here with me now are christo grozev, daniel roher, the director. dasha navalnaya, the daughter of alexei navalny, is back with me as well. thanks to all of you. christo, watching that, as you had discovered this plot and what was in it, and now you're still learning, i understand, from your reporting even more now about what actually happened. what can you share with us? >> first, i need to correct you. i'm no longer executive director. i'm lead investigator on russia topics. that's what i love doing. what we find out in the meantime is there was much more effort by putin's thugs to actually prepare for the cleaning up of the evidence, of the traces of what they were doing. we found at least two more people who were sent to tomsk where the attempted murder was going to take place. they were sent in the middle of the night, just before the poisoning took place. these were people like the one from the film who had once specialization. they were cleaning up. they knew that night would be the night they would try to kill him, and they were sent there t

director daniel roher hopes that an oscar will keep navalny�*s name in the spotlight, as well as putking about navalny because he is in a very dangerous place right now. he is in a solitary confinement cell, languishing at the behest of this regime. and i believe that there's a correlation between talking about him and promoting his name and keeping him in the global consciousness and his survival and longevity. and all of the awards and these extraordinary honours seek to further that goal. the kremlin responded to the film's win by claiming it showed the politicisation of hollywood. but will an academy award and even the worldwide press that that brings make any difference to president putin's treatment of navalny and other opposition figures? we know already that president putin is personally annoyed by this document of history and what the film has achieved. this illustrates that the kremlin is upset and frustrated by the extraordinary work he's doing. and how that work was captured and shown to the world. but is putin going to be watching the academy awards? i'm not sure if he w

. >> daniel roher, thank you so much. >> daniel says you can just wave that in hollywood right now, probablyh. >> get into it any place. >> get some sleep, daniel? >> thank you. thank you so much. >> thanks, guys. >> if you haven't seen it and you want to watch -- how can you not -- it's the academy award winning cnn film "navalny." it is streaming now on hbo max. >>> also right now, we are tracking the major news happening here in the u.s. and it's having impacts around the world. a look at the stock futures this morning. the white house is closely watching these, i can tell you. how the markets are going to react any moment now to the collapse of silicon valley bank and signature bank, which was shut down yesterday. the president is going to speak soon. we have new cnn reporting about what he's expected to say. >>> and guess what? it's time! right? to fill in your march madness brackets. so is it possible, is it possible to pick a perfect match, a perfect -- whatever it's called. >> bracket! >> bracket! >> oh, boy. >> i'm a little tired this morning. harry enton has more on this morning's