telling his handlers. but i will say one thing that is really important here is how the justice department cast this as something that continues to be problematic. they write in their filings to the court yesterday before smear navs detention hearing in las vegas, that he's contacts with russian officials who are affiliated with russian intelligence services are not benign they say that his efforts to spread misinformation about a candidate of one of the two major political parties in the united states as joe biden continues and what this shows is that the misinformation he is spreading is not confined to 2022. he's actively pedaling new lives that could impact us elections after meeting with russian intelligence officials in november. >> so >> that's the justice department's concerned about elections. we'll see if it actually has any impact on

hunter biden's criminal cases. >> katelyn polantz. thank you very much. we'll get back to you soon >> will donald trump delivering his first on-camera remarks about alexey navalny's death during a friendly fox news town hall, trump calls well, the russian opposition leader, very brave. you've never actually condemned vladimir putin for navalny's deaths. cnn's alayna treene joins us now, alayna, the former president, flies on a private jet, currently is living free of prison and was given an hour of airtime and the highest rated prime time block. so how is he comparing himself to election? in a volley, right? well, and i agree with you, phil, i think, you know, staying in mar-a lago is not quite the same as an arctic prison cell, but look, donald trump is essentially co-opting navalny's legacy to suggest a false equivalency with his own legal troubles. and instead of condemning russian president vladimir their putin and condemning the death of putin's top critic, alexey navalny. he's instead at trying to suggest that he's being politically persecuted in a similar way, take a listen to

how he put it last night at that town hall navalny is a very sad situation and he's very brave. it was very brave guy because he went back he could just stayed away and frankly probably would have been led better off staying away. it's happening in our country to we are turning into a communist country in many ways. and if you look at it, i'm the leading candidate. i get indicted i never heard of being indicted before i was i got indicted four times. i have eight or nine trials all because of the fact that, you know, this all because of the fact that i'm in politics now, phil and poppy, this is a strategy or a messaging strategy, i should say that donald trump has used repeatedly when >> talking about his various legal cases. he's arguing that they are all linked, which we know is not true. these cases are in different jurisdictions. some are states, some are federal summer criminal, some are civil. and he's also trying thank to argue that this is an effort by president joe biden

to attack him and try to prevent him from running for president or potentially becoming president again. but he has received a lot of backlash from this, not necessarily from some of his top allies on capitol hill, but from his leading challenger, nikki haley, as well as a president joe biden, who said yesterday, quote, why does trump always blame america? putin is responsible for navalny's death. why can't trump? just say that this is something that we've seen in the immediate aftermath of navalny's death donald trump did not bring up vladimir putin did not condemn russia, and he's continuing due to try to argue that he is similar to putin's top critic care, which of course, again, many people argue is just an absurd thing to stay as a former president, also the leading candidate to become the republican nominee. >> all right. alayna treene for us. thank you. >> with us now strategic communications expert lee carter on one hand, public scholar fellow at city college of new york christina greer and cnn national security analyst and former cia chief of russia operations, steve hall. steve,

let's start with you. just your take after you read through this filing and the claims that alexander smirnoff is making, do you buy them? that they are for russian spies? and if you do, why would he say that? why would he admit it? >> well, with regard to whether or not russia is actually involved, i mean, first of all, it's very consistent with how the russians run information operations especially using a human source. in this case, for the fbi, i mean, the other indication that it is indeed the russians that he was meeting with and he's not making this up at a whole plot is the fact that apparently the fbi is taking that quite seriously. >> i mean, it is >> a little it does put the left behind a bit of a difficult position allows people ask questions. why would you be running a confidential informant for ten years? and when did you know he was actually under the control the russians. and how did you manage that information? so the fact that the fbi is saying that in the fact that it's extremely consistent, not to mention the fact that vladimir putin, of course would favor somebody like donald trump to be the next president, as opposed to joe biden, based on nothing more than donald

trump's positions about russia, ukraine, and the rest of it. so it seems to make sense to me >> steve. steve, were you surprised by the amount of information that federal authorities put into this? i mean, to your point, longtime confidential on format, they kind of lit him on fire to some degree when you actually read through the pages of this you know, it's not much of a surprise really because again, there's nothing more frustrating and having experienced this myself from the foreign intelligence perspective, when you're running a source for a long period of time and it turns out to the source says you're running for what? february isn't has been giving you a whole bunch of stuff that isn't necessarily true. that sort of turns the handler around in forces them to say, well, wait a second, what happened here? and then when if you find out, did you have actually been lied to in betrayed, especially if you're law enforcement. yeah, you're going to push that pushback as hard as you can so that no, that's not a big surprise to me. >> what caitlin said before about how so much of this has been in the political ecosystem. that's exactly

right, right. much of it has been at the hands of republicans who have claimed these things about hunter biden and joe biden. and the biden family. >> just listen to what >> a number of them are now saying about this here it is. >> there are now real and growing concerns that your president, the president of our country, is compromised. how real of a bribery scan, joe biden bribery scandal, allegation is this well, every day this bribery scandal becomes more credible. >> we already know the president took bribes from burisma. this is about >> the big guy himself, joe biden, a corrupt career politician, who is now very credibly accused of public corruption on a scale, this country has never seen before for the most corroborating evidence we have is that 1023 form from this highly credible, confidential human source, according to us attorney scott

>> brady, that last bit from jim jordan there that was just in january, the prior remarks from comer and sean hannity were july and august. but now what for this probe? they're not saying, okay, never mind. >> no, they're not. this is really, really troubling for a number reason. this is the foundation of the argument that so many republicans have been using it. there's a two-tier system of justice that donald trump is being held to a different standard than joe biden. joe biden is equally guilty of all kinds of corruption. and that i don't know how you unwind it more than 70% of americans believe that to be true, it's so much foundation of what donald trump is running on. and when donald trump makes some of these false equivalence, you can call them of him as a political opponent or whatever he there they're trying to say that he's whatever he's he's he's tried to say in reaction. >> it's i don't know how you want to do it. it is a message that's been out there for so long and it has so much traction. and i think just because this is now coming out doesn't mean that all these people are setting really we were wrong when didn't 70% of americans are just follow up on

that phone number for republican know of americans to that point >> it's both on the navalny thing, which was again, very i'm making it about himself and making him the victim is frankly the entire kind of animating feature of his nominator candidacy at this point, that's not a surprise, nor is the fact that the vast majority of the allegations that are underpinning the impeachment effort ended up being completely untrue. what might be your question now is to that point, i don't think you can unwind it. i don't think people, even if he tried to unwind, it would be paying attention because they're already sent in their ways. so what do you do if your the biden administration, what do you do if you were the biden campaign to try and utilize this going forward, right? >> we're at a moment. this is the moment that george washington warned us about farewell address, but we have sort of foreign adversaries infiltrating our country and also hyper the biden administration is not going to convince republican trump supporters to move over. they're not going to convince them to see reality and facts. that's just that's not where

trump's supporters are. they think he's in the second coming. they think he's the massalia he's always the victim and the hero in his own story. so what the biden administration really needs to do is to mobilize and galvanize people and inspire them to actually turn out because of the misinformation and disinformation that's out there. there are a lot of people who are just tired of politics. they're not interested in either candidate, whether it's because their long in the tooth or they both seem corrupt. i teach young people all the time. they're just really disgusted at the state of politics in general on a local, state, and federal level. so joe biden needs to actually try and get more people, inspired to come out to the polls on november 5 because donald trump's cult members. i don't know. i mean, this is we're beyond partisanship right now. they will come out and support him into lee's point because you can't unwind it. i mean, we've already seen what january 6 looks like, and that's a consistent message for donald trump supporters as well. if it doesn't go my way at the ballot box, we have other measures and other means

because you all support let me so much dot-dot-dot. >> see pretty deep in this filing almost near the end is this that talking about the informant alexander some enough's quote, efforts to spread misinformation. but the candidate of one of the two major parties, meaning biden, continues, the court should consider this conduct as well when evaluating his personal history and character touristical, what this shows is the misinformation he has reading is not confined to 2020. he is actively pedaling new lies that could impact us elections after meeting with russian intelligence officials in november, what's the threat now for the upcoming election? well, the thread is >> pretty much the same as it's been in previous elections, but it's sort of an elevated state and that is, is russia going to be successful at somehow influencing it making sure that its influence in its goals are carried out in the american election. and we're seeing this across the boards. this this is just 111 case. i can guarantee for every

smirnoff there is there are other russian assets out there. they're also trying to trying to influence our political system. so that's, that is obviously, yeah, absolutely. this is exactly what the kind of thing at george washington is referring to in terms of foreigners trying to get in and influences at a time when it's a very politically splits situation, the russians love to do that. they understand that there's not much they have to do in the american political system to really cause a lot of chaos. they've been successful out of before and they're trying to do it again. >> all right, everyone stay with us. we have a lot more ahead also, this nikki haley is not dropping out of this race. donald trump says he thinks he knows why that's ahead. >> a citizen arrested on treason charges in russia for collecting donations for ukraine. what we're learning about moscow's latest detainee that's next >> united states of scandal with jake tapper sunday at nine on cnn >> clog gutters can cause big problems fast until now, colleague 33 lee filter today for your free gutter

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politicians who now publicly embrace trump privately dread him they know what a disaster he's been and will continue to be for our party. they're just too afraid to say it out loud. >> she is doing poorly in the most look, if she was doing well, i don't understand it. but she's doing very poorly. she lost in record numbers in iowa, record numbers in new hampshire nevada i know named beat i know name. we had no name >> i'm sorry. i just find that the refining are perilously got her christina greer are back with us in new york times plot politics correspondent michael gold joins us now from south carolina, michael, you're on the ground there. i think poll after poll it makes very clear donald trump has a pretty solid grip on the state of south carolina, but in the wake of the speech yesterday, which to the haley campaigns credit saying that there's a big speech about the state of the race, not saying what it is. that's going to get every

network to take it live. and she can make your case across the board. what is the goal right now, the end game for the haley campaign as they look look past even south carolina >> i think that's a big question that a lot of people in the trump campaign have when they look at what she's doing right now, you know, there's a sense in which she might be setting herself up for 2028. i think there's two possible scenarios. if you look at the future of the party. one is that trump loses and haley gets to say, look, i tried to be an alternative and you guys ignored that, but i'm ready for the future and the other is that trump wins that in four years. the parties ready for somebody else? i think she's trying to show that she has strength with women and show she has strength with the wing of the party that's not under his thrall do you agree there's michael being on the ground there with politico's analysis last night was interesting saying, look, hearse thing in as long as possible, doesn't hurt her. for 2028, it doesn't hurt her for 2040. they said where she would still be younger than the two guys running in leading right now in their respective parties, this show suppose

florida to that she has and it doesn't harm her the longer she stays in. and i wonder if that's the sentiment you're hearing from people on the ground who may not support her i think that's right. i mean, i think there was a sense with ron desantis to where people felt, hey, it's not your time, but maybe in four years this will be the moment for you. yeah. i think in south carolina, even among trump support, is there a lot of people here who who liked nikki haley when she was governor and i think those people look at her and say maybe there's a moment in which i could be swayed to vote for you. it's just not right now. >> we talked a lot about 50 different things. you can talk about from trump's town hall last night. the one and we talked about this during the break that i'm obsessed with is nikki haley keeps saying he can't win a general election. trump on vote by mail last night, i think we have it. can we play it real quick? >> you are mail-in voting. you automatically have fraud. >> if you have well, there's mail-in voting in florida you have it, you're going to have

if they can't turn the tide on vote by mail inside the republican party >> which they were decimated in their efforts in 2020 because of the former president they spent a ton of money the rnc on the bank, your vote campaign, they got people supporting it. they got members of congress supporting it. even trump made the video for it. and now we come out in nukes, vote by mail again, even as laura ingraham is like no, no, no, no, no. we use it. well, it works for the democratic advantage in that is huge. you, i don't think he can win a general election if you're vbm strategy is don't do it yeah, i agree with you. i think it's a really big problem and we were just talking about a special election in new york. what would have happened or what did happen a result of state people saying that that i could vote by mail the day of action. there's a blizzard. people didn't turn out and it is very different turnout than we had expected because people just weren't able to go out and vote. it's a very dangerous strategy to say that you're not going to go vote by mail in this day and age. and i'm not

sure what his angle is on it. i don't know if he's trying to set himself up already to have a conversation about voter fraud. but it really i don't think benefits the republicans in any way, shape, or form to not encourage his former voting. can we >> christina just talk about the money? the reality is you can keep running as long as you i have money that's why nikki haley has money. but running into a bit of a cash crunch here because she spent more in january, then she raised and she's got 13 million in cash reserves. can she? >> stick >> in this thing all the way to the end? >> yes. because someone will finance that. it might not be in the abundant numbers that, you know, she would hope for, but i always tell my students when they're taking an exam, i'm look if you get stuck on an answer, the answer is always money work your way back from that, right? nikki haley wouldn't still be in the race if there weren't donors who were quietly or not so quietly supporting her to stay in. they don't know if by some chance donald trump might find himself on the other side of a jail cell. they don't know he's a little long of a tooth as well, so they need to have a

candidate since he is so volatile, since he goes against the rnc strategies. the fact that we're still very long pocketed donors who were making sure nikki haley is still in the conversation, is should let us know that as she says, republicans aren't whole cloth with donald trump. they still want slash, need an alternative, michael, when it comes to the money on the trump side of things, the rnc doesn't have a ton of cash on hand. i think they ticked up maybe $800,000 so i think a little more than 8 million cash on hand. we saw once again trump's outside groups are as leadership pac has even a ton of money to pay for his legal bills. are their actual concerns about the money side of things for trump, my assumption has been like there's gonna be a billion-dollar pr campaign race no matter what the money will be there the way doesn't look great for them right now. >> you know, the people i talked to, you have a sense that after the primary is over and people see it really as a choice between trump or joe biden, but donors will start to come forward and that right now, they're just sort of waiting to see what might happen with the criminal cases, what might happen with nikki

haley, i think right now, when you look at biden's war chest, part of it is that he's really been able to take advantage of the dnc it really been able to fundraise dam and there's a possibility that wants trump is the nominee. he'll have that same kind of power. >> yeah, it's a good point when you have the party that is fully moving in the same direction as you, it matters, lee carter, christina greer, michael gold. thanks, guys. we appreciate it. >> i had frehse the body of the 11 year-old girl adrial corner. cunningham has been found in texas after days of searching. we do have new information this morning on the suspect and vladmir putin congratulates his forces for capturing a key ukrainian city. we're gonna be live in ukraine. that's next for nearly a decade. i served in the navy supporting seal teams today, i run sabo outdoors with fellow special operations veterans our mobile app connects customers with hunting, fishing, and other outdoor experiences american has been essential to our growth. but some in washington want to stifle that technology, small business this is like ours depend on this misguided agenda will empower foreign

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here in her son along the southern banks, we've been hearing intermittent shelling for much of the day. a town that was liberated from russia over a year ago. now, but the bad news, it seems potentially increasing from abdivka that was liberated great to over the weekend, liberated, i used the phrase russian forces would use there. they withdrew the ukrainians from there on saturday. now since then, we've heard from both ukrainian commanders and also the commander of russian forces in general in ukraine, valeti good asimo for pays to be near that area meeting soldiers who took part in that particular operation. and also it seems hearing or future plans to advance. so suggestions on both sides, there that the russians haven't have defka adequate forces to potentially push further forward in that direction. bad news to around robotin it in the south, that was a tiny village he gained if ukraine southern counter offensive, that's under, it seems intense. russian pressure and also very confusing reports

about a very small village not far from where i'm standing on the left bank of the dnipro river. that's the part still held by russia. now a krynky is a place that's long been talked about over months, a ukrainian operation to try and form a bridgehead like a foothold on the other side of the river to try and launch a new phase of operations has long been talked about. well, russia's defense chief yesterday suggested that in fact, the russia had taken control of that again, after many months of ukrainian troops putting their lives on the line, ukraine denies that but it's yet another source of potential issues for ukraine in the months ahead as that aid really seems to be changing things on the battlefield here by not arriving. >> yeah, it appears to underscore some clear momentum russian forces have right now, at least in those specific areas, they, while we have you us russian citizen, was arrested for treason. a legend i believe for collecting funds for ukraine. what more do we know about her at this point

>> yeah. thirty-three-year-old from los angeles, arrested in the catherine berg, send your catalina. now, apparently she donated just over $50 $50. you heard that, right? to an online organization getting humanitarian aid it together for ukrainians own relation may have been based in the united states. she was arrested for that. and this obviously fairly unclear exactly what term she may end up facing. but at the russian criminal justice system has a pretty solid conviction rates and a due process that many frown upon as forgone conclusion, so deep concerns over that u.s.-russian dual national and another sign too, frankly, of the ferocity in which the kremlin prosecutes any find of criticism, moral to its war in ukraine >> a key part of what you said nic, humanitarian aid $50 of humanitarian aid on the ground. nick paton walsh for us in kherson. thanks very much. >> well, president biden, preparing new sanctions against

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responsible >> as president biden calling out donald trump and a new video posted online last night or during a townhall on fox, the republican front runner turned down the chance to blamed bad putin for alexey navalny's death instead, trump made a false comparison between his legal situation, the us, and what happened in uvalde >> navalny use a very sad situation and his very brave. he was very brave guy because he went back he could to stay away and frankly probably would have been led better off. it's a horrible thing, but it's happening in our country to we all right, turning into a communist country in many ways >> once again, the comparison is not apt at all, joining us now is bill browder the head of the global magnitsky justice campaign. he was largest foreign investor in russia before he's expelled from the country in 2005, who's friends with alexey navalny and his called himself putin's number one enemy bill. i appreciate your time this morning one of the biggest questions i've had since this happened has been

why now? >> why >> in this moment, less than a month before the election, when he's been in custody for several years. why not? >> i think it's it's it's very simple that there's an election coming up, and i use the word election broadly. i mean, it's not an election in russia. they don't have elections like we do in the west. its a totalitarian regime, but putin is not a very popular leader. he's been around for 24 years. he's is presided over just unbelievable corruption which has made most people in russia poor and there's this guy, alexey navalny, this young, attractive charismatic man sitting in jail, who is issuing various directions to his supporters from jail and putin has got such a thin skin that it finally got to him. and i think that before he didn't want navalny saying anything before the election and he doesn't want anyone else showing up for the election and no better way

to solve those problems than to kill navalny, which sends a message to everybody else, which is that you want to get involved in opposition politics. you die historically, there are plenty of examples of where an autocratic leader doing something like this ends up sparking the opposition are almost >> broadens it out to some degree. we've seen the heroic efforts of alexey navalny's wife over the course of the last several days, i'm interested. what is the state of the opposition? does it shift it all given what we've seen over the last couple of well, this well, the opposition in russia as almost impossible because anybody who, who expresses any opposition sentiments ends up >> getting arrested, going to jail, maybe going to jail for a long time. and so it's very dangerous to be openly opposed to putin, even, even saying that 400 people were just laying flat hours to mourn alexey navalny's death and they were all arrested. i think for every one of those 400 people, there's probably 1,000 or 5,000 or 10,000 people sitting at home and say per person

sitting at home seething an angry about what putin is doing. and so i think that oleksii one is widow, is a very unifying person. she she shares her husband's charisma and she's attractive. she's, and most importantly, she's furious and she has the fury of a of a widow whose husband was murdered by this little dictator. and i think that that's a very potentially dangerous thing for vladimir putin >> the strength that she has shown and obviously she's a mother as well, is remarkable, but you can't help, but also be fearful to some degree when you watch her as she's taken upon this role in the last couple of days are you concerned for her safety, the safety of the family? >> well, i think that putin is going to do whatever he can to try to rubber out whether it's killing her or whether it's defaming her, or whether he

can't have this. and she will be certainly at risk and hopefully she will it'd be not going back to russia, we can't have another navalny murder and hopefully she will stay safe in the west where she can then issue her directives and make her speeches and do the investigations that her husband used to do to continue to weaken the putin regime. but yes, she is at risk. there's no question who didn't kills his opponents in russia and he kills his opponents abroad. we've seen it before in both situations. >> the us is set to launch another round of sanctions on friday and part because of alexey navalny's death you've made the case very substantively for going after the frozen central bank fonts. i believe it's about 300 billion dollars. it wasn't unpopular, unpopular idea for biden administration officials for the first year plus of the war, they've now warmed to it. but you're a finance guy. the actual, the legal mechanism to do it is what has always been

the holdup. do you believe that that can be figured out? >> absolutely. >> it's a no brainer so just to summarize, the putin started the war. and a week after the war was started, $300 billion of russian government central bank reserves that were held in the west were frozen since the war has carried on. he's done based on some estimates up to $1 trillion of damage ukraine and they desperately need money. and it just seems so obvious that while we're digging into our own pockets to fund ukraine, we should also grab putin's money and it seems to make moral sense it makes financial sense, and it makes political sense there, there are absolutely clear legal mechanisms to do that this various very important legal scholars have come out publicly explaining those legal methods as you mentioned, the biden administration was resistant in the first year and the same way as everyone was resistant about providing long-range missiles. and then eventually everybody

understood that that's the thing you have to do. and i suspect that as we move further along in this war and you're seeing ukraine now losing some positions the necessity of getting this money to ukraine is going to become greater and greater. and that necessity will lead to the confiscation of this money. and i should just point out that we should call this whatever legislation is connected to this, there's you call it the navalny act and so putin knows that his murder of alexey navalny is going to cost him $300 billion >> yeah. and as somebody >> who is critical to the passage and implementation of the magnitsky act. you've got a good record of actually mean things like this stick bill browder, we always appreciate your time, sir. thank you. >> such an important conversation. all right. ahead. this morning, just a couple of hours from now, the armor from the movie rust will be in court on trial for involuntary manslaughter. what this case could also mean for alec baldwin? >> united states of scandal

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examiners office is still working to determine the exact cause of audrii death >> will also this morning, jury selection is set to begin in the trial of hannah gutierrez reed. she was the armor for the movie rust during the deadly shooting on set more than two years ago gutierrez reid has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter for and tampering with evidence. prosecutors are set to argue it was hurtful that live ammunition ended up in a prop gun that alec baldwin was holding, went off and killed cinematographer halyna hutchins. cnn's josh campbell has more in a guterres reed on the set of rust after the fatal shooting on october 21, >> 2021, on female schotte, the chest, body cam footage captured the events right after actor alec baldwin fired a live round of ammunition during a rehearsal and schotte the film cinematographer for she came in here. i want across her chest and came >> gutierrez reid is now facing trial, charged with two counts

of involuntary manslaughter and tampering with evidence in the death of halyna hutchins on the set outside santa fe, new mexico. gutierrez reid has pleaded not guilty to the charges the film's director, joel souza, standing beside hutchins was also wounded, shot in the shoulder by the same bullet prosecutors say the trial will focus on lack safety protocols on the set gutierrez reed's attorney saying his client is being unfairly prosecuted. but the biggest question now, facing a jury, how did a live round of ammunition? can make its way onto the set of rust and in the baldwin's prop gun on the day of the shooting new mexico workplace safety regulations hold the armor are responsible for storage, maintenance, and handling of all firearms and ammunition on the set, as well as loading firearms and according to investigators, six live rounds of ammunition were found that a box of bandolier, a gun belt, and other locations and were commingled with dummy rounds, which so that's the case. then who commingled them >> baldwin, one of the films

producers, is also facing an involuntary manslaughter charge and has pleaded not guilty. he could face trial later this year on the day of the shooting, the assistant director, dave halls, who in 2023 was convicted of negligent use of a deadly weapon, yelled cold gun, and handed a prop gun to baldwin hannah reed handed the gun to halls and said, don't give it to alec until i get back to the set. i've got to go do something else and he proceeded to the set and a handed me the gun. >> the rest script called for baldwin to point the gun towards the camera. he pulled it from a holster according to the search warrant affidavit. and at 01:50 p.m. that day, a live round was fired, hitting hutchins and the chest. baldwin maintains he never pulled the trigger and blames both gutierrez, reid and the assistant director for the shooting, even though the fbi crime lab determined the weapon could not accidentally fire, the trigger, had to have been depressed. >> i pulled the hammer back and i pulled it back as far as i could but took a gun pointed at

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human rights, who was a journalist who was just doing his job? what we've got today is the us arguing against all of that. so he can't call himself a journalist. he dumped unredacted classified documents. there isn't a protection for journalists to publish documents. anyway, they're arguing despite what's in the constitution, but journalists would, would perhaps have taken out the public interest its elements of those documents and then broadcast them as opposed to dumping the whole lot. we heard from the us lawyer today is saying that assange created a grave and imminent risk to innocent people. who could suffer serious harm or arbitrary detention, disclosure, damaged capability of us forces. because the names of agents were put weren't redacted in these documents when he put them out. so he created a risk there and this is why he must felt face trial in america. >> max, if if he does not prevail, i think it's 28 days. is all he has before he would

be extradited to the united states. but there is a potential for more relief right. from a higher european court. is that right >> yes, it could potentially go to the european court of justice, but the judges today could also say they want to look into this a bit. more and have more hearings so if he's saying he has evidence that there was a cia assassination plot against him. and they say that they do, then they may want to hear that and see that they could just dismiss it all. in which case that 28 days does apply okay. >> max foster, keep us posted as this continues. thanks very much. and cnn this morning continues right now >> the former fbi informant charged with lying about the biden's business dealings in ukraine, says he got his dirt from russian intelligence officials republicans have touted those claims as part of their effort to impeach president biden. if they continue with this investigation, they are simply doing the work of life from your putin >> but times june.