evan gershkovich's arrest.ve rosenberg, you have been to the courthouse to which this man was taken. what more, if anything, do we know about the circumstances surrounding his arrest? >> well, we did go to the courthouse today. but we did not find out much. we were not led into court. we actually spoke to mr. evan gershkovich's lawyer. he did get inside the building, but was not allowed to see his client. he was not allowed to see the american journalist. so he did not know too much either. we believe that the case has been declared top-secret. it's a case about espionage. basically, the russian domestic security service, the fsb, claimed that evan gershkovich was involved in espionage in the interest of the united states. it claims he was gathering classified information about a defense plan, a military factory. he was detained about 1000 miles from moscow in yekaterinburg. then, he was brought to moscow where he was officially arrested, remanded in custody for two months. he is being charged under article two

we stand in solidarity with evan and his family dosage . a body is outside the court in moscow. 31 year old evan gar, coverage made us 1st court appearance here in this building behind me, i left over the court house on thursday in the russian capital. the charges that are being brought against him are that of espionage against the russian federation . the courts told the reporter that he will be held in custody for the next 2 months until may 29th, where the investigation will continue. now, if he's found guilty, you could face anywhere from 10 to 20 years in prison. these charges stem from allegedly, him carrying out activities in a central region of russia where the f s b services alleged that he was gathering information about the russian security apparatuses in that region. now these are allegations that the kremlin is aware of, according to the mitre pest, called the spokesperson for the kremlin, the journalist was caught red handed at carrying out. as in russia, we also heard from the russian foreign ministry spokesperson, who said t

with evan and his family law. his law pasta. gov is a journalist and you cut through berg, the city in russia. jewels where m glasgow, which was arrested. he says the wall street journal reporter was looking into several stories in connection with russia's military. yes, sooner. i met evan on march 16th here, 2 weeks before he was detained. he told me he was investigating the public rao that the head of wagner group give guinea pig roger had with the local governor, your evans speak fluent russian. and he was looking for people among journalists and politicians who could comment on that. and then also said he wanted to visit the wagner group cemetery, which isn't far from here. he was also planning to go to nita gil, where russia's mil to industrial, giant wood alpha guns of all it is located. i think that might have been it. and i want him, i said listen, you might get into trouble for this. go out. but he said he should be okay. that he's working within the law and doing his job as a journalist. loss, everybody'

what's evan corcoran told anything by his client, donald, trump that turned out not to be true.things that we end up as a report it is to get to this stage of getting evan corcoran's testimony the judge had essentially first finding that there's some evidence here that trump may have misled his own lawyer so for all those reasons you want to see what's in the notes and not just notes but in voices any emails between people, these are all important pieces of evidence that in many ways, and many instances only evan corcoran can provide. >> when you talk about key figures, evan corcoran is definitely the guy from mar-a-lago. but we know from the parallels to january six probe mark meadows the presidents white house chief of staff, someone whose tax have been treated to the january 60 investigation was a key player in all of the events and in around the attempt to undermine the results in 2020 election. mark meadows was the person between congress, and trump that day, he's the person that's on the call to brad raffensperger trying to get 11,000 votes. in the state of georgia. so tha

we are seriously concerned about evan - seriously concerned about evan gershkovich, and we call on thefrom the conversations we had with a friend of evan, with people who have known him from a younger age, we know that he is a very good journalist who has been doing nothing but reporting from inside russia. is doing nothing but reporting from inside russia.— inside russia. is there any suggestion _ inside russia. is there any suggestion that _ inside russia. is there any suggestion that there - inside russia. is there anyl suggestion that there could inside russia. is there any - suggestion that there could be other foreign journalists suggestion that there could be other foreignjournalists in suggestion that there could be other foreign journalists in danger suggestion that there could be other foreignjournalists in danger in this regard and in this way because mac because of the work they are doing in russia?— mac because of the work they are doing in russia? look, i today was the day where _ doing in russia? look, i today was the day where every _ doing in russia? look, i today was

evan corcoran could be next. to follow former trump lawyers, roy cohn and michael cohen into disbarment and disgrace, depending on how he testifies under oath to special prosecutor jack smith's grand jury in the washington heights. today jack smith won the right to pierce the attorney client privilege and questioning trump criminal defense attorney evan corcoran about the government documents and classified documents found, with an fbi search warrant, and on trump's home in florida, including the classified documents that the fbi found in donald trump's desk. few lawyers in history have more experience with the federal appeals process than our first guest tonight, neil capreol, who shared my all last night, the happy news, the breaking news of the time, but a three judge panel of the circuit court of appeals in washington was speeding an appeal on the question of evan corcoran's testimony through the appeals process with deadlines issued to the lawyers in the case not measured in weeks or days but in hours. last

evan corcoran and his legal team will likely get that next week.see them respond before then, but obviously one of the assumptions would be they want to talk about his conversations he had with trump about these documents because he's been involved in this since last may when this was all going down with the negotiations with the justice department. this is still really significant, though. they don't actually know how this is going to end up. >> counselor, to pierce attorney/client privilege is a thing. how hard of a thing is it? what does a judge have to determine to allow these types of questions now to be asked? >> it's both difficult and very rare to convince a judge to pierce through attorney/client privilege. i was a prosecutor 14 years. i only ever did this one time successfully. you have to go to a judge and show by a preponderance of the evidence, meaning it's more likely than not, that these conversations between the attorney, here evan corcoran, and the client, donald trump, were in furtherance of some ongoing crime and the fact prosecu

wall street journal reporter evan gets. covic is being detained in moscow on accusations of espionage covers russia, ukraine and the former soviet union for the paper. in a statement, the wall street journal said that it vehemently denies the allegations from the fsb and seeks the immediate release of our trusted and dedicated reporter. we stand in solidarity with evan and his family. look espionage charges in russia can carry prison sentences of up to 20 years accord has ordered the 31 year old reporter to be initially detained until at least may 29th we should know. this is the first time in american journalist has been detained by russia since the cold war in 1986. ivan gorshkov itches. arrest comes as tensions between the united states and russia are already high amid the ongoing war in ukraine. we want to go back to cnn's arlette signs who is at the white house for us our lead detentions of other americans have led to lengthy negotiations we just heard from press secretary karine jean pierre from the podium. what did s

>> evan was working on a research trip. apparently his subject was the walking or group -- widener group. he was arrested by the russian secret service after visiting the restaurant in the evening. i would like to stress that he worked legally as a reporter. he had an official press accreditation. but he knew supposedly that the secret service fsb was monitoring him, especially in the last few days. that is what he told his friends and colleagues. remarkable in this context is the kremlin's reaction. vladimir putin commanded surprisingly clearly on the incident, saying that he was caught red-handed. according to the model, he deserved it. the kremlin usually reacts differently. moscow says nothing at all. the fact that they committed so categorical could mean that is the suggestion. >> what is likely to happen to him? >> evan is now in custody in moscow until the end of may. he could face up to 20 years in prison for so-called espionage, but many guess what is really at stake is a potential exchange. evan with one or more r

with evan cochran scheduled to appear before the grand jury in d.c. today, the big question will be, does evan corcoran plead the fifth? does he invoke his fifth amendment right against self-incrimination because he was complicit in the crimes of donald trump, or was he used unwittingly by donald trump, which wouldn't give him a fifth amendment right against self-incrimination, because his truthful testimony would not incriminate him. that is going to be a really major distinction between if he pleads the fifth, jack smith's team will have to decide do they immunize evan corcoran, extinguish his fifth amendment right and compel him to testify about the crimes of donald trump. if they do that, they would all but forgo the possibility of prosecuting evan corcoran for his complicity in those crimes. so, today will be a pretty big day, not only in the course of the investigation, but frankly in the life of evan corcoran. >> and, meanwhile, glen, just trying to keep track of all these, we're hearing new comments from the judge overseeing the e. gene carrol

on evan, designated as wrongfully detained?rst of all, a process the state department is running, we have to let that go. my colleague at the state department spoke to this already moments ago so we have to let that process, we have to make sure we get the information, the most important thing at this moment is to get a consular to evan and that's what we are working on. >> actually a big push by the foley foundation and families of other detainees from -- believe their family members are wrongfully detained abroad for the levinson act to be performed on capitol hill to provide it with more resources and for wrongful detainees to be designated more quickly. is that something the administration supports? >> i don't have anything to share about the levinson act. i said this moments ago regardless of whether someone has received a wrongfully detention designation, the state department seeks consular access for all americans who are held abroad. that is a commitment from the state department and from this president and that's what

we stand in solidarity with evan and his family. espionage charges in russia can carry prison sentences of up to 20 years. court has ordered 31 year old gorshkov itch to be initially detained until may. 29th the white house says the state department has been in direct touch with the russian government at any moment. now we expect his attainment to be addressed at the white house press briefing. of course, we will take you there when it begins. evan gives covic is arrest comes as tensions between the united states and russia are already at a high given the war in ukraine. cnn's arlette signs joins us live from the white house and our lead detentions of other americans in the past have led to lengthy negotiations. what are we expecting to hear from the white house today? well beyond and boris president. biden has been briefed on the russian detention of that wall street journal reporter evan gorski, which, but so far we have yet to hear from president biden directly on the matter. we have heard from top spokespeople here at the white

b accuses evans, ghost coverage of trying to obtain classified information. he's pleaded not guilty, and his employer of wall street journal is demanding his immediate release. if the 1st time in american report has been detained in russia as on the ledge spy, since the cold war, washington is advising us citizens to leave gods at a moscow court, bundled even gush coverage out of the building. following his brief appearance, the 31 year old pleaded not guilty to spying charges, but exactly what he's alleged to have done remains unclear. his lawyer says he wasn't even allowed in the courtroom. remodeled with the wrong. i can't say anything because i haven't seen the charges filed against them. leon convinced that my client could only of actor, legal and only due to gush coverage, was arrested hundreds of kilometers away from moscow. in the city of your catherine berg, his believe to have been working on a story about local attitudes to the war in ukraine. but russian authorities claim gush given was acting on behalf of the us to access state secrets, but he gr

-- a charge has been opened against evan and the maximum punishment is 20 years in prison. evan and is well-known known to form journalist here and he is an experience russian reporter and he is excellent and highly principled. he was detained in yeka ,teurrig 1000 miles from the run capital. the fsb issued a statement saying that he had been involved in a and -- in unlawful activities and they said he was under suspicion of espionage in the interest of the u.s. government. >> next is our north american corresponded updating us on the reaction from the u.s. >> the advice is don't travel to russia and if you are there, don't -- get out. this is not new advice. they are renewing urgent calls, saying american citizens in russia could face detention and imprisonment if they stay there. it may not be easy to get out and flights are somewhat irregular. get out as soon as possible or face consequences. >> in the case of this wall street journal journalist who is in custody, what is the -- what is the biden administration saying. >> they have condemned the detention and said this i

will evan garage clevic be considered wrongfully detained? that's an added layer of urgency to an american's case when that person is being held by a foreign government for whatever reason. and certainly being charged with espionage is perhaps a much more serious charge in terms of diplomatic relations than in the case of brittany greiner being found with a small amount of vog hashish in her ra, traveling luggage. this is early days. officials say they indicate that time mister girl, who this did not sign a privacy act waiver. so there isn't much of that they can say about his case. but there is the ya hostage, a unit here at the state department that it has been immediately tasked with working on trying to get his release button jordan, thank you very much and eat ah and there is investigative unit is on code and money laundering operation in south africa, a scheme implicate some of the country's biggest banks. a former member of the criminal syndicate has spoken exclusively to lounges era. i was on a james has his report. dowd con is a form

all of this puts trump lure evan corcoran in a very unique position. yes, he's trump lawyer, but he also might be a witness or party to a crime. he could be willingly or unwittingly a pawn in president trump's alleged obstruction of justice. that is something known as the crime fraud exception, and that can break attorney giant privilege. last month, special counsel jack smith as to the d. c. district court judge for approval to do just that, to force corcoran to cooperate with the investigation. abc news reported that the special counsel for them presented evidence that trump, quote, deliberately miss had his own attorneys, and evidence that appears to show that trump committed the crime. on friday, a federal judge agreed with the special counsel, and ordered evan corcoran to comply with the grand jury subpoena for the testimony, and also ordered him to hand over a number of records related to what the judge reportedly referred to as trump alleged criminal team. those documents would be handwritten notes, invoices, and transcriptions of personal audio

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you know, a court had ruled that evan corker not to testify. he's the attorney before a grand jury and the appeals court essentially said overnight we want you guys to all brief this by morning, so we are waiting for them to weigh in on evan whether evan corcoran is actually going to have to testify before a grand jury that could come at every time at any time, but you know, this was really set into motion by incredible ruling that was under seal by a judge last week who determined that former president donald trump may they have committed crimes may have used his attorney in the furtherance of those crimes. and essentially , that was her ruling, saying prosecutors provided enough evidence to potentially reach that conclusion. and pierce attorney client privilege. of course, normally, your attorney would not have to show up before a grand jury and answer questions about your conversations with him. but because of the evidence prosecutors put forward including surveillance tapes, the judge said. this attorney client privilege can't exist anymore

we stand in solidarity with evan and his family. the white house with this. >> targeting of american citizens by russian government is unacceptable. we condemn the detention of mr. gershkovich in the strongest, the strongest terms. we also condemned the russian government's continued targeting and repression of journalists. >> kayleigh: martha, the last time this happened was 1986. it's been quite some time and it's pretty brazen. >> martha: during the cold war, i thought it was a little interesting that in that press pu briefing, they kept pressing the point that this happens all the time and we see different examples of the building held that the holding of an american journalist, as you pointed out, has not happened in a very long time. obviously we are in a unique moment with russia hundreds of what happening with ukraine. i think it's good that antony blinken came forward and said they seek immediate support to get in touch with him and give him the support he needs. i hope that will be immediately granted. i thought president

number one, evan corcaran , does he have to testify or can he take the fifth here?fact they had to go attorney-client privilege should they have a weak case. is that actually accurate? >> on number one, yes evan corcaran, can take the 50 or if they can prosecutors encounter move by giving him immunity. meaning you have to testify or we will not use your testimony against you. on the second point i thing trump's lawyers is not a sign of weakness it is a sign of strength. you only do this is a prosecutor you are confident you can get this showing. it is a rare thing for prosecutors to do and they did it successfully here. >> john: maggie and caitlyn want to talk to both of you of what happens in. the manhattan attorney could get indictments for donald trump on the stormy daniels matter. what is going on inside trump world? do they appreciate the significance of this? perhaps being under indictment within days? >> yes they appreciate the significance of it. i thing it crept up on them a bit. despite the fact this is been telegraphe d for such a long time this may happe

i think evan corcoran, though, has been probably the highest on the race. darfur a lot of those in the former president inner circle because he was going to testify today. he was there for about three hours. our camera saw him going in and then leaving. and obviously there are major questions that we know that they wanted to talk to about regarding his conversations with trump on what happened as they were searching for these classified documents, as of course, when the fbi showed up at mara lago in june before that search warrant was executed. evan corcoran played a role in drafting that statement about the search of classified documents. he was the one who was on the receipt. leaving end of those subpoenas that they got . it was dealing with the justice department in that regard, so i think they have major questions on that front when it comes to this, but then when you step back and look at it, yes, you're right the broader context of all the level investigations into him. he's the most vocal right now. what's happening in manhattan? but as you've heard

we stand in solidarity with evan and his family.�* evan gershkovich�*s lawyer says he will be held until — and added this outside the court. translation: was not allowed into the court although should have been. contacted the offices of criminal cases and they told me they did not have this case. now this story stretches across russia. the hearing today was in moscow. but we need to i,800km to the east to see where evan gershkovich was arrested. the fsb has confirmed that mr gershkovich had accreditation to be there. and we know that earlier this week his latest article looked at the russian economy. and the challenges of, in his words, "ballooning military expenditures". we know what the main charge is, and that's espionage. a criminal case has been opened against evan under article 276 of the russian criminal code, espionage. the maximum possible punishment is 20 years in prison. we know evan gershkovich, he is well known to foreign journalists here, and an experienced reporter on russia and an excellent reporter, a highly principled journalist. he was detained about 1,000 miles from t

cnn's evan perez joins us now. so evan, the other big cases in fulton county, georgia, where, in the words of atlanta d, a funny willis back in january. quote decisions are imminent. here we are, evan that is the case, of course, involving efforts to overturn the 2020 election, including this infamous call. so look i want to do is just i just want to find ah! 11,780. votes which is one more that we have, because we want to say so, evan, what do we know about the timing of an investigation now, almost seven months into a special grand jury. yeah look, the words imminent, really still hang over this investigation because that's what the specialty the district attorney there has been promising, but we know that just in recent days, they've asked for another interview with another trump attorney, christina bob, and so we know that she was at least she overheard or listen to. that phone call the 11 of the phone calls their that they know how recordings of where trump is pressuring local officials to help him find the vo

but as you've heard from legal experts , they believe potentially the documents now with evan corcoran, testifying january 6th, georgia or other major ones that are all you know, if they're not high on the radar, they certainly should be. mckay you know, you mentioned there's been a very bad week for trump, largely because of the evan corcoran testimony. does it seem like the pace of the special counsel investigation documents and january 6th is quick quickening because his team is really notching some court victories here. it does john and particularly on the document side, so if we think about everything we learned from the from the affidavit supporting the search warrant last summer, um and then what's taken place largely in sealed court hearings over the last couple of months what we learned in this effort to pierce the attorney client privilege between trump and evan corcoran is according to judge howell that the department of justice presented enough evidence to convince her that donald trump had actually committed did a crime or attempted to conceal a crime in his interactions w

this is the club that keeps finding and developing players, evan ferguson finishing here is only 18.s goalkeeper, the travelling fans did not need to show their oppression by throwing scraps of paper. the result was safe for brighton once ferguson destroyed through and his performance like the club was impressive. potential cup winners? why not? it all felt a little bit cruel when the ball crept in for a 5—0. grimsby had some brilliant cup memories until this. swap the haddocks for the seagulls and the significance of changes hands. brightons chance now. so two goals for brighton teenager evan ferguson then, who continues to enjoy a great season so far. positives for grimsby — who's boss is happy with how far his team have gone. it's been unbelievable. credit to the lads as well i've they've been good to me when i've been playing. they've encourage me. so it's been very good. we have the hope and desire to go on and get to europe so i think that's our ambition. i think if we keep on going and winning games we could get there. the support is what i always come back to. they are fantas

this is a huge problem for evan. it's not a charge i think that he's going to be able to evade, and kind of the case in point here is paul whelan. it's exactly the same kind of circumstances. it's going to be the same case that paul whelan was subject to. he was sentenced in a russian prison, hoping for something to happen to get some hope. >> mike, the white house and the press briefing just now, karine jean-pierre called charges that russia is leveling against him ridiculous what is the white house doing right now to try to establish contact? what is the white house doing or talking about doing, revealing anything about negotiations they might be considering to get evan home >> well, katy, before the white house can talk about potential negotiations, they have to, as you put it, establish contact with the russian government and at the moment, we understand that that has not yet happened we heard from karine jean-pierre that the white house senior officials have been in touch with officials from the "wall street jou

s. journalist held in russia on spying charges. evan jessica bench is the 1st american reporter arrested for alleged espionage since the cold war. the white house has condemned his detention also on the program. burton's king charge is on a java fenced in berlin. the king address is parliament speaking properly in germany and plays up ties between the 2 nations. but former president variables and our returns to brazil, right. we have plans to lead the opposition to his success as government ah, i'm good. how doth, as well come to the program. and we begin in russia where an american journalist has been arrested on spying charges moscow. moscow court has ordered evan good coverage of the wall street journal to be held in custody for 2 months. russia, security agency accuses him of trying to obtain classified information. gross coverage has pleaded not guilty. he's the 1st american reporter arrested in russia for alleged espionage since the cold war. whitehouse has condemned his detention and is advising us citizens to leave russia. 11 gaskin, which used to work with my colleague w bosco b

we stand in solidarity with evan. and his family of correspond, dawson, jabari has moved out from moscow. according to a local fixer who worked with this journalist who has lived in russia for the past 6 years. and he was gathering information to do a story about how people felt in this area of russia in yucca harangue region, about the involvement of the wagner group in the conflict in ukraine. this fixer, that was arranging interviews for him, said he had left that area and return on wednesday unannounced and he hasn't been heard from since the fs. b is accusing him working on something completely different. well, synagogue opposition, leader was months, sancho has been given a 2 months suspended sentence for defamation. he was sued by the tourism minister. sancho did not appear in court to face trial on thursday. he said in the past that the case against him is politically motivated. police have been deployed in large numbers in the capital duck all to stop any violence. some cruise supporters have been ty, as unbl

evan began recovering over the next 8 days.s is a great little bow on this story as a thank you to his doctors and others haven't went back to center medical center just yesterday. >> to play music for pediatric patients. there and the entire medical care team came to us. check it out. and here, evan, do what he does so well. less than the kind of listen to your body, right? think i will say that this had to be kind of deeply frightening to not be able to do that. >> for that wraps up kron 4 news at 5. being with us this hour. but stick around. a lot more news to get to on kron. 4 news at 6. pam and ken are here with a look at that. hello. hello, catherine and grant. thank you both. coming up next, at 6 o'clock concerns continue to grow over a mudslide in nevado after heavy rains swept through the bay area. today we are live with details on how the crews are responding. plus, san francisco getting a break from the rain right now. but more is coming. kron 4 chief meteorologist lawrence karnow standing by with the latest on

evan corcoran lost at the district court level. now he lost at the d c circuit court of appeals and now scheduled to testify before the grand jury tomorrow. and they're not going to go to the supreme court, which i think is something people may have assumed they were going to do yesterday. but what is the trump team saying because they're clearly not happy about this. they think it says something about the merits of the actual documents investigation itself. yes so they're responding here, caitlin. they're saying there is no factual or legal basis or substance to any case against president trump. the real story here is that prosecutors only attack lawyers when they have no case whatsoever, but really in reality, caitlin, this is significant because evan corcoran, he may have that key information about what transpired behind the scenes throughout all those months of negotiating with doj to get those classified documents out of mara lago back to the government's hands. and key here , caitlin, you know whether there was any obstructio

s considers evan gorshkov itch to be wrongfully detained. that would take some weeks before that actually happens, but in the meantime, you can be sure that us officials, diplomatic officials in moscow are going to be working to get information on this case and then to see what they can do to try and secure his release. but, of course, the fact that russia has now moved to not only formally arrest him but also, uh, that the kremlin itself is defending this arrest , alleging that they caught this reporter red handed does not speak very favorably to the chance of some kind of de escalation here. instead, it would appear that perhaps russia is looking for some kind of a prisoner swap once again early to say that, of course, now, but we do know that that is the track record and the way in which russia has proceeded with these kinds of situations in the past. jeremy's point. we should note that just last week, the us accused russian national of who is claiming to be a brazilian student here in washington was actually russian spot. yeah the bottom

we stand in solidarity with evan and his family.iles east of moscow, said to be working on stories. he appeared at a closed hearing today before being taken to prison. he has been formally charged, pled not guilty and in pretile detention until the end of may. increasing already high tensions between the u.s. and russia as the war in ukraine continues. gershkovich is the first american journalist to be arrested on espionage charges in russia since the cold war, he faces up to 20 years in jail. and the white house came out with a statement adding to that, deeply concerned, calling it unacceptable. in touch with the russians, family, and bottom line is another american is stuck in russia. john. >> john: the detention very troubling, like the other ones, greg palkot in london. thank you. >> i don't worry about evil robots taking over the world with their red laser eyes, that's not what keeps me up at night. but what does keep me up at night, implementation of a surveillance state like china is attempting to do. we need to understand th

is priority is gaining consular access to evan garcia, vetch. he was detained as you pointed out in the yard. central of city of ya. catherine berg on thursday, but the consulate the u. s. consulate, there was not notified until he turned up in russian custody in moscow on friday. so that is the top priority. what patel has been trying to log back down are questions about whether or not this is a retaliatory act being carried out by the young russian government. he has pushed aside suggestions of washing claims that mr. garcia, which was engaged in espionage on behalf of the us government. and they don't want to get into any other questions about tub mr. garcia, which is work beyond a statement that was put out by the sent by the secretary of state antony blank and saying that all journalist need to be able to carry out their work without fear or intimidation. and the secretary's message also was a but her hand out as it were, to rush and journalists who may have felt intimidated, especially in the past year during the course of the war in ukrai

we stand in solidarity with evan and his family."erg. you may charge is espionage and a criminal case has been opened up against evan gershkovich in the maximum possible punishment is 20 years in prison. we know evan gershkovich, he is well known to foreign journalists and an experienced reporter on russia as an excellent reporter, highly principled journalist. he was detained about 1000 miles from the russian capital and the fsb, the russian capital and the fsb, the russian domestic security service, issued a statement saying that he had been involved in an unlawful activity and they accused him of gathering classified information about a defence plant and said he was under suspicion of espionage in the interest of the us government. his employ of the wall street journal vehemently denies those allegations —— his employer. they say he is a trusted and dedicated reporter and it wants to see him released but i don't think that will happen in the nearfuture. talk released but i don't think that will happen in the near future.- happen i

high right now for evan corcoran. >> to that point, talk u through what we need to know about evan corcoran. what was it specifically tha he did for trump >> donald trump has burned through so many lawyers it's hard to keep track of all of them when he was in florida confronting these question about the classified documents he had taken, he employed evan corcoran to be one of th lawyers who would help him dea with them to tell authoritie that there were no documents left in fact, he solicited statement that was signed by the other attorney saying, you know, there aren't further documents to be found. it turned out that there wer other documents. what was going on there? was he lied to did he participate in ally o some sort of misunderstanding? i think that he is stuck in very uncomfortable position fo an attorney. he is a player as well as an advocate that role is the one that jack mitt is trying to put him in a an advocate, >> to peter's point about th burn rate on the attorney in addition to trump, you have al these people caught up in thes investigations around him. how has this unfolded

now with our evan sernoffsky. he's live in the east bay hills where those winds are really whipping right now. evan, how are you doing? do it. absolutely this wind is nothing short of a hurricane right now. i don't know if you can hear it. in here. behind me , but it sounds like an absolutely free train. now. i've never been in a hurricane, but i can't imagine this is much different. right now. the winds have to be well over 50 miles an hour, probably faster earlier today, we've been out all over the east bay checking on this storm damage. checking on some of the mayhem. take a look. tuesday's atmospheric river packed a heavy punch in communities around the east bay cruise barely had time to clean up trees like this massive eucalyptus and walnut creek before even more weather caused mayhem was expected to hit. these storms are definitely to be taken seriously and prepared for the clayton palms community along marsh creek road and contra costa county. they've been hit especially hard. we have been inundated by high

evan gershkovitch. we stand in solidarity with evan and his family. now, bill, he was supposedly nabbed in the central russian city of yekaterinburg. no time when the arrest happened. we get a new image happening today in moscow that shows evan coming out of a court there and going into some sort of official van. state media says he has already been formly charged and pled not guilty and that he is now in pre-trial detention until at least the end of next month. now as you noted, bill, all this comes amid big tensions between the u.s. and russia. especially about russia's invasion of ukraine. evan is the first american journalist, you are right, to be arrested on espionage charges since the cold war. he could face 20 years in prison. a lot of restrictions on russia journalists in moscow. so far, american reporters have been free to report. apparently not anymore. back to you. >> bill: thanks. >> censorship is taking center stage on the house floor today. lawmakers on the weaponization committee are looking into claims the biden administration used big

>> norah: carter evans, thank you. now to a cbs news exclusive.labama woman who was found dead in what appeared to be a suicide in 2017 is speaking out for the first time. investigators discovered that the gun found at the scene was in her nondominant hand, and she was shot twice. that's when her husband came under scrutiny. cbs's david begnaud has the story in a "48 hours" preview. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: it was the night of may 2nd, 2017, 1:30 7-year-old jason crawford called 911 from outside of his home in cullman, alabama. >> tell me exactly what is going on. >> my wife has been shot. [siren sounding] >> reporter: body camera footage shows what sheriff's deputies found when they first arrived on the scene. jason's wife, 32-year-old tiffiney crawford, was found dead in the driver's seat of her own van. there was a gun in her left hand. to at least one of the deputies on the scene, it appeared as though it was a suicide. but once investigators dug deeper, that theory started to crumble. and jason had some tough questions to answer. herself, you have to

prosecutors to force evan corccorcoran, trump' former attorney, to testify. we know that this ruling and this opinion that was given by beryl howell was given are back to the department of justice to redact certain investigative details that they potentially think need to be withheld and trump lawyers will then review that redacted opinion next week but, again, we know that evan corcoran has previously refused to answer investigator's questions when he appeared before the grand jury earlier this year, i believe in january, invoking attorney-client privilege, but u.s. prosecutors had argued that there was evidence that a client, that being mr. trump, had used the attorney's legal services in furtherance of a crime and beryl howell's ruling shows there were some questions that do reach the threshold of the crime fraud exception. again, what questions evan corcoran is going to have to answer still remains to be seen. >> jackie, there's been some reporting this week about a specific phone call being of interest in this investigation, and if you put the timing of

in a small ural restaurant today , a commotion was detained here by the alleged spy evan gershkovich,ks as a journalist for the american edition of the wall street journal , according to the waiters, they detained gorshkovich quietly without special forces, apparently. here gorshkovich, met with an informant, the case against the detainee was initiated by the fsb of russia, according to the department. gershkovich spied for the american government it was established that gershkovich, acting on the instructions of the american side, collected information constituting a state secret from the activities of one of the enterprises of the russian military-industrial complex. when trying to obtain secret information, a foreigner was detained in the city of yekaterinburg from yekaterinburg, the detainee was promptly taken to moscow to choose a measure of restraint in the lefortovo court of the capital. dozens gathered here, journalists from russian and foreign publications of gershkovich were brought in a minibus and brought into the building court session was closed, but it is known that the

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we stand in solidarity with evan and his family. how correspond, dorsey? jibari has worn out from moscow. 31 year old journalist has just made his brief court appearance in left or turbo courts in the russian capital where the court has decided that he'll remain in custody for the next 2 months until may 29th. during that time, the investigation will continue, and we expect that the court proceedings will then resume at that point, and possibly a trial, depending on how the investigation on false, what we've heard from the kremlin spokesperson dmitri pest golf, who said that at his office is aware of the arrest and that this journalist was detained, red handed for espionage. we also understand that the foreign ministry spokesperson has issued comments on this case saying that what he was doing in ex hamburg has nothing to do with journalism. and that it's not the 1st time a well known western western or has been grabbed by the hand. the feeling here is that this is an open chuck case for the official so far. that is not what we heard from at least one pers

evan gershkovich, now with the wall streetjournal, is an experienced russia reporter.000 miles from moscow in the yekaterinburg. russia's security service claimed he'd been collecting secrets about a defence factory. translation: using the cover ofj being a journalist with a journalist visa and accreditation, this person carried out completely different activities. what he was doing in yekaterinburg was notjournalism. the wall streetjournal said it vehemently denies the allegations. it called evan gershkovich a trusted, dedicated reporter. the reaction from the white house. these espionage charges are ridiculous, the targeting of american citizens by the russian government is unacceptable. we condemn the detention of mr gershkovich in the strongest, in the strongest terms. the reporter was brought to moscow, to this court. but his lawyer wasn't allowed to see him. "that's the kind of system of justice we have here," the lawyer daniil berman says. "they didn't let me in." well, this is the first time i can remember since the cold war that a western reporter has been arr