nick paton walsh there from kyiv, thanks so much. and despite this fallout abroad, president trump, vice president vance are getting support from members of their party. house speaker mike johnson and the second ranking senate republican john barrasso both praised the president's handling of the high stakes meeting. cnn's betsy klein digs into this diplomatic breakdown and what's happening. also behind the scenes. betsy. >> well, victor, despite that united front among european leaders, the white house really views this as a win for president trump. and to that point, they spent saturday amplifying messages of support from top republican lawmakers, as well as members of the cabinet and other top white house officials. really rave reviews for how trump handled that situation with president zelenskyy in the oval office. now, notably, what we haven't heard is any messages of criticism from any major republican lawmakers so far. now, vice president vance is in a remote vermont ski town this weekend, and we did see protesters lining the s

let's start with our chief national security correspondent, nick paton walsh and keefe. how confident are ukrainian officials that zelenskyy's new outreach, his olive branch, will bridge this divide? >> look, i think it's. >> exceptionally hard for. >> anyone in kyiv. >> to really divine what might. >> come next. >> after two weeks, frankly, of a roller coaster ride. now, zelenskyy seems to have gone. it seems close enough to what some trump's advisers want him to do. he's called twice, both in a video and in a social media posting. the oval office meeting. regrettable. he's offered actually the basic tenets of what might even be a peace plan for the future, suggesting there could be a prisoner swap between ukraine and russia. and indeed, to there could be a limited cease fire in the air, sea and potentially limiting attacks on energy infrastructure. that echoes a proposal from french president emmanuel macron. he also said that ukraine is willing to sign the rare earth mineral deal. that idea never really went away despite this particular dispute. and he's also said cle

. >> cnn's nick paton walsh is live in kyiv. nick, overnight there's been this flood of posts on social media from world leaders backing ukraine and president zelenskyy. thank you. thank you for your support. i wonder what this now the reaction is in ukraine. what are you hearing from ukrainians? >> yeah, there is still consternation. and this morning i think a sense of disbelief still that a relationship that seemed to be slowly on the mend has disintegrated at a pace to a depth which at this point is pretty hard to fathom. yes, indeed. president zelenskyy will see in the next 24 to 48 hours after he arrived at london stansted airport, just short of an hour ago. wobbly pictures there have getting into a motorcade. he will see european leaders continue that voice of support and a remarkable outpouring on social media in the hours after those extraordinary scenes in the oval office. and i'm sure each time ukrainians hear the tone and the nature of, at times, the drubbing which president zelenskyy got, it will grate to some degree,

nick paton walsh is live for us in kyiv. and senior white house producer betsy klein is with the president in florida. so nick, to you first, what more are you learning about what happened at the meeting? it sounds like it was pretty short because it's over now. correct? >> yeah. so it's about an hour and 20 minutes in duration. the symbolism around it, the hugs when the prime minister came out of ten downing street, walked down the street to hug president zelenskyy. he doesn't do that normally. he doesn't hug many people. normally, it's just not something keir starmer is given to doing. but look at almost that, that that session you just played there, the sort of little question and answer or discussion backwards and forwards. you've heard all the thanks from the british people. thank you to the british people. thank you for your support, all of that. it was almost a sort of a textbook. this is the way to do on camera diplomacy. such a contrast to that fractious meeting at the white house just yesterday. and i think the brit

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nick paton walsh is in kyiv. and let's begin with nic robertson in london, where this key summit just wrapped up. nick, tell us more. >> yeah, i think look, we went into the weekend. everyone went into the weekend with this sense of of calamity, of crisis, of this fractious meeting with president zelenskyy and president trump in the oval office. i think where we're at on this sunday is a sort of an outgoing, a sort of letting out of the breath, if you will, a sort of an easing and a calming of what was in the air, the uncertainty that was in the air. the europeans have have, have laid out their position. it lacks a certain amount of detail. it lacks a certain amount of clarity. but there are some things about it that are very, very clear. you heard the british prime minister there talking about a coalition of the willing, those countries that are able and ready to support security guarantees going forward. he spoke a lot about the need to make sure that ukraine has the military and economic wherewithal to fight th

nick paton walsh from kyiv. thanks so much, nick. well, the u.s. pause on ukraine's military aid will likely come up tonight when president trump addresses a joint session of congress. already, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are reacting to his decision. >> this is the exact opposite of peace through strength. instead, what it is, is it's another extortion of president zelenskyy illegally withholding aid in order to get president zelenskyy to agree to a minerals deal, which is back payment for all the aid that president biden had provided. it is anti-democratic. it is anti-american, and it's appalling. and it is. it has to stop. and we need republicans in congress who understand the importance of democracy abroad, who understand how important it is for our own national security, that we don't let china run wild around the world, which is exactly what will happen if we kowtow to russia. they need to stand up and say something to donald trump to get us back on track. >> there's been mixed reaction among republicans on continuing aid to ukrain

cnn's nic robertson is in london and nick paton walsh is in kyiv. nic robertson, let's start with you. and the latest on the meeting. >> yeah, we're going to be expecting the european leaders to be arriving here for this very important summit within the next hour or so. and it's important not just for ukraine, but i think what emerges from here will set the tone of how europe can have a productive working relationship with president trump's white house. it's what they want. it's what both sides want, but it's not in its best place right now. so while the discussion will be about ukraine, there is so much more at stake. the british prime minister has talked about what he wants to achieve. here is find a sort of coalition of the willing countries that are ready to be more forward leaning on giving security guarantees for ukraine and going forward. and that seems to imply that a lowering of expectation of united states involvement in security guarantees. remembering just a few days ago now, the europeans were looking to the u.s. to provide security gua

cnn's nick paton walsh is in ukraine's capital of kyiv. nick, the u.s. has paused both intelligence support and weapons shipments to ukraine at this point. how does the deal get back on track? yeah. >> it is. >> hard to see exactly what it is being demanded of zelenskyy to heal this relationship. he's certainly giving the positive signals. he used the word regrettable yesterday, talking about the oval office meeting. but even after the letter, which trump spoke about in his speech last night, saying in positive terms how he had received a letter in which zelenskyy said he'd sign up to the rare earth minerals deal and was committed to peace. even in the morning after that, the cia director, john ratcliffe, announced that intelligence sharing had been paused. suggestions it might be started. but national security advisor mike waltz said he wanted to see more commitment to negotiations from zelenskyy. the real question for ukraine is what exactly is the peace process they're being asked to sign up to? is it the u.s. russia one being negotiated without them?

. >> chief international correspondent nick paton walsh is in kyiv and senior white house producer betsy klein is with the president in florida. so, nick, to you first, what has been the reaction in ukraine? >> i mean, there is a lot of consternation to this. i think there's a mixture of support and shock that the president, in ukraine's view, was rounded on in that way and had to defend ukraine's position to a series of mistruths. and i think there's also real fear about what this means for the u.s. ukraine relationship going forward. we have heard zelenskyy very fully talking about gratitude. that was something that vance rounded on him, saying that he hadn't shown during that particular meeting. and also now this meeting with european leaders, preceded by a one on one with the uk prime minister, keir starmer, that i think is a bid to try and piece things back together and but also possibly address a future in which u.s. support isn't really part of this anymore. hard to almost say that it's so key to ukraine's survival, and also to the concept of the transatlantic security alliance. w

. >> our nick paton walsh is in kyiv with zelenskyy's takeaways on the european leaders summit and hisstrous white house meeting. >> well after the solidarity. >> of the. >> rehabilitation of president zelenskyy. >> that this significant. >> meeting called in a. >> hurry with european leaders, pretty much all of nato, apart from the united states, give or take a few countries. zelenskyy sat down with the media in london and gave his sort of most wide ranging public comments since the incident in the oval office, and asked if he was ready to sign the rare earth mineral deal. he said indeed, yes. even though we have heard from u.s. treasury secretary scott bessent that they do not believe the deal is currently, at present on the table still. and he was also asked to if he felt that he could salvage the relationship with the united states. here's what he said. >> as regards. >> to. salvaging the. relationship that you asked about. i think that. >> our. >> relationship will continue because this. >> is more than relationships. >> however. >> everyone can see how ukraine is fighting for its

cnn's nick paton. walsh is there. nick, what are you hearing this. >> morning? >> yeah. it is. i think it's time to remind people of the violence put upon ukraine every night. president zelenskyy today warning that in the last week, there's been a thousand drones fired by russia at ukraine. and that kind of brings home the urgency, frankly, as to why ukraine is pro a peace deal that actually sustained and works for them. we had a vague whisper from the french president, emmanuel macron, telling the french figaro newspaper yesterday that potentially one of the ideas is for a limited ceasefire that involves sea, air and ceasing attacks on energy infrastructure. both sides have been doing that particularly hard over the past months. just an overnight strike by ukraine on an oil refinery in ufa, 1300 kilometers deep inside russia. so that potential idea floated, it seems, by the french president, one of the two european leaders, alongside the uk's keir starmer, as some potential starting mechanism. and indeed the ukrainian president suggesting another confidence building measure co

cnn's nick paton walsh is with us now from kyiv. nick, tell us how ukraine is responding to this. >> yeah. look, i mean, it's fair to say that the quote from volodymyr zelenskyy, the president trump was responding to is reasonably selective. and he obviously didn't hear zelenskyy in the same press conference, talk about how he wished that peace wouldn't come to ukraine today, that it would come to ukraine at the start of the war, that the war had indeed never happened. in fact, we've seen a social media posting from vladimir zelenskyy in just the last hours in which he says we're working together with america and our european partners and very much hope for u.s. support on the path to peace. peace is needed as soon as possible. he says talks and other steps are underway to try and get that to happen. now, clearly, it's important to point out that no country, i think it's fair to say, wants peace faster than this, than ukraine significantly damaged nightly by drone strikes by russia, regardless of the damage done to their armed forces

we'll take you live to cnn's nick paton walsh, who is in kyiv for us. nick, president trump saying that he could potentially impose a harsh sanctions on russia to bring them to the negotiating table. how is that news being received where you are in kyiv? >> i mean, i'm sure there's an element of optimism that this is a possibility. but at the same time, ukraine has had not sanctions, but certainly problems imposed upon it by the pause in u.s. military aid and intelligence sharing. that's been in act now for 3 or 4 days. so i'm sure ukrainians are heartened at the possibility of moves taken against them, but they haven't actually occurred. what we heard, though, in that statement, was the suggestion that, indeed, he finds ukraine harder to deal with than russia, and that russia wants to make a deal. he also said again that they're bombing the hell out of ukraine. that's the russians, but also saying that vladimir putin is doing what anybody else would do. i'm not entirely sure if that's reference to his negotiating strategy, or if indeed it's something to

cnn's nick paton walsh is joining us now from kyiv. so, nick, you saw the hugs, the handshakes there from a lot of the european leaders to zelenskyy. how is that being received there in ukraine? >> i think it's been vital for ukrainians to see on the international stage, after the extraordinary scenes in the oval office on friday, to see their president and their wartime commander embraced in this way by basically pretty much all of nato without the united states though, with some exceptions. during that key summit. it's also interesting to hear keir starmer refer to how he spoke to president trump last night. we know they also spoke on friday. so now basically both days in a row ahead of this meeting, he has been in contact with the same man who in the white house ended up in that exceptionally heated row, you might say. him and the vice president talking very loudly at zelenskyy himself. so, yeah, an exceptionally complex time for europe here because i think we learned few details, frankly, that were new from keir starmer. he announce

let's go live to cnn's nick paton walsh. e's joining us from the ukrainian capital of kyiv right now. nick, is there a sense of panic in ukraine over this u.s. decision? >> yes. in the shortest possible response, wolf, although there are bids to put a brave face on this, ultimately, this is the key part of ukraine's military assistance being pulled away. and the most important, sophisticated bits, we're told, from ukrainian sources that intelligence sharing is not impacted. that's vital for ukraine to know what their russian enemy is doing. but what is going to be affected? possibly running out in a matter of weeks. and we know ukraine counts them day by day. a patriot air defense missiles, they're the only thing that can shoot down russian ballistic missiles that hammer ukraine almost nightly. that is key. and also by may, june, if not earlier, critical artillery ammunition will likely run out as a result of this decision. now, i'm sure the trump administration will defend this and say this is about pressuring zelenskyy towa

we have cnn's nick paton walsh with us live now from kyiv. and, nick, we're also learning that president zelenskyy will be meeting with the saudi crown prince. so what more is he saying about these talks with the u.s. >> yeah, i mean, the hope is that this will potentially get the relationship back on track. i should stress that his monday, march the 10th meeting with the saudi crown prince was something he said he would do when he canceled the first trip prior to the us-russia summit in riyadh. i think now about 2 or 3 weeks ago. so this is sort of to some degree planned. but the following on meeting with his staff and that trump cabinet delegation is clearly a sense of advancement here, the important point to focus on is exactly what it is that the americans will be asking the ukrainians to commit to here. we know there is a separate us-russia track that appears to have borne fruit in the last 24 hours in terms of diplomatic appointments. they always said they wanted to try and increase or restaff the washington and moscow embassies. but exa

let's go to cnn's nick paton walsh, who is in ukraine for us. and nick, president zelenskyy today said he's counting on u.s. support to help with the process to end the war with russia. what is his next move to try and restart talks with president trump? >> i mean, we've seen him today say that he needs u.s. support for peace. and peace is what ukraine wants. so reiterating that idea that ukraine is not the obstacle here to peace, it's the speed of that particular arrangement that seems to be the difference here. the trump administration, seemingly in the belief this could happen exceptionally fast. but ukraine and all of its european allies are clear that they need to see a peace with guarantees, with enough ukrainian strength that russia doesn't use a cease fire. as ukraine says, with factual backing, as they have done 25 times in the last decade to refit, regroup and then attack ukraine again. that's the real issue here. zelenskyy's positioning, obviously as soft as it can be to try and ingratiate himself, but we've also seen him in london sug

cnn chief national security correspondent nick paton walsh is joining us now live from kyiv. d nick zelenskyy, just speaking moments ago following this, this big momentous day, what did he say? >> yeah, he met with a series of reporters in london. and i think key to this is when asked if he could salvage the relationship with the united states, he felt that the relationship could continue. he felt that it was important, obviously, for ukraine to have that relationship with the united states. he was bluntly asked by one reporter if he would apologize. as some parts of trump's inner circle have suggested he should. after the oval office incident, and he didn't directly take that opportunity, and instead talked about how ukraine had suffered enormously and how he urgently wanted the war to end. not today, but at its very start, because of the loss of lives there as well. another interesting question he was asked to about his position, how he responded to the idea of resignation. he said, look, having elections, first of all, we know having elections would be incredibly difficult

. >> cnn chief international security correspondent nick paton walsh is in kyiv following all of these developments from there. nick, tell us what these pauses mean for ukraine. >> well, i've got to tell you, in short, brianna, every morning the situation seems to get slightly worse for ukrainians. there had been a feeling that 24 hours ago, when the first reports of u.s. military aid being stopped, that intelligence sharing might continue. this morning, that was crushed. but also remember, too, the hope had been that, given the positive tone in which president trump spoke of president zelenskyy in the letter that he had sent to him, that parts of which he sort of paraphrased or read out during that speech, suggesting, as trump had demanded, that they wanted to sign the rare earth minerals deal at a time convenient to the white house, that they want to commit to peace. and indeed, how zelenskyy had in previous messages during the day on social media and in the video, talked about how the oval office meeting, which many ukrainians think frankly, was a public drubbing of their president,

cnn's nick paton walsh is in kyiv for us tracking it all. and nick, what are you hearing this morning? >> yeah. there is no more seismic move. frankly, the trump administration can make other than pausing this aid. how much? well, ukraine appears to rely on, depending on who you're listening to, anything between 40% to 20% of its military aid from the united states is trying to get down to 20, at least. but it's the kind of aid that is so utterly important. we understand that intelligence sharing that's utterly vital for ukraine's forces to know what the russians are planning against them. that does continue. it seems, at this stage, but utterly vital, are the air defense patriot missiles. only the united states can provide them. and ukraine's prime minister was utterly clear that a key part of what they need. and zelenskyy himself has said every morning, frankly, they wake up and count how many they have to stop russia's ballistic missiles. that is utterly key. now, it also important in this is the fact that there wasn't much clarity as to w

. >> chief national security correspondent nick paton walsh is in kyiv and senior white house producer betsy klein is with the president in florida. nick, to you first, what has been the reaction in ukraine? >> i think a sense of consternation. shock. uh, i think many ukrainians feel that zelenskyy was very poorly treated during that meeting and had to address a number of mistruths from suggestions, perhaps, that he wasn't dressed up enough. there was comments about him not wearing a suit, and he said that he would wear a costume that's russian for a suit. uh, at the end of the war. then he was confronted with the suggestion that russia could be trusted in diplomacy, something that over the last decade, ukraine has extensive experience of not being the case. and then there was a much more direct tone that jd vance, the vice president, took with him, which caused things to deteriorate. i mean, i think many ukrainians viewed that situation with their heads in their hands and a deep sense of existential fear for what it means for their country. now where next? well, nato secretary general

cnn chief national security correspondent nick paton walsh has more on zelenskyy from kyiv. >> well, after a day in which european leaders gave urgently needed solidarity and support on the world stage to president volodymyr zelenskyy after his extraordinary meeting in the oval office on friday, he gave a wide ranging press conference, his first public remarks, really addressing what happened in the white house on friday when he met president trump and vice president jd vance. at first, he was asked if he thought he could salvage the relationship with the united states. here's what he said. >> as regards salvaging. the relationship. >> that you asked about, i think that our. relationship will continue because this is. more. than relationships. >> in one moment, we need to. >> be open. >> ukraine is not the largest country in the world. however, everyone. can see how ukraine is fighting. >> for its. >> independence and freedom. and we are. >> grateful to. >> the people of the united states. >> he was then asked to react to some of the suggestions from trump's inner circle that perhaps

i want to go now to cnn's nick paton walsh, who is in kyiv. for more on how ukrainians are reacting to that disastrous oval office meeting. nick. >> jessica. >> the embrace from uk prime minister keir starmer is obviously going to alleviate some of the existential dread, frankly, that has rippled across ukraine since the extraordinary scenes in the oval office. look, you have to remember that the ukrainians have endured three years of russian aggression to have their president questioned and drubbed, frankly, in the way that occurred in his meeting with president donald trump and vice president jd vance. exceptionally troubling, because the united states is indeed their key military and aid backer, but also, too, because some of the tenets, frankly, of what ukraine perceives to be the truths of this war and indeed are the truth of this war, were questioned during that meeting, particularly about russia's genuine nature in diplomacy. and so i think the idea of zelenskyy meeting the british king and also european leaders on sunday, in an extraord

nick paton walsh cnn, kyiv, ukraine. >> nick. thank you. on tuesday, president trump will make his first joint address to congress in the nation since his reelection. this will be crucial for trump to reassure voters about his leadership after making dramatic changes to the american government and to foreign policy. cnn's senior white house reporter, kevin liptak, is joining us now. kevin, ukraine, of course, likely to be a topic that trump addresses. what else can we expect? >> yeah, very much so. and remember, it was only a year ago that the biden administration tried to get zelenskyy's wife to washington to attend his state of the union address. and i think that only illustrates the complete 180 that trump has orchestrated on policy toward ukraine. and certainly his his speechwriters finalized his address for tuesday night. this will be an area where i think they're probably still writing. it's completely unclear at this point how president trump's goal of ending the war will proceed. after that fracas we saw in the oval office last week

let's get right to cnn's chief international correspondent, nick paton walsh in kyiv for the latest from there. good morning, nick. >> yeah, john, a daily reminder that ukrainians are losing their lives as this extraordinary diplomatic theater. i think it's fair to say, has been playing out over the past two weeks now. yesterday, they woke up to the shocking news that the united states had paused military aid. now we're also hearing from the head of. jason kikta, john ratcliffe, a bit more detail about that. in an interview with fox business. he says that actually it was military aid and intelligence sharing. remember, that second part is absolutely vital to ukraine that were indeed paused. and he says, i think on the military front and the intelligence front, the pause that allowed that to happen, i think will go away. and he's essentially referring to the rapprochement that appeared to build last night. during his speech, president trump said he received a letter from president zelenskyy, which essentially suggested that they were willing to commit to peace to sign the rare earth miner

let's go to nick paton walsh, who is in kyiv. he also made, we should note, nick misstatements about the age of ukrainian troops. he was repeating something that j.d. vance said that was incorrect in that oval office meeting. uh, he was saying they're running low, uh, recruiting older now. certainly. they're actually under pressure for not recruiting younger troops and sparing some of the younger folks there in ukraine. but just take us through what you heard. um, and the impact obviously, this continues to have there in ukraine. >> yeah. just to go into that issue on recruitment. yeah. look, it's fair to say that ukraine has deliberately not recruited between the ages of 18 and 25 to essentially allow there to not have that part of their doubt by the war. and they've come under some pressure from the biden administration to push into that part of the age range. so some of the troops you meet on the field, they are in their 30s and 40. some are indeed older. and it's true to say ukraine is experiencing manpower issues too, as inde

cnn chief national security correspondent nick paton walsh. caitlin, you were in there as this happened and it began quite well. can you pinpoint the moment when it turned for the worse? >> the tension had kind of been there. obviously it existed ever since trump called zelenskyy a dictator without elections. and he said trump was living in a disinformation bubble. so we were watching this all so closely. there were about 40 minutes before those those explosive ten minutes where everything essentially erupted. and during that there was a back and forth where they were talking about what this agreement could look like, what they want a ceasefire to look like. and there were moments of disagreement between trump and zelenskyy. there was one, one time when i had asked president trump something and zelenskyy was shaking his head. no, as trump was answering, talking about putin's willingness to to make a deal and trump's insistence that maybe putin has broken agreements that he made with other u.s. presidents and other world leaders, but he hasn't

cnn's nick paton walsh is in kyiv. he's got much more on all of this and there is a lot going on. have these attacks overnight and then these huge talks coming up next week. what are you hearing about the talks? >> yeah, i mean, the talks are supposed to be bilateral and they are supposed to be senior trump administration cabinet officials. marco rubio secretary of state. and i think national security adviser. mike waltz talking to the ukrainian delegation led by president zelenskyy's chief of staff, andriy yermak. now zelenskyy will be in riyadh the day before. that is a visit that was delayed when he canceled the previous one, which was due to be around about the time of the last u.s. russia summit that was held in riyadh, that ukraine was not invited to. it's not clear if zelenskyy will hang around for the parts of the talks that come afterwards, but it's always a possibility. these are bilateral. the ukrainians very much understand, and there's not thought to be a russian presence there. but bear in mind this may not just be a meeting of healing. yes, they want to sign the rar

. >> i'm nick paton walsh. in kyiv and this is cnn. >> all right. cdc is issuing a health advisory for the expanding measles outbreak in parts of the u.s. ahead of the busy spring and summer travel seasons. officials at the agency stressing vaccination is still the most important tool for preventing the highly contagious disease. 198 cases have been reported in the ongoing west texas outbreak as of friday, according to the state's health department. that's 39 more than just three days prior. 30 cases have also been confirmed in nearby new mexico. doctor carlos del rio is the executive associate dean of emory university school of medicine at grady health system. he's back with us now. great to see you again. all right, so now a second measles death in the united states. nearly 230 reported cases in west texas and in new mexico. so this helps underscore really how fast measles spreads, doesn't it, fredricka? >> measles is one of the most infectious agents there is. you know what we call we in infectious disease talk about something called the r-naught

. >> i'm nick paton walsh in kyiv and this is. >> cnn. >> so sources tell cnn white house officials have prepared an executive order directing education secretary linda mcmahon to begin the process of dismantling the department of education. well, this now is arne duncan, former education secretary during the obama administration. secretary, thank you so much for being with us, dismantling the department of education. what does that even mean, do you think? and who would be most affected? >> well. >> it's hard to tell. >> and, you know. >> he had. >> an executive order that he was supposed to sign today on that. he probably saw the polls that two thirds of americans are against it. so he backed off. he saw the polls, two thirds of people against tariffs. so he backed off. and folks like trump are sort of cowards at heart. and so it's hard to tell what will happen if they just simply move parts of the department of education to other agencies, to treasury, to hhs, to labor, whatever we just have is a bureaucratic nightmare. and, you know, when you walk into a store, they say, you know, yo

. >> i'm nick paton walsh in kyiv. and this is cnn it is 15 minutes past the hour. >> here's your morning roundup. some of the stories you need to get your day going. another spacex starship explodes during a test flight. no one on board, but it was less than ten minutes after the launch. people from florida to the caribbean saw falling debris in the sky. the faa even had to ground flights because of it. now remember, another starship exploded in january. that was during a test flight. the social security administration bans employees from looking at news websites on their work devices. also, they can't access sports websites or shop online. in a memo, the agency claims this will help protect sensitive information. it already said it plans to cut 7000 jobs, and a former olympic snowboarder is a long way from the slopes. he's now on the fbi's most wanted list for a different kind of powder, the fbi says. ryan wedding is accused of running a deadly drug trafficking network that regularly shipped cocaine from colombia to

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. >> i'm nick paton walsh in kyiv and this is cnn. >> kamala supports transgender sex changes in jail with our money. >> kamala even supports letting biological. men compete against. >> our girls in their sports. kamala is for they dim. >> president trump. >> is for. >> you. >> the trump campaign put tens of millions of dollars behind that ad, and one similar to it during the last election. now, on his new podcast, the california governor gavin newsom, breaking with his democratic party and sharply criticizing 2024 presidential nominee kamala harris over what he says was her disastrous non-response to it. >> the devastating. >> trumps for you. >> she's for they, them and devastating again, devastating, devastating, devastating. and she didn't even react to it, which was even more devastating. >> wow. this from a man that we know wants to run for president in 2028. those comments from his brand new podcast, where his first guest was charlie kirk, the leader of the pro-trump organization turning point usa. since taking office, president trump has already signed an executive order bannin

. >> i'm nick paton walsh. >> in kyiv. >> and this is. >> cnn. >> closed captioning. >> brought to you by. book.com. >> if you. >> or a loved one have mesothelioma, we'll send you a free book to answer questions you may have. call now and we'll come to you. >> 800 821 4000. >> no, no. you've done a lot of talking. your country is in big trouble. i know you're not winning. i know you're not winning this. >> world lead. one week since that explosive oval office meeting that ended with president trump kicking ukraine's president zelenskyy out of the white house, since then, president trump has suspended both military aid and intelligence sharing with ukraine. today, trump said this about working with russian president vladimir putin. >> in terms of getting a final settlement, it may be easier dealing with russia, which is surprising because they have all the cards. i mean, and they're bombing the hell out of them right now. and i put a statement in a very strong statement, can't do that. >> let's go live to moscow. cnn's chief global affairs correspondent, matthew chance, is there. matthe

. >> i'm nick paton walsh in kyiv, and this is cnn. >> so there's the voting thus far. we'll keep the poll up there. wow. whoa! i'm startled by the number of votes. 79,312. damn. who bears the most responsibility? trump. number one. vance. number two. add those two together, by the way, and see what you get all equally. zelenskyy. just 4%. i disagree with that outcome, but i'm usually in the minority quickly. one social media reaction is probably all i'm going to have time for. what astounding voting? this was nothing more than kabuki theater yesterday being played by stars trump and vance, wwf style rock'em sock'em robots. now you're talking my language down to the reporter asking the entire stage, but not for our entertainment. um, it was a blank show. as i said earlier, it was a cluster. i mean, fill in the blank. um, i'm willing to be impressed and surprised at the end if there's a deal that's negotiated that protects the sovereignty of ukraine is in the united states. best long term interest, then. i look forward to coming back here and saying, you know, donald tru

. >> i'm nick paton walsh. >> in kyiv. >> and this is cnn. >> welcome back. as the trump administration continues to fire federal workers, the department of health and human services is now offering voluntary buyouts. the agency says it will pay employees up to $25,000 to leave, as well as an early retirement incentive for those eligible. workers have until march 14th to take the offer. the department of labor is reinstating all probationary employees at the trump administration had fired. it comes after a federal judge this week said the office of personnel management does not have the authority to order mass firings. the judge also said the firings were likely illegal. the department of homeland security says it's rescinding the collective bargaining agreement that covers tens of thousands of transportation security officers offices at all airports. the union says that's clear retaliation for its efforts to take the administration to court over its actions against its workers. the union's president says the tsa officers make sure air travel is safe and that

our nick paton walsh on the ground in ukraine. just heard from a ukrainian official who tells him they could run out of artillery shells by may. if the united states continues this pause in military aid, what would the impact of that be? >> oh, it would be devastating on the front lines. this really has turned into a world war one level battle of artillery back and forth, tanks moving back and forth, trench warfare. john, if it were a novel, it would be all quiet on the western front. it is, uh, the coin of the realm in this conflict at this moment. are those artillery shells? so the europeans have some capacity here, but they're going to have to really stoke their own fires. and by may that's going to be a real problem on the battlefield. >> um, the question is, cui bono, who benefits from this decision by president trump to halt military aid? >> gosh, let me think. um, it's got to be vladimir putin. and by the way, we underestimate this, but it's also xi jinping in china who is looking covetously at that small democracy nearby c

nick paton walsh is out front here now in kyiv. so, nick, obviously where you are, there's air raid sirens. sirens and missiles and drone attacks unrelenting from russia still. so what is ukraine expecting? what are they bracing for tonight in this crucial speech from trump in front of that joint session? >> look, i think there is a general hope here that potentially the bones of an apology, which zelenskyy offered. you know, trump's inner circle had been suggesting he needs to publicly apologize. i think the phrase regrettable about the oval office meeting offered in that social media post and in his nightly address tonight, might be edging towards that. zelenskyy has also said very clearly he is committed to peace that goes close towards what trump asked him to do in order to restore the aid that was paused last night. that's utterly vital here. that's frankly been causing a degree of panic amongst ukrainians i've spoken to today. the fact that they could be out of critical artillery ammunition by may, or patriot air defense missi

. >> i'm nick paton walsh in kyiv and this. >> is cnn. >> the white house has now decided to stop sharing helping ukraine with critical intelligence needed to fight russian forces. it's a move that comes just days after they decided to pause sending military aid to ukraine. i questioned the white house press secretary about this today, though she declined to say how long that intel sharing pause could last. and on the conversations between the white house and the ukrainians and the letter that president trump revealed last night that he got from president zelenskyy, director ratcliffe said today that the president has paused also, intelligence sharing with ukraine. is that temporary or is that permanent? >> i believe what the national security council told me in regards to that was that they paused or they are reconsidering. um, the, the funding for ukraine, as you saw the pause on the funding. as for intelligence matters, i would refer you to either the national security council or the cia as. well. >> they're considering lifting the or reinstating the military aid going to ukraine, whic

. >> i'm nick paton walsh in kyiv, and this is cnn. >> and we're back with our national lead. the faa is investigating reports of mid-air collision alerts sent to planes trying to land at reagan national airport. according to the faa, several flight crews received alerts warning of nearby aircraft even when no other planes were there. these messages came just miles from last month's deadly crash between a passenger plane and a military helicopter. cnn's pete muntean joins us now. pete, what could be behind these false alerts? jake, this is strange because. >> these pilots. >> got these alerts repeatedly. >> warning them of a possible. >> mid-air collision. >> only miles from the site of the crash that killed 67 people. a little more than a month ago, the federal aviation administration has now opened an investigation into this. but as of right now, the cause remains a mystery. the system giving these alerts is called tcas. that stands for traffic collision avoidance system. it's required equipment in the cockpits of commercial airliners, which essentially warns pilots when the

. >> nick paton walsh is live in kyiv. matthew chance standing by in moscow. and of course, where you are, it is morning, so everyone is now listening to what happened, realizing what happened. so nick, the president of the united states, says he got a letter from zelenskyy hours ago. what more are you learning about this letter that trump says he received? >> ultimately, we only have what he said was in the letter, but it seems to echo the language we saw in a social media post from president volodymyr zelenskyy earlier today. in that post, he said he found the oval office incident regrettable. remember, a sort of apology was one that it seems the demands from trump's circle about his response to that particular incident to get the relationship back on track. also two, they wanted the rare earth minerals deal signed. well, ukraine is pretty much always been willing to do that. and they also, after they paused u.s. aid to ukraine just yesterday evening, they wanted a commitment, uh, for ukraine to be ready for peace talks. zelenskyy has delivered that in this p