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CNN's Nic Robertson gained access to an enormous parking lot in the Belgian port of Zeebrugge where customs officials have impounded thousands of luxury cars parked by sanctions on Russia. #CNN #News
Attorney General Merrick Garland made his strongest comments yet about whether he'll charge former President Donald Trump saying that 'no person is above the law.' CNN's S.E. Cupp, John Avlon and Jeffrey Toobin discuss. #CNN #News
Silicon Valley Bank, the go-to bank for US tech startups, facing a sudden bank run and capital crisis, collapsed last week, leaving its high-powered customers and investors in limbo. It was taken over by federal regulators. It was the largest failure of a US bank since Washington Mutual in 2008. CNN’s Christine Romans reports. #CNN #News
From Fox News to Newsmax to OAN, conservative cable news hosts and their guests have continued to dismiss the January 6 committee hearings as political theater put on by Democrats. #CNN #News
Retired Air Force Col. Cedric Leighton says that if Ukraine doesn't take the opportunity to withdraw from a pocket near the key city of Severodonetsk in eastern Ukraine, they risk losing a large part of their military.
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Despite weeks of protests, the Israeli Parliament, the Knesset, pushed two key elements of the sweeping judicial reform bill that limit the Israeli Supreme Court's power. CNN’s Richard Quest discusses this with Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron. #CNN #News
Russia has revealed that the goal of its invasion of Ukraine is to take "full control" over southern Ukraine as well as the eastern Donbas region. The announcement by a top military official marks the first time Russia admitted it was fighting to establish a land corridor through Ukrainian territory connecting Russia to Crimea, the peninsula it annexed in 2014. "Since the beginning of the second phase of the special operation, which began literally two days ago, one of the tasks of the Russian army is to establish full control over Donbas and southern Ukraine. This will provide a land corridor to Crimea," Maj. Gen. Rustam Minnekaev, the acting commander of Russia's Central Military District, said according to TASS, a Russian state news agency. #CNN #News
General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, discusses the stakes of the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the wider global implications with CNN's Jim Sciutto.
Why Russia's Ukraine aggression matters to Americans
by Zachary B. Wolf
Nobody knows for sure exactly what Vladimir Putin is doing with around 100,000 Russian troops parked near the Russia-Ukraine border, but it's making the US and Europe extremely nervous.
President Joe Biden said this week he expected the Russians would "move in" and that a slight incursion would be met differently than a full-on invasion.
The US has spent the past few days cleaning up that remark and making clear any type of invasion is unacceptable.
Asked in Geneva by a reporter if he thought, like Biden, that an invasion was likely, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov used some interesting language.
"Unless the United States doesn't go to bed with Ukraine, I don't think so," Lavrov said.
What does it mean for countries to 'go to bed'? All of this high-stakes geopolitical chess, then, comes down to how intimate the US gets with Ukraine in the eyes of Russia.
Read more at: https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/22..../politics/russia-ukr
An important shift in Ukraine - and the US hopes more weapons will help
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/20..../politics/us-ukraine
What does Putin want in Ukraine? The conflict explained
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/24..../europe/ukraine-russ
ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl, author of "Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show," describes conversations between senior Trump cabinet officials Mike Pompeo and Steve Mnuchin about invoking the 25th Amendment that ultimately fizzled out. #CNN #News
In the new video released by the Ukraine Armed Forces, cutting-edge, foreign-made drones are used to fight against Russian troops. A 'kamikaze' drone's point of view is shown moments before it strikes a Russian tank. CNN's Melissa Bell has more. #CNN #News
CNN exclusive reporting reveals that DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari first learned of missing Secret Service text messages in May 2021 -- months earlier than previously known and more than a year before he alerted the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021.
A federal Trump-appointed judge in Texas is considering a case that seeks to block the use of mifepristone, which is used for medical abortions, nationwide. CNN's Rosa Flores reports.
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CNN's Tom Foreman explains different trigger laws in different states and when and how they will go into effect. #CNN #News
CNN political analyst Maggie Haberman describes what she has heard about former President Donald Trump's consumption of the January 6 House select committee hearings in light of ex-Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone's testimony with the committee. #CNN #News
Then-President Donald Trump angrily demanded to go to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, and berated his protective detail when he didn’t get his way, according to two Secret Service sources who say they heard about the incident from multiple agents, including the driver of the presidential SUV where it occurred. #cnn #News
Video from Fox shows FBI agents seizing the cell phone of former Trump election attorney John Eastman as part of the Justice department's investigation into the January 6 insurrection. Eastman says the warrant FBI agents used is "invalid on its face." CNN's Katelyn Polantz has more. #CNN #News
When a bipartisan group of lawmakers visited the Ukraine border in March, an unexpected guest showed up on the trip: GOP Rep. Victoria Spartz of Indiana. Spartz, the first Ukrainian-born member of the US Congress and an outspoken advocate for her home country, had expressed interest in joining the congressional delegation but wasn't invited to attend the trip. So, she used her own funds to fly to the border of Ukraine in Poland and linked up with lawmakers once there to join in on some of their meetings, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation. #CNN #News
CNN's chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin tells Anderson Cooper about the scale of the Department of Justice's January 6 criminal probe, and the significance of new subpoenas in the investigation. #CNN #News
In an extraordinary action to restore confidence in America’s banking system, the Biden administration on Sunday guaranteed that customers of the failed Silicon Valley Bank will have access to all their money starting Monday. #siliconvalleybank #CNN #ArletteSaenz
CNN's Pamela Brown looks at Fox hosts' responses to the Highland Park shooting on July 4th and factors they say contribute to mass shootings in today's "For the Record." #CNN #News
Former US Attorney General Eric Holder weighed in on whether the Justice Department’s January 6th criminal investigation will result in an indictment for former President Donald Trump. #CNN #News
Pink Floyd's co-founder Roger Waters warns fans on his solo tour that if they can't stand his politics, "F off to the bar." His show includes calling President Biden a war criminal, and firing a fake semi-automatic weapon into the crowd. CNN's Michael Smerconish finds him just as passionate offstage. #CNN #News
Vladimir Putin issued a vague threat to countries intervening in Ukraine. Ret. Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges discusses what to make of it and how the US and allies should respond. #CNN #News
Yellowstone National Park is temporarily closed to visitors due to dangerous flooding conditions, which have prompted park evacuations and left some in surrounding communities trapped without safe drinking water, officials say. #CNN #News
CNN's John Avlon looks at Vladimir Putin's recent gaslighting attempts as part of Russia's propaganda war against Ukraine. #CNN #News
Ret. Gen. David Petraeus, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, tells CNN's John Avlon why Chinese President Xi Jinping may try to avoid conflict with the US and Taiwan following US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trip to the democratic, self-governing island. #CNN #News
GOP 2024 presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy joins CNN's Kaitlan Collins to discuss his definition of "woke" and how he's "anti-woke" in his bid for presidency. #CNN #News
After retiring as the all-time winningest coach in men’s Division I college basketball, Hall of Fame coach Mike Krzyzewski, talks one-on-one with CNN’s Poppy Harlow.#CNN #News
Republicans hold a dour outlook on the country and prioritize finding a 2024 nominee who shares their views on major issues over one with a strong chance to defeat President Joe Biden, according to a new CNN poll of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents conducted by SSRS. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer discusses this with an expert panel. #CNN #News
CNN's Jim Sciutto talks to US Army Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt (Ret.) on the progress of Russia's war in Ukraine. Kimmitt shares what he thinks Ukraine should do next. #CNN #News
The House select committee investigating January 6 has interviewed former President Donald Trump's former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, sources tell CNN. The committee is zeroing in on former officials from Trump's Cabinet for testimony and is particularly interested in learning more about conversations among officials about possibly invoking the 25th Amendment after the US Capitol attack. The committee will also interview former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as soon as this week and will also speak with former acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney. #CNN #News
According to the Ukrainian government, over one thousand civilians might have been abducted and locked up in Russian detention centers. CNN's Phil Black reports. #CNN #News
Ukraine's military is burning through Soviet-era ammunition that fits older systems as the country pleads with the West to send more heavy weaponry and Russia amasses a significant artillery advantage around two strategically important cities in eastern Ukraine. #CNN #News
Trump-endorsed candidate and celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz went up against GOP rivals in the first primary debate for Pennsylvania's Senate seat. #CNN #News
More than forty towns and villages in the Donbas region have come under attack in the last 24 hours, as the Russians push into the Donetsk region. CNN's Alex Marquardt is in Kharkiv to see how the most vulnerable live on the front line of the Russian invasion as Ukrainian forces prepare to push back #CNN #News
An Atlanta-area grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia has subpoenaed a handful of key Trump allies, including his former attorney Rudy Giuliani and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, according to court filings. The subpoenas also cover a handful of Trump's other former legal advisers, including John Eastman, Jenna Ellis, Cleta Mitchell and Kenneth Chesebro. Former federal prosecutor Jennifer Rodgers joins CNN's Alisyn Camerota to discuss what these subpoenas mean in the ongoing Fulton County Grand Jury investigation.#CNN #News
Former CIA Chief of Russia Operations Steve Hall relates the recent deaths of two Russian oligarchs to the Kremlin's history of dealing with its critics. #CNN #News
Ahead of Tuesday's critical January 6 hearing, CNN's Miguel Marquez speaks to a Republican official and Wisconsin voters on the importance of the hearings as issues of abortion rights and inflation continue to loom over the country. #CNN #News
Silicon Valley Bank collapsed Friday morning after a stunning 48 hours in which a bank run and a capital crisis led to the second-largest failure of a financial institution in US history.
California regulators closed down the tech lender and put it under the control of the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The FDIC is acting as a receiver, which typically means it will liquidate the bank’s assets to pay back its customers, including depositors and creditors.
The FDIC, an independent government agency that insures bank deposits and oversees financial institutions, said all insured depositors will have full access to their insured deposits by no later than Monday morning. It said it would pay uninsured depositors an “advance dividend within the next week.” CNN's Matt Egan reports. #CNN #MattEgan #cnnnewsroom
Secretary of State Antony Blinken fired back at Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) after Paul suggested that Georgia and Ukraine were attacked by Russia because they were once part of the Soviet Union.
Former President Donald Trump's legal team is in direct communication with Justice Department officials, the first sign of talks between the two sides as the criminal probe into January 6, 2021, accelerates, according to sources familiar with the matter. CNN's Katelyn Polantz reports. #CNN #News
The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack is in possession of email correspondence between conservative attorney John Eastman and Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, a conservative activist who's the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, a source familiar with the committee's investigation told CNN.
The source who spoke with CNN would not provide details on the emails' contents or say if they were direct messages between the two or part of a larger group correspondence. The Washington Post first reported on the emails. #cnn #news
Voices charged with raw frustration, agony and desperation are among the montage of audio recordings featured in "Voices of April," a video documenting the harsh impact of Shanghai's nearly month-long lockdown. CNN's David Culver reports. #CNN #News
Anatoly Antonov, the Russian Ambassador to the US, said that Russia does not want “confrontation” with the US but "as we see it, American aircraft have no business being near the Russian border." #CNN #News
NASA is set to reveal the first high-resolution color images from the James Webb Space Telescope next week, one of which "is the deepest image of our universe that has ever been taken." CNN's Kristin Fisher reports
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CNN's Josh Campbell reports on President Biden's announcement about new executive action he's taking on gun control, focusing on background checks and red flag laws as well as Biden's history on gun control. #CNN #News
The New York Post and the Wall Street Journal, both controlled by Rupert Murdoch, published harshly critical editorials of former President Donald Trump in the wake of the latest public hearing by the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. #CNN #News
CNN's David Chalian, David Axelrod and Abby Phillip discuss the ramifications of former Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone's subpoena by a federal grand jury investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election. #CNN #News
Former Trump White House Counsel Pat Cipollone has reached a deal with the January 6 committee to participate in a transcribed interview behind closed doors, multiple sources told CNN. #CNN #News