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>> i'm rafael romo. >> at the georgia. >> state capitol in atlanta. this is cnn. >> hello again everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i'm fredricka whitfield, and we begin this hour with breaking news. just a short time ago, earlier today, that hug and handshake between ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy and the prime minister of the uk, keir starmer, that happened right outside ten downing street in london. after the visit, the uk announced that it will speed up a $2.8 billion loan for ukraine. the london stop was in sharp contrast to zelenskyy's meeting yesterday with president trump. that turned into a heated exchange between zelenskyy and president trump and vice president vance. zelenskyy posted this morning that he still believes the u.s. remains a strategic partner despite the incident. he also defended his actions at the white house and says it doesn't have to be a deal breaker. we've got full coverage for you. cnn's international diplomatic editor

nic robertson is in london. senior white house producer betsy klein is with the president in florida. so, betsy, let's go to you first. uh, what what is the position of president trump today, a day after? >> that's right. well, president trump currently on his golf course in south florida here. but so far, the white house continues to promote messages of support for president trump. we have received multiple emails now from the white house press office highlighting support from allies, including lawmakers, members of trump's cabinet and other top white house officials, highlighting his move there. but all of this after that, very dramatic and quite different from that hug and handshake we saw on ten downing street. the crossed arms, the raised voices, the pointed fingers in the oval office yesterday, trump himself views himself as somewhat of a dealmaker. he would like to broker peace between russia and

ukraine, and we saw him on the campaign trail railing against u.s. support for ukraine and question the future of u.s. funding for this war effort. so all of a sudden, we see him with zelenskyy after having that, those talks with putin earlier this month in the oval office, after 40 minutes of general pleasantries really devolving into this very. difficult and high, high raised voices moment, but a breakdown in diplomacy. and after the press left, the two sides retreated to separate rooms inside the west wing, where they decided how to proceed. and trump's team advised him that they should not sign this deal. they were planning to sign on critical minerals and instead trump dispatched his national security advisor, mike waltz, to tell zelenskyy he was no longer welcome at the white house. now, waltz continued to rail against zelenskyy in a recent interview with breitbart on sirius xm.

waltz compared zelenskyy to an ex-girlfriend that wants to argue, um, you know, secretary rubio also described zelenskyy as antagonistic. um, really criticizing the ukrainian leader for not thanking the u.s. enough, also parroting some of those russian talking points. now what we are seeing more broadly is trump dramatically reimagining the role of the u.s. abroad and critical u.s. alliances. and of course, this meeting, diplomats often say that world leaders argue behind the scenes all the time. what is so critically different this time around is that the white house press corps was there to witness it all. trump himself, so mindful of stagecraft. and he said at the end of that meeting, he thought it was going to be, quote, great television, fredricka. but so many questions about the future of this u.s. relationship with ukraine, whether it can be repaired and what happens to u.s. support for the country. >> mhm. all right. betsy klein,

thank you so much to you. nic robertson outside of ten downing street, perhaps that's the great television that zelenskyy is at that moment. he's pretty proud of with that hug and handshake with the uk prime minister. what was the what was at the core of that meeting? >> yeah, the core was, in part the symbolism that you saw in the hug. that is not normally a thing that the prime minister does is just not that sort of huggy kind of guy, but he really went out of his way, walked down the street to meet president zelenskyy. so i think there's a big messaging there of britain's support for president zelenskyy that came across when the two sat and talked quite cordially in front of the cameras as sort of object lesson in what on camera diplomacy can look like compared to what the fractious meeting at the white house the day before that. president zelenskyy received. and that was about the support that there was in the uk. so that was really reinforced. and i think another reinforcement of that was the fact that president

zelenskyy will meet king charles tomorrow at sandringham. one of the country residence of the king. and that's important because we saw just two days ago keir starmer gave that letter to president trump an invitation for an unprecedented second state visit for the president to meet with with king charles. look, that stuff didn't play particularly well in the uk. it was seen as something that was sort of fawning and not not really something becoming of a prime minister. and really, was that necessary to get in the good books of president trump? that's the way it played in the uk and will have played across the rest of europe. so in a way, the meeting with president, with king charles, with president zelenskyy tomorrow is a is something of a redress and a window dressing of how that is perceived and seen in the uk. so this isn't just a moment, i think, where ukraine finds itself at a potential crossroads with the united states, but one where european leaders are

increasingly feeling that they really are at this huge variance with the united states, with president trump, that's been coming over a number of weeks, and that will get more insight to tomorrow, when prime minister starmer holds this mini european leaders summit, a dozen 15 different european leaders here to to figure out, to thrash out how they can engage effectively with with the white house. and one of the important leaders there that the prime minister will meet with, he'll have a one on one with giorgia meloni, the italian prime minister, and she was the one that suggested we need an immediate eu, u.s. summit to figure out where we all stand and get ourselves on the same page. so i think we'll get overtones of that coming through and playing out through the day tomorrow. >> all right. nic robertson, betsy klein, thanks to you both. all right. joining me right now to talk more about the fallout and the impact of these tense meetings between president trump and ukrainian president

zelenskyy. is michael bociurkiw. he is a global affairs analyst and a former spokesperson for the organization for security and cooperation in europe. michael, great to see you. so, um, you know, as nick just reported, i mean, the meeting at ten downing between zelenskyy and starmer was a stark difference, you know, from the one that we saw in the oval office yesterday. zelenskyy received a hero's welcome, if you will, from the prime minister. starmer with a hug and a handshake. your reaction? >> well, um my goodness, what a what a change from a few days. i it was not it was not long ago that mr. starmer was in the oval office as well, uh, buttering up, um, mr. trump with the invitation from the king, but buttering him up much as mr. trump's cholesterol levels must have gone through the roof. but i think if mr. trump is indeed on the golf course right now, he must be ceding or he will be ceding when he finds out that mr. zelenskyy got an invitation.

right to to to be with the king tomorrow because, uh, mr. zelenskyy with the king tomorrow, because this is now his third or fourth time meeting the king. and by the way, the king, king charles has a very, very soft spot for ukraine. and i'm now thinking maybe he could somehow play a background role to bring the two sides together after such a huge rupture from yesterday. >> oh that's interesting. and so this pronouncement too, that the uk is now going to speed up its $2.8 billion loan to ukraine. and i would think that trump's ears are going to pick up again about the whole loan idea, because keir starmer made it very clear that that aid prior, uh, that trump tried to make reference to was actually a gift. remember, in the oval office. i mean, starmer said, well, wait a minute. let me correct you here. it was actually a gift. so how do you suppose this to will play into the equation?

>> well, yeah. as you pointed out, it is a loan. and, um, i got to tell you, frederick, ukraine is on its knees right now in terms of finances. $5 billion a month deficit. and now it's gone back to municipalities like lvov in western ukraine to ask them for more money. but, um, you know, this this kind of aid can't come fast enough. and i'll tell you why. just, um. before i came on air with you, there was a russian ballistic missile that struck not far from where i'm sitting right now to the port of odesa, and it struck a foreign flagged container ship that the ukrainians were just getting their container port back in action since the start of the war. this is a huge blow of confidence to foreign vessel owners, insurance companies. and, you know, mr. trump's big idea of sending american workers here to dig up minerals. will they come here if there is a threat of russian missiles or drones hitting them? >> um, and then, you know, zelenskyy said that he thinks

that this relationship between relationship between ukraine and and the u.s. can be repaired. he said, you know, he doesn't think it's a done deal as it pertains to that mineral deal. do you think that not only is the relationship between trump and zelenskyy, um, can it be mended? but can this mineral deal offer be resurrected? and is it ultimately beneficial to ukraine? >> um, no. i think that thing could be dead. that mineral deal. um, it wasn't very well liked, by the way, here in ukraine, because a lot of people here thought we were giving way, way too much away with no security guarantees. and you know what, fredricka? i have a sneaky suspicion that this meeting, this blow up, this meltdown, whatever you want to call it, might have been set up to deliberately sabotage that deal, because i think the trump side. >> wouldn't be the first one. >> i mean, we heard from former national security advisor susan rice, who also said on cnn

yesterday that she thought this was a set up. so tell me more about why you think so, too. >> yeah, it reeked of a set up because i think the way they just pounced on mr. zelenskyy right from the time mr. zelenskyy, you know, got out of his car, trump was kind of ridiculing him. and then i think what happened in the days preceding this is the, the the agreement actually got diluted quite a bit to the point where maybe mr. trump said, i won't be able to go back to my base and say, i've got the best deal in the world. so that's that's something that might have played into their hesitation to see this deal. and then, i mean, just the rudeness of, you know, basically turfing mr. zelenskyy and his team out of the out of the white house did not go over well in ukraine. a lot of people here, by the way, will see mr. zelenskyy as a hero. the way he stood up to mr. trump. but but there have been comments made,

um, that maybe he should have, um, maybe dressed up a little bit differently because we noticed also his chief of staff, who is his shadow basically was in a suit and mr. zelenskyy probably made a decision at the last minute to go in his kind of trademark ukrainian olive green or black, um, kind of uniform. >> yeah, he has since said that, uh, if once the war is over, he will wear a a suit or costume, as he puts it. >> right? yeah, they call it a costume here. but just quickly, i think that, um, you know, there was a big, big fear here in ukraine and by a lot of observers that mr. putin, who we haven't mentioned yet, but he may see this void as an opportunity to go further in ukraine. um, maybe nikolayev, maybe odessa, because right now, as we said, frederica, there is no solid red lines enforced by the united states. so just quickly, what he could do, what the americans could do, um, to make it easier for mr. putin to

switch off the starlink service. they could stop giving intelligence info to the ukrainians and very crucially, disable the patriot patriot missile defense system that would leave ukraine very, very exposed. we'll see what happens. >> big fears for ukraine, indeed. all right. michael bociurkiw always great to see you. thank you so much. continue to be safe there. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> all right. >> still ahead. investigators revealing new details in the timeline of actor gene hackman's death. what his pacemaker is revealing. plus, an encouraging update on pope francis. the vatican saying he is now in stable condition. and how did this 19 year old graduate high school with honors, without knowing how to read or write? well, now she's suing her school because of that. >> it's the news. >> welcome back. >> but it's also kind of not the news. >> we don't fact check here. we

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no apparent signs of foul play. an autopsy was performed. initial findings noted no external trauma to either individual. the manner and cause of death has not been determined. the official results of the autopsy and toxicology reports are pending. >> and fred, in the search warrant released yesterday, we learned some more details of what the deputies that responded to the call saw when they entered the home. one of the things that we learned is that they were both fall on the ground in two different rooms of the house that arakawa was laying on her side in one of the bathrooms of the home, and there were pills scattered near her, as well as a space heater, and that hackman was in a different room, where it was supposed to be a mud room of sorts, near the kitchen, with a cane and sunglasses on the floor next to him. authorities also recovered two different kinds of prescription medications, one of them for high blood pressure and another one for a thyroid

condition, as well as tylenol. some medical records as well. and the timing has really been an issue, a challenge in this investigation. the sheriff yesterday speaking to this a little bit when he said, look, usually we start an investigation from the last time that a victim or victims were seen. and then we work to the moment of their death. but because both arakawa and hackman were extremely private people, they lived in a secluded home here in santa fe. they didn't have any recording devices in their homes. they did recover two cell phones from there. but other than that, there aren't a lot of clues as to what is it that happened in those last few hours of their lives. so what the sheriff said is that actually constructing a reverse timeline in this case, to piece it together, fred, and figure out what is it that took place in that home for their deaths? >> all right. julia vargas jones in santa fe, thank you so much. all right. still ahead, the vatican says pope francis is stable, but he's not quite out

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vatican, emphasizing he's remained in a stable condition. now, of course, on friday, we've been told that there had been a respiratory crisis and the pope had needed additional oxygen therapy for that. and of course, it's not the only respiratory crisis the pope has had since his hospitalization. but today we were told that the pope is without a fever, that the blood tests are positive in terms of whether the pope has an infection or not. it suggests he doesn't have infections. um, but he is still on high flow oxygen and receiving oxygen through a mask which is attached to a machine. so the prognosis for the pope remains, in the vatican's words, guarded, i.e., it is too soon to tell what the prognosis is. the pope is 88 years old, and he's been in the gemelli hospital in rome for 16 days now. that's the longest time that he's spent in hospital during his pontificate. and clearly there's there's anxiety

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that he made mistakes while he was in office. that was a likely a reference to the fact we all remember. the former governor stepped down in 2021 after he was accused of sexual misconduct by 11 women, including two former staffers of his. uh, another thing to remember here, fred, is, of course, the pandemic. the very prominent role that the former governor played during that time with his televised briefings, but also that there was controversy as a result of his decision to have covid patients move back into nursing homes. so that is certainly going to be something that comes up during this race, right? >> yeah. and then i wonder how might this complicate things for the current mayor, eric adams? >> well, fred, the primary is just four months away, and that is really not a whole lot of time when it comes to running an election, and certainly not here in new york city. new york city mayor eric adams is running for reelection, but so are about 6 or 7 other candidates that are seeking the primary nomination

as democrats. so he has a short amount of time. the question here had been whether or not cuomo was going to be willing to challenge eric adams. the two men are friendly. clearly, he is deciding that he is going to do this. sources close to cuomo have told me that the former governor believes that he has a real shot at taking city hall. and of course, we know just how much political scandal the current mayor, mayor adams, has been facing in recent months. his federal indictments, along with other issues here in the city. so the former governor certainly appears to think that he is poised to give him a real challenge. and as of right now, fred, he certainly seems like one of the best poised candidates to, uh, to seek that challenge. fred. >> all right. gloria pazmino, thanks so much. all right. graduating high school and looking forward to college is a defining moment. or they are defining moments for a lot of

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>> but alicia says those opportunities never came to fruition, even today. could you read this or would it take you a long time? >> it's impossible to see his words everywhere. >> alicia graduated from the hartford public school system last year, but she says today she is illiterate. she still doesn't know how to read or write. when she was an early education. >> they were just either tell me to stay in the corner and sleep. um, or just draw pictures of flowers for them. >> and when she was in high school, she relied on speech to text programs and other apps to read and write essays. so if you had an assignment where you had to write something, you'd open up a document like this and then do what? >> i will go here. to use the text to speech. >> dictate, dictate. >> yeah, i love pizza. >> this is how you would do your assignments. >> and then cats of the world.

>> vacaya sporting a twin prop airplane. >> if you had to read something, that's how you do it. she said her mother, who does not speak english well, tried to get answers. >> she advocated so much she went to the school. the principal will promise her that they will do better and sometimes there will be people from the district or the directors promising her that they will do better. >> now alicia is suing the hartford board of education and the city for negligence. the suit alleges the school district documented and acknowledged alicia's learning challenges through multiple grades. but because they were not adequately addressed, she continued to struggle academically and began exhibiting maladaptive behaviors in the classroom. >> sometimes i will feel proud to be the best child because at least i was something to them and i wasn't invisible. >> while the city of hartford and an educator named in the suit declined to comment when contacted by cnn. in a statement, hartford public schools wrote. while hartford public schools cannot comment on pending litigation, we remain

deeply committed to meeting the full range of needs our students bring with them when they enter our schools and helping them reach their full potential. >> watchdog man. >> doctor jesse turner is the leader of the literacy center at central connecticut state university. he feels the main issue here is inequality in public education. >> america should be asking. >> a question. >> do we really care about our children? all of our children? and i would argue that maybe we don't. >> a 2019 report from build, which promotes equity in public schools, found that majority nonwhite school districts get $23 billion less than districts that serve mostly white students. minority enrollment in hartford public schools is at about 90%. >> the department. >> of education. >> is a big con job. >> plus, turner fears a crucial guardrail will be lost if the trump administration follows through with abolishing the department of education. >> how do i. >> protect the special education children? who do i go to if i

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victims of the january deadly midair collision. 67 people were killed when a blackhawk helicopter crashed into an american airlines passenger jet outside reagan national airport. 28 members of the figure skating world were among those killed. olympic and national skating champions will be taking part in what is being billed as a legacy on ice. benefit. 2014 olympic bronze winner gracie gold will be among them. gracie is with us right now. so good to see you. >> hi. thanks for having me. >> so how meaningful is this for you to be part of this benefit? >> it really. >> means a lot. >> and i think. >> it's incredible. >> so many skaters. past olympians and future olympians are all gathered here to be part of the show to pay. tribute to the fallen athletes and coaches. >> it was a. huge loss for our.

skating community. >> and gracie, you coached at the national development camp in kansas, and many of the skaters who died in that plane crash actually attended that camp, is that right? >> yes. the last the last. class of the day was mine. oh my gosh. on ice class. and then q&a they did with me over their last two things on that fateful on that fateful day. >> oh my gosh. and it's such a special experience for a lot of the skaters to have been part of that. and then when you learned that this crash occurred and so many of those skaters that you had just interacted with were on that plane, i mean, what what have you been going through? >> i think i think what a lot of people in the skating community have been going through. i saw i saw so many of them at the airport. and to know that there weren't that many flights out of wichita left that day. i

connected through chicago just a few gates down was the one connecting through. dca. and to know that those skaters aren't there anymore, i you know, i spent most of you know, the time before i boarded my flight, which took off an hour earlier, uh, speaking with spencer laine's coach, you know, just about the future he had in the sport and how far he's come. you know, my last tiktok notification is that spencer lane followed me on tiktok, and so i haven't opened that app in a while. uh, the. last i used to live in delaware, where angela and sean are from. not a lot of people from that state, not a lot of skaters. and the last thing that angela, the young dance team she danced with. sean, uh, the last she drew on the last day, a picture of her, her best friend who skates at ice works. and me, she drew a picture. i of the three of us,

because she just had such a wonderful time at the camp. and, uh, it was her role model. and so just to know that they're not here with us anymore is. sorry. um, it's really, really difficult. >> yeah. i mean, what an incredible connection you all had. i'm so sorry that you and so many have experienced this. so what is this going to be like for you then, at this benefit? i mean, what are you going to be thinking of? i mean, i'm sure the camaraderie and being together is going to be very healing and helpful, but what do you anticipate you might be? experiencing? >> i think i will probably be emotional. um, as you can tell, skating is a very small knit community, for better or worse, right? it has sometimes that small town feel which. has good, good things about it, which in times of crisis. right. i think that we can come together. everyone knows everyone and i think it will be really special tomorrow. i think, you know, we

will all come together and help support everyone during this tragedy. uh, for anyone that's watching this, you can donate. there's a fund to help support everyone. um, uh, that you can donate to, right? to help support the families. uh, just while they grieve. right. to help that. and it's airing on peacock and it's re airing on nbc march 30th. and yeah, you can help support our small community in any way that you can. >> yeah. and you are joined by so many legends in the skating community, from peggy fleming to kristi yamaguchi, brian boitano, we just saw their pictures there. um, well, gracie gold, you know, thank you so much for sharing. i mean, this is so such a tender moment for you and for so many of the more than 60 who died and all of their family members on that midair collision. thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you for having me. appreciate it. >> and we'll be right back. >> cookbooks.

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